SCI-TECH QUIZQM : Dhrubojit Bhattacharya

PRELIMS

Rules

■ 15 Question, +1/0■ Carried forward multiplied by a factor of 5

Q1

Cosmos Redshift 7 is a high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitter galaxy, in the constellation Sextans, about 12.9 billion light travel distance years from Earth.Whom is it named after?

Cristiano Ronaldo (CR7)

Q2

Technical specifications■ Curb weight: 4500 lb Wheelbase: 126 in■ Length: 226 in Width: 90 in■ Height: 48 in Fins: 84 in■ Engine: 390 in³ Ford FE V-8 Transmission: B&M C-6 Automatic (2nd transmission)Other facilities : ■ smoke and oil dispensers wheel slasher hubs■ missile rack, tear gas dispensers■ ejection seats titanium alloy wheels and body panels■ reversible jet exhausts shield platingsWhich vehicle?

Batmobile

Q3

■ Comic about?

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

Q4List of what?Cheetah PumaJaguar PantherTiger LeopardSnow Leopard LionMountain Lion MavericksYosemite El CapitanSierra

Mac OS

Q5

This was a glitch in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) settings for Gandhi’s aggression level. Despite starting with the lowest level of aggression to reflect Gandhi’s historical legacy of pacifism, as the game progresses towards the Modern Era the Indian civilization would often become more hostile and confrontational towards other leaders as a result of a coding error. That would lead Gandhi to become a war-mongering Nukehead. What error lead to this?

Underflow error/ Integer overflow

Q6

Identify

Bill Nye – The Science Guy

Q7

The scientific name for kidney stone is XY. Y shares it’s name with a branch of mathematics, and literally means ‘small pebbles used for counting’, and the discovery of this branch of mathematics is often debated between two great mathematicians of Germany and England.Give me Y.

Calculus

Q8

Also known as X’s balls and Executive Ball Clicker, it demonstrates that the conservation of momentum (mass × velocity) and kinetic energy (0.5 × mass × velocity^2) can be used to find the resulting velocities for two colliding perfectly elastic objects. Name it.

Newton’s Cradle

Q9

In 1943, Navy engineer Richard James was trying to figure out how to use springs to keep the sensitive instruments aboard ships from rocking themselves to death, when he knocked one of his prototypes over. Instead of crashing to the floor, it gracefully sprang downward, and then righted itself. What toy was ‘accidently’ invented because of this?

Slinky

Q10

What has been blanked out?

Tech Junkie

Q11

Various kinds of X include  neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and monocytes, and their average count is often an indicator of diseases, with the normal count being 4 x 109 to 11 x 109

per litre. When it falls below the desired number, it weakens the immune system and the condition is termed as leukopenia. What is X?

WBC/Luekocytes

Q12

When gamma radiation hits DNA, it breaks the molecule's double-stranded, ladder-like helix, a process known as chromothripsis. Your body can repair a few breaks without significant loss of function.If many breaks occur – say, if you were caught in a giant gamma explosion – the repairs can become sloppy, and new instructions can be keyed into the genetic code. Stanford biologist Alvarado suggested that it's possible that when X's DNA reassembled after the initial blast, it now included a handful of epigenetic switches. Instead of the switches being activated by light, however, the hormones produced when X is ‘a certain mood’, might flip the genetic switches to reconfigure his DNA to transform him into a superhero.Which superhero are we discussing the science behind?

Hulk

Q13

The metal X is also known as Y. X comes from Swedish, where it literally means ‘heavy stone’. It is known as ‘Y’ in Swedish, since ‘X’ is the name of it’s ore scheelite in Swedish. X is the only metal from the third transition series that is known to occur in biomolecules, where it is used in a few species of bacteria and archaea. It is the heaviest element known to be essential to any living organism. X interferes with molybdenum and copper metabolism and is somewhat toxic to animal life.

Give me X (the more common name)

Tungsten

Q14

X is a planet orbiting a G-type Main-Sequence star, lying in the habitable zone of the star. X was formed around 4.54 billion years ago, and rotates about its axis 366.26 times in one orbit around the star, the densest planet in the planet system of the star. X is?

