Qurious - IITG Quiz Fest Science and technology quiz final

THE SCI-TECH QUIZ

IIT GUWAHATI QUIZ FEST

Quizmaster

Nikhil.N

Rules

◦ 4 Rounds - 8 Questions Each.

◦ The scoring pattern is given for each Round Seperately.

◦ Time for Pounce – 15 seconds AFTER THE QUIZMASTER FINISHES READING THE QUESTION.

◦ Quizmaster’s decision is final.

◦ The Quizmaster believes that Mathematics is a science!

ROUND 1

◦ 20 on a Direct & 20 on a Pounce.

◦ -10 on any incorrect answer.

◦ 15 on Pass.

◦ Infinite Bounce and Pounce Applicable

Who is the only person to win 2 unshared nobelprizes ?

Q.1

Safety Slide

Linus Pauling

X and Y were able to transmute

elements, creating nitrogen from boron,

phosphorous from aluminum and silicon

from magnesium. These won them the

Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Id X

and Y .

Q.2 IDENTIFY X AND Y

Safety Slide

Jean Fredric & Irene Curie

Q.3

THIS POSTER IS A

FUNNY TAKE ON

WHICH SCIENTIFIC

THEORY, EXPERIMENT

OR PRINCIPLE ?

Safety Slide

Schrodinger’s Cat

What is situated at the Convergence?

Q.4

Safety Slide

The Great Pacific Garbage Zone

In chemistry, X is often an important heuristic when developing a model of a reaction

mechanism. Although it is useful as a heuristic in developing models of reaction

mechanisms, it has been shown to fail as a criterion for selecting among some selected

published models.

X is a problem-solving principle devised by an English Franciscan friar and scholastic

philosopher and theologian.

In the scientific method, X is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific

result; the preference for simplicity in the scientific method is based on the falsifiability

criterion.

Q.6 ID X

Safety Slide

Occam’s Razor

Q.7 IDENTIFY X, Y AND Z

Safety Slide

X: Gorilla GlassY: Steve Jobs

Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet

on cod. (longest palindrome in English)

These are palindromes created by certain group of

people for recreation, although their normal jobs

involved identifying patterns. What was their profession or

give me the name of the person who is credited with

creating the above given palindrome .

Q.8

Safety Slide

Code Breakers at Bletchley Park/Peter Hilton

ROUND 2


◦ -5 on Pounce only.

◦ 5 on Pass.

◦ Infinite Bounce and Pounce Applicable.

◦ For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted

an experiment on 399 black men (mostly impoverished and poorly educated share-

croppers) in the late stages of a disease. The essence was to gather data on the course

of the disease when left untreated. The researchers understood from the outset that test

subjects would provide most of their useful information in the form of autopsies, so great

pains were taken to insure that subjects didn’t obtain medical care elsewhere. The

program came to an abrupt halt in 1972 when its existence was made public by the

Washington Star.

◦ Name the disease.

Q.1

Safety Slide

Syphillis

What are these?Q.2

Safety Slide

Higher order derivatives of displacement

Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is also one of the

most prodigious examples of ____________________

The book begins with the following lines

Poe, E.

Near a Raven

Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,

Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete

lore.

During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!

An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's

antedoor.

"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".

—Mike Keith, First verse of Near a Raven

Q.3

Safety Slide

Piphilology

◦ His beloved wife died early in 1909, and the younger of his two

sons was killed in the First World War. He also had twin daughters

whom he adored. One died giving birth. The surviving twin went

to look after the baby and fell in love with the sister’s husband.

They married and two years later she died in childbirth. In 1944,

when X was eighty five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he

lost everything – papers, diaries , a lifetime of accumulations. The

surviving son was caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler and

executed.

◦ Who is X?

Q.4

Safety Slide

Max Planck

Q.5

This picture shows us

the instruments used

in which famous

experiment?

Safety Slide

Magdeburg Experiment

Q.6

PHOTON

CONNECT

Safety Slide

Windows Phone OS Codenames

◦ Photon: WP7

◦ Mango: WP7.5

◦ Apollo: WP8

◦ Blue: WP8.1

Q.7 This is a Da Vinci drawing of a

________

Safety Slide

Flying machine

X was a co-recipient of the Fields Medal and the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in

Mathematics. X has two brothers living in Australia, both of whom represented

Australia at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

One of them was part of the team at Google Australia that created Google Wave.

He now works on the Go programming language.[4]

The other has a double degree in mathematics and music and will soon be featured

in a book on autistic savants.

X’s wife Laura is an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

X his wife &their son and daughter live in Los Angeles, California.

X was a three time IMO medallist but chose to go to an unknown university for his UG.

(Flinders university)

Q.8 IDENTIFY X

Safety Slide

Terrence Tao

ROUND 3


◦ -10 on Pounce only.

◦ 10 on Pass.


The phrase “X" does not refer to darkness, as

in the absence of light, but to the unknown,

THIS IS because humans did not see Y until

the Soviet Union photographed it in 1959

Hint: I am talking about a celestial body .

Q.1 Id X and Y?

Safety Slide

X: Dark side of the MoonY: Far side/Moon’s Other side

Q.2

These are

the

blueprints

of

________

Safety Slide

Anti Gravity boots (MJ)

X is a unit of volume used in Australia for

water. One X is the amount of water in X:

approximately 500 gigalitres (500,000,000

cubic metres, or 0.5 a cubic kilometre); or in

terms of the more unusual measures,

200,000 Olympic Swimming pools, or 400,000

acre-feet.

Q.3 Id x and y

Safety Slide

Sydney Harbour; (Sydharb)

Identify X & Y

Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer,

was in his youth fascinated by X's work.

