Like we had promised, we will be handing out Boiledbeans t-shirts to two of this month’s toppers.

1. varuns88 — 24 – You double deserve the t-shirt dude! Congrats!
2. **akhi **— 22 – The highest scorer whose name was not already on the t-shirt winners list
3. Atul Mathew — 21– Second highest
4. duriel — 18
5. Rohan — 17

So, akhi and Atul Mathew, Congrats and thanks for your enthusiasm! We will be contacting you soon!

We were waiting for this month’s toppers to be decided to get the shirts out. Now that we know who the winners are, the shirts will be out very soon and if you want to buy one, this is your last chance to let us know at [email protected]

Thanks!

One year ago, at this exact timestamp, we posted the first question on Boiledbeans with a lot of excitement. 365 days have passed since then and the excitement is still growing!

We have not missed posting a question even for a single day and given the fact that we are seperated by timezones, face crazyly strict corporate firewalls at work and have bursts of out of phase “social life”, it is quite a feat for two lazy procastinators like Srikanth and me :)

We are very thankful to all Boiledbeans users who have inspired and motivated us to keep Boiledbeans ticking and as a token of appreciation, we will be handing out FREE T-Shirts which look like this (click to enlarge) to the following people. The reasons for picking them is also stated here

**udupendra **– All time highest scorer
**Dibyo **– All time second highest scorer

**duriel **– Longest runlength
**varuns88 **– Second longest runlength
**sidsen **– For sending in maximum number of awesome guest questions.
**hema **– Special thanks to her for helping us co-ordinate posting activities.
**piezocake **– Just like that :)
Thanks guys! We will be contacting you soon to get your t-shirt sizes.

And now for the best part:
Two of this month’s toppers will get free t-shirts! There are a few things though,

1. It cannot be someone who is already in the list above. So, if varuns88 ends up the topper of this month, he will not get another t-shirt. Instead, the next highest scorer will get it
2. If there is a tie, we will post a tie-breaker and pick only 2 winners.

So, if you want a free t-shirt, dont miss out any question posted this month!

For those of you who are interested in buying a t-shirt, please contact us at [email protected] and we will be happy to send you one.

Thanks all, and keep quizzing!

And with that, we come to the end of the GQG. Hope you liked it, folks.

We will still keep posting contributed questions every now and then so keep sending in your questions to boiledbeans[at]gmail[dot]com

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 !

Ladies and gents,

Lord Devadutta king of the knurds, crown prince of computing and patron saint of all things geeky turns a year older today!

Happy birthday dude! May you be blessed by many more gadgets and toys to tinker with this year!

(Leave your wishes here, folks)

Yesterday’s final question of the theme round marked the 300th post on Boiledbeans! In fact, the theme round was a way to celebrate this.

It has been an amazing 300 days for us. We have loved every bit of it.
Tell us what you think of Boiledbeans, What you would like to see in the future and what would make you come back to Boiledbeans over and over again.

Please leave it as a comment to this post.

What we would like to see from you guys is more participation in the form of guest questions. That way, Boiledbeans will have a wide variety of content.

Again, thanks for coming back and keep telling your friends about Boiledbeans!

(The image is of galaxy NGC 300. Courtesy NASA :) )

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 :-) )

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!

Greetings, Sol-revolvers.

Due to synchronization issues we’re changing the time at which new questions will be moderated and posted (for a short while).

Questions will be be posted/moderated every morning Indian Standard Time. The new question should be live by about 1000 IST each day. That is at 0430 UTC/GMT, and 2130 PDT.

In case this is inconvenient for you, just leave us a note as a comment to this post.

Srikanth discovered yesterday that BB works perfectly on a PSP! He is busy having fun on his vacation, so I am posting on his behalf :)

Check out how the page gracefully degrades to fit the PSP screen..

BTW, if you have a mobile device, send in screen shots or device shots of bb to [email protected] and we will post it on front page :)