MS HALL QUIZ

01/03/2015

•40 Questions

•Half Answer-0.5

•Full Answer-1.0

•Questions 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40 are star marked questions

Ankur Singh

Question 1

Before the era of T.V., Radio adaptations and plays had often seemed rudimentary and awkward.Attempting to change this, X, the head of Mercury group - a radio station had one of his writers rewrite the story of the novel Y into a radio play. They also reinvigorated the story by changing the location and time from Victorian England to present day New England, making it more personal for the listeners.

Thus on Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked and many ran out of their homes screaming while others packed up their cars and fled.

Who was X? What novel Y had he adapted?

Answer 1

Y -War of the Worlds by HG Wells, 1898.X - Orson Welles

Question 2

Sonification is the process of using audio to convey information allowing for a new way to visualize big data. It works by assigning a musical note to each piece of data, so that the same data is presented as a musical score. The intervals between values in the original data set are mapped as the interval between notes in the melody. The same numerical value was associated to the same note. As the values increased or decreased, the pitch of the notes grows or diminishes accordingly.

Last year, to mark its 60th anniversary, employees of a certain Swiss institute “X” created a video showing themselves playing harps and violins against a backdrop of the “Y”. The video is the brainchild of Domenico Vicinanza, the arts and manager at the European education network GEANT.

The music employed the concept of Sonification and the results were surprisingly traditional, with even a hint of baroque. It involved the translation of scientific data collected from the four main events involving “Y” over the last decade. 1. The Swiss Organization, X?2. What is Y?

Answer 2

1. CERN.2. LHC - Large Hadron Collider.The measurements included Higgs boson data from the ATLAS and CMS

experiments, a lead ion collision from 2010, and data from the first observation of a heavy-flavored spin-3 particle that was seen in July.

Question 3

In 2293 an explosion caused a powerful subspace shock wave that impacted on the USS Excelsior, a Federation starship outside the Neutral Zone heading back to Federation space. This was because Praxis, the inhabited sole natural moon of Qo'noS, capital of the Klingon species was destroyed in a large explosion caused by over-mining and insufficient safety precautions.

Praxis' decimation resulted in a deadly pollution of Qo'noS' ozone, threatening the depletion of their oxygen within approximately fifty Earth years. Due to the Empire's enormous military budget, their economy did not have the resourceswith which to combat the catastrophe, forcing Chancellor Gorkon to approach the Federation with an overture of peace.

The explosion of Praxis is loosely based on a real life event, ”X”, one of several factors leading to the breakdown of the _______--_______. Likewise, the word "Praxis" is employed in the writings of “Y”, meaning active rather than merely theoretical socialism.X and Y?

Answer 3

X - Chernobyl DisasterY - Karl Marx

Question 4

es: escalating music; u: the unknown;cs: chase scenes; t: the sense of being trapped;a: the character being alone; dr: how dark the film is;fs: the film setting; tl: stands for true life;f: stands for fantasy; n: is for number of people;sin: is blood and guts; s: is shock.

Researchers at King’s Cross College, London came up with this ridiculously complex formula for Sky Television Network.

What did the researchers come up with this for?

Answer 4

The perfect horror film.They discovered that suspense comprised four essential categories: escalating music (es) the unknown (u), chase scenes (cs) and the sense of being trapped (t).

Because suspense is one of the most important qualities in a frightening flick, the equation is (es+u+cs+t) squared before shock (s) is added to the formula.That's why the next part of the equation sees true life (tl) and fantasy (f) added together and divided by two (tl+f)/2 to find a medium between a plot which is too unrealistic and too close to life.

The smaller the number of characters in a horror movie, the more the audience can empathise with them.And the darker the scene, the more frightening the characters' isolation can become.

So the formula looks at whether the characters are alone (a), in a dark environment (dr) and the film setting (fs) and divides it by the number of people (n) in the film (a+dr+fs)/n.

Based on their formula, researchers found that The Shining made the perfect horror film.The researchers spent two weeks watching a selection of films in the horror canon, including The Exorcist, The Texas

Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs.

Question 5

Originally, a double bass, a leather glove and some pine tar was used to produce this. Last year, Sound designer Erik Aadahl was hired to update this.“They’d rub the glove against the double base to create that groan” Aadahl said.

After plenty of experimenting, Aadahl put dry ice on a metal vent that would vibrate and scream as the ice sublimated. “We enhanced that with some low-end sound of rocks crunching” Aadahl says. For the bellow, they started with actual whale bellows … which didn’t work. Eventually they dragged a giant wooden crate across a polished floor. to get the effect.For what did Aadahl and his team go to such great efforts to accomplish?

Answer 5

Godzilla’s iconic roar.

