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

(X)



(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.

Quest Pistols # 93




Identify.

Answer

Bhanu Athaiya

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.

What event ? What term was coined ?

Answer

Stockholm Syndrome

Brilliant crack by Gaurav !!