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Cerebrum 3.0 Finals QM: Mahendra Mohan Das
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Cerebrum 30 Finals
QM Mahendra Mohan Das
Before we begin
bull Following the new tradition of displaying pi-charts
of topic distribution before the beginning of a
quiz here is the pi-chart for today‟s quiz
Qs related to science
Qs not related to science at all
The road to glory
bull The Beta Test Initiation 04 q
bull The Terminator Decoupling 10 q
bull The Decoupling Fluctuation 10 q
bull The Hesitation Ramification 06 q
bull The Recombination Hypothesis 10 q
bull The Nerdvana Annihilation 06 q
bull0th question Where are the names of the
rounds taken from
Universal rules for the quiz
bull Quizmaster is God And he doesn‟t play dice
(used to play when he was a child)
bull Hints will be given like charity But the same
cannot be said about time He has a train to
catch Plan accordingly
bull Arguing with a sleep-deprived quizmaster is
injurious to health ldquoJanhit mein jaarirdquo
The Beta Test Initiation Written round
+100
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Before we begin
bull Following the new tradition of displaying pi-charts
of topic distribution before the beginning of a
quiz here is the pi-chart for today‟s quiz
Qs related to science
Qs not related to science at all
The road to glory
bull The Beta Test Initiation 04 q
bull The Terminator Decoupling 10 q
bull The Decoupling Fluctuation 10 q
bull The Hesitation Ramification 06 q
bull The Recombination Hypothesis 10 q
bull The Nerdvana Annihilation 06 q
bull0th question Where are the names of the
rounds taken from
Universal rules for the quiz
bull Quizmaster is God And he doesn‟t play dice
(used to play when he was a child)
bull Hints will be given like charity But the same
cannot be said about time He has a train to
catch Plan accordingly
bull Arguing with a sleep-deprived quizmaster is
injurious to health ldquoJanhit mein jaarirdquo
The Beta Test Initiation Written round
+100
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The road to glory
bull The Beta Test Initiation 04 q
bull The Terminator Decoupling 10 q
bull The Decoupling Fluctuation 10 q
bull The Hesitation Ramification 06 q
bull The Recombination Hypothesis 10 q
bull The Nerdvana Annihilation 06 q
bull0th question Where are the names of the
rounds taken from
Universal rules for the quiz
bull Quizmaster is God And he doesn‟t play dice
(used to play when he was a child)
bull Hints will be given like charity But the same
cannot be said about time He has a train to
catch Plan accordingly
bull Arguing with a sleep-deprived quizmaster is
injurious to health ldquoJanhit mein jaarirdquo
The Beta Test Initiation Written round
+100
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Universal rules for the quiz
bull Quizmaster is God And he doesn‟t play dice
(used to play when he was a child)
bull Hints will be given like charity But the same
cannot be said about time He has a train to
catch Plan accordingly
bull Arguing with a sleep-deprived quizmaster is
injurious to health ldquoJanhit mein jaarirdquo
The Beta Test Initiation Written round
+100
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Beta Test Initiation Written round
+100
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull In the following image some fictional account of
some scientistmathematicians are given on how
they would express their love for someone
Identify them with their characteristic lines
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Answers
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
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Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
A1) bull The Five Fists of Science
is a graphic novel showing X
his (real-life) friend Mark
Twain and Bertha von
Suttner combine forces to try
to bring about world peace
through superior firepower
They are soon confronted by
dark forces led by the
dastardly Y (X‟s real-life arch-
rival) John Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie and
Guglielmo Marconi The
protagonists are shown in
the cover of the book
bull Identify X and Y
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
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Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
X= Tesla Y= Edison
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Terminator Decoupling Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
1)
bull Give BOTH the first two names
bull 1) _____ _____ 1903
bull 2) _____ _____ 1903
bull 3) Iregravene Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 4) Frederic Joliot-_____ 1935
bull 5) Henry Labouisse ex-director of UNICEF 1965
bull Exhaustive list in a way
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Marie Curie Pierre Curie
bull Marie Curie ndash for Physics in 1903 and for
Chemistry in 1911
bull Her husband Pierre Curie ndash for Physics in 1903
bull Their daughter Iregravene Joliot-Curie ndash for Chemistry
in 1935
bull Their son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie ndash for
Chemistry in 1935
bull Henry Labouisse the husband of the Curies
second daughter Egraveve for peace in 1965
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
2) bull The character X lives a double life as a member
