Sci tech quiz prelims + answers

Rules
• 25 Questions – 4 star marked. Further ties will
be resolved by sudden death.
• Top 6 teams go to the finals
• Decision of Quiz Master is final
• Questions cover very diverse fields of Science
& Technology

1.
• The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal
Society of London "in recognition of an
original discovery in the physical sciences,
particularly electricity and magnetism or their
applications".
• Only two Indians have received this medal.
One of them is CV Raman, who is the other ?

2.
• A lengthy review by H. G. Wells was published in
the Times, who accused a certain movie of
"foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement
about mechanical progress and progress in
general." He faulted the movie for its premise that
automation created drudgery rather than relieving
it, wondered who was buying the machines' output
if not the workers, and found parts of the story
derivative of Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's
robot stories, and his own The Sleeper Awakes.
Wells called it "quite the silliest film.“
• Which movie ?

3.

• This is a picture of the first escalator.
• Where in London was it installed?

4.
• The national flower of Vietnam and Egypt gives
rise to the name of an effect, which is described
as follows –
• Dirt particles are picked up by water droplets due
to a complex micro- and nanoscopic architecture
on the surface, which minimizes the droplet's
adhesion to said surface.
• What is the name of the effect, also the name of
the flower ?

*5.
• If Leonard of Vinci was known to us as Leonardo
Da Vinci , then Leonard of Pisa is known to us
by what name ?

7.
• A French industrialist, Marcel changed his
name from Bloch to Bloch-______ and, in
1949, to simply _______. _______ was the
codename used by his brother, General Darius
Paul Bloch, when he served in the French
resistance, and is derived from the French
word for "battle tank".
• FITB

8.
• He was the French
ambassador to Portugal.
• The name of which
chemical is derived from his
surname ?

9.

• The product gets its name from the first half of a Japanese word for
"Friend," which also happens to rhyme with the Japanese word for
"many”
• What is the purpose of this product and which company makes it?

*10.
• Richard Milner, an American historian of science,
accuses which author as being the perpetrator of
the Piltdown Man hoax of 1912, creating the
counterfeit hominid fossil that fooled the
scientific world for over 40 years ?
• Milner says that the author had a motive—
namely, revenge on the scientific establishment
for debunking one of his favourite psychics—and
that one of his works contains several encrypted
clues regarding his involvement in the hoax.

11.
• Gas warfare in World War I was, in a sense,
the war of the chemists, with X pitted against
French Nobel laureate chemist Victor
Grignard. Regarding war and peace, X once
said, "During peace time a scientist belongs to
the World, but during war time he belongs to
his country."
• Identify X, known as the “father of Chemical
Warfare”

12.
• The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller
film that tells the story of a television reporter
and her cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant.
• In one scene, physicist Dr. Elliott Lowell says
that the China Syndrome would render "an
area the size of Pennsylvania" permanently
uninhabitable.
• Coincidentally, what happened in Pennsylvania
12 days later ?

13.
• The observatories shown in the following slide
are at a site, owned by the University of
Hawaii. Which place are they located in?
• This place has a special geographic distinction,
with which most of us are familiar.

14.
• As a 22-year-old medical student at the University of
Toronto, Charles Best worked as an assistant to Dr. Frederick
Banting. In the spring of 1921, Banting travelled to Toronto to visit
J.J.R. Macleod, professor of physiology at the University of
Toronto, and asked Macleod if he could use his laboratory.
Macleod was initially sceptical, but eventually agreed before
leaving on holiday for the summer. Before leaving for Scotland he
supplied Banting with ten dogs for experiment and two medical
students, Charles Best and Clark Noble, as lab assistants.
• Since Banting only required one assistant, Best and Noble flipped
a coin to see which would assist Banting first. Best won and took
the first shift. Loss of the coin toss proved unfortunate for
Noble, given that Banting decided to keep Best for the entire
summer and eventually shared half of his Nobel Prize money and
a large part of the credit for the discovery of ______. Had Noble
won the toss his career might have taken a different path.
• FITB

*15.
• What device was used in 2013 by the Vatican to
shield the Sistine Chapel from electronic
eavesdropping during the secret papal
conclave to elect the next pope ?
• #kolstylz

16.

• Still from ‘The Imitation Game’. ID the character
Mr. Cumberbatch is portraying.

17.
• What is the subject of a photograph called
‘The Blue Marble’ ?
• This photograph was taken on December 7,
1972 and is the most widely circulated
photograph of the subject in question.

18.
• George Vernon Hudson, known for his
astronomy/entomology work, had a shift-work job,
which gave him very few hours of leisure time at
the end of the day to collect insects. This led to him
presenting a paper to the Wellington Philosophical
Society in 1895 to proposing something, which has
been used in Independent India only three times, in
1962 during the Sino-Indian War, in 1965 & 1971
during the Indo-Pak War.“
• What did Mr. Hudson propose ?

19.
• This town was the seat of the Chandravanshi
Tomar Rajputs who claim descent from Arjuna
through Janmejaya. Its ruler King Ajmal Tomar
was a descendent of Anangpal Tomar who settled
Delhi (Lal Kot) and constructed the Iron Pillar at
Mehrauli. Later became the seat of the
Champawat Rathores, who constructed the
Balagarh fort in the 14th century.
• Which town, whose name means “The place of
five mirages” ?

*20.
• In his paper titled "Extraordinary facts relating to
the vision of colours“ which scientist wrote “that
part of the image which others call red appears to
me little more than a shade or defect of light. After
that the orange, yellow and green seem one colour
which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to
a rare yellow, making what I should call different
shades of yellow”
• He suffered from a rare type of colour blindness
known as Deuteranopia. The disorder has been
given a common name in his honour.
• Which scientist am I talking about, who is famous
for his work in a completely different field ?

21.
• With eminent doctors like Dr. Rajan Bhonsle
and Dr. Prakash Kothari in the faculty, KEM
Hospital in Mumbai is the only hospital in the
country to have a department dedicated to a
particular branch of medicine.
• Which one?

22.
• Ahmet Üzümcü , a Turkish diplomat is the
director-general of which organisation ?

Organisation for the prohibition of
chemical weapons – Winner of Nobel
Peace Prize 2013

23.
• A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860)
• The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically (1858 and 1868)
• An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their
Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic
Equations
• Symbolic Logic Part I
• Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously)
• The Alphabet Cipher (1868)
• The Game of Logic (1887)
• Curiosa Mathematica I (1888)
• Curiosa Mathematica II (1892)
Works by which “mathematician” ?

24.
• Which
organization has
formulated this
drink ?

25.
• Lateral epicondylitis is a condition in which the
outer part of the Y becomes sore and tender
• Most of the names for
this disease are misnomers: X Y is a misnomer
because most people that get this disease don't
have anything to do with X and lateral
epicondylitis is a misnomer because the patho physiology does not involve inflammation (it is an osis, not an -itis).
• XY ?

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