scitech quiz 2015 iit-bhu prelims

Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

IIT BHU Quiz Club presents

SciTech Quiz2015

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The Pattern• The answers to the Prelims follow a certain ‘Pattern’• You have to figure out this pattern as you write the answers• Hint: The questions have been arranged in a certain way to form the

pattern


Q1. Connect


A1. Halley’s Comet


Q2.* Because of anti-Semitism, the unit known as “X” almost became "Helmholtz," for Hermann von Helmholtz, who X studied under. A member of the Nazi party proposed the change, intended to preserve the current abbreviation but remove any Jewish association, to the Physical Society of Berlin.

The scientific community did not go along with it. Even though X was a Lutheran, his father was Jewish and as a consequence, after his death, he was derided by the Nazi party and his wife and daughters were forced to flee Germany.

Give me X.


A2. Hertz


Q3. Connect


A3. Lisa

1. Leonardo da Vinci- Mona Lisa2. Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna – an ESA mission to detect and measure gravitational

waves. The first test will be conducted on 27th of Nov, 2015.3. Apple Lisa- The 1st computer with a mouse


Q4. During his time as an American envoy to France, _______ ______, publisher of the old English proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.

This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, _______ did not actually propose Daylight Saving Time (DST); 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in _______’s Day.

FITB(2 words).


A4. Benjamin Franklin


Q5*. Google, famous for its many high-tech endeavours, has multiple projects in the works to get high-speed Internet connectivity to the masses.

Their Google Fibre project aims to provide Gigabit service — far faster than the connection speeds we're used to — using fibre optics, and it has pilots of that program going in several areas in the US.

But the company has another project aimed at getting basic high-speed Internet to areas that don't have it. And the project uses something we think of as low-tech — _________!

The project is appropriately named Project Loon, partially because it involves _______ and partially because it sounds looney.


A5. Balloons


Q6. According to Intel-

“Transform any HDMI monitor or TV into a computer with the Intel® X complete with a quad-core Intel® Atom™ processor, Intel® HD Graphics, integrated Wi-Fi* and Bluetooth* technologies, 32 GB storage, 2 GB memory, a USB 2.0 port, and a Micro SD card reader. Intel Inside®―endless possibilities outside.”


A6. X = Compute Stick

The Intel Compute Stick


Q7. Mission type: Pluto Flyby; 2014 MU69 flybyOperator: NASAMission Duration: 9.5 yearsLaunch Mass: 478 kgPower: 228 WattsManufactured by : APL, Southwest Research Institute

Flyby of Pluto:Closest Approach : July 14, 2015Distance : 12.5k km

What am I talking about?


A7. The NASA New Horizon space probe under the New Frontiers Program.


Q8.* Palmer Luckey is a weird guy. The Telegraph sat down with Mr Luckey in his office—or, to be more accurate, “his own suite on the top floor of Facebook’s headquarters.” Here are some fun facts about Mr Palmer:• He never wears shoes. • He loves Elon Musk.• He’s more of a Steve Wozniak than a Steve Jobs.• When asked if he invented a parallel world to escape from something wrong in his own world, Mr

Luckey said:

If I grew up in “da hood” it would make my story so much more interesting—if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren’t rich; they weren’t poor. I wasn’t trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler. Even if you have a great suburban lifestyle, you’re doing sports, have friends—some people want more than that. That’s why they watch Transformers or read The Iliad. I was one of them, but I could make my life cooler.

What did he invent?


A8. Oculus Rift


Q9. People generally do not know the difference between X & Y.

• Both X & Y lay eggs in water.

• X tends to lay eggs in clusters while Y tends to lay eggs in long chains.

• Y is oval in shape and about half as long as it is broad. X is more slightly built with the body somewhat pointy at the ends.

• Y possess no teeth while X possess small simple teeth in the upper jaw.

Give me X & Y (in that order).


A9.X = Frog

Y = Toad


Q10. ID him.


A10.Neil deGrasse Tyson


Q11. X(literally "my country" in Korean) is the web browser that comes bundled with North Korea’s official Linux-based operating system known as Red Star OS.

