Noesis 2015 Quiz Chapter 2

COMPILER & QM: Sarthak Mohanty

SCI-TECH QUIZ

ROUND 1 (PRELIMS: COUNTER STRIKE)

KILL THE OPPONENT TEAM WITH YOUR ANSWERS

RULES

• NO NEGATIVE MARKING

• QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE REPEATED

• USE OF INTERNET PROHIBITED

• DO NOT CHEAT

• TOP 6 TEAMS WILL BE IN THE FINALS

1. A high gravity region in space where even light can’t escape is known as?

2. ‘The Imitation Game’ is a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch who depicts a famous

personality. Who? (5 points). Name the machine he decodes, (5 points more), and what did he

call his decoder?(The tie breaker).

3. An apparent change in wavelength occurs if the source and the observer are moving apart.

This is known as?

4. Identify the website.

5. What do you call the mixture of Hydrochloric Acid and Nitric Acid in the ratio of 1:3?

6. Identify the company

7. Imagine you’re in a room with a bunch of golf balls on the floor and a thin beam or rail

suspended between two walls. Now imagine for some reason you start lining up the golf balls

on the rail. It would take you a lot of work to do that, right? The most “stable” place for the

golf balls to be is back on the floor, and the slightest disturbance could send them careening

downwards.

Finally, with more than half of your golf balls sitting perfectly still on the rail, you decide to

take break to admire your work. Foolishly, you sit down on the floor with a thud and look in

horror as a few golf balls fall to the floor with an instantaneous clack. This clack sends a few

more golf balls speeding towards the floor and soon your once-quiet room is a chorus

of clacks. This is an Analogy of the working of a device.

What (famously known by its abbreviation) am I talking about?

8. In relation to a famous start-up based out of Bangalore, if “Lemontee” and “Backbenchers”

were discarded, what was eventually selected?

9. Name the only group of animals that make milk to feed their young?

10. He is an advisor to the prime minister. He heads the national innovation council,2014.He

spear headed the telecom revolution in India. You find STD booths everywhere due to him.

Who is he ?

11. The principal ingredient in a brick wall and a plate glass window is same. What?

12. According to the ‘Top Google Searches of 2014’ released by Google, if ‘IRCTC’ topped the list

and ‘SBI Online’ came third what search keywords were 2nd and 4th in the list, respectively? (5

points for each)

13. How long is guinea pig’s tail? (Tie Breaker)

14. Identify him and the Company he is associated with.

15. If a man can jump 1.5 meters on the Earth. How high can he jump on the Moon?

16. Expand HTTP!

17. O is the most common blood group in the World, except in Norway. What is the most

common blood group there?

18. In Arabic, the literal translation of this corporate tycoon’s first name is Defender. His surname

stands for Love. His company recruits a lot of students from our college. Who is this IT baron

from India I am talking about?

19. It states that the universe emerged from a hot and dense state billions of years ago. The

universe has been expanding over since this creation event. What?

20. What is Nomo-phobia?

FINALS

ROUND 1: SCI-KAAR (THE SCIENCE HUNT)

RULES:

• No Negatives

• No Pass

• Correct Answer = +10

1. The character X lives a double life as a member of an all-animal espionage

organization referred to as The OWCA ("Organization Without a Cool Acronym"). It

was made a ____ because of the animal's striking appearance and the lack of public

knowledge of the animal, which allowed the writers to make things up about the

species. Critical reception for the character from both professionals and fans has been

considerably positive. Many environmentalists also rated this TV series highly for

spreading awareness among people about the existence of such an animal. • Identify

X and FITB. ANS: PERRY THE PLATIPUS

2. The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away!

(140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That’s the distance to the giant X. You can see it

easily as a dim, large gray “cloud” almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.

ANS: ANDROMEDA GALAXY

3. Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope. While on the other hand, for making Fat

Man, some other element was used. WHAT?

ANS: PLUTONEUM

4. The Law of Ellipses

The Law of Equal Areas

The Law of Harmonies

What am I talking about?

