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It is thought that X might allow faster than light

travel. It is theorized that if two points are

connected by a X whose length is shorter than the

distance between them outside X, the time taken

to traverse it could be less than the time it would

take a light beam to make the journey if it took a

path through the space outside it. So, according

to theory of general relativity, if someone can

outrun time by travelling through a accelerating

X it can actually travel backwards in time.

What is X?

Answer:

Wormhole

He is Swiss electrical

engineer George de Mestral. One

day in 1948 he went for a hiking

with his dog. When he was

returning he noticed that the plant

seed-sacs clang to dog’s fur. He

took some of those and inspected

under a microscope. He saw all the

small hooks that enabled the seed-

bearing burr to cling so viciously

to the tiny loops of the dog’s fur

and his pants fabric.

Inspired by this he invented X. With a weaver from a textile plant

in France he perfected the design and in 1955 he patented X.

Identify X.

Answer:

Velcro

In 1921, X travelled to Europe to attend the Congress ofUniversities at Oxford. But his return voyage home leadhim to change history. The blue opalescence of theMediterranean sea made him wonder about the origin ofthis beautiful phenomenon. The blue color of the sea wasthought to be because of the reflection of the blue sky.Lord Rayleigh also proposed a theory on that. X, notaccepting that, took out his nicol prism and observeddiffraction patterns. He observed that maximum spectralintensity was different for the blue sky and the blue sea. Heproposed that colour of the sea was due to light scatteringby the water molecules—called molecular diffraction. Helater performed various experiments on different liquidsand modified his theory. His discovered phenomenon waslater called as Y.

X or Y?

Answer:

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and

The Raman Effect

This is the modern version of a machine first invented

by William Mckercher, Chairman of Amguri Tea Estate,

Sibsagar in 1931. According to some account this method was

developed by him to produce greater quantities of black tea

using more mature, larger leaves which, when prepared with

milk and sugar could appeal to a broader market. Another

account says it was developed to increase the weight

of tea that can be packed into a bag or sack. The machine has

a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of small sharp

"teeth" that does the three required processing work.

Name the process or the product prepared.

Answer:

Crush, Tear, and Curl or CTC Tea

contracted extended

picture shows the mechanism used by cats to extend its claws.

A modified version of this mechanism is used by X to extend

three thin bones that lie in the gaps of capels and metacarpels.

It probably has opposing sets of muscle/tendon complexes;

when one set relaxes & the other contracts and the bones slide

out.

Who uses this mechanism?

Answer:

This is a high school research paper written by X which was presented in 1998 at

the Intel Science Talent Search, referred to as "the nation's oldest and most

prestigious" science competition. The paper went on to the semi finals of the

competition. The author, a Harvard University graduate, later contributed to the field of

psychology through her paper in "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object

Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy”.

But she is not known as a scientist, but for her excellence in an entirely different field.

Id?

X

Answer:

Natalie Portman

“Three ______ for Muster Mark!

Sure he has not got much of a bark

And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.”

- this is a passage from the James Joyce’s, Finnegans Wake.

The word blanked out in the passage was used by Murray

Gell-Mann to name his newly formulated elementary

particle. According to him he had in mind a pronunciation

for the word; but he could not find the right spelling. Then

he found that phrase containing the word X. Though it

differed a little bit in the pronunciation he kept it that way,

since “three _____” perfectly at that time (1960s) described

the nature of it.

Name this fundamental particle.

Answer:

Quark

Compound 1 is a Glucoside of Indoxyl extracted from plant Isatis tinctoria which was

used in the reaction above to give a compound of blue colour.

But in 19th century a synthetic method was formulated known as Heumann synthesis

to get the final product. The reaction shown below has a huge impact on history

especially to India. It was one of the main factors to start which historical event?

