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Question - 1

What is celebrated on October 23rd?

It officially starts at 6:02 AM and ends at 6:02 PM that day.

Question - 2

This country was named after the Latin name for a metal because the first conquerors arrived in this area following rumours of mountains made of this metal. Name the country.

Argentina

Question - 3

The X brand of hook and loop was invented by a man named George de Mestral in the 1940s, while hunting in the Jura Mountains, in Switzerland. Mr. de Mestral, a Swiss engineer realised that the tiny hooks of the cockleburs were stuck on his pants and in his dogs fur and pondered about it.

ID X. (pic)

Velcro

Question - 4

X is a Palo-Alto based website; created, edited and organized by its community of users.It was co-founded by two former Facebook employees. One of them is Charlie Cheever.In January 2013, it launched a blogging platform.

ID X and its other co-founder.

QUORAAdam D Angelo

Question - 5

How do we better know Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart which is sometimes described as a reverse Turing Test?

Question - 6

Which company's headquarters are you likely to find yourself in, if you're at the following address:

"1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA"? (pic)

Apple, Inc.

Question - 7

X is a research and development project being developed by Y with the mission of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 32km to create an aerial wireless network with up to 3G-like speeds.

ID X and Y.

Project Loon, by Google

Question - 8

___________ ________ is applied from an aerosol can.

The can contains water (~80%), butane gas (~17%), surfactant (~1%), and other ingredients including vegetable oil (~2%). The liquefied butane expands when the product is ejected from the can. The butane evaporates instantly, forming bubbles of gas in the water/surfactant mixture. The surfactant(s) causes the bubbles to have stability and hence a gas-in-liquid colloid (foam) forms. The bubbles eventually collapse and the foam disappears, leaving only water and surfactant residue on the ground.

The purpose is to have a temporary mark. The marks disappear after about one minute. What is being talked

about here?

FTB.

Vanishing Spray

Question - 9

Connect:Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat, Natty Narwahal, Oneiric Ocelot, Precise Pangolin, Quantal Quetzal, Raring Ringtail.

Versions of Ubuntu

Question - 10

ID.

Google Fiber

Question - 11

X(1838-1922) was a Belgian chemist and industrialist whose patents brought him considerable wealth, which he used to bankroll several philanthropic endeavours. In 1894, X founded a sociology institute at the University of Brussels, called "Institut des Sciences Sociales" (ISS).In 1911, X established the prestigious meetings of top scientists known asY. The first and the fifth of Y (1911 and 1927) are particularly noteworthy, as they helped define the foundations for the first and second incarnations ofthe quantum theory. (Pic)

Ernest Solvay,

Solvay Conference

Question 12

Connect.

Question - 13

This is the desk of which famous technocrat?

Mark Zuckerberg

Question - 14

ID.

TheIg Nobel Prizesare a parody of the Nobel Prizesand are given each year in early October for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. The stated aim of theprizesis to honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Question - 15

Audio.Explain the cause and reason for the change observed.

The speaker (Sheldon Cooper) inhales Helium gas. Helium causes our voice to change because the speed of sound in Helium is faster than in the air we normally breathe.

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Question - 16

This is a piece of mineral rock thats called Armalcolite. It is a titanium-rich mineral with the chemical formula

( Mg, Fe2+)Ti2O5.

How did it get its name? (pic)

ARMALCOLITE, after Neil ARMstrong, Buzz ALdrin, Michael COLlins

Question - 17

In the 1930s, American firefighters had a tough time dousing fires in tall skyscrapers because water through the existing hose-pipes could not cover a good range. It was around this time that American engineer Horace Baker had a brainwave.

He developed a simple new fire hose design, with metal feathers within the pipes which solved the problem. What was his brainwave?

(Concept behind the solution)

Laminar Flow of Water.

Water, in laminar flow travels a greater distance than turbulent water.

Question - 18

Keratin reacts with Hennotannic Acid

(aka Lawsone) via a mechanism known as Michael Addition to create a stain.What is this stain, better known as?

Henna or Mehendi

Question - 19

X is a global set of conferences run by the privatenon-profitSapling Foundation, under the slogan "Ideas Worth Spreading".X was founded in 1984 as a one-off event;the annual conference series began in 1990.Xs early emphasis was consistent with Silicon Valleyorigins, but it has since broadened its focus to include many scientific, cultural and academic topics. ID X.

Question - 20

Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, who while working for Raytheon walked in front of a magnetron, a vacuum tube made to generate microwaves and noticed that the chocolate bar in his pocket melted. In 1945, after a few more experiments, including one in which an egg exploded in the face of one of the experimenters, he successfully invented the microwave oven. Which word is used to describe such inventions or discoveries that have come up accidentally?

Serendipity

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