Sci tech quiz 2014 finals

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Clockwise : Infinite Pounce
Anti Clockwise : Infinite Pounce
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6 People
Identify them
+10 for each correct
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Rules
• 12 Questions
• Pounce : +10/-5
• Bounce : +10/0

1.
• Japan was the United State’s main source of silk,
but trade relations were breaking down in the
early 1930s. In 1935, Wallace Carothers made a
significant step towards a silk-like fiber and it
was introduced to the world in 1938. It was used
to make parachutes in the war.
• But before he could see his invention put to use,
Carothers committed suicide by taking a dose of
potassium cyanide in 1937.
• What was his invention ?

2.
• XY was invented and patented in 1890, by Mr
David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand, under
patent number 3518. It was sold under the trading
name Strang's Y citing the patented "Dry Hot-Air"
process. The invention was previously attributed
to Satori Kato, a Japanese scientist working
in Chicago in 1901. Kato introduced the powdered
substance in Buffalo, New York, at the PanAmerican Exposition .George Constant Louis
Washington developed his own process to make
XY shortly thereafter, and first marketed it
commercially in 1910.

• Instant Coffee
• No points for “Coffee”

3.
• The tragic end of the dodos occurred because
Dutch sailors brought pigs to the island of
Mauritius, which plundered the dodos' nests and
ate their eggs and ultimately drove the birds to
extinction. It is a misconception that the sailors
ate the dodos themselves - they rarely did so as
the meat tastes bad.
• What, in the world of technology, is a
magnificent historical reconstruction of this tale ?

• Angry Birds
• The clinching evidence for this interpretation
is that dodos were flightless birds, so of course
they would have needed to use catapults.

5.
• ‘Homage to ______ ____ ‘ is a collection of essays
by Anthony Burgess.
• Book reviews form the bulk of the content, though there are
various essays and an interview Burgess conducted with
Graham Greene.
• A section of the book deals with the movie business,
including histories of a variety of film stars and early
Hollywood producers, about many of whom Burgess had
strong opinions.
• Another section is devoted to reviews of biographies of
authors, including Dickens, Beckett and Hemingway.
• The book displays the tremendous amount of knowledge
Burgess had accumulated by the age of 66, especially
concerning geography, travel, cultures, languages and
literature.

6.
• __________ was invented in the United States by
James Faria and Robert Wright, who were
researchers at Monsanto, Inc. It was originally
called “Chemgrass” and was re-branded as
_________ by company employee John A.
Wortmann. The newest version of _________ is
made of green blades of polyethylene.
• Incidentally, the home ground of Hero Hockey
India League champions, Ranchi Rhinos is called
__________ stadium.

7.

• Canson is a French manufacturer of fine art paper and
related products, founded in 1557.
• The story goes that Jean _______ was taken prisoner by
the Turks during the Crusades and was compelled to
work in a paper mill in Damascus.
• His son Raymond _______ married the daughters of
Antoine Chelles, the owner of the Canson paper mills.
The _________ family subsequently ran the mills.
• Raymond’s grandsons Joseph and Jacques were brilliant
inventors. They developed the Bleu de Prusse colour
and a new device to raise water. But their most famous
invention is something else, which has been referenced
in the logo of Canson since 1784, when the paper mills
were granted the name "Manufacture Royale"
• FITB, i.e. give me the surname
• Logo of Canson on next slide.

• Montgolfier
• The Montgolfier Brothers were the inventors
of the Hot Air Balloon

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8.

“If I didn’t have you, life would be blue
I’d be Doctor Who without the TARDIS
A candle without a wick, a Watson without a Crick
I’d be one of my outfits without a dickey
• I’d be cheese without the Mac,
Steve Jobs without the Wozniak
I’d be solving exponential equations that use
bases not found on your calculator, making it
much harder to crack…”
• These are the opening lines of a song
orchestrated by which Caltech Engineer for his
wife, to mark the anniversary of their first date ?

9.
• Scabies is a contagious skin infection caused by the mite
Sarcoptes scabiei. The mite is a tiny, and usually not
directly visible, parasite which burrows under the host's
skin, causing intense allergic itching.
• It is classified by the WHO as a water-related disease.
The disease may be transmitted from objects, but is
most often transmitted by direct skin-to-skin contact.
• The colloquial name for this disease is also
a psychological term that suggests that happiness in a
relationship declines after certain number of years of
a marriage.
• What is the colloquial name ?

