SciTech Quiz

THE SCI-TECH QUIZ
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Q-1
• Who’s guest starring in the new Angry Birds
game?

Q-2
• The core philosophy of this is summarized by the
document "PEP 20 (The Zen of X)", which
includes aphorisms such as:
• Beautiful is better than ugly
• Explicit is better than implicit
• Simple is better than complex
• Complex is better than complicated
• ______________ counts
• ID X

Q-3
• X was first demonstrated on The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, playing The Castle
and as a playable concept during E3 2014. X is
revolutionising the industry massively and the
industry which is barely known to shift trends
has finally found its calling in this device being
one amongst others. ID X.

• Project Morpheus or Playstation VR

Q-4
• Web developer Jonathan Porta reported uncovering the issues in a
blog post on Friday. His concerns focus on seven key privacy settings.
The settings allow X to:
• "Personalize your speech, typing, and inking input by sending
contacts and calendar details.
• "Send typing and inking data to Y to improve the recognition and
suggestion platform."
• "Let X and apps request your location.
• "Send Y and trusted partners some location data to improve
location services."
• "Use page prediction to improve reading.
• "Automatically connect to suggested open hotspots. Not all
networks are secure."
• ID X, which was the source of much controversy

*Q-5
• X was invented by two engineers Al Fielding and
Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne,
N.J. in 1957. The two were not, however, trying
to make a product to be used as ________.
Rather, they were trying to create a textured
wallpaper. They started out by sealing two
shower curtains together in such a way that
would give the textured appearance of their
wallpaper. Needless to say, this wallpaper idea
didn’t sell too well. Then they tried it as
insulators. Give X.

Q-6
• Id what this formula is used for?

• Temple Run score calculator

Q-7
• In 2008 _________ reached its most
hydrodynamic iteration: called the LZR, it was
designed in collaboration with NASA. It was
comprised of polyurethane panels that were
ultrasonically welded together to ensure there
were no seams that would disturb the flow of
_______. The polyurethane panels also helped
to trap air. Incomplete description of what?

• Speedo’s most advanced swimsuits yet

Q-9
• Close up of what cell?

*Q-10
• Madam Curie's daughter and Son-in -law also
went on to win the Nobel Prize thus making
the Curie family the first in history to be the
truly 'Nobel' family. Irène Joliot-Curie and her
husband won the Nobel prize for discovering
artificial radioactivity, which had many
implications because their experiment
achieved a 'fantastical' dream. What?

• The alchemist’s dream of converting one
substance into gold. ( they discovered artificial
radioactivity which made this possible)

Q-11
• This highly rated 2015 science fiction thriller is
often seen as a parallel of Google's attempts
to dabble in Artificial Intelligence. The movie
involves the creation of artificial intelligence
using a Google like search engine that
dominates the internet and routing all
personal and public data to 'teach' the
machine about human behaviour. ID the
movie.

*Q-12
• Will Shortz is the only person in the world to
hold a degree in enigmatology, the study of
puzzles. What unique and prized occupation
does he have considering the information
given above?

• Editor of the New York Times crossword

Q-13
• The name of deadly X was a combination of
the names of two of the components of its
thickening/gelling agent:
• Co-precipitated Aluminium salts of Napthenic
and palmitic acid.
• Also a very powerful attack in the popular
game Pocket tanks.

Q-14
• X contains a strong pigment known as
lawsone. Lawsone has a tendency of
temporarily staining our skin. It gets absorbed
in porous surfaces like skin and hair. The dye
sinks into the uppermost layer of dead and
soon to be dead skin. Due to natural
exfoliation, our skin starts flaking and fresh
skin replaces the old one and the colour of X
also fades with the old skin

Q-15
• Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were
originally used for posting pictures and
discussing manga and anime, as the site was
modelled on Japanese image boards,
particularly Y. The site quickly became popular
and expanded, though much of X's content
still features otaku, anime, and other Japanese
cultural influences.
• ID X, Y

Q-16
• In current news, ID what the picture is
representing. Be as specific as possible.