Question 6

This invention relates to protecting movie films from being illegally duplicated,

and more specifically, relates to protecting movie films from being duplicated via video camera recordings during

the showing of the film.

Fig 1A - illustrates a general block diagram of one embodiment of an overall movie film security system, in

accordance with the present invention.

Fig 1B - illustrates an example of an audiovisual presentation image, a view of what a human would see looking

at a screen containing both the _______ pattern image and the audiovisual image being displayed to the human

audience.

Fig 1C - illustrates an example of an _______ pattern image - an embodiment of what a video camera sees and

records when aimed at a screen containing both the ________ pattern image example and the audiovisual image

example being displayed simultaneously.

FITB. Put Funda on what they exploited here.

Question 6

Answer 6

Infrared.Infrared Radiation can’t be seen by humans, but can be picked up by a camera as a bright spot in the image it creates. This can be exploited to foil piracy attempts in the theatres.

Question 7

Shown in the next slide are extracts from a scientist’s early publication of his research in the area of acoustics in 1934 when he was a part of the Indian Academy of Sciences.Name the author of the paper, someone who is famous from a different branch of science.

Question 7

Answer 7

C.V.Raman

Question 8

An extract from Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland”:“In high school the brothers studied optics and forces, the atomic numbers of the elements, the properties of light and sound. They learned about Hertz’s discovery of electromagnetic waves,and Marconi’s experiments with wireless transmissions. X, in a demonstration in Calcutta’s town hall, had shown that electromagnetic waves could ignite gunpowder, and cause a bell to ring from a distance.”

While most of us are aware of his scientific prowess, we might not be aware of his talent as an early writer. He wrote Niruddesher Kahini in 1896. This tale of weather control, in his native tongue, that talks about getting rid of a cyclone using a little bottle of hair oil (Kuntol Keshori).

He is in fact considered the father of _______________.

1. Who is X? 2. FITB.

Answer 8

1. Jagadish Chandra Bose.2. Bengali Science Fiction

Question 9

• The moans and hums of the song,” Dark was the night, cold was the ground”, a slide guitar lament of the Crucifixion, make perhaps the most moving and soulful sound ever recorded.

• Carl Sagan chose the song, saying “Johnson’s song concerns a situation he faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep. Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight. To me , it’s the definition of holy music.”

It came into the spotlight 38 years ago, because it was accepted as an example of the diversity of life and culture on Earth.

What is its claim to fame from the world of science?

Answer 9

It’s been included in the Voyager 1 - Golden Record.

Question 10

The 'Serizawa Scale' is a scale which is used to classify the threat of

a certain bioweapon which is said to cause great physical and environmental damage.

The factors which are used to grade the weapon are as follows:

● Ambient Radioactivity

● Toxicity

● Water Displacement

However, the scale wasn't designed to account for more dangerous variations of the

bioweapon and hence modified in the "Atlanta _____ Symposium" to extend it to

include sentience as another key factor.

What was it used to classify?

Answer 10

Rating Scale for the Kaiju.

Question 11

When Asimov wrote his first robot stories in 1939 and 1940, the _________ was a newly discovered particle and so the buzz word “X” — coined by analogy by combining with “electronic” — added a contemporary gloss of popular science to the concept. “X” functions as a central processing unit (CPU) for androids, and, in some unspecified way, provides them with a form of consciousness recognizable to humans.An “X” brain cannot ordinarily be built without incorporating the Three Laws of Robotics - any modification thereof would drastically modify robot behavior.

It has seen references in movies like “The Avengers, Star Trek, I Robot, Bicentennial Man” and in even Doctor Who.What is X?

Answer 11

Positronic (brain).

Question 12

● 3 are named after characters in Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”

● 9 are from “The Tempest”● 3 are from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”● 2 are from “Romeo and Juliet”● 1 each from King Lear, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Troilus &

Cressida, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, and Timon of Athens

What am I talking about?

Answer 12

Moons Of Uranus

Question 13

This inventor was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 - a unique achievement given that he never learned to play the instruments which he made a career of building.

Who is he?

Answer 13

LEO FENDER - developed first mass-produced electric guitar

Question 14

This Apple ad, written by Douglas Adams in 2000, pokes fun at what?

Answer 14

The Y2K Bug

Question 15

Connect

Answer 15

Directed By Leonard Nimoy

Question 16

Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) is a 1929 science fiction silent film. It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. It was written and directed by Fritz Lang and was enormously influential.

Lang did something in an attempt to increase the drama surrounding the launch of the story's lunar-bound rocket.

What did he do, that went on to become standard practice in rocketry?

Answer 16

He Introduced the final countdown

Question 17

Coca Cola employs Stepan Co. of Maywood, N.J., to process its raw material to remove something.

