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!

Today, a borderline non-geek question. Could not resist asking this :)

Whats happening here? and tell us what 1 is called

1. 
2. 

We see some new users on BB! Welcome, fellow time-travellers!

Cracked by: Akshat , duriel , jayanth , akhi , varuns88 , Goyal , Dibyo , Rey de Vaqueiros , Tathagata Chatterjee , madhur , udupendra , sujoy bhattacharjee , srikar , manubhardwaj

Akshat, duriel, jayanth, akhi, varuns88, Goyal, Dibyo, Rey de Vaqueiros, Tathagata Chatterjee, madhur, udupendra, sujoy bhattacharjee, srikar and manubhardwaj

Identify this man who gave his name to a class of computer programs (like the one below the picture) that have intrigued programmers for years

> `main(a){printf(a="main(a){printf(a=%c%s%c,34,a,34);}",34,a,34);}`

Cracked by: piezocake , varuns88 , joe , Shakeel , shashank , duriel , Mahesh , madhur , akhi , priyananda , Prasad and Rey de Vaqueiros.

piezocake, varuns88, joe, Shakeel, shashank, duriel, Mahesh, madhur, akhi, priyananda, Prasad and Rey de Vaqueiros

This guy, who was originally a magician stared making films. He devised many cinematographic techniques which allowed him to make a class of movies never heard of before. Who is he and tell us which class of movies he pioneered.

Hint:

Cracked by: Abid , Goyal , varuns88 , akhi , udupendra , CKV , Tathagata Chatterjee , Rohan , BiGFooT , Dibyo , prasanth , svgreatest , Ashwin , duriel , priyananda , Atul Mathew , bobo , Ginkgo100 , madhur , yaksha , srikar , Rey de Vaqueiros , Poornima.

Abid, Goyal, varuns88, akhi, udupendra, CKV, Tathagata Chatterjee, Rohan, BiGFooT, Dibyo, prasanth, svgreatest, Ashwin, duriel, priyananda, Atul Mathew, bobo, Ginkgo100, madhur, yaksha, srikar, Rey de Vaqueiros and Poornima

This device (1) was originally planned before WW2, but couldn’t be built. The designs were lost during the war, but the creator (2) didn’t give up. Funded by a bunch of companies, he recreated it about 20 years ago.

1. 
2. 

Identify both.

Cracked only by Abid , varuns88 and akhi. Great Job!

Answer
Konrad Zuse, and the Z1 mechanical computer. I’d suggest wikiing for tons of info on why this was a huge accomplishment.

Abid, varuns88 and akhi

1 along with his colleagues developed a computational algorithm X and named it after 2.
Identify 1 and tell us what X is and why it was named after 2.

1. 2.

Hint: The image below should ring more “random” bells

Cracked by: jayanth , varuns88 , Poornima , srikar , prasanth , piezocake , Atul Mathew , , Abid , ramu , Rey de Vaqueiros , Goyal , prabhu_dc , Rohan , BiGFooT , Dibyo , Srivats , Prasad , shashank , manubhardwaj , priyananda , Uma , RajT , yaksha , teju , svgreatest.

jayanth, varuns88, Poornima, srikar, prasanth, piezocake, Atul Mathew, Anonymous, Abid, ramu, Rey de Vaqueiros, Goyal, prabhu_dc, Rohan, BiGFooT, Dibyo, Srivats, Prasad, shashank, manubhardwaj, priyananda, Uma, RajT, yaksha, teju and svgreatest

Simply connect:

Cracked (more or less) by Atul Mathew , varuns88 , Rey de Vaqueiros , Goyal , Abid , roshith , srikar , akhi , Debasish , bobo , jayanth , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee , udupendra , shashank , alephnull , Prasad and abhimanyu.

Atul Mathew, varuns88, Rey de Vaqueiros, Goyal, Abid, roshith, srikar, akhi, Debasish, bobo, jayanth, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee, udupendra, shashank, alephnull, Prasad and abhimanyu