Torquest ’13The science and technology quiz

Conducted by- Omkar Yarguddi

Qualifier round answers

Special thanks...

• Mohit Karve• Vibhav Bhave• Payas Awadhutkar• Rohan Danait• Amit Patil

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Q. 1

• This peninsula on the western coast of Mexico lends its name to an intercollegiate competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Which competition?

Answer

• BAJA SAE

Q. 2

• XY is a term used to refer to a group of celestial objects, which are similar in size to the gas giants in our solar system but instead lie very close to their parent star. One of these XY has recently come into limelight. This planet is a deep azure blue gas giant orbiting a star 63 light years away with a daytime temperature of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit where it possibly rains liquid glass sideways amid 4,500 mph winds. What are we talking about?

Answer

• Hot Jupiters

Q. 3

• Chuck Hull is the inventor of the solid imaging process known as stereolithography - the first commercial rapid prototyping technology which is a form of additive manufacturing, and the STL file format . What is this technology better known as?

Answer

• 3D Printing

Q. 4

Funda:

• Acid-base• Gas phase• Complexometric• Redox• Zeta potential• Assay

Answer

• Types of titrations

Q. 5

• Which term connects:1. a mathematical and scientific description of exponential or gradual decay.2. a video game series by Valve3. a 2008 independent film by Jennifer Phang

Answer

• Half life

Q. 6

• ____________ was a German-speaking Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar who demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in plants of Pisum sativum follows particular patterns. His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which are now referred to collectively as laws named after him. He is knows as the "father of modern genetics" for his pioneering work in genetics and plant hybridization. Who are we talking about?

Answer

• Gregor Johann Mendel

Q. 7

• What does the following general reaction stand for?

2n CO2 + 2n DH2 + energy packets → 2(CH2O)n + 2n DO where D stands for an electron donor.

Answer

• Photosynthesis

Q. 8

• X is the world’s smallest movie and was made by moving actual Ys, frame by frame. Its creators used a 2-ton scanning-tunnelling microscope that operates at minus 258 degrees Celsius to shoot the entire film. Y is also the name of a chrome coloured sparring bot starring in a 2011 American science fiction sports drama film. X and Y?

Answer

• A boy and his Atom

Q. 9

• One word Connect:1. The generic name for a bird of prey2. Informal name for members of the family Dromaeosauridae3. A United States Air Force stealth fighter aircraft4. A protein threading software used for protein structure prediction5. A series of high-performance hard disk drives from Western Digital6. the NBA basketball team representing Toronto (called Toronto _____s, the blank being the connect)

Answer

• Raptor

** Q. 10 **

• In mathematics, and more specifically in Y theory, a Y is a representation of a set of objects where some pairs of objects are connected by links.X (the word) is the "alkene form" of Y. In 2010, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material "X" which is an allotrope of a light weight p-block element,the fourth most abundant chemical element in the universe by mass. The atoms are linked by sp2 bonds to form a repeating hexagonal pattern; giving X high strength, light weight & high conductivity .Gimme Y and X.

Answer

• Y- Graph• X- Graphene

** Q. 11 **

• 1,3,7-Trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione 3,7-Dihydro-1,3,7-trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid and a stimulant drug. It is found in varying quantities in the seeds, leaves, and fruit of some plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants, & enhances the reward memory of pollinators. It is used as a central nervous system stimulant and is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug. It is classified by the Food and Drug Administration as “generally recognized as safe” because toxic doses (over 10 grams) are much higher than typically used doses (less than 500 milligrams). What?

Answer

• Caffeine

** Q. 12 **

• X are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 926 km west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. They form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species and played a formative part in Z understanding Y. X? Y? Z?

Answer

• X- Galapagos islands• Y – Natural Selection• Z- Charles Darwin

** Q. 13 **

• 'For birds Centre of Gravity does not coincide with ____' was noted by Leonardo da Vinci. This has tremendous impact anywhere fluid dynamics is involved. e.g. Engineers try and put ___ on the sail to counter total aerodynamic force on the ship. This is simply to balance our physics in terms of Force & moment due to the pressure field. FITB.