KEPLER’S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

5. Natural Way : X takes place naturally, as for instance when hot air rises from the

land on a warm day. This heated air has a lower density than that of the less

heated air in the atmosphere above it, and, therefore, is buoyant. As it rises,

however, it loses energy and cools. This cooled air, now denser than the air

around it, sinks again, creating a repeating cycle.

Forced way: heat of an oven—a situation in which some sort of pump or mechanism moves

heated fluid. X can also take place within a natural sy stem. The human heart is a pump, and

blood carries excess heat generated by the body to the skin. The heat passes through the skin

by means of conduction, and at the surface of the skin, it is removed from the body in a

number of way s, primarily by the cooling evaporation of moisture—that is, perspiration.

WHICH PHENOMENON?

ANS: CONVECTION

6. 6. the Method of loci is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek

rhetorical treatises. In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses

visualization to organize and recall information. In this technique the subject

memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or

any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. • How do we

better know this technique as? (SHER-LOCKED)

ANS: MIND PALACE

ROUND 2: TECH-LEAF (THE TECH PAIN)

RULES:

• No Negatives

• No Pass

• Correct Answer = +10

1. Which company’s official blog has this as the opening of a post, that explains one of their core principles? Jim Goetz reached the top of the Midas list in the business world for investing in this.

2. What annual event which was held online in 2009 and is still

conducted online, was affected by two viruses ‘Conflicer’ and ‘W32

Nimda’ which attacked the system display of the test, causing severe

slow down? ANS: CAT

3. . “Easter eggs” are hidden symbols, messages and jokes worked into movies, books,

paintings, video games and computer software—often intended as a little “reward” to

viewers who are paying close attention or know where to look. And in fact, there’s

probably an Easter egg in your Android device right now. So tell me the game to which

the Lollipop (Android 5) Easter egg depicts! ANS: FLAPPY BIRD

4. The logo concept was created by TeiyuuGoto in Tokyo. He

incorporated many meanings into the logo and acronym: the

pronunciation is similar to “bio”, which is symbolic of life and the

product’s future evolution; it’s also near “violet”, which is why most

early versions of the product were purple or included purple

components. The sound some models make when starting up is

derived from the melody created when pressing a telephone keypad

to spell the letters of the product. Name the product?

ANS: VAIO

5. This Dot Com was started by Marc Lore and Vineeet Dharva, is the largest online retailer of baby

products. Name it ANS: DIAPERS.COM

6. The first instance of X came in 2008 on 4chan image board. The image consisted of a 4-pane

comic made in MS Paint portraying the “Toilet Splash” experience. The first 3 pane s described

the incidence and the 4th was a drawing of X screaming appeared with a caption saying

“FFFFFUUUUU” in the right of the face in red letters. Identify X.

ANS: MEME

ROUND 3: GAALI-LIYO (LIFE IS ALL ABOUT TAKING RISKS)

• Passing Allowed (Correct Answer = +10; Wrong Answer = 0)

• Correct Answer = +20

• Wrong Answer = +20/-2 (Kill Yourself)

1. Consider the following analogy:

Suppose an enormous football was placed in a field containing a crowd of people much smaller,

about thousand times smaller than the football. Now imagine that the crowd kicks the ball in all

possible directions. If you were to observe this scene from a helicopter so high up that you could

see the ball, but not the people, you would see the ball moving randomly, without any apparent

cause. What you would be observing then?

ANS: Brownian Movement

2. IDENTIFY THE SCIENTIST’S DIGITAL VOICE (Who physically can’t talk) FROM THIS SONG. He HAS

ACTUALLY SUNG THE FIRST VERSE. (KEEP-TALKING, PINK FLOYD)

NOW TELL ME THE FAMOUS SMARTPHONE APP WHICH HAS DESIGNED A MECHANISM BY

WHICH HE (Who physically is unable to write) ACTUALLY WRITES!

ANS: STEPHEN HAWKING, SwiftKey (He can talk with 15 words/minute due to a sensor

attached to his cheek, and can write bestsellers by swiping his fingers, as he can’t type/write

due to ALS)

3. Imagine a bottle completely filled with water except for some air bubbles. Now if the

bottle is inverted, the air bubbles move up because the water rushes down due to

gravity. Bottle ~ Valence band, water ~ electrons, bubbles ~ holes, Then what is

Gravity?

