IL Treasure Hunt Final Questions - Set 2

Here are the questions for Day 2, Finals - March 24th 2008

Question 1

A beautiful gemstone Ganesha painting was the surprise gift for one of the contests. Name the contest and the winner.

Question 2

On which day did IL cross 10,000 members?

You have time till 9:30 AM Indian Standard Time, 25th March 2008 to send in your answers.

Note: Only those who got the answers right for 24th March questions, qualify to participate on 25th March. List of members qualifying for 25th March will be announced shortly.
Please refer this post for more rules about the final round.

Take your time. Search for these particular pearls in the treasure garden of IL. Once you know the answer...

1) Go to your private message section (on top right corner below the login section).
2) Click send new message.
3) In the Recipient/User name type the word "Contest" as username.
4) Type "Answer for March 24th Question" in the Title field
5) Type the answer in the body of the message and click submit message.
6) Please do not send in multiple answers. Only the first answer sent by you will be considered.

You are on the path to being a winner.

Dear Friends,

Answers to the Final Questions on Day 2 (24th March, 2008 ) are:

1. A beautiful Gemstone Ganesha painting was a surprise gift for the contest "who is my role model?" and the winner was "Vidya24".

2. 3rd September 2007 was the day on which IL crossed 10,000 members.

Note: 14th July 2007 / 15th July 2007 are also considered as right answers.

Here is our explanation for choosing ONLY the above dates as right answers:

- Many have referred to this thread started by Shanvy - hip hip hurray to il for reaching 10000 members - YES, 3rd Sep 2007 is the actual day on which IL hit 10,000 members.

- Some have referred to this thread started by Induslady -
Help us become a 100,000 member community! - There is a technical error that happened with the 1st post's date in this thread. It is showing July because, this post was drafted within a private forum a couple of months back(in July 2007) before hitting the 10,000 mark. It was then moved to the public forum on hitting it (on 3rd Sep 2007). But unfortunately, the system has picked up the drafted date for the post. Since we noticed it only after a few contestants has referred this thread, we give away this also as the right answer.

Note: The below are not considered as right answers:

A few of you have referred the following:

Towards a 100,000 Member Community - Laptop Giveaway! and given the dates as 4th Sep 2007 / 5th Sep 2007

IndusLadies Community Bulletin - 7th September 2007 and given the dates as 6th Sep 2007 / 7th Sep 2007

Sorry!! No where in the above links we have said that particular day we hit 10,000 members. These threads actually served as "teasers" for this contest question.

The name of the finalists who qualify for Day 3 are listed in this post.

Thank you, Good Luck!