OK DNR fans, it is time once again for our summer project!  We're going to have a real game show on a future episode of .NET Rocks!

We'll have two contestants on the phone compete in a programming history quiz show for prizes and/or cash. This idea came from a listener who thought the world could stand to learn a little about the history of computing and programming, and we agree!

We need you to submit questions and answers by email (don't post them here please!). They should be related to the history of computing and programming. They should be scientific, historic, cultural, or otherwise factual.

I am up in the air as to how to proceed with the prizes. One idea I really like is to sell chance tickets for 10 bucks or so by paypal. That buys you a chance to be picked as a contestant. Then we'd pick contestants from that pool, and the winner takes all the money.  I don't even know if that's legal, but it seems to me to be like a raffle or at least something like it. If it turns out that we have to offer SOMETHING other than money, we can either sell enough tickets to buy a nice prize, or get some company with deep pockets and an eye for self-promotion to cough up something nice.

The other idea was to get tool vendors (perhaps our sponsors) to donate licenses to their products, and give those away as prizes.

It is possible we may be able to give away a full license to the Team Suite. That's a chunk of change, but we might be able to make that happen. We'll get back to you on that.

So, please comment with your ideas here, and send your questions and answers (along with sources if they are obscure) to dotnetrocks@franklins.net