Nihilanth 2015 - Sci Tech Quiz - Prelims & Answers

SciTech Quiz Prelims Answers

Good Luck!

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…the answer is…

Vaimanika Shastra

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…the answer is…

Neutron Jack

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…the answer is…

methane

first organic molecule detected outside our solar system

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…the answer is…

relay

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…the answer is…

X = Hydrogen (Deuterium and Tritium)

Y = Radon (and Thoron and Actinon)

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…the answer is…

squash court

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…the answer is…

splines

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…the answer is…

scimitar

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…the answer is…

Yunaani

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…the answer is…

Bitcoin mining

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…the answer is…

arsenic

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…the answer is…

mushroom cloud

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Leelavati, Bhaskara’s daughter

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big data

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…the answer is…

the Panama Canal

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Uniquely identifying tigers by their stripes

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Indian Neutrino Observatory

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…the answer is…

tsetse fly

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…the answer is…

Vivaldi potato

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IBM, Thomas Watson

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Jupiter

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…the answer is…

oxygen

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…the answer is…

Google Scholar

“Stand on the shoulders of giants”

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…the answer is…

Pinball

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…the answer is…

Vladimir Nabokov, butterfly

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catalysis

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…the answer is…

Botany Bay

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…the answer is…

The command was ‘login’

So the first 3 letters were LOL!

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…the answer is…

endogamous + morphine =

endorphin

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