SciTech Quiz 2015 IIT-BHU Finals

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IIT BHU Quiz Club presentsSciTech Quiz2015FINALSHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

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1.World Community Grid(WCG) is an effort to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, it is co-ordinated byIBMwith client software currently available forWindows,Linux,Mac OSX, andAndroidoperating systems.World Community Grid's research projects have analyzed aspects of the human genome,HIV,dengue,muscular dystrophy,cancer,influenza,Ebola,virtual screening,rice crop yields, andclean energy. As of October 2014, the organization has partnered with 466 other companies and organizations to assist in its work. Over the course of the project, over 2 billion work units have been completed, each of which require substantial computation task.

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Uses the idle time ofInternet-connected computers to perform research calculations.

As of October 2014, World Community Grid had over 65,000 active user accounts, with over 249,000 active devices. Over the course of the project, more than 1,000,000 cumulative years of computing time have been donated!!!Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

2.The powerful "Great Godzilla" El Nino in the Pacific may last as much as two months longer than expected because of another unusual climate phenomenon scientists have nick-named_________.First observed in 2013, the huge ________ of abnormally warm water extends from the Californian coast far into the Pacific. (See chart below from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.)



"The Blob"Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

3.This video uploaded on You Tube July 15th, 2012 resulted in the count of number of views of the video to become negative at a point in time. Give reason for this weird situation and also identify the video. Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


The video's been viewed more than 2,147,483,647 times, maximum limit for a signed 32 bit integer. Only PSY can do it!!


4._____________at work at North American Aviation, Los Angeles, in the early 1950s. The two women in the lower center of the photo are using Friden calculators, and the man at the lower left is looking up a number on a slide rule.

The rear half of the room is set up for drafting. Absent from this room are anypunched-card machines, although aircraft engineers did use them for someapplications.

FITB. A generic word.



COMPUTERS

The word computer originally meant a person who solvedequations; it was only around 1945 that the name was carried over to machinery.


5.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 30 years after he gave the standard interpretation for the probability density function *, in Schrdingers equation. It was in a letter to him in 1926 that Einstein made his famous remark, often paraphrased as "God does not play dice with the universe." Who?



Max Born


6.Crown ____________is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which thecrownsof fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming acanopywith channel-like gaps.It is also known ascanopy disengagement,canopy_____or intercrown spacing.

Canopy ofD. aromaticaat theForest Research Institute Malaysia

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CROWN SHYNESSHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

7.Rarely, extremely rarely, a person comes on the world scene and transforms science and our lives by making a large number of major discoveries in and otherwise makes important contributions to more than one basic field and does not only not get a Nobel Prize but does not get to be known by name to most people, including scientists around the world.

I do not believe there is any other person in the documented history of biology and medicine over the last 5,000 years who made such a large number of basic discoveries that are applied so widely.

Pushpa Mitra Bhargava, History of Medicine

His colleague,George Hitchings, who shared the 1988Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicinewithGertrude Elion, said, "Some of thenucleotidesisolated by _________ had to be rediscovered years later by other workers because Fiske, apparently, did not let ___________ contributions see the light of the day."Afunguswas namedSubbaromyces splendensin his honor by American Cyanamid.Writing in the April 1950 issue ofArgosy, Doron K. Antrim observed,"You've probably never heard of Dr. ___________ ______________. Yet because he lived you may be alive and are well today. Because he lived you may live longer.

-Wikipedia

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Some of his major contributions were:

-discovered the function ofAdenosine Triphosphateas an energy source in thecell, -developedmethotrexatefor the treatment ofcancer, among others.

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Dr. Yellapragada SubbarowHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

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Algae lamps that collect 150-200 times more CO2 in a year than trees may possibly light up streets! - designed by biochemist Pierre Calleja.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

9.What is the significance of this pic??



Worlds First PhotocopyHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

10.The name of X is probably the first science joke any of us learned.

That wasnt always its name, though. It wasnt firmly established for 70 years after its discovery. William Herschel originally proposed naming the planet Georgium Sidus (Georges Star) after King George III. The name was even acknowledged by the Crown.

But many werent happy with the deviation from the naming traditions that had been set in place, and by 1850, X was re-named.

Give me X.


X = Uranus Yeah you got the joke!

Story Time!You will be given a story of a famous scientist and how he was inspired to discover/propose something/some theory.You have to give the name of the scientist and he went on to contribute to the world of scienceHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Q1. X, a 24-year-old mathematics professor at the University of Pisa, Italy, often sat in a local cathedral when some nagging problem weighed on his mind. Lamps gently swung on long chains to illuminate the cathedral. One day in the summer of 1598, X realized that those lamps always swung at the same speed.

