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 :-) )