of an all-animal espionage organization referred
to as The OWCA (Organization Without a Cool
Acronym) It was made a ____ because of the
animals striking appearance and the lack of
public knowledge of the animal which allowed
the writers to make things up about the species
Critical reception for the character from both
professionals and fans have been considerably
positive Many environmentalists also rated this
TV series highly for spreading awareness among
people about the existence of such an animal
bull Identify X and FITB
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Perry the Platypus
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
3)
bull 1) P versus NP
bull 2) The Hodge conjecture
bull 3) The Riemann hypothesis
bull 4) YangndashMills existence and mass gap
bull 5) NavierndashStokes existence and smoothness
bull 6) The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
bull A) Name the seventh in the list
bull B) What is this exhaustive list called How is the
seventh one different from the other six
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull A) Poincareacute conjecture
bull B) Millennium Prize Problems
bull Six of the problems remain unsolved The
Poincareacute conjecture was solved by Grigori
Perelman but he declined the award in 2010
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
4) bull What is being shown
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Project Loon
bull It is a research and development project being
developed by Google 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 20 mi (32 km) to create an aerial wireless
network with up to 3G-like speeds
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
5) bull Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune
disease that results in a chronic systemic
inflammatory disorder that may affect many
tissues and organs but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints It can be a disabling and painful
condition which can lead to substantial loss of
functioning and mobility if not adequately
treated
bull Who in the world of
cricket is the most
famous person
suffering from this
disease
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Billy Bowden
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
6) bull Question on the next slide
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull The person on the left (born 1900) won Nobel
prize in physics in 1945 and has many famous
theories (principles equations effects) in his
name
bull The person on the right (born 1913) won Nobel
prize in 1989
bull The person on the left humorously referred to
the person on the right as his bdquoimaginary part‟
due to similarity in their names though it should
have been the other way round
bull Identify either
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull Left Wolfgang Pauli
bull Right Wolfgang Paul
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
7)
bull The X process or ammonia-soda process is the
major industrial process for the production of
soda ash which was developed by Belgian
industrialist Ernest X The exploitation of his
patents brought him considerable wealth
which he used for philanthropic purposes
including establishment of various educational
institutions of higher studies
bull What did he famously introduceestablish in
1911 which usually takes place every 3 years
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Solvay conference
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
8)
bull These are baobab trees
mainly found in
Madagaskar which are
considered to be
thousands of years old
and are considered to
be the oldest flowering
plants But these facts are
difficult to verify due to a
bdquostructural difference‟
with other such trees
What
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull They don‟t grow annual rings with which the
ages of trees are determined
bull Some trees produce faint growth rings
probably annually but they are not reliable for
aging specimens because they are difficult to
count and may fade away as the wood ages
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
9) bull Connect or put funda
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Magdeburg hemispheres
bull They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with
mating rims used to demonstrate the power of
atmospheric pressure When the rims were sealed
with grease and the air was pumped out the
sphere contained a vacuum and could not be
pulled apart by teams of horses
bull Pic 1 The original Magdeburg hemispheres and
Guerickes vacuum pump
bull Pic 2 Logo is inspired by this experiment
bull Pic 3 Otto von Guericke
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
10)
ldquoNow a moon a lover refulgent in flight
Sails the black silences loneliest ellipse
Computers use __ the ________ when polite
Or gentle data for sad tracking aid at eclipserdquo
bull These types of poems are very popular and
handy while undergoing a practice called
Piphilology
bull What is piphilology
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull Piphilology comprises the creation and use of
mnemonic techniques to remember a span of
digits of the mathematical constant π
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
A2) bull Travelers diarrhea is the most common illness