Their influence was so strong that, like X,

Hubble gave up the career path in law that

his father intended for him, setting off

instead to pursue his passion for science.

The pioneering submarine designer

Simon Lake credited his inspiration to Y -

one of X’s many novels and his

autobiography begins "X was in a sense

the director-general of my life."

This doodle was made to commemorate X’s birthday. It was inspired by Y.

Q.4

Safety Slide

X: Jules VerneY: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Q.5 Who is this person?

Safety Slide

Paul Hawkins(Hawk-Eye Technology)

X plants are believed to have evolved on the steppes of Central Asia,

specifically in the regions that are now Mongolia and southern Siberia,

according to Warf. The history of X use goes back as far as 12,000 years, which

places the plant among humanity's oldest cultivated crops.

Clue 1:X is often consumed for its psychoactive and physiological effects, which

can include heightened mood or euphoria, relaxation, and an increase in

appetite.

Clue 2: Possible side-effects of consuming X include a decrease in short-term

memory, dry mouth, impaired motor skills, reddening of the eyes, and feelings of

paranoia or anxiety.

Give me X.(Scientific name)

Q.6 Identify X ?

Safety Slide

X: Cannabis

X is an American theoretical physicist, known for his

contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A

long time friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and

Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical

Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the

astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of

relativity. He continues to do scientific research and was

the scientific consultant and an executive producer for

the science fiction film Y.

Q.7 Id X and Y ?

Safety Slide

X: Kip Thorne

Y: Interstellar

The translation of X written by Y, published posthumously by Émilie du Châtelet in 1759 is considered to be its standard French translation till date.

Clue 1: Voltaire, one of Émilie du Châtelet’s lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman“.

Clue 2: Émilie du Châtelet repeated and publicized an experiment originally devised by Willem 's Gravesande in which balls were dropped from different heights into a sheet of soft clay. Each ball's kinetic energy - as indicated by the quantity of material displaced - was shown conclusively to be proportional to the square of the velocity. Earlier workers like Newton and Voltaire had all believed that "energy" (so far as they understood the concept at all) was indistinct from momentum and therefore proportional to velocity.

Q.8

Safety Slide

X : Principia Mathematica

Y:Isaac Newton

ROUND 4


◦ -5 on all incorrect answers.

◦ 10 on Pass.


Q.1

THIS POSTER IS A FUNNY TAKE ON WHICH THEORY/PRINCIPLE/EXPERIMENT ?

Safety Slide

Heisenberg’s Uncertainity Principle

Q.2 IDENTIFY…..

Safety Slide

Microsoft Band

In 1970, X published Vitamin C and the Common Cold, urging the

public to take 3,000 milligrams of vitamin C every day (about 50

times the recommended daily allowance). X believed that the

common cold would soon be a historical footnote. X's book

became an instant best seller. Paperback versions were printed in

1971 and 1973, and an expanded edition titled Vitamin C, the

Common Cold and the Flu, published three years later, promised to

ward off a predicted swine flu pandemic. Sales of vitamin C

doubled, tripled, and quadrupled. Drugstores couldn't keep up with

demand. By the mid-1970s, 50 million Americans were following X's

advice. Vitamin manufacturers called it "the X effect."

Q.3 IDENTIFY X

Safety Slide

Linus Pauling

tl;dr

◦ This debate has been called "one of the great stories of the history of science“ and it is often regarded as a key moment in the acceptance of evolution. Summary reports of the debate were published in The Manchester Guardian, The Athenaeum and Jackson's Oxford Journal.

◦ The debate is best remembered today for a heated exchange in which Bishop Wilberforce supposedly asked Thomas Huxley whether it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey.

◦ The encounter is often known as the Huxley–Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce–Huxley debate, although this description is somewhat misleading. It was actually an animated discussion that occurred after the presentation of a paper on the intellectual development of Europe with relation to Darwin's theory. (one of a number of scientific papers presented during the week as part of the British Association's annual meeting)

Identify where(city or exact location) this debate occurred

or what this debate is known as.

A stone pillar

marking the 150th

anniversary of the

event stands

outside the

venue.

Q.4

Safety Slide

The Oxford Evolution Debate/

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Q.5

What is this

picture

talking

about ?

Safety Slide

The QR Code

The world’s largest

corporate university,

Infosys Global

Education center is

located in ________.

Q.6

Safety Slide

Mysore

Connect (The list being Exhaustive/Non Exhaustive

is inconsequential)

1. Fundamental Prize in physics.

2. Facebook

3. Zynga

4. Twitter

5. Flipkart

6. Spotify

7. ZocDoc

8. Breakthrough prize in life sciences

9. Groupon

10.360Buy.com

11.Planet Labs

12.Alibaba.

Q.7

Safety Slide

Yuri Miller

This is one of the few titanosaurs to be dug up in the Indian

subcontinent . It is specifically named after an Indian organization,

which is credited to have first discovered them. Name the

organization.Q.8

Safety Slide

Indian Statistical Institute(ISI)

THE

TIE

BREAKER

What does this google doodle celebrate?

Safety Slide

Anna Atkins 216th Birthday.

6cret

6tindr

6tag

Cloudsixfor

Dropbox

6Snap

6sec

Wikipedia

9Gag for WP8

What connects all these apps other than the

fact that they are all 3rd party Windows phone

apps ?

Safety Slide

Rudy Huyn(The developer)

WHAT IS THIS PICTURE SHOWING?

Safety Slide

Amazon Delivery Drones

The Swiss food brand Nestle created

an Ad for it’s dog food brand

“Beneful”. How was this Ad different

from the other ones?

Safety Slide

This ad was specifically created so that dogs could hear it.

This was discovered in 1976. But it is more

popular now than it was then. What is it?

Safety Slide

Ebola Virus