Answer:

Indigo revolution

X is a 7 m (23 ft) long Iron Pillar which is one of the world's foremost metallurgical curiosities due to its high resistance to corrosion. The pillar was manufactured by

the forge welding of pieces of wrought iron. Its resistance to corrosion is due to a passive protective film at the iron-

rust interface. The presence of second-phase particles (slag and unreduced iron oxides) in the microstructure of the iron alter the polarization characteristics and promote passivity. Another main reason for its corrosion resistance

is the presence of high amount of phosphorous. Phosphorous content was more because ancient Indian smiths did not add lime to their furnaces thus P is not

carried away as slag.

This pillar was erected by Kumaragupta I in the temple of Muttra which was destroyed by Qutb-ud-din

Aybak to build the Qutub Minar. This pillar can still be seen in the Qutb complex.

Name it.

Answer:

Iron pillar of Delhi

X is one of the most well known rapid-fire weapons and a

forerunner of the modern machine gun. It was invented by the man in the picture (also named after him)

in 1861. It was 1st used in American civil war. The gun contained 6

barrels and the mechanism had to be rotated by hand. It had gravity feed reloading system and at that time obtained an outstanding fire rate of 200 rounds per minute.

It is still used in military with the mechanism vastly improvised but having a same kind of appearance.

X?

Answer:

Gatling gun

He is Dr. Richard J. Gatling

“There are normally four methods of performing the required operation. Which are:

1. Stator resistance starting

2. Reduced voltage starting: there are another two ways under this: Auto-transformer starter and Star-Delta starter

3. Rotor resistance starter and

4. Direct or line starter ”

-this should have been the actual answer to the question. But what he answered was something bizarre and hilarious. About which scene am I talking about or simply give me the movie.

Answer:

Movie 3 idiots

Scene: when Virus asks Raju how does

an induction motor starts he says “vrum

vrumm vruumm” (video removed)

Liquid crystal is a state of matter that possesses the properties of both liquid and crystalline state. One

type of liquid crystal is thermotropic nematic liquid crystal. The light passing through the nematic crystal undergoes Bragg diffraction on these layers, and the

wavelength with the greatest constructive interference is reflected back, which is perceived as a spectral color. The spacing changes

with the temperature so it changes colour at different temperatures.

This property of it was exploited by Josh Reynolds and Maris Ambats to create which thing in 1975 that is said to indicate the emotional state of the

wearer?

Answer:

Mood Ring

He is David Saltzberg, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at

the University of California. He earned a bachelors degree in physics in

1989 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics from

the University of Chicago in 1994. From 1995-97 he worked at CERN in

Switzerland. Not very much well known, he has a contribution to the

entertainment world. He works as the technical director of X. His

work is the make X scientifically correct.

Identify the show, X.

Answer:

According to the most accepted theory Christiaan

Huygens developed the original Magic Lantern in the late 1650s. It used a concave

mirror in back of a light source to direct as much of the light as

possible through a small rectangular sheet of glass

onward into a lens at the front of the apparatus which can be adjusted to focus the light. At

the beginning sunlight was used as the light source. Then with the invention of argand light limelight the image quality

improved. This is the predecessor of which modern

day device?

Answer:

Motion picture projector

According to a story there is an Indian temple in KashiVishwanath which contains a large room with three

time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. At the command of an ancient

prophecy Brahmin priests have been moving these disks, in accordance with the immutable rules of the

Brahma, since that time. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle will be completed, the world will end. French mathematician Édouard

Lucas in 1883 first publicized it in the West. Working out the math the minimum number of moves required to solve this puzzle is 2n - 1, where n is the number of

disks.

Name this mathematical puzzle or game.

Answer:

Tower of Hanoi

or Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower

……Connect the Dots……(thematic connection round)

There are 6 question whose answers or the

part of the answers can be connected to a

common theme.

Answer all the questions and give the

connection.

Each question bears 10 marks and no

negatives.

For giving the connection you will be given

+10 extra.

1.Superfluidity is a state of matter in which the matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity. In this state it seems like that the fluid possesses the power to defy gravity since it can raise through the surface of the

container in which it is kept and come out of it. This characteristic behaviour was first seen in X in its liquid

form. X attains this state when it is cooled to 2.1K. This property arises from the fraction of X atoms which

has condensed to the lowest possible energy. This condensed fraction does not contribution to the entropy or heat capacity of the liquid. It is a standard example

of Bose-Einstein condensation.