affecting travelers It is defined as three or more
unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a
traveler commonly accompanied by
abdominal cramps nausea and bloating Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen
bull There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers diarrhea such as ldquoMontezumas
revengerdquo ldquoAztec two steprdquo ldquoPharaohs
Revengerdquo
bull What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Delhi belly
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Decoupling Fluctuation Infinite bounce and pounce
+100 +10-5w (pounce)
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
1)
bull Listen to the song carefully
bull Identify the voice
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Stephen Hawking
bull Keep talking
bull Pink Floyd
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
2) bull Einstein‟s theory of relativity came up short
when explaining the atomic and sub-atomic
world In the fifth Solvay Conference in 1927
Einsteins great rival in his quest to explain the
nature of reality was Neils Bohr who was
championing a new branch of physics called
quantum mechanics At its core quantum
theory said that at a fundamental level
everything was unpredictable particles could
be in more than one place at the same time
and a cat in a box could be both alive and
dead
bull What did Einstein disenchanted with
Heisenbergs uncertainty principle reply
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
God does not play dice
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
3)
bull Ammonium ferric citrate amp potassium
ferricyanide coated on papercloth was used
to reproduce images The result is a copy of the
original image with the clear background area
rendered dark and the image itself reproduced
as a white line making it difficult to alter or add
new information to the document
bull Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Blueprint
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
4)
bull Roy J Glauber was awarded
the 2005 Nobel Prize in
Physics ldquofor his contribution
to the quantum theory of
optical coherencerdquo In order
to attend the ceremony
however Glauber missed
one of his bdquojob‟s he has been
doing for years in another
prize distribution ceremony
bull What job
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull For many years before winning his Nobel Prize
Glauber was familiar to audiences of the Ig
Nobel Prize ceremonies where he took a bow
each year as Keeper of the Broom sweeping
the stage clean of the paper airplanes that have
traditionally been thrown during the event
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
5) bull It is a genus of rod-shaped
Gram-negative non-spore-
forming predominantly
motile enterobacteria with
diameters around 08 to 15
microm lengths from 2-5 microm
and peritrichous flagella It
was named after Daniel
Elmer ____ an American
veterinary pathologist and
not after the type of fish as
many people think
bull What
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Salmonella
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
6) bull Whose death letter was the signatory sending
around
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull Hint if needed
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
7) bull Jack Cover spent most of his career as a nuclear
physicist who worked in aerospace and defense
including playing a significant role in supplying
parts for NASA‟s Apollo project In 1970 he
diverted his research to finding a weapon that
could incapacitate assailants without killing
them He received a patent for his design in 1974
and by 1980 Cover had sold the Los Angeles
Police Department on using his new gadget to
help apprehend violent suspects
bull He named it after an invention by a Tom Swift a
legendary fictional inventor that inspired Jack
bull What gadget
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
TASER
bull Acronym for ldquoThomas A Swift‟s Electric Riflerdquo
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
8)
bull What is being parodied in this The Simpsons
episode
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Infinite monkey theorem
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
9) bull The Scoville scale used for the measurement of
something which is usually measured by a
method that uses high performance liquid
chromatography (HPLC) This identifies and
measures the concentration of chemicals
necessary for the scaling
bull X topped the Scoville scale from 2007 until
February 2012 with an average of 1 million SHU
and an individual highest of 15mn It was
surpassed in February 2012 by Trinidad Moruga
Scorpion with 2mn SHU which in turn was
surpassed by Carolina Reaper with 22mn SHU in
2013 and holds the record till date
bull What does Scoville scale measure Also id X
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Our own ভ োট জলকীয়ো
bull The Scoville scale is the measurement of the
pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy
foods
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
10)
bull sbquo lsquoকrsquoই lsquoখrsquoৰ ভেমত পৰৰছছ‛
bull ক used to go to his friend গrsquos house from the
road via খrsquos house After his heart broke he
didn‟t take the ক-খ-গ route and instead took the
ক-গ route