Q-17
• ID the space craft or where it has been taken
from

*Q-18
• In 1950, X published Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental Health, explaining the
process of auditing, in which a counsellor
guides a subject to recall traumatic memories
and resolve the associated negative emotions.
In 1953, having lost the rights to Dianetics, X
created an expansion in Camden, New Jersey.
What is being described here?

• Ron L. Hubbard and Scientology

Q-19
• X was named after IBM's first CEO and
industrialist Thomas J. X 'He' was specifically
developed to answer questions on the quiz
show Jeopardy! In 2011, Watson competed on
Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter
and Ken Jennings. X received the first place
prize of $1 million.

Q-20
• In 1905, a patent clerk from Bern published a
number of articles that changed the world.
The year 1905 was later called his ‘annus
mirabilis’. Who was this man?

• As you might have easily guessed, Einstein.

Q-21
• Unlike most birds which hunt by sight or
hearing, this bird has nostrils at the tip of its
beak. It uses these to smell and find its food.
What is this bird, which known for another
reason to most of us?

Q-22
• Who said this with regard to recent events?

• Richard Dawkins(Biologist)

Q-23
• What does this map depict?

Q-24
• Mick Pearce designed the Eastgate Centre, a
shopping centre and office block in
central Harare, Zimbabwe. He states that the
design was modelled based on a X. Give X.

*Q-25
• This science fiction object was in the news
over period of 2014 and early 2015 when X
released a video in which he had “tested” it.
But later in a video, he apologised saying that
he also wished like many fans of a particular
science fiction franchise and beyond that it
would soon become a reality. Then Lexus
came out with a model that actually worked.
Here’s an audio describing it.

Q-1
• Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning
"nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"),
is a form of brief cranial pain or headache
commonly associated with consumption of
certain foods quickly. It is caused by having
something ____ touch the roof of the mouth
(palate), and is believed to result from a nerve
response causing rapid constriction and
swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of
pain from the roof of the mouth to the head.

• Brain Freeze or Ice Cream headache

Q-2
• The XY approach is a computational biology method of
protein function prediction, based on the idea that
some proteins involved in a given physiological process
may exist as two separate genes in one organism and
as a single gene in another. Genomes are scanned for
sequences that are independent in one organism and
in a single open reading frame in another
• In November 2007, during its second flyby, the X was
mistaken for a near-Earth asteroid and given the
designation 2007 VN84. A trajectory calculation
showed that it would make its closest flyby of the Earth
at a distance of 5,700 km. This lead to the speculation
that 2007 VN84 might be at risk of impacting the Earth.
The asteroid later was identified to be X

Q-3
• Y’s work presaged the discovery of black
holes, which at the time seemed so absurdly
non-physical that X refused to believe that Y’s
purely mathematical derivation had
consequences for the real world. History
clearly proved X wrong, but his motivation
remains a matter of some controversy. Y’s
narrative of this incident, in which his work is
harshly rejected, portrays X as rather cruel,
dogmatic, and racist. ID X and Y.

• X- Arthur Eddington
• Y- Chandrasekhar

Q-4
• X is launching an ad-supported social network
called Merry Jane for users and sellers of
_______ products, something he has known
to have endorsed quite a lot of times in the
past, example via books which turn into
makeshift accessories for ____________ etc.
He announced the move at the TechCrunch
Disrupt conference this afternoon, saying the
platform would launch next month with the
perfect number of beta users—420. ID X.

Q-5
• Who working at an early version of what?

• John Logi Baird, Television

Q-6
• X is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in
scientific research. It is the oldest and most
commonly used human cell line. It was derived from
____________, a patient who eventually died of
cervical cancer on October 4, 1951
• X is a fictional character , the Asgardian Goddess of
death in the Marvel comic universe, based on the
Norse Goddess ____. The ruler of Niffleheim, The
character has been a frequent foe of Thor.

Q-7
• With an aptly named “Ludicrous Mode,” the
top-spec, all-wheel-drive P90D touts a 2.8-
second run to 60 mph. he 90, 85D, 85, 70D,
and 70 trims dial back performance and range
slightly as you step down, but still offer a
classy cabin and electrifying driving
experience. Range anxiety is almost
eliminated, thanks to generous battery
capacity and an ever-growing Supercharger
network. Description of what? Be specific.