What is X?

2.He is Georges Claude, a French inventor and businessman better

known as “the Edison of France”. His most notable work is the invention

and commercialization of X. Inspired by Geissler tubes he started

developing X with a view to the use _______ which was produced as a by-

product of his air liquefaction industry. He demonstrated his product, two 12 meter long glowing tube, at

the Paris Motor Show in 1910. His invention became a big commercial hit and his company

obtained complete monopoly to produce X in U.S.

Simply, X?

3.Its presence in the atmosphere was suspected by Henry Cavendish in 1785. But it was isolated only in

1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay using the setup shown in picture. It was

named from a Greek word meaning lazy. After it discovery it has found

many medical and industrial applications; in welding and in

cryosurgery to name a few. It is also used to fill incandescent lights with nitrogen at a pressure of 400-600 Pa.

Name this element.

4.It was one-and-a-half times larger than the Earth and

orbited a red sun called Rao and was fifty light-years from solar system. It had two satellites; Wegthor

and Mithen. Its civilization made much advancement in science, robots and computers were used for many tasks, conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning. These advancements

also resulted in the destruction of it. There were conflicts between its clones and science council which resulted in a big war. It saw the development of some super-weapons; the Eradicator and the Destroyer. The Destroyer triggered an explosive chain reaction

within its core. It after several years decayed the core and the core exploded to eventually destroy the planet.

Which planet?

5

Y is the codename given to the

Microsoft XCPU, used in the Xbox 360. It was

developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM and the

program was announced on 2003-11-03. It

consisted of three independent processor cores on

a single die, 165 million transistors and 90

nanometre process. It was later replaced

by the XCGPU, which had the Y CPU and

the Xenos GPU integrated together.

Simple, id Y.

6.

It you have got the connect, you

know the answer of this question.

Answers:

1.Superfluidity is a state of matter in which the matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity. In this state it

seems like the fluid possesses the power to defy gravity since it can raise through the surface of the container in which it is kept and come out of it. This characteristic

behaviour was first seen in X in its liquid form. X attains this state when it is cooled to 2.1K. This

property arises from the fraction of X atoms which has condensed to the lowest possible energy. This

condensed fraction does not contribution to the entropy or heat capacity of the liquid. It is a standard example

of Bose-Einstein condensation.

What is X?

Answer:

Helium

2.He is Georges Claude, a French inventor and businessman better

known as “the Edison of France”. His most notable work is the invention

and commercialization of X. Inspired by Geissler tubes he started

developing X with a view to the use _______ which was produced as a by-

product of his air liquefaction industry. He demonstrated his product, two 12 meter long glowing tube, at

the Paris Motor Show in 1910. His invention became a big commercial hit and his company

obtained complete monopoly to produce X in U.S.

Simply, X?

Answer:

Neon light

3.Its presence in the atmosphere was suspected by Henry Cavendish in 1785. But it was isolated only in

1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay using the setup shown in picture. It was

named from a Greek word meaning lazy. After it discovery it has found

many medical and industrial applications; in welding and in

cryosurgery to name a few. It is also used to fill incandescent lights with nitrogen at a pressure of 400-600 Pa.

Name this element.

Answer:

Argon

4.It was one-and-a-half times larger than the Earth and

orbited a red sun called Rao and was fifty light-years from solar system. It had two satellites; Wegthor

and Mithen. Its civilization made much advancement in science, robots and computers were used for many tasks, conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning. These advancements

also resulted in the destruction of it. There were conflicts between its clones and science council which resulted in a big war. It saw the development of some super-weapons; the Eradicator and the Destroyer. The Destroyer triggered an explosive chain reaction

within its core. It after several years decayed the core and the core exploded to eventually destroy the planet.

Which planet?

