(The) #T3 Quiz The Torquest Teaser

by Vrushabh Gudade On Science &

Technology10/1/2017

WRITTEN ROUND

Q1Stephen Pachikov in 2008 founded X Corporation but X seems to be their only product. X’s tagline is – Capture what’s on your mind.(X) - Designed for note taking, organizing and archiving, other tools include Scannable (used for scanning purpose), Skitch (for screenshot editing and sharing) & Web Clipper (saving web pages).What is X?

Q2This enzyme was discovered by Theodor Schwann in 1836, meaning the Greek word for “digestion”.It is responsible for the cleaving of peptide bonds between hydrophobic and preferably aromatic amino acids such as phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine.Which enzyme?

Q3

This software originated as a academic project in 1996 intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos from satellite dishes across the campus network of Ecole Centrale Paris.One of the biggest open-source softwares later released in 2001 under GNU General Public License with authorosization from the above institute.

Q4In Latin it translates to “I shall please” , it’s a situation where a person is given such an ineffectual treatment that will actually have a perceived or actual improvement in their condition.What do we popularly call this effect as?

Q5Shown here is the logo of an American start-up company HQed in California founded 3 years ago. The company is named after an English scientist and is behind the development of intelligent electric cars.Id the company.

Q6Identify this India born British Nobel laureate who discovered that the cause of malaria is mosquitoes.

Answers

1. Evernote2. Pepsin3. (VLC) VideoLAN Client media player4. Placebo effect5. Faraday Future 6. Ronald Ross

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1. Hey @ZomatoIN YOUR CUTE2. @AllIndiaBakchod is very Hillary3. Hey @Flipkart – lets put one for the road!4. Bro @onlybabaseghal, aaja meri gaadi mein baet ja, and then let’s go to the Gym!

These are few of the tweets from the handle of X on the Christmas of 2016. Many thought their account has been hacked but it was for a particular reason.Who is this and give the reason.

Olafor Drinking and driving..

Q2 Jatropha Curcas is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family of Euphorbiaceae - a poisonous, semi-evergreen small tree.Its seeds can be processed to make a very useful product. What product?

Biodiesel

the seeds contain abundant of oil to make fuel.

Q3Shown here is the poster of an Oscar winning animated short film. It was produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter in 1986.What was the name of this film?

Luxo Jr.

Q4One hypothesis states that tornadic watersprouts are responsible for this phenomenon but there have been no witnesses of the same. The first scientist to seriously attempt to figure out the cause of this was Andre Marie Ampere (completely unrelated to the field he is known for).The locals in Yoro, Honduras call it Lluvia de Peces and claim that this happens there every summer. Happened on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on 12th July 2016.This is seen in Fargo S1E6 “Buridan’s Ass” and mentioned in Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.What are we talking about?

Animal Rain

Q5Name this phenomenon caused due to the disturbance of tiny organisms in water bodies.The term collectively the production and emission of light by a living organism.

Bioluminescence.

Q6An Indian chemist who has worked in the fields of solid-state and structural chemistry. An alumni of Mysore Univ, Banaras Hindu Univ and Prude Univ, has authored 1500 research papers and 45 scientific books.A recipient of many honors and awards in the country and abroad. He currently serves as the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.

C.N.R. Rao

Q7What do the newest elements have in common to their names ?Nohonium (113)Moscovium (115) andTennessine (117)

Connect and explain. No parts.

All are named after the places they were discovered.

Nohonium- ‘Nihon’ a Japanese word for the country of Japan.Moscovium – after MoscowTennessine – after Tennessine.

Along with these Oganesson (118) was inducted into the periodic table named after Yuri Oganessian.

Q8In July 2015 NASA confirmed the discovery of Kepler-452b identified by the Kepler space telescope. The planet is about 1400 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It has 5 times the mass and 2 times the surface gravity to that of Earth.Why is the discovery of Kepler-452b significant?

Considered as Earth’s cousin or Earth 2.0

Q9This physical phenomenon happens when a liquid comes extremely close to a surface that is much hotter than its boiling point.Named after a 18th century German doctor.

Lindenfrost effect named after Johann Gottlab Lindenfrost

Q10In this photo is Mr. X Segale, an American businessman and real estate developer. Nintendo was using his warehouse for operations in its early days. The developers immortalized Seagle by renaming the star of Donkey Kong, previously known as ‘Jumpman’ to ‘X’. Apart from this, the main character in one of their games is X which is aslo indeed named after Mr. Seagle.

Mario

Q11This term means - data saved and temporarily stored in one’s device memory (in webpage terms).This helps when the next time when one wants to see the page, the web browser just accesses it from the memory so the page loads quickly.What term?

Cache.

Q12John Barger coined the term in 1997 while Peter Merholz broke it into two parts.Evan Williams founded a website of the same. What word?

Brownie points for the original term coined by Barger..

Blog

Merholz broke Weblog into the phrase we blog in his blog Peterme.com

Q13Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss – these are the names of two twins who were Harvard alumni and American international level rowers (secured 6th position at Beijing Olympics.In 2004 these brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million.How?

The twins along with Divya Narendra founded ConnectU & claimed that Zuck stole their idea to create Facebook.

Q14Kavin Bharti is the founder of this popular Indian startup launched in 2012.It’s a joint venture between Bharti enterprises and Softbank.Which service?

Hike

Q15Balaji Vishwanathan came to limelight when he surpassed Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) in something.He is the author of From Trysrt to Tendulkar: The History of Independent India and currently the VP of products at Invento tech.What is something?

Currently the most followed person on Quora.

Q16In 1827, English pharmacist John Walker was stirring a pot of chemicals that included antimony sulphide and potassium chlorate and the dry lump obtained was something unique in today’s everyday usage. He didn’t patent his invention and was recognized only after his death.The modern form of this was created by Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch.

What everyday household item is this?

The safety matchstick.

Q17In Greek mythology the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia lends her name to a galaxy and a constellation.This galaxy is 2.5 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation of X.

Andromeda

Q18He is best known in the field of astronomy and for his contribution to the research of extraterrestrial life. He also is behind the popular television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. His book The Dragons of Eden, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1977.

Carl Sagan

Q19

This software is a cloud data protection and information management provider. Founded by Jaspreet Singh and Milind Borate currently HQed in Sunnywale, CA but started in Pune in 2008. It is a successful startup which generated a Series-E funding worth $51mn in Sept 2016.

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