He decided to time them. He used the pulse in his neck to measure the period of each swing of one of the lamps. Then he timed a larger lamp and found that it swung at the same rate. He borrowed one of the long tapers alter-boys used to light the lamps and swung both large and small lamps more vigorously. Over many days he timed the lamps and found that they always took exactly the same amount of time to travel through one complete arc. It didnt matter how big (heavy) the lamp was or how big the arc was.

Who am I talking about and what did he declare next?Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Gallileo Galilei

Objects fall at the same speed regardless of their weight.

He stood before his class at the University of Pisa, Italy, holding bricks as if weighing and comparing thema single brick in one hand and two bricks that he had cemented together in the other. Gentlemen, I have been watching pendulums swing back and forth.

And I have come to a conclusion. Aristotle is wrong.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q2. On a clear October day in 1640, Galileo conducted a suction-pump experiment at a public well just off the market plaza in Florence, Italy. The famed Italian scientist lowered a long tube into the wells murky water. From the well, Galileos tube draped up over a wooden cross-beam three meters above the wells wall, and then down to a hand-powered pump held by two assistants: X, the 32-year-old the son of a wealthy merchant and an aspiring scientist, and Giovanni Baliani, another Italian physicist.

X and Baliani pumped the pumps wooden handle bar, slowly sucking air out of the tube, pulling water higher into the tube.

They pumped until the tube flattened like a run-over drinking straw. But no matter how hard they worked, water would not rise more than 9.7 m above the wells water level. It was the same in every test.Galileo proposed thatsome howthe weight of the water column made it collapse back to that height.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Evangelista Torricelli

Air (the atmosphere) has weight and presses down on us. Also invented the 1st Mercury Barometer.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q3. On August 1, 1774, X used a powerful magnifying lens to focus sun light on a bottle of powdered mercurius calcinatus. A cork stopper sealed a bottle with a glass tube leading from it to a wash tub full of water, where water-filled glass jars stood inverted on a wire mesh stand.

Xs glass tube ended just under the open mouth of one of these bottles so that what ever gas he produced would bubble up into, and be trapped in, that glass jar. As his powdered mercury compound heated, clear bubbles began to drift up from the end of the glass tube. The jar began to fill. X filled three bottles with the gas and was thus the first human to success fully trap this mysterious gas.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Joseph Priestley

Priestley care fully raised one bottle out of the water. He held a lit candle beneath itsmouth. The dim glow around the candles wick erupted into a brilliant ball of fire. As reported, this strange gas did force substances to burn fiercely.Priestley placed a new jar, filled with ordinary air, upside down on the wire-stand nextto a second jar of his mystery gas. He placed a mouse in each jar, and waited. The mouse inordinary air began to struggle for breath in 20 minutes. The mouse in his second jar of thisstrange gas breathed comfortably for over 40 minutes!

There seemed only one name for this amazing gas: pure air i.e. OxygenHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q4. In the spring of 1781, Xs wife, Marie, translated a paper by Robert Boyle into French. The paper described an experiment with tin during which Boyle had noted an unexplained weight change when the tin was heated. Boyle, like most scientists, was content to assume that the extra weight had been created during his chemical experiment.

X scoffed at the notion of mysterious creation or loss of mass (weight) during reactions. He decided to repeat Boyles experiment, care fully measure weight, and discover the source of the added weight. He carried a small sheet of tin to his delicate balancing scales and recorded its weight. Next he placed the tin in a heat-resistant glass flask to contain the entire reaction within the flask.

Who was X and what did this experiment lead to?Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Antoine Lavoisier

Conservation of MatterLavoisier proved that matter was neither created nor lost during a chemical reaction.


Q5. X submerged an air-filled copper cylinder in a tub of water and measured the water temperature. He then pumped air into the cylinder until it reached 22 atmospheres of pressure. He measured a0.285F rise in water temperature.

Next, X attached paddles onto a vertical shaft that he lowered into a tub of water. Falling weights spun the paddles through the tubs water.

However his results were in conclusive until X switched from water to liquid mercury. He concluded that liquid was heated by merely stirring it.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


James Joule

Joule realized that all forms of energy could be converted into equivalent amounts ofheat. He published these results in 1843 and introduced standard heat energy units to use for calculating these equivalences.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q6. On November 8, 1895, X happened to notice that a photographic plate that had been wrapped in black paper and tucked inside a leather case in the bottom drawer of his desk had mysteriously been exposed and imprinted with the image of a key. The only key in the room was an oversized key for a garden gate he had tossed into the desks centre drawer over a year ago. The image on his photographic plate was of that key.

Even more strange, he found that the key in the centre drawer lay along a straight line from his glass Crookes tube mounted on the wall to the photographic plate deep in the bottom drawer.