Answer:

Krypton

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Y is the codename given to the

Microsoft XCPU, used in the Xbox 360. it was

developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM and the

program was announced on 2003-11-03. It

consisted of three independent processor cores on

a single die, 165 million transistors and 90

nanometre process. It was later replaced

by the XCGPU, which had the Y CPU and

the Xenos GPU integrated together.

Simple, id Y.

Answer:

Xenon

6.

It you have got the connect, you

know the answer of this question.

Answer:

Radon

And the connect: Noble gases

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It is the Daruma doll, a hollow,

round, Japanese traditional

doll modelled after Bodhidharma. It

is usually made of papier-mâché,

have a round shape, is hollow and

weighted at the bottom. The design

of the doll is such that at any

position of the doll the centre of

gravity does not leave the base of

the doll. This gives a special

characteristics to the doll and

because of this it is used

to symbolize the ability to have

success, overcome adversity, and

recover from misfortune. It has

another name, okiagari meaning to

raise up.

What is this special

characteristic of the doll?

Answer:

It always comes to its upright position

irrespective of how it was placed or

tilted.

He was born in 1924 at Gauripur in Dhubri District, pursued his graduation from Carmichael College, Rangpur and obtained his post-graduation in Pure Mathematics from Calcutta University in 1946,

with a first class and silver medal. After that he joined Cotton college as a lecture which he left after a few years. In 1957 he joined Assam Engineering College

as a lecturer in Mathematics and in 1982 retired as the head of the Mathematics Department. He may not

have much in is name as a mathematician but he is a renowned personality in a different field, a field where

he entered because of some provocative comments and ridicules that he faced at his early years as a lecturer at the Assam Engineering College for his

Bengali pronunciation.

Identify him. (picture on next slide)

Answer:

Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury

X is a rare, naturally occurring meteoric ore, theorized

to be of extraterrestrial origin. It is found in two

different varieties: Antarctic and Wakandan;

Wakandan variety being the most common. This

isotope possesses the ability to absorb all vibrations in

the vicinity as well as kinetic energy directed at

it. The energy absorbed is stored within the bonds

between the molecules that make up the substance.

Antarctic isotope of X, on the other hand, emanates

vibrations which cause the atomic and molecular

bonds in nearby metals of other kinds to weaken. The

result is to cause nearby solid metals to liquefy.

Identify this metal.

Answer:

Vibranium

1) You must put behind you desire, anger, greed, folly,pride, egotism, jealousy, harshness, calumny, falsehood, slothand improper conduct.

With short-cut nails, ritually clean and clad in the orangegarment, you must be pledged to truth, and full of reverencein addressing me...

2) If, however, you behave perfectly, while I professfalse views, I shall be guilty of sin and my knowledge shallbear me no fruit.

3) (after having finished your studies) with yourmedicaments you shall assist Brahmins, venerable persons,poor people, women, ascetics, pious people seeking yourassistance, widows and orphans and any one you meet onyour errands, as if they were your own relatives. This will beright conduct.

What is this all about?

Answer:

Vaidya's oath

Indian counterpart of the Hippocratic

Oath

He is an Englishman Josiah Spode who

was the first to develop X. But Thomas

Frye also developed something that can

be considered precursor of X.

According to Josiah Spode’s method the

main ingredients of X are ash of cattle

bone which have low iron content and

Y (Kaoline). Y is used since it does not

contain any iron compounds which can

impart colour to the product enabling X

to be white in colour. Y is named so

because it was first found in Jiangxi

province of the country.

Name this common product whose name is derived from its

two prime ingredients.

Answer:

Bone china

There is dispute over the choice of spelling of

this quantity. In the past the Americans and

the English used to different spellings for it; X

and Y respectively. When the SI system was

introduced it recommended the use of Y with

the hope of securing worldwide uniformity in

the spelling of it. But the Americans disagreed

and they resisted so strongly that authorities

later sanctioned the American spelling X to it.

Spelling of which measured quantity is being

talked about?

