scitech quiz, by mcqc

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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 ?

Naplam

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

Galileo Galilei

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

The Euler Equation

4. What has Been blanked out here ?

Cocaine

5. Coat of Arms of What ?

The Royal Society

6. Who’s the Author

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

8. Reference to which movie ?

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 ?

Jagadish Chandra Bose

10. Poster of what Revolutionary SciFi Movie ?

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

Indian Neutrino Observatory

*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.

Chandrasekhar limit

*13. ID

Feynman Diagrams

*14. What is Described Here ?

Rosetta Mission Flight Path

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

Tamagotchi

*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?

X: Denso WaveY: Toyota

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

Bluetooth

19. Identify the event

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 ?

Revolving Door

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

22. Connect

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

24. Identify This Old Logo

Windows 1

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

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

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

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 BradleyY 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.

Marie Curie