Happy Birthday BoiledBeans! I guess we will just call it official and post once a year. Just kidding.

Question for the day. 1 demanded 2 to come up with a writing system that soldiers could read in the dark. 2 Created it and 3 improved it to make it more useful and it is now used all over the world. Who is 2? Bonus points for identifying 1 and 3.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla

A slightly different theme round. Following N questions will all be connected to some algorithm or the other. Since I have given out the theme, I will make the questions slightly obscure.

Connect to an algorithm

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Andy and Shwetha Maiya

I am going to try a convoluted connect round. The next N questions will be connected to a theme. Slightly convoluted, but easily deducible.

Many people falsely think that the first letter of the last names of these three men (in order) lead to the name of this popular hobby. In reality, it came from a pejorative term like n00b. What are we talking about?

Cracked by: s m muneer ali, Dibyo and Sumanth Patlolla

More good news today - udupendra has hit 1000 points! Excellent stuff saar - congratulations!

udupendra was one of the earliest people on this site, and has been a regular face for years now. This is also definitely not his first record here :) He was consistently topping the charts at BB before receiving some very stiff competition! Here’s hoping for many, many more answers from you!

Udupendra gets a star of honor – an achievement badge plus a special badge as well.

Today’s question’s dedicated to udupendra of course :) (although there’s no ‘1000’ funda in this question like there was in yesterday’s)

Very simple - identify the ‘system’ being depicted here.

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Rogi, Ananth, shrik, jowens, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, username, raklodramA, dhruv, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, Raghuvansh, dirty-i, Prasad, Bogie, krudebox, Mod and Shwetha Maiya

Hello intrepid quizzers! Today is a landmark day in the history of Boiledbeans :) Those of you who’ve been keeping track of the scores would have noticed this already.

Dibyo has just scored ONE THOUSAND POINTS!

Congratulations Mr. Dibyo! This is no mean feat, and we at BB really appreciate the effort! It’s always great to see people regularly coming onto BB to answer questions and really encourages us to keep posting.

Dibyo gets a star of honor - an achievement badge plus a special badge that we’ll apply shortly.

Today’s question is also dedicated to Dibyo!

The box in the map below points out a special path. Which vehicle holds the record for the fastest crossing of this path (albeit inaccurate)?

Cracked by: Ananth, SV, Urthstripe, dineshk, Rogi, shrey, Sumanth Patlolla, username, dhruv, jowens, Dibyo, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, anurag, raklodramA, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, Mod, udupendra, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, Logik, Ebzhent, jins, shrik, sandeep bhat, Manish Achuth, dirty-i and Prasad

What organization connects -

[This will be a replacement for the lavarand repeat]

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, krudebox, Rogi and Thejas V R

Today, we are posting a special round of 3 questions all sent in by %gqh% Rogi. Reason? Rogi registered an unbeaten runlength of 500 correct answers in a row! Congrats sire! Just fantastic!

Leave your answers (and any note to Rogi) in a single comment. One point per correct answer. Get at least one correct for keeping your runlength intact.

1. The actor (1) starred in two movies, made almost three decades apart, based on ideas put forth by (2) and shared with his screenwriter wife (3). Name either of the 2 films.
   Note: While the pic in (1) is a clip from a movie, it is not one of the movies we’re looking for.

2. Connect the three gentlemen by naming a fourth. The last one wasn’t as smart as the other two.

Hint:

3. This is a cool puzzle.

Tell us what’s found here
[Sum of all digits].[1991, AUC] , -1 x [Unbitrium].[Lucas Number]

(Maybe a different Lucas?)

Update: Made the question 1 simpler.

Update 2: Fixed a typo in Q 3

Update 3: Question 3 is super cool. Do not miss it. Hint: Zoom in and look around.

Cracked by: Rogi(3), shrik(3), jowens(3), Raghuvansh(3), dineshk(3), Siddarth Pai(2), udupendra(2), Bharath(2), Logik, Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Mo and Anubhav

Only shrik, jowens, Raghuvansh and dineshk(close enough :) ) cracked the puzzle! Good crack guys! That was an awesome puzzle and you got it!

Answers:

1. TRON or TRON:Legacy
   1=Jeff Bridges (As seen in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)
   2=Alan Kay (Yes the guy from PARC)
   3=Bonnie MacBird

2. The three guys pictured are:
   Hugo de Vries
   Carl Correns
   Erich von Tschermak

All of whom were thought to have independently “rediscovered” in the year 1900, the work of Gregor Mendel and after some prodding for at least one of them, gave him the posthumous credit for his discoveries in genetics. Tschermak is no longer recognized as a rediscoverer as he obviously didn’t understand what Mendel had figured out, earlier.

3. Sum of digits 0-9 is 45
   “Ab urbe condita” 1991 is “Gregorian”, 1238
   Unbitrium’s atomic number will be 123
   George Lucas’ Easter Egg number is 1138 (Not to be confused with the Numbers of François Édouard Anatole Lucas)

Filling in the variables gives:
45.1238
-123.1138

Or:
45.1238, -123.1138

Quick link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=45.1238,-123.1138&aq=&sll=45.125284,-123.113393&sspn=0.010401,0.018904&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=45.123989,-123.113673&spn=0.004088,0.018711&z=16

Answer is: “Firefox” or “Firefox logo”

Identify the location in (1). (2) is a clue.

Cracked by: shrik, Pawankumar Hegde, jowens, Kaustubh, Rogi, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Bharath, puneet_k, v.chandrashekar, lanu, dineshk, Qbrain, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev, Sanador, Siddarth Pai, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

See stage-1 for the rules.

4 variables here (H, I, J, K). Get all 4 right to get 1 point.

H and E were coworkers at legendary organization **I. **In fact H asked E to apply directly to the head of F, which was how E got his job there in the first place! H was hailed as an internet visionary due to his earlier achievements, his opinions of late (e.g. anti-Open Source, anti-Wireless Networks) have been radically wrong and he has had to eat his words in public on one occasion.

K was the first commercial success of J, the company that created G. J drew heavily on the work done at I to create K. A (probably false) legend has it that I was allowed to make a pre-IPO purchase of stock in J in exchange for some technical knowledge-transfer. I tried (and failed) to sue J later! F also sued J about similar matters, and was actually successful, a lawsuit that has had ramifications until the present day.

Cracked by dineshk, Kaustubh, Rogi, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, Raghuvansh, vinayaknp, lanu and Qbrain

See stage-1 for the rules.

4 variables here (D, E, F, G). Get all 4 right to get 1 point.

D was a famous syntax convention invented much, much later by famous programmer **E during **his employment at F. Although D and B sound similar the connection between the two is, at best, a play on words. The only similarity between D and B is that both are named after the nation-of-origin of their creator. C and F on the other hand, have had a fairly long and fairly amenable relationship. C and F teamed up hoping to pre-empt the announcement of device G last year, but that flopped. Although they hit the market a month before G, no one heard of their device.

Cracked by dineshk, Kaustubh, Rogi, apar, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, lanu, Raghuvansh, Qbrain, vinayaknp, udupendra and Siddarth Pai