Science quiz informal

1. I QUIZ-III
SCIENCE Q
25.05.2014,
NGO QUARTERS HIGHER SECONADARY SCHOOL ,CALICUT

2. ROUND I
Infinite pounce/+10 -10

3. What does this sequence indicate
2,60,40,1,30,30,5,1,30,200,8,40,50,1,
30,200,8,10,40

4. Baa = 2; Seen = 60; Meem = 40; Alif = 1; Laam =
30; Laam = 30; Haa (Small) = 5; Alif=1; Laam =
30; Raa = 200; Haa (big) = 8; Meem = 40; Noon =
50; Alif = 1; Laam = 30; Raa = 200; Haa (big) = 8;
Yaa = 10; Meem = 40

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7. This is used to check a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent
behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a
human. In the original illustrative example, a human judge
engages in natural language conversations with a human and a
machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable
from that of a human being. If the judge cannot reliably tell the
machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed
the test; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical
human answers. What is the term used for this.(Image follows)
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9. Turing Test
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10. These are the original apparatus
used for a historic experiment in
1654 performed by Otto von
Guericke.It was used to
demonstrate the power
of atmospheric pressure.
• Just name the experiment
• Which logo was inspired by
this Exp

11. Magdeberg hemisphere experiment &
Levi strauss

14. First use of this term in its present meaning was by Horace
Mann (dated 28 January 1754) .He said he formed it from a
Persian fairy tale. The term used extensively in scientific
communities stems from an old name for Sri Lanka(aka
Ceylon). Parts of Sri Lanka were under the rule of South Indian
kings-cheras for extended periods of time in history. “The island
belonging to cheras” were called ------ by Arab traders. From this
word the term evolved.
Which term am I referring to?

15. Serendipity

16. This symbol is known as Ourobus and
is seen in several ancient scriptures
and texts. It inspired a person to a
revolutionary scientifc finding in
1850’s .What was that finding?and
who is the person related to this
finding?

17. Kekule Benzene

18. Description about a scientific establishment in India
A local Catholic church, the St Mary Magadelene's
Church served as the main office for the scientists. The
bishop's house was converted into a workshop. A cattle
shed became the laboratory in which the young Indian
scientists worked for making something first in India.In
1967 they achieved that feat.About which
establishment am I describing here.

21. Beluga Whale & Airbus Beluga

22. "Gravity" is a 2013 science fiction thriller directed bt
Alfonso Cuaron and starring George Clooney and Sandra
Bullock. The film has been much talked about for its
depiction of an accident during a space mission. The film
has a running time of 90 minutes –

23. ISS-International Space Station

24. WHO??
Knowledge of Literature – nil.
Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.
Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.
Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.
Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and
poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance
different soils from each other.
Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.
Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.
Knowledge of Sensational Literature– Immense.
Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.
Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

26. The name was given by the then Prime Minister of
India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he likened the blue radiation
coming out of the experimental set up.He related the
beauty of the radiation to the beauty of Indra's court
dancers.What was the name given by Nehru to that
experimental set up?

27. Apsara,India’s first nuclear reactor

29. Programming Languages

30. Knot theory is a branch of topology dealing with the
study of mathematical knots. The visual on the
following slide shows an example of a mathematical
knot called tree-foil knot. It finds applications in a
variety of areas. It is required to explain sun's corona
structure mathematically. Interestingly it also explains
the reason behind an everyday nuisance. Which
nuisance we are talking about? (Image follows)

32. Tangling of headphones/wires inside pockets

33. The branding of _____ was created by Timothy Hanley
to distinguish items that integrate consumer audio and
video with conventional computing products.The ____
logo also represents the integration of analog and
digital technology.
Which logo/Brand?

35. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that
results in a chronic,systemic inflammatory disorder that
may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks
flexible (synovial) joints. It can be a disabling and painful
condition, which can lead to substantial loss of functioning
and mobility if not adequately treated.Who ,in the world of
cricket is perhaps the most famous person suffering from
this disease (This lead to something dramatic!)