Upon start-up, the browser tries to load a page located at IP address 10.76.1.11, which is a reserved IP address for private use. This indicated that North Korea’s “Internet” is actually more of in intranet. [Robert] suspects that the entire country may be running in private address space, similar to how your home or business likely runs.

Visual on next slide.


A11. Naenara


Q12. X(June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second female Nobel laureate in physics, after Marie Curie.

She was also involved in the famous Manhattan Project.

Crater X on Venus with a diameter of about 35 km is also named after her.

Give her name.


A12. M.G. Mayer


Q13*. What does this chart represent?


A13. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge


Q14. There was much speculation about why X was named so.

The company’s CEO offered up some of the back story on this saying that the name derived from a lady that he once used to work with and that he had, at one time, thought about naming his daughter X.

X actually means “beautiful woman who leads you to victory” in the Norwegian language.

He also stated that the website domain was also available and that consumers want a name that’s easy to say and spell, two items that make sense, but don’t exactly fit in with the rest of the romanticism behind the naming.


A14. Siri


Q15*. Back in January 2007 The ________ decided to enter the bidding for the micro-nation of Sealand that was put up for sale. Sealand is a former British Navy platform, situated 7 miles off the coast of southern England, that was established in 1967 by the English major Paddy Roy Bates. He decided to take ownership of the platform and proclaim it as a sovereign state without any other foreign governmental influence. The island has its own gold and silver Sealand dollars and it also issues passports.

When ______ wanted to buy off the island, their offer got rejected. The government of Sealand stated that they “did not want to have anything to do with an organization that was involved with theft of property rights”.

The _________ organization attempted to bypass any copyright laws that existed by buying a secluded island hoping to found their own country with no copyright laws.

FITB.


A15. The Pirate Bay


Q16. Code Name: WhiteStar

Awards:

• 2013 World Green Car of the Year• 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year• Automobile Magazine’s 2013 Car of the Year• Time Magazine Best Inventions of the Year 2012• Consumer Report’s top-scoring car ever• Car & Driver Car of the Century• CNET Tech Car of the Year• Include in The Telegraph’s “Top 10 cars that changed the World”

Name of the model goes into the pattern.


A16. Tesla Model S


Q17. X gas, also known as bertholite, was first used as a weapon in World War I by Germany on April 22, 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres.

As described by the soldiers it had a distinctive smell of a mixture between pepper and pineapple. It also tasted metallic and stung the back of the throat and chest. The damage done by X gas can be prevented by the activated charcoal commonly found in gas masks, or other filtration methods, which makes the overall chance of death much lower than those of other chemical weapons.

It was pioneered by a German scientist later to be a Nobel laureate, Fritz Haber of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, in collaboration with the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben, who developed methods for discharging the gas against an entrenched enemy. It is alleged that Haber's role drove his wife, Clara Immerwahr, to suicide.

Give me the Chemical Formula of X.


A17. Cl-Cl – Chlorine Gas


Q18. Regarded as probably one the greatest mathematician of all times, whose last words were:

“Don’t disturb my circles.”


A18. Archimedes


Q19. This high-strength material was first commercially used in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires. Typically it is spun into ropes or fabric sheets that can be used as such or as an ingredient in composite material components.

Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide – branded X – was invented by Polish-American chemist Stephanie Kwolek while working for DuPont, in anticipation of a gasoline shortage.

Give me X.


A19. Kevlar


Q20. X & Y are mostly confused with one another.

X is a unit of weight for precious stones. The international, or metric, X was standardized in 1913 and accepted by the United States and many other countries. One X is equal to 200 milligrams.

On the other hand, Y is a not a measure of weight. Rather, its an ancient unit for measuring purity or fineness of a certain element.

Give me X & Y. (strictly in that order)


A20.X= CaratY= Karat


The Pattern


The Pattern1. Halley’s Comet2. Hertz3. Lisa4. Benjamin Franklin5. Balloons6. Compute Stick7. New Horizon space probe8. Oculus Rift9. Frog & Toad10. Neil deGrasse Tyson

11. Naenara12. M.G. Mayer13. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge14. Siri15. Pirate Bay16. Tesla Model S17. Cl-Cl – Chlorine Gas18. Archimedes19. Kevlar20. Carat & Karat

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