Science quiz

PEPSCI - Refreshing science quiz
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TOTAL QUSTIONS – 25
THEMES - 4
All questions on Pounce & Bounce
marks - +10/ -5

Round 1 miscellaneous
KEEP CALM and KEEP QUIZZING

1. She once confided to a visitor that
she fell in love with her handsome
cousin X for quite a different reason:
“because he played Mozart so
beautifully on the Y.”
X loved the music of Bach and
Mozart that had much the same
clarity, simplicity, and architectural
perfection as his scientific work.
X did not like less organized, more
emotive music of late 19th-century
figures such as Wagner.
X owned several Ys throughout his
life—but he reportedly gave each
one in turn the same affectionate
nickname.
Identify X and Y

2. ‘Fenghuang’ (phoenix), ‘Tianwen’ (questions for
heaven), ‘Huoxing’ (X), ‘Tenglong’ (soaring dragon),
‘Qilin’ (Kylin), ‘Zhuque’ (rose finch), ‘Zhuimeng’ (chasing
dreams) and ‘Fengxiang’ (flying phoenix). The above are
eight names selected by Republic of China in first round.
What do they relate to ?

Upcoming Chinese Mars
mission in 2020

3. The grand prize includes a
National Geographic trip to the
Galapagos Islands, a US $50,000
scholarship, and an "experience"
at a small broken shack for a
small organization; finalists will
receive a US $15,000 scholarship
and assorted packages from
sponsoring organizations. The
Competition is not open to
residents of Cuba, Iran, North
Korea, Sudan, Myanmar/Burma,
Syria, Zimbabwe.
Identify the event.

4. Which is the largest volcanic (including
dormant and inactive) region on Earth ?

5. X is defined as “the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you
get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture,
such as f/2.8 or wider.” identify X which is the pleasing or aesthetic
quality of out-of-focus blur in a photograph.

Round 2 – Business of science

1. On June 16, 1992 Paul Lewis, a Professor of English at Boston College,
wrote in New York Times as follows: "...Ever since X’s baron rolled his
improved human out of the lab, scientists have been bringing just such
good things to life. If they want to sell us Y, perhaps it's time to gather
the villagers, light some torches and head to the castle.“
Identify the writer (x) and the term used pejoratively to denote
Genetically modified foods (y)

X – Mary Shelley; Y - Franken food

2. Nokia has recently launched a multi-purpose digital
assistant which will act as an intuitive knowledge assistant
for the telecom operators. Identify it which is known by its
acronym. The acronym is the same as that of first name of a
Bollywood singer whose brother is also a famous pop and
bollywood singer.

MIKA ('Multi-purpose Intuitive
Knowledge Assistant‘)

3. Identify the company (logo -big dipper) founded in
1998, whose name is derived from an element which
is a rare earth metal known as most corrosion
resistant. The metal is named after the Greek
goddess that personifies rainbow.

4. In his home laboratory in
Philadelphia, Engineer Richard
James attempted to invent springs
that would support and stabilize
sensitive instruments in naval ships
on rough seas.
One spring was knocked off the
worktable and fell down. Seeing that
he got an idea.
Since the Navy was unresponsive to
the springs, James spent the next
couple of years perfecting his idea.
He converted his idea into a
commercial success.
What was it?

5. Dr David Hanson has created Sophia, a very advanced
android to date. It was inspired by X and Hanson's wife.
Identify X who was supposed to be the embodiment of
classic beauty in Hollywood.

1. Where (country) would you find the
Museum of Failure?

2. Recently NASA paid tribute to astronauts who perished in
missions that went wrong. Robert Donald Cabana the
director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Centre, while
delivering a speech at the ceremony said, “. We got to the
moon not in spite of X but because of X”.
Identify X (mission or project name)

3. The company TEB Technologies first unveiled X in 2010, and then
again in 2016 at Beijing’s 19th International High-Tech Expo. X was
touted as a solution for urban transport problems of China. But
recently this year X was scrapped and found to be a scam. Identify X
(technology or project).
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4. In the 1880s, Albert Michelson tried to measure the “luminiferous
ether” that scientists thought was the carrier of light. He couldn’t find
it, because it didn’t exist. The Michelson-Morley experiment (1887)
became what might be regarded as the most famous failed experiment
to date.
What was the personal significance of this failed experiment to Mr
Albert Michelson?

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 was awarded to
Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision
instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological
investigations carried out with their aid".

5. On 12 November 2014, X touched down on the comet, but it
bounced when its anchoring harpoons failed to deploy. Since it landed
in a non optimal location away from sunlight its battery ran out soon
ending the mission prematurely. Even though it was a failure, X
achieved the first-ever "soft" (non-destructive) landing on a comet
nucleus.
Identify X.

1. Forza Horizon 3 is an open world racing video game
developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft
Studios for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows 10. Which
Indian car (yet to be manufactured) has been selected as
one of the cars in the latest edition?

2. Which Indian fictional character was played by the
following actors? (the list is not exclusive)

3. Recently ISRO successfully launched GSAT 9
(south Asian satellite)into space. For the first
time India achieved a feat with this satellite.
Identify the feat.

4. The ministry of earth sciences is planning to dig a
very deep borehole up to 8 kms into earth to study
earthquakes. Identify the region or place which is
known for high frequency of earthquakes including a
very devastating one in 1967.

DEEPAK PENTAL – INVENTOR OF GM
MUSTARD

6. In the 1970s Economist Jagdish
Bhagwati proposed a tax. Identify it.

TAX ON BRAINS (BRAIN DRAIN TAX)

7. The drug was invented by Koen Andries and his team
(Swedish company -Janssen Pharmaceutica) in 2004.
Recently 18-year-old girl from Patna, won a court battle to
get access to this drug. Either name the drug or mention
the disease this drug is used to treat.

BEDAQUILINE – TUBERCULOSIS (MDR)

8. In 2012, a jute bag of diplomatic mail, stamped "On Indian Government
Service, Diplomatic Mail, Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered. The
mailbag contained still-white & legible copies of The Hindu & The Statesman
from mid-January 1966, Air India calendars, & a personal letter to the Indian
consul-general in New York. This is proof of an accident which killed X, a
famous Indian scientist.
Identify X.

X - Homi Jehangir Bhabha
MONT BLANC (France) Air India flight 101 Crash

9. Although educated in the
traditional allopathic system of
medicine, X turned to
homoeopathy.
X established The Indian
Association for the Cultivation
of Science (IACS) in 1876 which
was the first national science
association of India.
Identify X

10. What is Arvind Gupta
famous for?

HE MAKES TOYS FROM TRASH
TO POPULARIZE SCIENCE

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