36. Billy Bowden,& his signalling
"crooked finger of doom”

37. He was famous during his times as a mathematician. He wrote
the influential Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of
Algebra (1070), which laid down the principles of algebra. he
wrote on the triangular array of binomial coefficients known
as Pascal's triangle. In 1077 he wrote Explanations of the
Difficulties in the Postulates of Euclid.Legendary malayali poet
G.Shankarakkurup translated some of his works to malayalam.

39. Omar Khayyam

40. List of ? Who is missing?
1663 Isaac Barrow
1669 Isaac Newton
1702 William Whiston
1711 Nicholas Saunderson
1739 John Colson
1760 Edward Waring
1798 Isaac Milner
1820 Robert Woodhouse
1822 Thomas Turton
1826 George Biddell Airy
1828
1839 Joshua King
1849 George Gabriel Stokes
1903 Joseph Larmor
1932 Paul Dirac
1969 James Lighthill
1979
2009 Michael Green

41. The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
Missing-Charles babbage,
Stephan hawking

42. ROUND II
Short story!!
ABCD?
10 for each-Bonus 10 for all

43. ABCD?
A was an Indian-American science fiction film in development in the late
1960s which was eventually cancelled. It was to be directed by B and co-
produced by Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures. When the
Hollywood film C was produced in 1982 by the same company that had
contracted with B ,B claimed similarities in the movie to earlier script . B
discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature. B
believed that D’s film "would not have been possible without my script
of A being available throughout America in mimeographed copies." When the
issue was raised by the press, D denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high
school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."

44. A-The Alien
C-E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialB-Satyajit Ray D-Steven Spielberg

45. ROUND III
Infinite pounce/+10 -10

46. Wolfram Alpha is a
computational knowledge
engine or answer
engine developed
by Wolfram Research. It is
an online service that
answers factual queries
directly by computing the
answer. In January 2013
they created ______
Curve using highly
complicated mathematical
model. Calculations are
given below. Name the
curve.

49. PSY CURVE

50. The large numbers of those who participated in the armed struggle or
the non-cooperation movement in India could not be accommodated
in ordinary jails. The British Government decided to establish a few
detention camps; the first one was located in Buxar Fort followed by
the creation of the Hijli Detention Camp in 1930. A significant moment
in the struggle against British rule occurred at The Hijli Detention Camp
on Sept. 16, 1931 when two unarmed detainees, Santosh Kumar
Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead by the British
Police and Subhas Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their
bodies.Tell me the role of The Hijili Detention camp in science &
Technology history of India.(Image follows)

52. First IIT in India , IIT Kharagpur

55. What is depicted?

56. Project Loon is a research and development project
being developed by Google with the mission of
providing Internet access to rural and remote areas.
The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in
the stratosphere at an altitude of about 20 mi (32 km)
to create an aerial wireless network with up to 3G-like
speeds

59. What does this picture indicates?

60. DTMF (Dual-tone multi-frequency) tones are the sounds
generated by touch tone phones. When a key on a phone keypad
is pushed not one but two different frequencies are generated.

61. X is an upcoming biographical film based on the life of renowned
scientist.It has been produced by the independent Indian production
house Camphor Cinema..The cast consists of Indian and British film,
stage and screen personalities. It marks the film debut of Abhinay
Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actor Gemini Ganesan, as the
main protagonist. The first two schedules were shot in India while
the third was done in England, where they took the permission
of Cambridge University to shoot.X?

63. "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" was a lecture
given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical
Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.
Feynman concluded his talk with two challenges.
1) construction of a tiny motor
2) the entire Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin
This lecture is considered as the starting point of an entirely
new branch in material science. Which branch?

65. Inspired what?
“A is a reduced scale Q, as the real chap was very tall. He had
an interminable neck that sprouted from a collar that was much
too large... I made A a mini-Q, otherwise I would have had to
enlarge the frames of the cartoon strip."