Q-8
• This scientist, credited with coining the word
'Electrodynamics' for the first time, ordered
the epitaph ' happy at last' to be placed on his
tombstone. This was because he was chronic
depressant, who lamented the death of his
wife. ID the scientist.

Identify these Women in science from the
minimalist posters
+10 for each correct
Bonus 10 if all Correct.
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ANSWERS AHEAD
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Q-1
• X refers to a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes
fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic
designs inspired by 19th-century industrial
_____powered machinery. X works are often set in an
alternative history of the 19th century's British
Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-
apocalyptic future during which ________ power has
maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world
that similarly employs _______power. Such technology
may include fictional machines like those found in the
works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern
authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt
and China Miéville.

Q-2
• X came to Y's defence when only two days before
being awarded the Nobel prize, news of Y's affair
with her husband's former student broke in the
newspapers and Y was asked to stay in France
and not come to Sweden to accept the Nobel
Prize. “ I am convinced that you [should] continue
to hold this riffraff in contempt…if the rabble
continues to be occupied with you, simply stop
reading that drivel. Leave it to the vipers it was
fabricated for” Id X and Y, who shared a
professional and personal relationship as great
friends

Q-3
• What phrase if you type on Google will give
this number as the first result:
1.6699016 x 10^-8 Hertz

Q-4
• X and other ________ represented light in a different way
than their predecessors, seeming to capture its motion, for
instance, across sun-dappled waters, or in star light that
twinkles and melts through milky waves of blue night sky.
• The effect is caused by luminance, the intensity of the light in
the colors on the canvas. The more primitive part of our visual
cortex — which sees light contrast and motion, but not color
— will blend two differently colored areas together if they
have the same luminance. But our brains primate subdivision
will see the contrasting colors without blending. With these
two interpretations happening at once, the light in many
_________ works seems to pulse, flicker and radiate oddly.
• ID X, and fill in the blank

• Van Gogh and Impressionism

Q-5
• The last years of X’s life, 1710–1716, were
embittered by a long controversy with John Keill,
Y, and others, over whether X had discovered
_______ independently of Y, or whether he had
merely invented another notation for ideas that
were fundamentally Y’s. Y manipulated the
quarrel. The most remarkable aspect of this
struggle was that no participant doubted for a
moment that y had already developed his
method of fluxions when X began working
on_____________. Yet there was seemingly no
proof beyond Y’s word.

Q-6
• Sales of this device in India were halted following a
temporary injunction granted to Micromax Mobile,
alleging that it violated its exclusive rights to distribute
Cyanogen-branded products in South Asia as part of a
new joint venture and that its agreement superseded
the agreement it had established with X.
• The company disputed the arguments, noting that its
Cyanogen-based software was different than that of
Micromax's, and argued that the exclusivity agreement
only meant that Cyanogen could not partner with any
other company based in India, and did not inhibit the
ability for X to market its products in the country with
its trademarks. ID X.

Q-7
• X was a series of electro-mechanical rotor
cipher machines developed and used in the
early to early-mid twentieth century for
commercial and military usage. X was
invented by the German engineer Arthur
Scherbius at the end of World War I. Early
models were used commercially from the
early 1920s, and were most notable used by
_________.

Q-8
• Neil Harbisson (born 27 July 1982) is a Catalan-raised,
British-born contemporary artist and X activist based in
New York. He is best known for being the first person in
the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and
for being officially recognized as an X by a government.
His antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible
colours such as infrareds and ultraviolets via audible
vibrations in his skull as well as receive images, videos,
music or phone calls directly into his head. His wifi
enabled antenna also allows him to receive colours
from satellites and hear extraterrestrial colours from
space. What is X?

Long Visual Connect
Points indicated on slide
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All these are technologies made by NASA.

Answers
1.Mobile camera. 10. Invisible Braces
2.Water filter. 11.LEDs
3.Shoe insoles. 12.Smoke detector.
4.Firefighter clothes. 13.Artificial limbs
5.In ear thermometer
6.Memory Foam
7.Solar Panels
8. Scratchless glass
9.Cordless tools

Q-1
• The purpose is to "permit the wearer to
identify for a third party a particular location
on the wearer's body" in the event of
something like an unreachable itch. Whose
patent?

