Thursday 5 April 2007

Puzzle # 45

Clue 1: 148,939,100 km²

Clue 2: Drama

Clue 3: Distant-relation

What's the Trylateral?

Half a brownie each to Ubermaniam & Anuradha.

13 comments:

Unknown said...

Clue 1: 148,939,100 km² - surface area of Earth - Surface

Clue 2: Drama - tension

Clue 3: Distant-relation - surface tension is related to the distance between the molecules

Trylateral - surface tension

pbzeppelin said...

or

clue 1 is landmass


drama=seriousness

distant-relation = gravity is inversely related to distance

so TL could be gravity

Unknown said...

Another lame attempt

Clue 1: 148,939,100 km² - Land on Earth

Clue 2: Drama - Serial - Start Trek

Clue 3: Distant-relation - They are supposed to be distantly related to humans??

Trylateral - The Vulcans

pbzeppelin said...

another cast

148939100 = surface area of sphere = 4 pi r squared

drama - life of pi

distant-relation - pi -ratio of circumference to diameter

TL - PI

pbzeppelin said...

ananta - how far r we - its got some thing to do with surface area

my next trial is TL- is persian carpets!

pbzeppelin said...

oops - pressed send by mistake

surface area - covered by carpet - all those 6th std area sums were abt carpeting :)

distant relation - farsis - persian

drama - drama on red carpet

TL - CARPET

pbzeppelin said...

PYTHAGORAS THEOREM

Unknown said...

Clue 1: 148,939,100 km² - Area - Aria

Clue 2: Drama - Opera

Clue 3: Distant-relation - Far + mata - Fermata - another musical term

Trylateral - Musical Terms ??

Subramaniam Avinash said...

Worldspace.

Clue 1: World
Drama: Play (the sports station i used to hide in.)
Distant-relation: Space

anantha said...

avinash gets half a brownie. anyone who cracks clue 3 will get the other half.

Unknown said...

Clue 3: Distant-relation - Far+rishtha - Faristha - another music channel of Worldspace

anantha said...

anuradha gets the better half. of the brownie.

Subramaniam Avinash said...

Ah, rishta! dammit. Good call, Anu.