Stepan then sells this extract for medical purposes as it’s used as a local anesthetic in eye, nose and tear-duct surgery. It is believed to own the sole license from the DEA for this purpose.

What does Stepan Co. remove?

Answer 17

One of the main ingredients of Coca-Cola is the coca-leaf which comes from South America and contains Cocaine. Stepan processes this leaf to remove the Cocaine.

Question 18

The Masters and Johnson research team, composed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s.

They recorded some of the first laboratory data on the anatomy and physiology of human sexual response based on direct observation of 382 women and 312 men in what they conservatively estimated to be "10,000 complete cycles of sexual response."

They jointly wrote two classic texts in the field, Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy, published in 1966 and 1970, respectively. Both of these books were best-sellers and were translated into more than thirty languages.

They have now come back into public view thanks to which TV show?

Answer 18

Masters Of Sex

Question 19

In a scene in the 2013 film “Her”, Scarlett Johansson’s AI character explains that she joined other OSes for an upgrade that takes them beyond requiring matter for processing.

What is this process called? It also lends its name to a 2014 film starring Johnny Depp.

Answer 19

Transcendence

Question 20

ID.An American actor and neuroscientist, she is also a Reform Jew.Between 1995 and 2005,_______ mostly did voice-over work for cartoons. Soon after that she was nominated three times for an Emmy for the Best Supporting Actress.She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2007, her dissertation titled, "Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative, and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi syndrome."

Answer 20

Mayim Bialik

Question 21

● The New York Times called it “Ether Music”● Albert Einstein famously described it saying.. “It was an experience as

significant as that when primitive man for the first time produced sound from a bowstring."

● This instrument became known in the 1950s Sci-Fi classic: “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.

● The following circuit diagram is the most common one referred by all manufacturers

Question 21

Answer 21

Theremin

Question 22

ID this upcoming virtual reality gaming system that is being worn by the people in the pictures. The company is based out of California, and Facebook agreed to acquire it in March, last year, though it is pending due to legal issues.

Answer 22

Oculus Rift

Question 23

• What song is the inspiration behind the lyrics of this song by Phil Kirk and Mike Gospel?(Starting Stanza)...

“Is this x defined? Is f continuous?How do you find out? You can use the limit process.Approach from both sides,The left and the right and meet.I'm just a limit,defined analyticallyFunction's continuous,There's no holes,No sharp points,Or asymptotes.Anyway this graph goesIt is differentiable for me ...for me.”

…(Ending Stanzas)“To revolve around the y-axis

Integrate outer radiusminus inner radius squared.

(multplied) multiplied by pi (multiply).Multiply the integral by pi!Pi tastes real good with whipped cream!Mama mia, mama mia!Mama mia, let me go!Precalculus did not help me prepare forCalculus, for Calculus, help me!”

………<continued in next slide>…...

Question 23

• Final Stanza...“ So you think you can find out the

limit of y?So you think you'll find zero and

have it defined?Oh baby ... can't define that point

baby.It's undefined ...Goes to positive and negative

infinity.

(Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah) Differentiation, anyone can seeAny mere equationIt is differentiable for me.Any way this graph goes.”

Answer 23

Bohemian Rhapsody

Question 24

Season 1 Episode 7 of Breaking Bad, which aired on March 9th, 2008:In the episode, the protagonist Walter White informs Pinkman he discovered an alternative method to cooking methamphetamine that does not require pseudo-ephedrine as an ingredient, to which Pinkmanexclaims “Yeah Mr. White!, _______________!

How do we know this better? Though many erroneously add another word that this character is famous for.

Answer 24

Questions 25

Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Primates

Family: Hominidae

Tribe: Hominini

Genus: HomoSpecies: H. floresiensis

What nickname from the world of entertainment the was given to this extinct species upon discovery by the researchersdue to the unique shape of the skull?

Answer 25

Hobbit

Questions 26

Due to the massive popularity of it, many people now mistakenly believe the popular game “Threes!” to be a clone of it, rather than the other way around.The game has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "almost like Candy Crush for math geeks", and Business Insider called it "Threes on steroids."It was the second most googled game of the year 2014 globally.It was created in a single weekend and received over 4 million visitors in less than a week.“JayIsGames” compared it to Flappy Bird "but without the infuriating mindlessness.”

What am I talking about, something all of have definitely spent hours together on?

Answer 26

2048

Questions 27

The Economist went ahead and defined it as “the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science.”

The most obvious symptom of the ________ effect is that jurors think they have a thorough understanding of science they have seen presented on television, when they do not.

FITB.

Answer 27

Questions 28

This is the largest flower on Earth. What is it called?It also serves as an inspiration for which Pokemon? Part Points.

