Brought to fame in 2008, identify this village (red spot marked by an arrow) in the state of Karnataka.
Answer
Byalalu, a village near bangalore where ISRO had set up its deep space network (DSN) to track Chandrayaan 1.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Quest Pistols # 95
Brought to fame in 2008, identify this village (red spot marked by an arrow) in the state of Karnataka.
Answer
Byalalu, a village near bangalore where ISRO had set up its deep space network (DSN) to track Chandrayaan 1.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Quest Pistols # 94
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(Y)
(Z)
X is a premier institute in India,presently housed in the erstwhile complex of a company-Y. Y was founded by Z. Identify X,Y,Z.
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(Z)
X is a premier institute in India,presently housed in the erstwhile complex of a company-Y. Y was founded by Z. Identify X,Y,Z.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Quest Pistols # 92
Author, mathematician, logician,and a photographer.Working in the fields of geometry, matrix algebra and mathematical logic,while producing a few significant books he also devised an early version of scrabble, among many other inventions.Who?
Answer
Lewis Caroll
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Quest Pistols # 91
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(2)
While the building in the first image served as the site for this incident,the second image became the sole and the most widely circulated photograph of this event.Further,this incident ended up giving a very significant term to the lexicon related to such incidents.
While the building in the first image served as the site for this incident,the second image became the sole and the most widely circulated photograph of this event.Further,this incident ended up giving a very significant term to the lexicon related to such incidents.
What event ? What term was coined ?
Answer
Stockholm Syndrome
Brilliant crack by Gaurav !!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Quest Pistols # 90
Lovers worldwide will be buying a rose from one of his expansive cultivations this valentines too.Identify the man and his company?
Answer
Ramakrishna Karuturi of Karuturi Floritech
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Quest Pistols # 89
A consequential policy for that nation's economy. Identify.
Answer
New Deal, under which various overhauling economic programs were designed after the great depression of 1929, under president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal)
Friday, February 12, 2010
Quest Pistols # 88
Identify this ingenuous man, who gave us an all time favorite recreational activity.
Answer
Walter Frederick Morrison,the inventor of Frisbee
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Quest Pistols # 87
CRICKET !!
Explain this, one of the morally untoward incidents from the cricketing history.
Answer
(answer in comments)
Explain this, one of the morally untoward incidents from the cricketing history.
Answer
(answer in comments)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Quest Pistols # 86
Why the piece this film is based upon in news ?Answer
The image is the theatrical poster of the sci-fi film Blade Runner based on the novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick.
Quoting cnet, "Dick is the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a novel in which owners of animals are rather cool and androids struggle with the concept of empathy. In this novel, which was sucked into Hollywood to serve as the stimulus for the movie "Blade Runner," the androids are called Nexus-6."
Author Philip K. Dick is reportedly considering legal action at the name of the new Google phone which is called Nexus.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Quest Pistols # 85
The Virtuous Circle of Popularity !!
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Image 1 is a collection of the different creatures that appeared where X was used for the first time. Some years later, a man identifying the popularity X had gained,named his first creation after X .Image 2 shows this creation ( the one with his voice bubble edited ) . Some years further,the popularity this creation attained prompted a suggestion from a person for a certain nomenclature;the suggestion was accepted. After some more time , this popular name gave a distorted idea regarding name of something else,which as the question is flowing,became immensely popular too.
What ? Fence this popularity circle with your explanation.
Answer
X is Google.
Image 1 shows creatures that featured in The Google book.
Billy DeBeck in 1919 created Barney Google (in image 2)
When the mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was challenged in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to suggest a word. The youthful comic strip reader told Kasner to use "Google". Kasner agreed and in 1940 he introduced the words "googol" and "googolplex" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination.
This is the term that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in mind when they named their company in 1998, but they misspelled "googol" as "Google" bringing it full circle right back to Billy DeBeck
Image 1 is a collection of the different creatures that appeared where X was used for the first time. Some years later, a man identifying the popularity X had gained,named his first creation after X .Image 2 shows this creation ( the one with his voice bubble edited ) . Some years further,the popularity this creation attained prompted a suggestion from a person for a certain nomenclature;the suggestion was accepted. After some more time , this popular name gave a distorted idea regarding name of something else,which as the question is flowing,became immensely popular too.
What ? Fence this popularity circle with your explanation.
Answer
X is Google.
Image 1 shows creatures that featured in The Google book.
Billy DeBeck in 1919 created Barney Google (in image 2)
When the mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was challenged in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to suggest a word. The youthful comic strip reader told Kasner to use "Google". Kasner agreed and in 1940 he introduced the words "googol" and "googolplex" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination.
This is the term that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in mind when they named their company in 1998, but they misspelled "googol" as "Google" bringing it full circle right back to Billy DeBeck
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