10.
• In the early industrial age, buildings began to
spring up all over the east coast of the USA. Many
of these new buildings were taller than anything
ever built before and most had elevators. As
buildings got taller and taller, more people began
to use elevators. Elevators in those days were
pretty darn slow. People were constantly
complaining about how slow the elevators were.
• So, after a lot of brainstorming, what solution did
engineers come up with ?

• They installed mirrors in elevators
• The mirrors have been there ever since

11.
• The letter written by this man to the Orthodox
Church in his country is shown on the next slide.
• To quote him from the letter – “The longer I live, the
more this question drills itself into my brain. And the
more I wonder why the Lord allowed man to have
the devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression.
The Lord showed me the way in the afternoon of my
life. When at the age of 91 I cross the threshold of a
church, my soul felt as if it had been there before”
• He signs it 'a slave of God, a designer‘, followed by
his name.

12.
• Give me X and Y
• Pic on next slide

• X = Thomas Alva Edison
• Y = Henry Ford

Infinite Bounce : Anti Clockwise

Rules
• Same as previous round

1.
• In India, they are designed by two PSUs
viz., Bharat Electronics
Limited, Bangalore and Electronics Corporation of
India Limited, Hyderabad.
• In 1980, Mr. M. B. Haneefa designed the very first
of it. His original design was exhibited to the
public in six Government Exhibitions of Tamil
Nadu, Madras (Chennai), Trichy, Coimbatore,
Salem, Madurai and Tirunelveli.
• They were first used in 1981 in the North
Paravur Assembly Constituency of Kerala.
• What am I talking about ?

• Electronic Voting Machines

2.
• The idea of the ______ _____was conceived
by Ram Chander Sharma under the guidance
of Dr. P.K. Sethi at Sawai ManSingh Medical
College.
• It is fitted free of cost by Bhagwan Mahavir
Viklang Sahyata Samiti, founded by Devendra
Raj Mehta. It costs approximately $US 45 to
make.
• FITB.

3.
• “______ is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real
chap was very tall. He had an interminable
neck that sprouted from a collar that was
much too large... I made ______ a miniPiccard, otherwise I would have had to enlarge
the frames of the cartoon strip.”
• FITB and Id the speaker.
• Here Piccard is the Swiss physicist, Auguste
Piccard.

• Herge about Prof. Calculus

5.
• According to game designer Warren Robinett, this
term was coined at Atari by personnel who were
alerted to the presence of a secret message
which had been hidden by Robinett in his already
widely distributed game, Adventure.
• Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained the
first video game _______ ____ to be discovered
by its players, being the name of the game's
programmer, Warren Robinett

6.

• This painting by Salvador Dali is a tribute to
which discovery ?

• The double helix structure of the DNA

7.

• Raumschach was invented in 1907 by Dr. Ferdinand
Maack . He founded a Raumschach club in Hamburg in
1919, which remained active until World War II.
• How do we know Raumschach in popular culture ?

8.
• This is the sculpture of
John T Daniels.
• He had never seen a
camera prior to this, so
what was he capturing
the first time he used a
camera?

• The first flight by the Wright Brothers

9.
• “Jug Sahastra Jojan Par Bhaanu,
Lilyo Taahi Madhur Phal Jaanu”
• What is the significance of this line from the
Hanuman Chalisa, something that was proved
by NASA many years later after these lines
were spoken by Tulsidas?

• It accurately predicts the distance between the Earth & Sun

Expanded meaning:
1 Yuga = 12000 years
1 Sahastra = 1000
1 Yojana = 8 Miles
Yug x Sahastra x Yojan = par Bhanu
12000 x 1000 x 8 miles = 96000000 miles
1 mile = 1.6kms
96000000 miles = 96000000 x 1.6kms = 1536000000 kms to Sun
According to NASA, it is the exact distance between Earth and Sun

10.

• She is believed to have influenced the signing, of
the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international
ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines.
• Who ?

11.

• What name has been blanked out ?

12.
• Of the 50,000 men who fell at the Battle of
Waterloo, most were young and healthy and their
_____ were of a generally good standard. Having
been plundered from the battlefield, most of
these _____ made their way back to Britain, the
country best placed to afford the new top-quality
X which would incorporate them. These then
became known as 'Waterloo _____' and were
often worn with a great deal of pride, a 'musthave' accessory for fashion-conscious yet
______less members of the more affluent classes
of the time.

Description
• List the 26 words used in the NATO phonetic
alphabet
• Each of them starts with a different letter of
the alphabet
• +1 for each, +10 for 15 or more and +20 for all

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Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliett
Kilo
Lima
Mike

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November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee
Zulu

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