Qurious - IITG Quiz Fest Science and technology quiz final

THE SCI-TECH QUIZ
IIT GUWAHATI QUIZ FEST
Quizmaster
Nikhil.N

Rules
◦ 4 Rounds - 8 Questions Each.
◦ The scoring pattern is given for each Round Seperately.
◦ Time for Pounce – 15 seconds AFTER THE QUIZMASTER FINISHES READING THE QUESTION.
◦ Quizmaster’s decision is final.
◦ The Quizmaster believes that Mathematics is a science!

ROUND 1
◦ 20 on a Direct & 20 on a Pounce.
◦ -10 on any incorrect answer.
◦ 15 on Pass.
◦ Infinite Bounce and Pounce Applicable

Who is the only person
to win 2 unshared nobel
prizes ?
Q.1

X and Y were able to transmute
elements, creating nitrogen from boron,
phosphorous from aluminum and silicon
from magnesium. These won them the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Id X
and Y .
Q.2 IDENTIFY X AND Y

Q.3
THIS POSTER IS A
FUNNY TAKE ON
WHICH SCIENTIFIC
THEORY, EXPERIMENT
OR PRINCIPLE ?

What is situated at the Convergence?
Q.4

The Great Pacific Garbage Zone

In chemistry, X is often an important heuristic when developing a model of a reaction
mechanism. Although it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction
mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected
published models.
X is a problem-solving principle devised by an English Franciscan friar and scholastic
philosopher and theologian.
In the scientific method, X is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific
result; the preference for simplicity in the scientific method is based on the falsifiability
criterion.
Q.6 ID X

X: Gorilla Glass
Y: Steve Jobs

Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet
on cod. (longest palindrome in English)
These are palindromes created by certain group of
people for recreation, although their normal jobs
involved identifying patterns. What was their profession or
give me the name of the person who is credited with
creating the above given palindrome .
Q.8

Code Breakers at Bletchley
Park/Peter Hilton

ROUND 2
◦ -5 on Pounce only.
◦ 5 on Pass.
◦ Infinite Bounce and Pounce Applicable.

◦ For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted
an experiment on 399 black men (mostly impoverished and poorly educated share-
croppers) in the late stages of a disease. The essence was to gather data on the course
of the disease when left untreated. The researchers understood from the outset that test
subjects would provide most of their useful information in the form of autopsies, so great
pains were taken to insure that subjects didn’t obtain medical care elsewhere. The
program came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when its existence was made public by the
Washington Star.
◦ Name the disease.
Q.1

Higher order derivatives of
displacement

Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is also one of the
most prodigious examples of ____________________
The book begins with the following lines
Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete
lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's
antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".
—Mike Keith, First verse of Near a Raven
Q.3

◦ His beloved wife died early in 1909, and the younger of his two
sons was killed in the First World War. He also had twin daughters
whom he adored. One died giving birth. The surviving twin went
to look after the baby and fell in love with the sister’s husband.
They married and two years later she died in childbirth. In 1944,
when X was eighty five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he
lost everything – papers, diaries , a lifetime of accumulations. The
surviving son was caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and
executed.
◦ Who is X?
Q.4

Q.5
This picture shows us
the instruments used
in which famous
experiment?

Windows Phone OS Codenames
◦ Photon: WP7
◦ Mango: WP7.5
◦ Apollo: WP8
◦ Blue: WP8.1

Q.7 This is a Da Vinci drawing of a
________

X was a co-recipient of the Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in
Mathematics. X has two brothers living in Australia, both of whom represented
Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
One of them was part of the team at Google Australia that created Google Wave.
He now works on the Go programming language.[4]
The other has a double degree in mathematics and music and will soon be featured
in a book on autistic savants.
X’s wife Laura is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
X his wife &their son and daughter live in Los Angeles, California.
X was a three time IMO medallist but chose to go to an unknown university for his UG.
(Flinders university)
Q.8 IDENTIFY X

ROUND 3
◦ -10 on Pounce only.
◦ 10 on Pass.

The phrase “X" does not refer to darkness, as
in the absence of light, but to the unknown,
THIS IS because humans did not see Y until
the Soviet Union photographed it in 1959
Hint: I am talking about a celestial body .
Q.1 Id X and Y?

