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Question 1What is so special about this publication?

In 1661 Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he argued that matter was composed of various combinations of different "corpuscules" or atoms, rather than the classical elements of air, earth, fire and water.

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Question 2X was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death. Benjamin Franklin was familiar with X, as they were both members of the "Benjamin Franklin inquiries" into Mesmer and animal magnetism. Who is X?

The simplest one.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

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Question 3Grave of which scientist?

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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Question 4Founded in November 1660 it is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence. There are currently 1,314 Fellows who are allowed to use the postnominal title FRS. It’s motto, Nullius in verba, is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the Fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's Epistles. What are we talking about?

AnswerThe Royal Society, London, UK

Question 5This phenomenon is named after the Austrian physicist , who proposed it in 1842 that it is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher during the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is lower during the recession. Which effect?

AnswerThe Doppler Effect

Question 6Its IUPAC name is 2-Oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4-lactone-2,3-enediol. It is also known as ascorbic acid. In 1747 James Lind, a British Royal Navy found a unique way of preventing a disease if this was taken. What are we referring to?

AnswerVitamin C

Question 7The concept of X was first introduced by Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1909 and revised to the modern X in 1924 to accommodate definitions and measurements in terms of electrochemical cells. What is X?

AnswerThe pH scale

Question 8

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AnswerAll of them have attempted to arrange elements in a periodic form.Antoine-Laurent de LavoisierDmitri MendeleevJohn NewlandDobereiner

Question 9Logo Of?

AnswerBhaba Atomic Research Center, Trombay

Question 9What has been blacked out?

AnswerHiggs Boson

Question 10Le marchand de la mort est mort.

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AnswerAlfred Nobel

The first is a French newspaper article which read ‘The Merchant of Dead is Dead’, a misleading article which said that Nobel had died. It made him think and this led to him creating the Nobel Prizes.The second is the logo of Akzo Nobel.The third is the chemical element Nobelium, named in his honour.

Question 11

Which biological word was first described in this book?

AnswerCellThe work ‘Micrographia’ is the work of Robert Hooke who mentioned the word cell in it.

Question 12

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AnswerThe Manhattan Project.It was the project which developed the atomic bomb during the Second World War.

The people are associated with the Project.Leslie GrovesEnrico FermiRobert J. Oppenheimer

The last is the shoulder patch which was adopted by the people who worked on it.

Question 13A person X, rushed into the Eagle Pub on an uneventful day in February 1953 and remarked, “We have discovered the secret of life”. What was X referring to and Identify him.

AnswerThe person is Francis Crick and he was referring to the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Question 14What was first introduced to the West through this publication named Liber Abaci. The author of this work is also credited to having introduced the Hindu-Arabic number series to the West. Here I am not looking for the name of the author but of the other ‘significant’ thing which was documented here.

AnswerThe Fibonacci SeriesThe author is Leonardo Pisano Bigollo also known as Leonardo Fibonacci.

Question 15This is the logo of which organization?

AnswerIndian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Question 16This first appeared in 1946, at the University of California. At the time, it was rendered as magenta, and was set on a blue background. The modern version used in the U.S. is magenta against a yellow background, and it is drawn with a central circle of radius R, an internal radius of 1.5R and an external radius of 5R for the blades, which are separated from each other by 60°. What is being referred here?

AnswerThe international hazard symbol (trefoil).

Question 17

With whom would you relate these two pictures?

AnswerHeinrich Rudolf HertzThe second photo is that of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm radio telecommunication tower in Hamburg named after him.

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”

Who said this famous quote?

Question 18

AnswerNikola Tesla

Question 19PrithviNagAkashTrishulAgni

What are these?

AnswerThese are the names of India’s missiles.

Question 20

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AnswerCERN (European Center for Nuclear Research)

The first photo is that of the member states of CERN.The second one is it’s logo.The third is that of Rolf Dieter Heur, the current director-general of CERN

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Question 21

AnswerNeil Bohr’s 127th birthday

Question 22

Answer25th anniversary of the Buckyball

Question 23

AnswerRobert Bunsen’s 200th birthday

Question 24

AnswerCharles Darwin’s 200th birthday

Question 25

AnswerMarie Curie’s 144th birthday

Question 26

Answer50th Anniversary of the discovery of the DNA

Question 27

AnswerEdmund Hailey’s 355th Birthday

Question 28

AnswerAlbert Einstein’s 144th birthday

Question 29

Answer400th anniversary of Galileo Galelie’s telescope

Question 30

AnswerGregor Mendel’s 189th birthday

Question 31

AnswerHeinrich Hertz’s 155th birthday

Question 32

AnswerJuliard Petri’s 131st birthday

Question 33

AnswerIssac Newton’s 367th birthday

Question 33

AnswerNicolaus Copernicus’s 540th birthday

Question 34

AnswerNikola Tesla

Question 35

Hint – This doodle relates to an event

AnswerDiscovery of water on the moon

Question 36

AnswerDiscovery of X-Rays

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