A big round of applause to Rogi** **for recording an unbeaten run-length of 300! Just Amazing! Keep it up!

In other updates, we were looking through the usage stats of bbPlay and looks like a lot of you like it! So we were thrilled and we have refreshed bbPlay with some major bug-fixes and added a few nice new features. Go ahead and click on the Play! button and you will notice

1. You can now reach the post from inside bbPlay by clicking on the title
2. Images are un-clickable. This was a major pain, sorry about having that bug there in the first place :)

The exciting new feature we have is that now you can tell us if you like a question by pressing **“l” ( l for like ) **within bbPlay and your vote will be registered. We will be displaying how many people liked a question and other stats shortly. Until then, you can just vote :)

Go ahead, Play and hit “l” to see for yourself :)
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This question is inspired by another question sent in by Thejas V R. He gets the shiny %gqh% nevertheless.

1 is from India, 2 from the Navajo tribe, 3 from Peru and 4 from USA. Which “album” has these songs along with 23 other songs from all around the world?

1. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/1india.mp3]

2. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/2navajo.mp3]

3. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/3peru.mp3]

4. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/4usa.mp3]

Cracked by: username, udupendra, Vardhan Shenoy, Anonymous, Girish, lanu, Qbrain, Manish Achuth, joe, Aparna, Rogi, Anjul, shrik, Logik, dineshk, krudebox, Raghuvansh, Bharath, Thejas V R, byslexia, Rahulk, mankuTimma, nishansolo, ht and Shwetha Maiya

Another “current affairs” question" :-) Identify?

Cracked by Vardhan Shenoy, shrik, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Logik, Dibyo, Aparna, Girish, Raghuvansh, krudebox, Rogi, Prateek Agarwal, udupendra, dheeraj, Bheema V, Mahesh, dineshk, Bharath, Vasanth Kamath, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, Ananth, Qbrain and lanu

This game is famous for 2 reasons. 1 because it was co-written by the founder of a very big company and 2, it was one of the first games written for the platform it ran on.

Identify the game and the co-writer we are talking about.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Logik, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Ganesh Prasad, Dibyo, Ananth, Rogi, Rahulk, v.chandrashekar, sandman, Vardhan Shenoy, Bharath, Prateek Agarwal, raklodramA, krudebox, Qbrain, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Thejas V R, Aparna, Nanda, udupendra, blntechie, Vinay Hegde, username, dheeraj, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu and Bheema V

Whose name is blanked out?

Cracked by Logik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Ananth, Ganesh Prasad, SV, shrik, Aparna, Dibyo, dineshk, Bharath, Girish, Manish Achuth, Vinay Hegde, byslexia, krudebox, joe, Prateek Agarwal, Shwetha Maiya, Hitesh T S, Rahul Rajeev, Rahulk, sandman, Vardhan Shenoy, Qbrain, lanu, Thejas V R, udupendra and blntechie.

Identify and tell us what is blacked out.

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Goyal, Aparna, raklodramA, Bharath, krudebox, udupendra, Jean Valjean, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu, Rahul Rajeev, Logik, dineshk, Vinay Hegde, v.chandrashekar, sandman and Vardhan Shenoy

What’s the connection? (2) is just an illustrative example!

Cracked by Thejas V R, Girish, Rahulk, shrik, udupendra, Manish Achuth, Logik, dineshk, krudebox, raklodramA, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Qbrain, lanu, Sumanth Patlolla, Jean Valjean, piezocake and Vinay Hegde

This piece of software, named after “**A” **in the map below, is the powerhouse of platform X and also the main cause of a huge lawsuit against X.

Identify the software.

Hint: Recent platform, very popular.

Cracked by: udupendra, Qbrain, lanu, Thejas V R, foobar, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, shrik, Prateek Agarwal, Vishnu, krudebox, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, username, Girish, SV, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, Logik, Aparna, dineshk, Bharath, Ganesh Prasad, Ananth, blntechie, vasanth and raklodramA

Identify the artist of this painting, and let us know where it is from.

Pseudobonus points for naming the original.

Cracked by udupendra, krudebox, shrik, SV, Vinay Hegde, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, lanu, Qbrain, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Logik, dineshk, Bharath, Ananth, joe and vasanth

Identify and tell us what he claims to be the “first”

Happy Independence Day to our Indian readers!

Cracked by: shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Girish, krudebox, Jean Valjean, Raghuvansh, dheeraj, Ananth, Ganesh Prasad, Vinay Hegde, Logik, Rogi, Rahulk, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, udupendra, Prateek Agarwal, Dibyo, Qbrain, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, Aparna, dineshk, Bharath and username