X: Dark side of the Moon
Y: Far side/Moon’s Other side

Q.2
These are
the
blueprints
of
________

X is a unit of volume used in Australia for
water. One X is the amount of water in X:
approximately 500 gigalitres (500,000,000
cubic metres, or 0.5 a cubic kilometre); or in
terms of the more unusual measures,
200,000 Olympic Swimming pools, or 400,000
acre-feet.
Q.3 Id x and y

Identify X & Y
Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer,
was in his youth fascinated by X's work.
Their influence was so strong that, like X,
Hubble gave up the career path in law that
his father intended for him, setting off
instead to pursue his passion for science.
The pioneering submarine designer
Simon Lake credited his inspiration to Y -
one of X’s many novels and his
autobiography begins "X was in a sense
the director-general of my life."
This doodle was made to commemorate X’s birthday. It was inspired by Y.
Q.4

X: Jules Verne
Y: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Paul Hawkins(Hawk-Eye Technology)

X plants are believed to have evolved on the steppes of Central Asia,
specifically in the regions that are now Mongolia and southern Siberia,
according to Warf. The history of X use goes back as far as 12,000 years, which
places the plant among humanity's oldest cultivated crops.
Clue 1:X is often consumed for its psychoactive and physiological effects, which
can include heightened mood or euphoria, relaxation, and an increase in
appetite.
Clue 2: Possible side-effects of consuming X include a decrease in short-term
memory, dry mouth, impaired motor skills, reddening of the eyes, and feelings of
paranoia or anxiety.
Give me X.(Scientific name)
Q.6 Identify X ?

X is an American theoretical physicist, known for his
contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A
long time friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and
Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical
Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the
astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of
relativity. He continues to do scientific research and was
the scientific consultant and an executive producer for
the science fiction film Y.
Q.7 Id X and Y ?

The translation of X written by Y, published posthumously by Émilie du Châtelet in
1759 is considered to be its standard French translation till date.
Clue 1: Voltaire, one of Émilie du Châtelet’s lovers, declared in a letter to his
friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only
fault was being a woman“.
Clue 2: Émilie du Châtelet repeated and publicized an experiment originally
devised by Willem 's Gravesande in which balls were dropped from different
heights into a sheet of soft clay. Each ball's kinetic energy - as indicated by the
quantity of material displaced - was shown conclusively to be proportional to
the square of the velocity. Earlier workers like Newton and Voltaire had all
believed that "energy" (so far as they understood the concept at all) was
indistinct from momentum and therefore proportional to velocity.
Q.8

X : Principia Mathematica
Y:Isaac Newton

ROUND 4
◦ -5 on all incorrect answers.
◦ 10 on Pass.

Q.1
THIS POSTER IS A FUNNY TAKE ON
WHICH
THEORY/PRINCIPLE/EXPERIMENT ?

Heisenberg’s Uncertainity Principle

In 1970, X published Vitamin C and the Common Cold, urging the
public to take 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C every day (about 50
times the recommended daily allowance). X believed that the
common cold would soon be a historical footnote. X's book
became an instant best seller. Paperback versions were printed in
1971 and 1973, and an expanded edition titled Vitamin C, the
Common Cold and the Flu, published three years later, promised to
ward off a predicted swine flu pandemic. Sales of vitamin C
doubled, tripled, and quadrupled. Drugstores couldn't keep up with
demand. By the mid-1970s, 50 million Americans were following X's
advice. Vitamin manufacturers called it "the X effect."
Q.3 IDENTIFY X

tl;dr
◦ This debate has been called "one of the great stories of the
history of science“ and it is often regarded as a key
moment in the acceptance of evolution. Summary reports
of the debate were published in The Manchester Guardian,
The Athenaeum and Jackson's Oxford Journal.
◦ The debate is best remembered today for a heated
exchange in which Bishop Wilberforce supposedly asked
Thomas Huxley whether it was through his grandfather or his
grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey.
◦ The encounter is often known as the Huxley–Wilberforce
debate or the Wilberforce–Huxley debate, although this
description is somewhat misleading. It was actually an
animated discussion that occurred after the presentation
of a paper on the intellectual development of Europe with
relation to Darwin's theory. (one of a number of scientific
papers presented during the week as part of the British
Association's annual meeting)
Identify where(city or exact location) this debate occurred
or what this debate is known as.
A stone pillar
marking the 150th
anniversary of the
event stands
outside the
venue.
Q.4

The Oxford Evolution Debate/
Oxford University Museum of Natural
History

Q.5
What is this
picture
talking
about ?

The world’s largest
corporate university,
Infosys Global
Education center is
located in ________.
Q.6

Connect (The list being Exhaustive/Non Exhaustive
is inconsequential)
1. Fundamental Prize in physics.
2. Facebook
3. Zynga
4. Twitter
5. Flipkart
6. Spotify
7. ZocDoc
8. Breakthrough prize in life sciences
9. Groupon
10.360Buy.com
11.Planet Labs
12.Alibaba.
Q.7

This is one of the few titanosaurs to be dug up in the Indian
subcontinent . It is specifically named after an Indian organization,
which is credited to have first discovered them. Name the
organization.Q.8

Indian Statistical Institute(ISI)

What does this google doodle
celebrate?

6cret
6tindr
6tag
Cloudsix
for
Dropbox
6Snap
6sec
Wikipedia
9Gag for
WP8
What connects all these apps other than the
fact that they are all 3rd party Windows phone
apps ?

The Swiss food brand Nestle created
an Ad for it’s dog food brand
“Beneful”. How was this Ad different
from the other ones?

This ad was specifically created so
that dogs could hear it.

This was discovered in 1976. But it is more
popular now than it was then. What is it?

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