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Quest — by Dick Nuenke
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Last month's Quest asked to identify what six items, described as dinosaurs,
really were.
The answer is they are all telescopes, many not yet constructed.
So we have the Wilson (100 inch) telescope, the 21-foot (actually 6.5 meter) Magellan
telescope, the South African Large Telescope, the California Extremely
Large Telescope, the Giant Segmented (mirror) Telescope, and finally the
Overwhelmingly Large (OWL) Telescope.
Source: Sky and Telescope magazine, August 2000.
No answers received at press time.
 One of my favorite art museums is the Art Institute of Chicago. For some reason many artists change their real names and are actually known by some alternate name (looks like for some it was so it would fit on the canvas). For example, Domenikos Theodokopoulos is commonly known as El Greco. One thing they do at the Art Institute of Chicago is to include both names, often indicating the year of the change. For the October Quest I have listed the unfamiliar (usually real) name of nine artists. What is the name they are actually known by? This is a good one to search out on the Internet.
Send me your answer (see puzzle page for contact numbers). |
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