66. Auguste Antoine Piccard inspired Professor
calculus in The Adventures of Tintin

67. Using a scanning tunneling microscope,Carbon
monoxide molecules were manipulated into place on a
copper substrate with a copper needle at a distance of 1
nanometer.They remain in place, forming a bond with the
substrate because of the extremely low temperature of 5 K
(−268.15 °C, −450.67 °F) at which the device
operates.[ The oxygen component of each molecule shows up as
a dot when photographed by the scanning tunneling microscope,
allowing the creation of images composed of many such dots.
created 242 still images with 65 carbon monoxide
molecules. Each frame measures 45 by 25nanometers. It took
four researchers two weeks of 18-hour days to complete the
task.
What was the output of this

68. a-boy-and-his-atom.mp4

69. X is a disorienting neurological condition that
affects human perception. Sufferers may
experience micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other
sensory modalities. A temporary condition, it is often associated
with migraines, brain tumors, and the use of psychoactive drugs.
The symptoms of X are fairly common in childhood,Xcan be
caused by abnormal amounts of electrical activity causing
abnormal blood flow in the parts of the brain that process visual
perception and texture.X got the name from a famous literary
work by Y.According to John todd Y was was a well-known
migraine sufferer with similar symptoms.Id X,Y

70. X- Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Y- Lewis Carroll

72. Bombay blood group/Hh antigen
system

74. Kalinga award

75. Kind of disease named after a logo
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76. Michelin Baby Syndrome
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77. Which famous problem is connected to this image
(Shows the map of a city in prussia
(Now Kaliningrad, Russia) highliting Pregel River

78. bridges of konigsberg Problem
The problem was to find a walk through the city
that would cross each bridge once and only once.
The islands could not be reached by any route
other than the bridges, and every bridge must have
been crossed completely every time; one could not
walk halfway onto the bridge and then turn around
and later cross the other half from the other side.
The walk need not start and end at the same spot.

79. Article from seattle times:
British researchers provide some stomach-churning data:
______ harbor 18 times more bacteria than a flush handle
in a typical men's restroom.
According to Julian's study, published online in July by the
Journal of Applied Microbiology, the risks of transmitting
pathogens from ________to a person's skin are relatively
high.
The chance of transmitting a disease is found to be about
30%.In order to prevent this companies are trying to
develop anti microbial ______.Probably microsoft
developed worlds first self cleaning anti microbial _____

80. Touch screen

81. (1) 2 NaN3 → 2 Na + 3 N2 (g)
(2) 10 Na + 2 KNO3 → K2O + 5 Na2O + N2 (g)
(3) K2O + Na2O + 2 SiO2 → K2O3Si + Na2O3Si
The first reaction is the decomposition of NaN3 under high temperature
conditions using an electric impulse. This impulse generates to 300 °C
temperatures required for the decomposition of the NaN3 which produces Na
metal and N2 gas. Since Na metal is highly reactive, the KNO3 and SiO2 react and
remove it, in turn producing more N2 gas. The second reaction shows just that.
The reason that KNO3 is used rather than something like NaNO3 is because it is
less hygroscopic. It is very important that the materials used in this reaction are
not hygroscopic because absorbed moisture can de-sensitize the system and
cause the reaction to fail. The final reaction is used to eliminate the K2O and Na2O
produced in the previous reactions because the first-period metal oxides are
highly reactive. These products react with SiO2 to produce a silicate glass which is
a harmless and stable compound.

82. Deployment of airbag

83. X has a career of more than three decades spanning across four
continents.X has been recognised as one of the most
authoritative voices in the area of tropical farming and dry-land
agriculture. X’s expertise has been heavily utilised by many
institutions in India and all over the world. As a technical
consultant, advisor and educationist, he has worked in Suriname,
Brazil, Kuwait, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Angola, KSA, UAE, Liberia, UK and
USA. X has published more than hundred and fifty research
papers and 13 books so far. X is also a member of various
national and international bodies that include New York
Academy of Sciences, Indian Society of Plantation Crops,
etc. Currently he is on the editorial panel of international
journals like Journal of Agro Meteorology, Kuwait Journal of
science and Engineering, Asian Journal of Water, Environment
and Pollution, etc.

84. Dr. M. Abdul Salam

85. ROUND IV
THEME 100/-50 to 10/-0

86. +100/-50

87. +90/-45

88. +80/-40

89. +70/-35

90. +60/-30

91. +50/-25

92. +40/-20

93. +30/-15

94. +20

95. +10

97. Golden Ratio