bull The famous story ldquoজযোৰমৰত‛ ends like ৰিনছটোৰ অৰিচৰ কোমৰ ভেষত ৰোৰত lsquoকrsquo যোয় lsquoগrsquoৰ ঘৰলল তোচ
ভখৰলবলল - ক-খ-গ পছেছৰ নহয় সংৰিপত ক-গ ভৰখোছৰই
যোয় লৰো-লৰৰলক কেোছটো মনত নপছৰ সিোয় যৰিও lsquoকrsquoই
জোছন (Euclid I20) - ___ ___ ___ bull State the last line which is proved in Euclid‟s
Book 1 proportion 20 Also who wrote the story
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull ৰি জৰ ৰযছকোছনো দই বোহৰ সমৰি ততীয় বোহতলক ডোঙৰ
bull Saurav Kumar Chaliha
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
A3)
bull What is happening
bull Put funda
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Peeing before going to space
bull Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of
urinating on the bus tire before going to space
After getting into their sokol suits and before
reaching the launch pad the bus stops and the
crew pees on the tire This tradition is supposed
to have started with Gagarin
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Hesitation Ramification Pick your pill
+10-5n +10-10 (pounce)
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Physics Chemistry
Mathematics Medicine
Astronomy Popular culture
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull In 2007 X told the Hindustan Times ldquoThe 2005
Nobel prize for Physics was awarded for my
work but I wasn‟t the one to get it Each one of
the discoveries that this Nobel was given for
work based on my researchrdquo X also
commented on not being selected for the 1979
Nobel Steven Weinberg Sheldon Glashow
and Abdus Salam built on work I had done as a
26-year-old student If you give a prize for a
building shouldn‟t the fellow who built the first
floor be given the prize before those who built
the second floor
bull Which famous Indian
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
ECG Sudarshan
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull In 1938 a chemist of the Temmler company in
Berlin synthesized a drug manufactured under
the name Pervitin and publicly sold as a
stimulant and drug for psychiatry During WWII it
was used extensively by the Axis forces for its
stimulant effects From 1942 Adolf Hitler too
received daily injections of this drug from his
personal physician Dr Theodor Morell
bull The production distribution sale and possession
of this drug is now restricted or illegal in many
jurisdictions Its name became famous since 2008
for its relation to one of the co-founders of a
multi-billion dollar company named Gray Matter
Technologies
bull Which drug
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Methamphatamine
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull Because of his prolific output friends created
the X number as a humorous tribute to X An X
number describes a persons degree of
separation from X himself based on their
collaboration with him or with another who has
their own X number X alone was assigned the X
number of 0 (for being himself) while his
immediate collaborators could claim an X
number of 1 their collaborators have X number
at most 2 and so on While Natalie Portman has
an X number of 5 Carl Sagan‟s X number is 4
There are other famous people with small X
numbers
bull What number
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Erdos number
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull This 1995 novel for the most
part set in Calcutta at some
unspecified time in the
future is a medical thriller
that dramatizes the
adventures of apparently
disconnected people who
are brought together by a
mysterious turn of events
bull Whose life is this book loosely
based on
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Sir Ronald Ross
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull A binary star is a star system consisting of two
stars orbiting around their common center of
mass Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice
and it orbits a binary star Kepler-16 with a
period of 229 days
bull What was kepler-16 nicknamed in reference to
a fictional planet orbiting two suns which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes
in the film industry
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Tatooine
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull A concrete answer to this question was
published by the Associated Press in 1988
which reported that a New York fish and wildlife
technician named Richard Thomas had
calculated the volume of dirt in a typical 25-30
foot long ______ burrow and had determined
that if the ______ had moved an equivalent
volume of ___ it could move about 700 pounds
on a good day with the wind at his back
bull What was the question it was an answer to
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
A4)
ldquoGlenn T Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Americardquo
bull What is so special about this old mailing address
of Glenn Seaborg
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull Jeffrey Winters writing in the January 1998 issue
of Discover Magazine made the following
observation
bull ldquoNot only is Seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him he‟s also
the only person who could receive mail
addressed only in elements Seaborgium
Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory where he still works) Berkelium
Californium Americiumrdquo