Earth

Q15

S was originally developed as a closed-source OS for PDAs in 1998. S was a descendant of Psion's EPOC, and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson. As a pioneer that established the smartphone industry, it was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010.

S = ?

Symbian

FINALS

Rules

■ Standard pounce and bounce, 24 questions■ +20/-10 on pounce, +10/0 on bounce

Q1

Engineers at Roke Manor Research Limited, a Siemens subsidiary in Romsey, England, developed the system in 2001. Paul Hawkins and David Sherry submitted a patent for the United Kingdom but withdrew their request.  All of the technology and intellectual property was spun off into a separated company.On 14 June 2006, a group of investors led by the Wisden Group bought the company,  who included Mark Getty, a member of the wealthy USA family and business dynasty. The acquisition was intended to strengthen Wisden's presence in cricket, and allow it to enter tennis and other international sports.Which Technology?

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Hawk-eye

Q2

British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton coined the term in 1999 while working at Auto-ID Labs (originally called Auto-ID centers, referring to a global network of objects connected to radio-frequency identification, or RFID). Typically, It is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and covers a variety of protocols, domains, and applications. The interconnection of these embedded devices (including smart objects), is expected to usher in automation in nearly all fields.What am I talking about?

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Internet Of Things

Q3

X is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain“. The term was coined by Richard Stallman, to contrast the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus the spirit of playfulness and exploration of hacker culture. The name originates in Western films, where heroic and antagonistic cowboys might traditionally wear different colours of a certain apparel. Give me X.

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Black Hat Hacker

Q4

Swiss engineer George de Mestral was out for a hunting trip with his pooch, and noticed the annoying tendency of burrs to stick to its fur (and his socks). Later, looking under a microscope, Mestral observed the tiny "hooks" that stuck burrs to fabrics and furs. What invention did this lead to?

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Velcro

Q5

“Surely you're Joking Mr __________: Adventures of a Curious Character”, written by Richard Feynman, the book describes the experimental & mischievous nature right of a particular scientist (name blanked out) from his childhood. The book shows the contrast between the stereotypical image of a scientist that we have in our mind and how they actually can be.FITB

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Feynman

Q6

The gravitational force of a nearby space vehicle, though minuscule, is able to alter the trajectory of a much larger asteroid if the vehicle spends enough time close to it; all that is required is that the vehicle thrust in a consistent direction relative to the asteroid's trajectory, and that neither the vehicle nor its expelled reaction mass come in direct contact with the asteroid. The spacecraft could either hover near the object being deflected, or orbit it, directing its exhaust perpendicular to the plane of the orbit. What is this spacecraft called?

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Gravity Tractor

Q7

Who?1.  IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science2. Considered the father of Bengali science fiction.3. Invented the crescograph (device for measuring growth in plants).4.  A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.

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Jagdish Chandra Bose

Q8

An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of X. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT’s education and research mission. He passed away on July 12, 2013 at the age of 83 in Wayland, Massachusetts

Whom am I talking about (full name only)?

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Amar Bose

Q9

A gnomon may be a long thin rod, or other object with a sharp tip or a straight edge. The gnomon may be fixed or moved according to the season. It may be oriented vertically, horizontally, aligned with the Earth's axis, or oriented in an altogether different direction determined by mathematics. A line of light may be formed by allowing the sun's rays through a thin slit or focusing them through a cylindrical lens. A spot of light may be formed by allowing the sun's rays to pass through a small hole or by reflecting them from a small circular mirror.

This is the construction of what?

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Sundial

Q10

Types of what?1. Pancreas's failure to produce enough insulin, leading to low

catabolism of blood sugar (Mellitus)2. Nephron dysfunction caused by an insensitivity of the kidneys or

nephrons to ADH(Anti-Diuretic Hormone). (Insipidus)

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Diabetes

Q11

Codenamed ‘Coruscant’ by NASA and Kepler Object of Interest Designation KOI-7016.01, X is an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star in the constellation Cygnus, 1400 light years away from the Solar System It is the first potentially rocky super-Earth planet discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of a star very similar to the Sun.It has a probable mass five times that of Earth, and its surface gravity is twice Earth's, though calculations of mass for exoplanets are only rough estimates. Gimme X.

