Few guys claimed to have done 1 using 2. It turned out to be a hoax. 3 does something similar to 1 for real as in 4 using something similar to 2.
What is 4 called as? How is it done?

1. 2.

2. 4.

Hint:

Cracked by: akhi , Dibyo , shashank , varuns88 , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , manubhardwaj , yaksha.

akhi, Dibyo, shashank, varuns88, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, manubhardwaj and yaksha

Final question of the theme round!

X started out as a research project - (1). This entire theme round centres around the core tech behind X. BTW, it recently got an “official” mascot - (2) (Many thanks Mr. BiGFooT!).

Identify X

Cracked by: varuns88 , shyam , VikraM , udupendra , svgreatest , wasi manazir, Tathagata Chatterjee and shenoyvarun86

udupendra and svgreatest cracked the theme… Congrats

The theme round ends with this question. Check the theme question post for the final stats!

varuns88, shyam, VikraM, udupendra, svgreatest, wasi manazir, Tathagata Chatterjee and shenoyvarun86

Fifth question of theme round. So far we have only varuns88 cracking the theme!

Connect 1 and 2 to a popular internet company

1. 2. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/king.mp3]

Tip: Use the name of the geometrical shape in 1 and use 2’s name. Not looking for any deep mathematical connects :)

**Tathagata Chatterjee cracked the theme! He gets 2 points for this answer.. Bravo!
**

Cracked by: priyananda , varuns88 , Goyal , akhi , jayanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , shashank , Rey de Vaqueiros , udupendra , svgreatest , piezocake , vinod.

Tathagata Chatterjee(2), priyananda, varuns88, Goyal, akhi, jayanth, shashank, Rey de Vaqueiros, udupendra, svgreatest, piezocake and vinod

Fourth question of the theme round. (I wonder if all these links are confusing search-engine bots…)

Which company was formed from the merger of (1) and (2)?

Cracked by varuns88 , Dibyo , Goyal , duriel , akhi , priyananda , madhur and udupendra.

varuns88 cracked the theme, and thus gets two extra points for this answer. This brings him to a total of three for this answer alone, cementing his lead in this months charts… Great work dude!

varuns88(3), Dibyo, Goyal, duriel, akhi, priyananda, madhur and udupendra

Identify this hugely popular 2005 event. The answer you need to use for the theme round is the name of the organization which was responsible for this.

Cracked by: joe , WikiWaki , Sridhar C , Rohan , duriel , prasanth , VikraM , Atul Mathew , wasi manazir , Dibyo , Goyal , Shakeel , piezocake , Rey de Vaqueiros

Theme cracked by: None! Checkout Srikanth’s hint in today’s post ;)

joe, WikiWaki, Sridhar C, Rohan, duriel, prasanth, VikraM, Atul Mathew, wasi manazir, Dibyo, Goyal, Shakeel, piezocake and Rey de Vaqueiros

Second question of the theme round. Read the rules!

What organization did this knight create?

Cracked by VikraM , varuns88 , jayanth , akhi , duriel , Shakeel and piezocake.

VikraM, varuns88, jayanth, akhi, duriel, Shakeel and piezocake

First question of theme round. Please see guidelines before you post answers.

Connect

Hint: use the top level meanings of the images. Nothing deeper :)

Cracked by: piezocake , Goyal , Dibyo , priyananda , varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , madhur , WikiWaki , shashank , BiGFooT

@akhi: Irrespective of how many individual questions you crack, you can attempt to crack the theme. You will get points.

piezocake, Goyal, Dibyo, priyananda, varuns88, jayanth, udupendra, madhur, WikiWaki, shashank and BiGFooT

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 to a famous British/American physicist & mathematician

Cracked by Dibyo , VikraM , Goyal , Atul Mathew , Rey de Vaqueiros , kirankumar , jayanth , insufferablejake , duriel , Shakeel , prasanth , Ashwin , akhi , RajT , varuns88 , vinod , Tathagata Chatterjee , madhur , priyananda , svgreatest , p vs np , udupendra and Abhishek.

Rey de Vaqueiros(2), Dibyo, VikraM, Goyal, Atul Mathew, kirankumar, jayanth, insufferablejake, duriel, Shakeel, prasanth, Ashwin, akhi, RajT, varuns88, vinod, Tathagata Chatterjee, madhur, priyananda, svgreatest, p vs np, udupendra and Abhishek

You’ve probably already seen the “This month’s toppers” chart on the sidebar. This is a new statistic we’ve put up that lists (surprise, surprise) the highest scorer among all people who answered questions posted during the current month.

Do you have any other ideas for interesting stats that we could collect? Let us know by replying to this post!