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Recombination
Hypothesis
+100
Mega connect
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Explanation
bull Q1 relates to object no1
bull Q2 relates to object no2 +30-20
bull Q3 amp Q4 relates to object no3
bull Q5 amp Q6 relates to object no4
bull Q7 amp Q8 relates to object no5
bull Q9 amp Q10 relates to object no6 +100
bull All these 6 objects form the mega connect
which is exhaustive (till now)
bull Hint The mega connect is not related to
science but the individual answers are
+20-10
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Safety slide
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
1) The Institute of ____ Sciences is an American
non-profit research institute co-founded in 1973
by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell and investor
Paul N Temple The institute conducts research
on topics such as spontaneous remission
meditation consciousness alternative healing
practices consciousness-based healthcare
spirituality human potential psychic abilities
psychokinesis and survival of consciousness after
bodily death
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
2)
bull All parts of it can be drawn with a compass and
straightedge Its basic outline is a plain trefoil
which is three circles overlapping each other
equally like in a triple Venn diagram with the
overlapping parts erased The diameter of the
overlapping part is equal to half the radius of
the three circles Then three inner circles are drawn in with ⅔ radius of the original circles so
that it is tangent to the outside three
overlapping circles
bull (contd)
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull A tiny circle in center has a diameter frac12 of the
radius of the three inner circles and arcs are
erased at 90deg 210deg and 330deg The arcs of the
inner circles and the tiny circle are connected
by a line Finally the ring under is drawn from
the distance to the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle that forms between the centers of the
three intersecting circles An outer circle of the
ring under is drawn and finally enclosed with
the arcs from the center of the inner circles with
a shorter radius from the inner circles
bull What is being described
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
3)
bull In February 2013 its price suddenly shot up It
was sold at US$1600 an ounce 40 times the
price of gold
bull It again came to news when it was announced
on 15th February this year that Sochi Olympic
gold winners of the day will be given bonus
medals of that material
bull What material is being talked about
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Meteorite
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
4)
bull The picture shown is of
an immigration form
filled by some people
while arriving at
Honolulu
bull Whose immigration
form is this Name the
operator OR name
the whole crew
bull (bigger pic next slide)
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
5) bull Mark Gasson is a British scientist who
pioneered developments in direct interfaces
between computer systems and the human
nervous system is active in the research fields of
implantable medical devices
bull He is most widely known
for his experiments in
transmitting something
into a human implant
and for the experiment
he injected it into his own
body leading to his claim
to be the first human
infected with that
bull What
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Computer virus
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
6)
bull One liner
bull Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope While
on the other hand for making Fat Man some
other element was used instead of uranium
Which element
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Plutonium
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
7) bull The picture below shows a statue of the dancing
Shiva unveiled at X The statue symbolizing
Shivas cosmic dance of creation and
destruction was given to X by the Indian
government to celebrate its long association
with India
bull Identify X
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
8) bull Question on the next slide
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull ____ Man first appeared in Justice League of
America 46 (October 1966) He was a
traveller from another universe and was
ignorant or unconcerned about his effect on
this Universe When he came the parallel
worlds known as Earth 1 and Earth 2 began to
merge in Warp space
bull Because of his ____ body he could not touch
positive material from our universe at the risk of
causing explosions Dr Fate also covered the
bodies of Justice League with magic so they
do not explode on contact with the ____ Man
bull FITB
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
9)
bull A piece of wood gifted by Royal Society was
taken to the International Space Station in May
2010 and was returned safely which created
headlines (might not be of many newspapers
but of many science magazines)
bull What was all this about
bull (snapshot in the next slide)
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
10) bull V was a Roman author architect and
engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps
best known for his multi-volume work entitled De