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Kepler 452b

Q12

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. In addition to the 2010 Nobel Prize, he received an X in 2000 for using the magnetic properties of water scaling to levitate a small frog with magnets. This makes him the first, and thus far only, person to receive both the Nobel and X.What is X?

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Ig Nobel Prize

AUDIENCE ROUND

Rules

■ Write down the name of inventors■ 7 inventions, +10/0■ +10 bonus for all correct

List of inventions:

1. Stethoscope2. Fountain Pen3. AK-474. Soda water5. Dynamite6. Log Tables7. Blue Jeans

EXCHANGE SHEETS!!

Answers

1. Stethoscope – Rene Laennac2. Fountain Pen – Lewis Waterman3. AK-47 – Mikhail Kalashnikov4. Soda water – Joseph Priestley5. Dynamite – Alfred Nobel6. Log Tables – John Napier7. Blue Jeans – Levi Strauss

Q13

X proposed a Kickstarter campaign in 2012 to fund the Y's development, after being founded as an independent company two months prior. The project proved successful, raising US$ 2.5 million from the campaign for the development of the product. In March 2014, Facebook purchased X for $2 billion.Y has gone through various pre-production models since the Kickstarter campaign, around five of which were demonstrated to the public. Two of these models were shipped to backers, labelled as 'development kits'; the DK1 in mid 2013 and DK2 in mid 2014, to give developers a chance to develop content on time for the Y's release. However, both were also purchased by a large number of enthusiasts who wished to get an early preview of the technologyY = ?

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Oculus Rift

Q14

Types of what?1. 1012. Zero3. Due4. Yun5. Leonardo6. Uno

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Arduino

Q15

___________ is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.  The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury asserted to be the autoignition temperature of paper.

FITB.

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Fahrenheit 451

Q16

In cosmology, X refers to the phase in which charged electrons and protons first became bound to form electrically neutral hydrogen atoms. X occurred about 378,000 years after the Big Bang (at a redshift of z = 1100).Once X had occurred, however, the mean free path of photons greatly increased due to the lower number of free electrons. Shortly after X, the photon mean free path became larger than the Hubble length, and photons travelled freely without interacting with matter.

X = ?

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Recombination Epoch

Q17The creator of this keyboard claims that this keyboard is an ergonomic alternative to the layout commonly found on typewriters and computers known as “Qwerty”. By contrast, this keyboard was designed with emphasis on typist comfort, high productivity and ease of learning— it’s much easier to learn! The keyboard is named after it’s creator.

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Dvorak Keyboard

Q18

____________ is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical _________, text is written using a simplified markup language, and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.The key features of ______ are :■ _______ invites all users—not just experts—to edit any page or to create new

pages within the Web site, using only a standard "plain-vanilla" Web browser without any extra add-ons.

■ ______ promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not.

■ ________ is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and professional writers, and designed for casual visitors. Instead, it seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape

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Wiki

Q19

The quadrant and cross are associated with earth and land. The colors red, green, blue, white and amber strengthened the emblem’s association with earth, through fire, water, flora and fauna.This describes the emblem of which company?

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Old Windows logo

Q20

This metal was first deposited on Earth by a meteorite 10,000 years ago. The first documented discovery of this metal was during a human expedition to Antarctica. This particular isotope of the metal was dubbed "Anti-Metal" due to its property of dissolving other metals.The more common variety 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 substanceWhich metal?

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Vibranium

Q21

Memorial dedicated to whom?Image on the next slide

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Dimitri Mendeleev

Q22

In mathematics, M is a prime number that is one less than a power of two. That is, it is a prime number that can be written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n.GIMPS is a project in which one can donate one’s computer in the search of the largest M.M is ?

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Mersenne Prime

Q23

What is the common name for lateral epicondilytis,shown in the figure?

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Tennis Elbow

Q24

The voice for Samantha was provided by Susan Bennett in July 2005, the same person that voiced Tillie the All-Time Teller.The voice for Daniel, was voiced by Jon Briggs, a former technology journalist. The voice was recorded for Scansoft, which had merged with Nuance Communications in October 2005.The voice for Karen, was voiced by Karen Jacobsen, an Australian-born and New York-based entertainer, singer, voiceover artist, and songwriter.Who/what are Samantha, Daniel and Karen?

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Siri voices