Q-2
• X disease which literally translates to, "it hurts-it
hurts disease" was the name given to the
mass cadmium poisoning of Toyama
Prefecture, Japan, starting around 1912. The
cadmium was released into rivers
by mining companies. Due to the poisoning, the
fish in the river started to die and water was then
used to irrigate the rice fields. The rice absorbed
heavy metals, especially the cadmium. The
cadmium accumulated in the people eating
contaminated rice. A typical case of heavy metal
poisoning coupled with bioaccumulation, give X.

Q-3
• The X is a method of measuring a civilizations
level of technological advancement, based on
the amount of energy a civilization is able to
utilise. It is only a hypothetical tool but it puts
energy consumption in a cosmic perspective.
ID X

Q-4
• In January 2014, it was revealed that X was considered a "leaky
app" and was used to collect data about its users including their
sexual orientation and location by the NSA and GCHQ. In retaliation,
anti-NSA hackers defaced _______'s website. Claims were made by
Edward Snowden that the app was leaky and that they were
capable of siphoning off data. Claims were made by Edward
Snowden that the app was leaky and that they were capable of
siphoning off data.
• According to The Register, the information was leaked through the
in-game advertisement code like that embedded by Millennial
Media: "Millennial's tracking software generates a personal record
for each user that can store information from their political
affiliation and sexual orientation to whether their marital state was
single, married, divorced, engaged or 'swinger'. ID X

Q-5
• The two-part, $100 million project, called Breakthrough
Initiatives, will be funded by Yuri Milner and span 10 years.
Part one of the initiative, called Breakthrough Listen, will have
access to the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in New
South Wales, Australia and the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory dish in Green Bank, West Virginia.
• In addition to radio observations, the project will also look for
optical laser signals using the 2.4-meter Automated Planet
Finder Telescope at Lick Observatory in California. In addition
is also has a massive endorsement from X. What does the
project deal with and who is X?

• The largest ever search for extraterrestrial life
and Stephen Hawking

Q-6
• Alligator, Anteater, Armadillo, Auroch, Axolotl, Badger,
Bat, Beaver, Buffalo, Camel, Chameleon, Cheetah,
Chipmunk, Chinchilla, Chupacabra, Cormorant, Coyote,
Crow, Dingo, Dinosaur, Dolphin, Duck, Elephant, Ferret,
Fox, Frog, Giraffe, Gopher, Grizzly, Hedgehog, Hippo,
Hyena, Jackal, Ibex, Ifrit, Iguana, Koala, Kraken, Lemur,
Leopard, Liger, Llama, Manatee, Mink, Monkey,
Narwhal, Nyan Cat, Orangutan, Otter, Panda, Penguin,
Platypus, Python, Pumpkin (Sic!), Quagga, Rabbit,
Raccoon, Rhino, Sheep, Shrew, Skunk, Slow Loris,
Squirrel, Turtle, Walrus, Wolf, Wolverine, Wombat-
CONNECT

• Names assigned by Google for anonymous doc
viewers on the Drive.

Q-7
• X are a marine phenomenon which occur
because of the temporary abundance of a
particular species dinoflagellates. Under
appropriate environmental conditions, these
species can grow very rapidly, causing X. X occur
in all marine regions with a temperate or warmer
climate.
• X in the Gulf of Mexico, as a very specific case
were a result of high concentrations of Karenia
brevis, that occurs naturally but normally in lower
concentrations.

Q-8
• Along with arsenic and mercury, X is one of the deadliest
elements on the table. But like osmium, this substance is also
intertwined with the history of music. X bears the distinction
of being the first element named in Tom Lehrer's "The
Elements" song from the 1950s.
• In the grand tradition of horribly misguided medical cure-alls,
doctors often prescribed X as medicine. One such patient who
took it was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The genius composer
was treated with X for his depression and fever shortly before
dying at the age of 35.
• X is also the main constituent of Kohl and finds its usage since
the Egyptian Era.

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