Architectura Based on geometry and human
proportions in V‟s writings W created the
famous drawing X It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of V
bull The first paragraph of the upper part reports V
ldquoV architect puts in his work on architecture
that the measurements of man are in nature
distributed in this manner that is a palm is four
fingers a foot is four palms a cubit is six palms
four cubits make a man a pace is four cubits a
man is 24 palms and these measurements are
in his buildingsrdquo
bull No need to identify V Just tell me W and X
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Vitruvian Man Da Vinci
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Fictions written by Dan Brown
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
A5)
bull University of Victoria British Columbia Canada
offers a course under Exercise Science Physical
and Health Education (EPHE) which provides
the study of somethingsomeone scientifically
and is a mixture of psychology medicine
physics and various other sciences
bull What is the course all about
bull (screenshot in the next slide)
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
The Nerdvana Annihilation Bonus-cum-Differential round
+5(6-n)0
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B1) bull It is a medical condition characterized by a
snapping sensation felt when a certain body
part is flexed amp extended This may be
accompanied by an audible snapping or
popping noise and pain or discomfort Pain
often decreases with rest and diminished
activity
bull Athletes are at special risk for this due to
repetitive and physically demanding
movements but it is named after another
profession prone to such injuries
bull What are we talking about
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Dancer‟s hip
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B2)
bull The Method of loci is a mnemonic device
introduced in ancient Roman and Greek
rhetorical treatises In basic terms it is a method
of memory enhancement which uses
visualization to organize and recall information
In this technique the subject memorizes the
layout of some building or the arrangement of
shops on a street or any geographical entity
which is composed of a number of discrete loci
bull How do we better know this technique as
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Mind palace memory palace
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B3) bull Question on the next slide
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
bull These creatures can withstand temperatures
from just above absolute zero to well above the
boiling point of water pressures about six times
stronger than pressures found in the deepest
ocean trenches ionizing radiation at doses
hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose
for a person and the vacuum of outer space
They can go without food or water for more
than 10 years drying out to the point where
they are 3 or less water only to rehydrate
forage and reproduce and is often called the
toughest animal on the planet
bull Name the creature
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Tardigrades or water bear
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B4) bull He wrote The Treatise on Demonstration of
Problems of Algebra in which the first known
explanation of Pascal‟s triangle if found He also
explained Euclid‟s Parallel Postulate and
discovered geometric algebra Apart from these
he is also known for binomial theorem upto any
power saccheri quadrilateral proposition of the
heliocentric theory Jalali calendar etc
bull He however is not known to most of the people
in the people in the world as a mathematician or
an astronomer but was famous in a totally
different field
bull Identify him or give his most famous work
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Omar Khayyam Rubaacuteiyaacutet
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B5)
bull He was a co-investigator of the Indian cosmic
ray experiment conducted on-board Space
Shuttle Spacelab-3 and is a Principal
investigator of Lunar samples He later was
appointed as the director of Physical Research
Laboratory and gained even more fame as the
Principal Scientific Investigator of
Chandrayaan-1 Indias first unmanned lunar
probe launched by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) Who
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Jitendra Nath Goswami
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
B6) bull The X contest is annually held at Purdue
University The X is named after cartoonist X the
spirit of whose work inspires the contests weird
machines and crazy mechanism His inventions
became so widely known that Websters
Dictionary added ldquoXrdquo to its listing defining it as
ldquoaccomplishing by extremely complex
roundabout means what seemingly could be
done simplyrdquo Every year the contestants are
given simple mundane tasks like watering a
plant washing a plate and so on The winners
are the guys who achieve this task in the most
complicated way
bull Identify X
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
Brickbats and bouquets at
bull Facebook
httpwwwfacebookcommahendramohandas
bull e-mail
mohandasmahendragmailcom
bull Slideshare
httpwwwslidesharenetmahendramohandas