Answer:

X= meter

Y= metre

This compound, Sildenafil citrate, was synthesized by

scientists Andrew Bell, David Brown, and Nicholas Terrett

working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent. It was synthesise as a medicine

for angina pectoris. But the first clinical trials suggested that the

drug had no effect on angina. It was found that it could induce

marked penile erections. So it was patented in 1996 as a medicine

to treat erectile dysfunction. After it came into market, it has been

used in different areas other than medical.

How do we know it better?

Answer:

Viagra

G. H. Hardy-“I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab

number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very

interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different

ways.”

The number in the quote, 1729, can be expressed as1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103

The mention of the number can be found in one of X's notebooks dated years before the incident.

How is this number known?

Answer:

Hardy–Ramanujan number

The cause of destruction of X is second mode of torsionalvibrations. This made the centre line of the structure to remain motionless and the two halves of it twisted in

opposite directions. This vibration was caused by aeroelastic fluttering. Fluttering is a physical phenomenon when driving fluid and the structure behave as a composite and it makes all the damping forces ineffective. Hence the

amplitude of vibration increase to ultimately break the structure. This is different from resonance thought they look

similar. Both have different source of origin.

X is a common example found in secondary physics text books to describe the effect of destructive resonance.

Studies show resonance is not the reason behind the destruction of X, but the example stayed in the book since it

simplifies the situation for secondary level students.

X?

Answer:

Tacoma Narrows bridge

List shows some of the noted experimental scientists who have tried

to measure something and the value they have found. What was the

thing they tried to measure?

Answer:

Velocity of light

The bat shown in the picture was previously

identified as Myotis simus. But recently

scientists found out that it is an entirely

different species.

What is the funda behind its new name;

explain with reference to the other picture?

Answer;

It was renamed as Myotis midastactus

which is named after King Midas because

of his golden touch. And the colour of the

bat is also golden

The picture(next slide) shows a small metallic cylinder

stored in three bell jars. This is placed inside a

specially-designed basement vault in Sevres, Paris.

This was cast by the firm Johnson Matthey in 1879

from platinum-iridium alloy. The alloy was chosen

because of its density and chemical stability. The

cylinder measures 39.17 mm in both diameter and

height, its edges have a four-angle (22.5°, 45°, 67.5°

and 79°) chamfer. It is taken out of this vault once in

every 40 years so that secondary standards all over

the world can be compared against it.

This is the primary standard of which measured

quantity?

Answer:

Kilogram

The cylinder measures 1 kg.

Neutron star is the remnant of a dead star that result from the gravitational collapse of a

massive star during a supernova event. Neutron stars are the densest and tiniest stars known to exist in

the universe. It can have densities of 3.7×1017 to 5.9×1017 kg/m3. It is so dense that one

teaspoon of its material would have a mass of 1100 tonnes. Its heart has an approximate temperature of around 1011 to 1012 kelvin.

According to one account X was forged in the heart of a neutron star by blacksmiths

Eitri, Brok and Buri. A bit of neutron star material is also present in X among other constituents. This is

the reason that X is so heavy.

X?

Answer:

Mjolnir

Or Thor’s hammer

The reaction shown is a

two step photolytic

reaction for synthesis of

X. in the first step 7-

dehydrocholesterol

is photolyzed by

ultraviolet light in a 6-

electron conrotatory ring-

opening electrocyclic

reaction; the product A

is precursor of X.

In the second step A spontaneously isomerizes to X (cholecalciferol).

The first step of the reaction occurs in presence of light of

wavelength between 270 and 300 nm, present in sunlight. This

requirement of sunlight in the synthesis of X created a

misconception in most of the common people.

What is that misconnect?

A X

Answer:

That we get vitamin D from sunlight

X=vitamin D3

A= previtamin D3

The man in the picture is

William Marwood who in

1872 introduced this

concept. He scientifically

worked out how much drop

is necessary for a certain

weight to generate the

required force and twisting

moment. Other picture

shows a table used in

England and Singapore

which gives the value of

drop necessary for different

weights. William

Frederick Horry was the

first man on whom this

process was applied.

Which process?

last

Answer:

Long drop method of hanging

Thank you for bearing the torture.

Please don’t apply that method on

me :p