Saturday, March 13, 2010

Quest Pistols # 96

A Tale of Two Cities

Question:


This city (with its famous landmark shown above) is in news for one of the most unimagined things ever.

What ?


Answer


The city is Topeka,the capital of US State Kansas.

The city has temporarily changed its name for the month of March to Google. Read this.




Question:

This service offered by a renowned company borrows its name from that of a city.The service has been recently launched in India.The company in question was at the center of a controversy almost an year ago.

Name the service/company.


Answer

Saratoga,
launched by PriceWater House Coopers

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