Ans: Electric Field

4. These tweets are taken from a famous Twitter Account which was created on the 30th

anniversary of of an event.

Name the event and name the Chemical that was responsible for this event.

Ans: By the Twitter account @1984Bhopal, a detailed account of the Bhopal Gas

Tragedy (on its 30th anniversary)

Methyl Isocyanate

5. His work was not without its real physical dangers. He kept whole kennels of mad dogs, which

he would handle fearlessly. He was so eager to secure the specimens of the germs of the rabbits

that in one occasion he actually sucked through a tube the saliva of a mad dog. It is through the

saliva that the mad dog transmits the disease. He ended up by discovering a serum which when

injected into a boy recently bitten by dog and cured it. Name the scientist.

ANS: Louis Pasteur.

6. A new material found on the moon surface by Appolo 11, has its name derived from the names

of the three men who set their foot first on the moon. What is the name of that element?

Armalcolite ( Arm-strong Al-drin Co-llins Silicon-ite)

Round 4: DEEP THROTTLE (The last gear)

• Write your answers on a sheet of paper.

• Time window = 20 seconds per Question (12 Qs).

• Questions CAN’T be reviewed.

• Correct Answer = +30 (Game Changer)

• Wrong Answer = +20/-2 (Bite Yourself)

1. Playtex is a brand name for lingerie and female undergarments , founded in 1947, by the

International Latex Corporation (ILC). In the 1960s, after much trials and tribulations,

Playtex received a contract from an organization Y for successfully designing X. They

spend six weeks working around the clock—at times breaking into their own offices to

work 24-hour shifts—to arrive at a ___ solution. ILC manages to produce a superior X by

drawing on the craft- culture handiwork and expertise of seamstresses, rather than on the

hard-line culture of engineering.” What did Playtex create/X?

X=Spacesuits (for the Apollo 11 mission) Y=NASA

2. X was originally developed by Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham

and Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus, and acquired by

Google in September 2009. Not only does it stop spammers but it helps digitize books,

by crowdsourcing the job. While digitizing books, sometimes the character recognition is

unsatisfactory, so the computer my save some gibberish of a sentence without knowing

any better, which is where X comes into the picture. X has helped digitize the archives of

The New York Times and books from Google Books, and as of 2012, thirty years of The

New York Times had been digitized. In 2012, X began using photographs of house

numbers taken from Google's Street View project, in addition to scanned words. X is

reported as being used over 100million times a day. ID X (be specific!)

Ans: ReCaptcha (Are you a robot?)

3. DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira is a fictional character had a weapon named Lasso of truth. So what in the field of technology did the

creator of Wonder Woman (William Moulton Marston) Thus had some major contributions in?

Polygraph: Lie detector

4. Id . (it’s a video that will play on the presentation)

Gangnam Style’s record breaking views for which YouTube had to change from 32 bit to 64bit to

support the number.

5. Id the code from the Tune (Nokia SMS tune playes)

Ans: It’s a morse code for “connecting people”, Nokia’s tagline.

6. Relate this guy with Google.

Ans: Android Lollipop (Pit stop directioners in F1 are called Lollipop)

7. Chief Ion, Chief Noisy Ion, Chief Tech Ion, Chief Engineering Ion and Chief Product

Ion – the designations of five founders of a Bangalore-based company, who all met

during their stints at Rational Software/IBM. They based their key product on five

things about apps that irritate most mobile users: Drain battery Eat up data Disc

Space Slow Response Hanging handsets Which company, and why is it in the news?

Ans: Little Eye Labs from Bangalore. They were acquired by Facebook

8. ID the Indian company

Ans: Satyam Computers

TB. “Where truth doesn’t hide, where truth doesn’t hurt” is the masthead of which news source?

Fakingnews.com

TB. The Great Bansal Wedding. What am I talking about? Mukhesh sachin binny

TB: The service was announced at Apple’s September 9, 2014 iPhone 6 event. Apple partnered

with American Express, Mastercard, and Visa. Their joint project began in January 2013, though

they had discussed Apple’s potential involvement for years. This is their joint solution. Explain.