Sunday, August 29, 2010

Quest Pistols # 120



Will find this in a city that celebrates their famous son every year.Identify.

Answer

James Joyce at Dublin, Ireland.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Quest Pistols # 119




End of a revolution that had resulted into a complete chaos and overhaul, but whose logs have since been a state guarded secret. Identify.

Answer

Gang Of Four that gained prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

Friday, August 27, 2010

Quest Pistols # 118







Connect (music).


Answer

The song 'Cortez the killer' from the album Zuma by Neil Young. The song is inspired from the attack on Mexico by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Quest Pistols # 117

Mind games!



He coined the now ubiquitous term among the computer scientists in 1950s.Identify the pioneer in the research circles, who also created the language of use in the same field.

Answer

John McCarthy, American computer scientist who coined the term 'artificial intelligence', and is the pioneer in the field since the 1950s.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Quest Pistols # 116




Leaseholder of the property in the background, who is this rich man?

Answer

Larry Silverstein, he is the leaseholder of the 'ground zero' property
in Manhattan,NY where the WTC twin towers stood until the tragic 9/11 attacks.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Quest Pistols # 115

Does the god play dice?




Give the famous term he coined, quite risque to the imaginative. Also identify the scientist.

Answer

John Wheeler, American physicist who coined the astronomical term 'black-hole' which the French resisted for being obscene!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Quest Pistols # 114

Need peace !!



Standing symbol to the pathologies of human inflicted destruction and catastrophe, identify the charred remnants that have since been preserved as a memorial.

Answer

Hiroshima Peace Memorial or the Atomic Bomb dome in Hiroshima, Japan which is also a UNESCO heritage site.

Quest Pistols # 113

Minutes to madness !!






Identify the device that is reset in sync to the potential worldly cataclysms and threats.

Answer

Atomic doomsday clock maintained by the Bulletin of the atomic scientists(BoAs).
Images shown are of the Clock graph and the cover of the BoAs magazine.
The clock is synced in accordance to the threat from nuclear attack, global warming et al.Currently it is set at 6 minutes to midnight.