Who was X and what did he discover?Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Wilhelm Roentgen

Roentgen suspected that cathode rays had some how exposed his film. Two weeks laterhe was able to prove the existence of these mysterious rays, which he named X-rays sinceX was used to represent the unknown.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q7. It was while riding on a trolley car that the image first flashed across Xs mind. It was an image of a man in an elevator that was falling from a great height. X realized immediately that the image of this thought experiment could bring focus to a problem that had been plaguing him (and all ofscience) for years.

X realized that the man in the elevator would not know he was falling. The manlike uswould notbe able to detect that he (and his elevator) were caught in, and being pulled by, a gravitational field. If a horizontal light beam entered the side of the elevator, it would strike the far wall higher up because the elevator would have dropped while the light beam crossed. To the man, it would appear that the light beam bent upwards.

Again X and the subsequent result?Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Albert Einstein

Relativity- Einsteins theory that space and time merge to form the fabric of the universe that is warped and moulded by gravity.

If a horizontal light beam entered the side of the elevator, it would strike the far wall higher up be cause the elevator would have dropped while the light beam crossed. To the man, it would appear that the light beam bent upwards. From our perspective (relative to us), gravitational fields bend light. Light not only could be, but routinely was, bent by the gravitational fields of stars and planets.It was a revolutionary concept, worthy of one of the worlds greatest scientific mindsHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

Q8. The room looked like a tinker toy party gone berserk, like the play room of overactive second-grade boys. Complex mobiles of wire, coloured beads, strips of sheet metal, card board cut outs, wooden dowels, and wooden balls dangled from the ceiling like a forest of psychedelic stalactites. Construction sup plies, scissors, and tin snips were strewn about the desks and floor, as were pages of complex equations, stacks of scientific papers, and photo-graphic sheets of fuzzy X-ray crystallography images.

The room was the second-floor office shared by graduate students X and Y in a 300-year-old building on the campus of Cambridge University. Using bits of wire, coloured beads, sheet metal, and card board cut outs, X & Y hung possible spiral models across their shared office.

Give X & Y and what was their motive?



Francis Crick and James Watson

DNA- The molecular structure of, and shape of, the molecule that carries the genetic information for every living organism.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan

ID THE SCULPTURE


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- +5/correct pic - +15 extra for getting 8 or more correct

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Russian Scientists Build Monument To Honor LabRatsA symbol of gratitude for their sacrifices to science.Without rodents, many breakthroughs would not have been possible.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Tesla Monument at Niagara Falls unveiled on July 9, 2006. Tesla is standing atop an AC motor, one of the 700 inventions he patented. In the background is Niagara Falls, Canadian side.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Marie CurieHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


James Clerk MaxwellHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Leonardo Da VinciHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Joseph Priestly with his Mortar and Pestle.Hemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Michael Faradays Statue in LondonHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Svante ArrheniusHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Claudius PtolemyHemant Kumar Faizan Khan


Alan TuringHemant Kumar Faizan Khan

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Hemant Kumar Faizan KhanHAPPINESS BLANKET

Give me the funda of this non-exhaustive list (including what the numbers represent):

Wily Werewolf - 15.10Vivid Vervet - 15.04Utopic Unicorn - 14.10Trusty Tahr - 14.04Saucy Salamander - 13.10Raring Ringtail - 13.04Quantal Quetzal - 12.10


Ubuntu releases made semiannually by Canonical Ltd, the developers of the Ubuntu operating system, using the year and month of the release as a version number. The first Ubuntu release, for example, was Ubuntu 4.10 and was released on 20 October 2004.

Ubuntu utilizes two-word codenames in the development of future releases of the Linux-based operating system. While the official Ubuntu releases carry a version number in the form of X.YY, with the "X" representing the year and the "YY" signifying the month of the official release, the Ubuntu codenames use an "adjective animal" combination, or an adjective word followed by the name of an animal, typically one that's unique or not all that well known.



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In the first and perhaps the most famous video of ______, the following message was released on YouTube:

Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are ____. Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; your suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these thing have caught our eye. ... Knowledge is free. We are ______. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget.Expect us.

FITB.


The Hacker group Anonymous.



Hemant Kumar Faizan KhanMICROSOFT CORTANA

Though now largely gone from commercial cultivation, a handful of Flower of Kent trees remain. Most, if not all, are said to descend from trees at Woolsthorpe Manor, and nearly all currently in existence descend from a single tree in East Malling, Kent.

One such tree is located in the President's Garden at MIT, although it is known to have produced only one apple. Currently, this cultivar remains available at Antique Apple Orchard Inc. in Sweet Home, Oregon.

What is so special about these trees?


According to the story, this is the apple Isaac Newton saw falling to ground from its tree, inspiring his laws of universal gravitation.

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SciTech Quiz 2015 IIT-BHU Finals