On 8th June, funky asked about this landmark and got this reply fae ABE
�Your post is really very funny because just yesterday we were looking at the Question numbers and speculating as to when we would hit the quarter million mark. We've got some spooky psychic thing going on here.
We are actually closer to kempie's figure and will highlight the user who posts the 250,000th - could be with a golden name or some small token - what does everyone else think?�
The 250,000th question was asked 12 days later.