(Question from Dibyo)

Oceanography got a boost from a storm that hit in Jan 1992. The flow of events is depicted in this image:

What happened during the storm?

Cracked by WikiWaki , sidsen , gudanggurum , Srivats , Guneet , rajeshvj , akhi , malcaluffin , insufferablejake , madhur , Ananth and shenoyvarun86.

WikiWaki, sidsen, Gurupad, Srivats, Guneet, rajeshvj, akhi, malcaluffin, insufferablejake, madhur, Ananth, shenoyvarun86 and Dibyo

(Question sent in by Udupendra. Thanks a lot amigo!)

Connect the equation (x + y)n = xn + yn to these identities:

Cracked by Goyal , p vs np , Ajay Parasuraman , Rohan , insufferablejake , Tathagata Chatterjee , gammafunction , sidsen , malcaluffin , rajeshvj , Srivats and shenoyvarun86.

udupendra, Goyal, p vs np, Ajay Parasuraman, Rohan, insufferablejake, Tathagata Chatterjee, gammafunction, sidsen, malcaluffin, rajeshvj, Srivats and shenoyvarun86

Greetings intrepid quizzers,

For the next week (or so) we’ll be posting questions sent in by some Boiledbeans toppers (Some of you probably already know about this). Thanks a lot for sending in your questions guys!

Please keep the questions coming to boiledbeans[at]gmail[dot]com !

It has been a long time since we did anything other than the usual one shot per day on BB, so we have put together a theme round which is going to start from today’s question.

This is a 6-point connect. Meaning, the answers to the next 6 questions connect to form a “stage 2” answer. Most users here already know what a theme round is, but for those of you who are not familiar here is an example.

If the answers to the next three questions were C V Raman, Amartya Sen and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the theme would be “Nobel Laureates of Indian Origin”. Simple.

Scoring:

1. You get your usual 1 point for the answer, if you get it right
2. Additionally, you will get

• 5 points if you get the theme from the first question

3. 4 points if you get the theme from the second question
4. 3 points if you get the theme from the third question
5. 2 point if you get the theme from the fourth question
6. 1 point if you get the theme from the fifth question
7. and no points for getting the theme from the sixth fifth question, but your name will be mentioned.

Rules:
- Please post the theme answer as a comment to THIS POST

• Please post answers to other questions as usual under the question’s post.

If you don’t follow the above, scoring will be very hard for us.
So please follow the guidelines.
- You’re allowed one attempt at the theme in each question.
- Any number of people can get the theme

We will hide all the theme answers till the end of 6 days. If you crack the theme before that, we’ll announce your name and give you the points.

The theme comes out at the end of 6 days.

First question coming soon!

Update:

The theme round has ended. To wrap up, here are the questions: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] and [6].

varuns88 cracked the theme on the 3rd question
Tathagata Chatterjee cracked it on the 4th
udupendra and svgreatest cracked it on the 6th question

Solving the theme:
The clues were:

1. Adobe
2. W3C
3. NASA
4. Macromedia
5. Real Networks
6. Google

The theme was: Websites with a pagerank of 10.

As of July 2008, these were the only tech companies who have a page rank of 10. This is the highest you can get, so basically Google has officially called these websites “awesome”. (The rest in the list were non-geeky, so we left them out :-) )

Connect:

1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10

Cracked by: teju , Madhur and udupendra.

teju, Madhur and udupendra

It has been more than a month since we did anything “different” on boiledbeans, so, this post is an attempt to re-seed the random number generator. We have a bunch of great questions sent in by bb users, which has been compiled into a multi-shot post.

Rules:

• UPDATE: For this special post only, contributors of the question also get a point. But you need to post a comment to get your points (its back-end requirement)
• This post will be open for 3 days
• You get one point per right answer(For users who have contributed questions, you will get points for right answers to questions other than yours.)
• Post all the answers in one comment. Please collate all answers and post it as a single comment. In case you need to re-post, please copy, paste the answers of all the other questions you have answered along with your new answer.

1. Courtesy sidsen

Caricature of which principle/person?

2. sidsen again

This sort of diagram is named after whom?

3. sidsen’s hattrick

This happens to be one of the first known representations of what?

4. Varun asks you to connect these images

5. Vinod PV asks you to identify the dude using the other two pics as a hint

6. Abhishek Krishnan’s question ( My Favourite )
   Who connects
   

Cracks/Scores:
nishansolo: 2
bobo: 4
gammafunction: 5
udupendra : 5
shenoyvarun86: 1
Dibyo: 4
nishas thambi: 6
sidsen: 6
Tathagata Chatterjee: 5
Shashank : 3
jayanth: 5

Answers: As sidsen said:

1. Occam’s razor the principle named after the friar William of Ockham.

The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as
few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in
the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. Also
known as the “law of succinctness”.

BTW cbse students most definetly studied this in physics in class 8 or 9.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor

2. The Pythagoras tree is a plane fractal constructed from squares. It is
   named after Pythagoras because each triple of touching squares encloses a
   right triangle, in a configuration traditionally used to depict the
   Pythagorean theorem.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_tree

3. Count the dots and do the maths
   1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45
   number of coloumns/rows = 3
   45/3 = 15

15
/

4 9 2 = 15

3 5 7 = 15

8 1 6 = 15

|| || ||
15 15 15 15

for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Shu_Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square

4. The opening sequence of Time from the album Dark Side of the Moon was
   played as a wakeup call for the crew of space mission STS-69

5. John Kanzius

6. John Perry Barlow - lyricist for grateful dead, author of a declaration
   of the independence of cyberspace, co-founder of EFF

nishas thambi(6), sidsen(6), gammafunction(5), udupendra(5), Tathagata Chatterjee(5), bobo(4), Dibyo(4), jayanth(4), Shashank(3), nishansolo(2), shenoyvarun86 and jayanth