Question - 649

Where would you find this?

Answer: The town of Riverside, Iowa which declared itself the birthplace of James T. Kirk. Siddarth Pai, Krithi, Matti, Jamie, Divya, Deepanshu, Saket, Sharmistha Dutta and Divya Shankar got it. Well done.

Question - 557

Identify the character.

Answer: This is Tek Jansen, a fictional character featured on the Colbert Report. mekie got it. Awesome!

Question - 520

What is blanked out by the red question mark?

Answer: The uncanny valley - the graph shows the likability of robots/automatons as a function of their resemblance to humans. As they approach too close to us for comfort, their likability suddenly dips in the region that has been termed the uncanny valley. Ameya, White Jack and Black Lagoon, Karthik, Vetti, AJ, Jaggi, Raghu, nice try, Krithi and Sreekanth got it. Well done.

Question - 438

A trilogy that he wrote has led to the design of the flag shown. Identify him and the flag.

Answer: Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a trilogy about terraforming Mars. The three books were Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars reflecting the changes the planet undergoes as time goes on. The colors have since been adapted into a (unofficial for now) flag for the planet. Kamal Rathi, Ajinkya, Bharath, anon, Matti Tapaninen, anon, Krithi, Karthik, Rajesh, An0n, Adi, Kaushik, Arvind, buckingfastard, Arun Mallya and Jaggi got it. Well done.