SciTech Quiz, By MCQC

1. The Name of the deadly X is a combination of the
names of two of the constituents of it’s
thickening/gelling agent:
co-precipitated Aluminium salts of Naphthenic
and Palmitic acids.
What is X ?

2. Who’s middle finger is being displayed here ?

3. It combines 5 of the most important
mathematical constants with 3
fundamental operations. It truly is a thing
of beauty !

4. What has Been blanked out
here ?

7. X is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment
and fourth-generation programming language. X allows matrix
manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation
of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with
programs written in other languages, including C, C++, Java,
Fortran and Python.
X users come from various backgrounds of engineering,
science, and economics. X is widely used in academic and
research institutions as well as industrial enterprises.
ID X

9. He pioneered the investigation of radio and
microwave optics, made very significant
contributions to plant science, and laid the
foundations of experimental science in the
Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the
fathers of radio science. He is also considered
the father of Bengali science fiction. He also
invented the crescograph. A crater on the moon
has been named in his honor.
Who is he ?

10. Poster of what Revolutionary SciFi Movie ?

*11. What is being describes here in this
infographic published by The Hindu

*12. The X limit is the maximum mass of a stable
white dwarf star. The limit was first indicated in
papers published by Wilhelm Anderson and E. C.
Stoner, and was named after X, the Indian-
American astrophysicist who independently
discovered and improved upon the accuracy of
the calculation in 1930, at the age of 19. This
limit was initially ignored by the community of
scientists because such a limit would logically
require the existence of black holes, which were
considered a scientific impossibility at the time.

*15. What 1996 digital pet was an
egg-shaped computer toy that could
be fed, cleaned and played with?

*16. The QR code was invented in japan by X, a
subsidiary of Y in 1994 to track vehicles during the
manufacturing process, and was originally
designed to allow components to be scanned at
high speed.
It has since become one of the most popular types
of two dimensional barcodes
what is X and Y?

17. Held 2 years ago it made itself into the
Guinness book of world records for the
maximum number of developers coding for a
single event at a common location the total
number of coders was logged at 2567 by
Guinness Officials present at the venue,
although the initial number expected was
around 3500.
what’s this event and where was it held?

Windows App Fest Microsoft’s 18
hour nonstop marathon coding
festival , Bangalore, India

18. Ericsson, a Denmark based company
started working on a device which establishes
radio links between portable devices Jim
Kardman named the technology X after the 10
th century Viking king Harold blatand who liked
eating blueberries. What is the name of this
technology

Ans: Steve jobs revealing the world’s thinnest
Laptop-MacBook air On January,2008

20. First used in Rector’s Restaurant, in Times
Square in 1899, X has today become a very
common feature of several Skyscrapers
including the Burj-Al-Arab, for maintaining a
difference in temperature inside and outside
the building as it acts like an air lock. It is used
in various places due to it’s air locking
capabilities and it’s nature to withstand heavy
environmental conditions.
What is X ?

21. Groove jet (If This Is not Love) a song by
Spiller, featuring vocals by British singer-
songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
The single was released in August 2000 by
Positive Records. It peaked at # 1 in the UK,
New Zealand, Ireland and Australia, as well as
charting at number three on the American Hot
Dance Chart. What significant role did this
song play?

The song tested on the iPod during its
prototyping phase, making it the first
ever song to be played on the iPod

ANS:
1 – Chad Hurley
2 – Jawed Karim
3 – Steve Chen
4 – Founded on Feb 14, 2005

23. X Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the
year(13 September in normal years and 12
September in leap years). The number 256(2^8) was
chosen because it is the number of distinct values
that can be represented with an eight-bit byte.
It is an official profession holiday in Russia.
ID X

25. ID the company which has the caption
shown below caption.

26. After whom are the L points are Named???

27. X was one of twelve engineers who
worked on the original IBM PC developing rom
bios code and X is credited for implementing
the Y and X said that" I may have invented it
but bill gates made it famous” what is X and
Y???

X is David Bradley
Y is Ctrl-Alt-Del

28. ID the company who created it???

29. Designed by Paul Stansifer, it features the Cyrillic
letter И (“I”), the Greek letter Ω (Omega), the
Korean syllabic block 위 (wi), the Arabic letter
(Waw), the Chinese character 維 (Wéi), the Hindi
akshar (Wi) at the left, the Bangla borno (U) , the
Hebrew letter (Vav), the Georgian ვ (Vin) and at the
uppermost left the Armenian Վ (Vev). The empty
space at the top represents the incomplete nature
of the project.
What are we talking about?

30. Due to X’s work, X’s papers dating from
the far end of the 19 th century are
considered too dangerous to handle. They
have to be kept in lead lined boxes, and
can only be handled using protective
clothing.
ID X.

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