Answer 28

Rafflesia (Rafflesia arnoldii), and Vileplume

Questions 29

His research includes searching for Trojan asteroids at the Earth-Sun L5 Lagrange point. For his discovery of a planetary object beyond the Kuiper belt, 2008 NQ17(which he calls "Planet Bollywood"), he is included in People magazine's "30 Under 30 to Watch", granting him some form of celebrity status.

He is also known for a publication on Kuiper belt object size distribution, having run a simulation to correct for the observational efficiency, and was awarded the Newcomb Medal.

When his research testing the predicted composition of trans-Neptunian objects ends, his working permit and visa are bound to become void, as they are only valid as long as he is employed.

Who?

Answer 29

Dr. Rajesh Koothrapalli

Questions 30

Other than the fact that these are Greek entities, they also form an inexhaustivecollection of a mode of transportation in a fictional comic book universe. What is this a list of:

● Prometheus● Hercules● Odyssey● Hermes● Pericles● Pericles III● Pericles V● Iliad● Argonaut

Answer 30

List of S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli Carriers

Questions 31

Connect:

Answer 31

Hawaizadda.Shivkar Bapuji Talpade is an Indian scientist supposedly to have made have invented a flying machine during the end of 19th century. Ayushmann Khurrana is portraying Shivkar Bapuji Talpade. Pallavi Sharda and MithunChakraborthy is also acting in the movie.

Questions 32

She's a ________, pretty and bright with soft curls.She's a ________, a girl unlike other girls.She's a miracle, and I grant youShe'll enchant you with her sightShe's a small wonder, and she'll make your heart beat twice.She's fantastic, made of plastic,Microchips here and there.She's a _________, brings love and laughter everywhere.”

This is the opening theme song you would be listening to where you watching a popularSci-Fi Sitcom if you were in the 1980s.The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human girl, then tries to pass it off as their adopted daughter. The story lines revolve around V.I.C.I. (an acronym for Voice Input Child Identicant, pronounced "Vicki"), an android in the form of a 10-year-old girl.

Enough clues. FITB to get the name of the show.:

Answer 32

Small wonder

Questions 33

It went by the name Kensington Gore, and was the original trademark for this substance. The name came because of a pun on a London street and the name of a mansion nearby that street.

Many varieties were available, having various degrees of viscosity, shades and textures.It was manufactured by a retired British pharmacist, John Tinegate, during the 1960s and 1970s, in the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset.

Previously before this became common, in movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the director used Chocolate Syrup instead of the above.What did this now dysfunctional trademark stand for? :

Answer 33

Fake Blood In Movies

Questions 34

Mark ‘O Donnell, an American writer and humorist, published an article containing the following for the magazine “Esquire” in 1980Later in 1994 IEEE refined and popularised this idea. Some of the most frequently mentioned points of this idea are:

● Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation● Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.● Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.● All principles of gravity are negated by fear.● Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others

cannot.● Everything falls faster than an anvil.

What two-word term has been used to describe the above list?

Answer 34

Cartoon Physics or Laws of Cartoon Motion.

Questions 35

The invisibility effect was achieved by having someone in a bright red suit (because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and the blue of the sky) the size of the Antogonist. The red was removed with chroma keytechniques, leaving an empty area.

The take was then repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. When the two takes were combined optically, the jungle from the second take filled in the empty area. Because the second take was filmed with a wider lens, a vague outline of the _______ could be seen with the background scenery bending around its shape.

These were a part of the process in making which pioneering film, something that was remarkable in the 1980s?

Answer 35

Predator

Questions 36

Which fundamental particle gets its name from a passage in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”? According to the person who discovered it, it could either mean “the cry of the gull” or a corruption of a measurement of alcohol.

Answer 36

Quark

Questions 37

The pheromone that attracts female mice to the odor of a particular male has been identified. Named "darcin" by researchers, contact with darcin consistently doubled the time spent near a male's scent.

Touching darcin with the nose also made females learn that particular male's odour, subsequently tripling the time spent near to the airborne scent of that individual male.

What famous literary character named after?

Answer 37

Darcy from Pride & Prejudice

Questions 38

This word, derived from Latin for “maidservant”, has now come to mean that which provides necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization or system.

Which word, which is also used to describe AI-controlled human soldiers in Ann Leckie’s 2014 Hugo Award winning debut?

Answer 38

Ancillary

Questions 39

This is an excerpt from Alan Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" published in 1950.

The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a phrase which we call ___ _________ ____. It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman.

He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A."

FITB

Answer 39

The Imitation Game

Questions 40

What is the Green Blanked out portion?

Answer 40

Comic Books.Kryptonite (Kr) and Vibranium (V) etc.