Answer

• Centre of Pressure

** Q. 14 **

• Y X was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Y and integrated into their web-based email program. Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. It was believed that X would help bridge the gap between work and leisure, but the service and its rollout were strongly criticized at the time for taking insufficient account of privacy concerns. It was discontinued on December 15, 2011 in order to focus on YZ instead.X, Y, Z?

Answer

• X – Buzz• Y – Google• Z - +

** Q. 15 **

• Connect / Funda:

1.00, 4.00, 6.94, 9.01, 10.81, 12.01, 14.00, 15.99, 18.99, 20.18, ...(Non-exhaustive)

Answer

• List of atomic masses of elements in the ascending order starting from hydrogen

Q. 16

• ___________ was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with a model of a general purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s. Who?

Answer

• Alan Turing

Q. 17

• The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) was introduced in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to enable prompt communication of safety-significant information in case of nuclear accidents. The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The other one?

Answer

• The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Q.18

• The ________ is a geologic period and system that extends from 201.3± 0.6 Ma (million years ago) to 145± 4 Ma and constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic Era. It is named after the Jura Mountains within the European Alps, where limestone strata from the period was first identified. The supercontinent Pangaea had begun rifting into two landmasses, Laurasia to the north and Gondwana to the south. Other major events include the appearance of the earliest lizards and the first birds, and the evolution of therian mammals, including primitive placentals.Blank?

Answer

• Jurassic

Q. 19

• The service, shortly to be launched, offers three options. These include a free broadband internet option, a 1 Gbps internet option for $70 per month and a version that includes television service for $120 per month. The internet service includes 1 terabyte of cloud storage service and the television service includes a 2 terabyte DVR recorder in addition to the cloud storage service. This service was recently in limelight due to a clause in its Terms of Service, which contains a broad prohibition against customers attaching “servers” to its network. What service?

Answer

• Google Fiber

Q. 20

• Connect:1. A 2002 science fiction TV program created by Joss Whedon which is based on the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of "Serenity" spaceship.2. A bioluminescent beetle in the Lampyridae family3. A Batman villain from the DC Comics universe, as well as a villain from the G.I. Joe franchise and an ally of Cobra4. A song by Owl City from the 2009 album Ocean Eyes (uses the plural form of the connecting keyword)

Answer

• Firefly

Q. 21

• This element is the most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Its name derives from the Greek roots ὀξύς ("acid", literally "sharp", referring to the sour taste of acids) and -γόνος ("producer", literally "begetter"), because at the time of naming, it was mistakenly thought that all acids required it in their composition. It is a strong oxidizing agent and only fluorine has greater electronegativity. By mass, it is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. Which element?

Answer

• Oxygen

Q. 22

• The mascot was designed by Andrew McGown, to support the effort to save the Tasmanian devil species from extinction due to the devil facial tumour disease. It is a variation of which other famous mascot?

Visual

Answer

• Tux

Q. 23

• X and Y are homophones. While X is a traditional unit of pressure, now defined as exactly 1/760 of a standard atmosphere named after Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer, Y is a is free software for enabling online anonymity. X & Y?

Answer

• X - Torr• Y - Tor

Q. 24

• ______________ is the generic name for a family of strong fast-acting adhesives with industrial, medical and household uses.These adhesives are sometimes known generically as instant glues or superglues. A member of this class is known by the IUPAC name Methyl 2-cyanopropenoate (C5H5NO2) with the structure shown in the next slide. They are generally available in liquid form. What class of compounds?

Answer

• Cyanoacrylates

Q. 25

• Though al-Khwārizmī's ________ referred to the rules of performing arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals and the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations, a partial formalization of what would become the modern _________ began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem (the "decision problem") posed by David Hilbert in 1928. Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define "effective calculability"; those formalizations included the Gödel–Herbrand–Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's "Formulation 1" of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936–7 and 1939.What are we talking about?

Answer

• Algorithm

Q. 26

• Shown here is a comic drawn by the Oatmeal to commemorate the recent discovery of something. What?

Visual

Answer

• Olinguito , the newly discovered mammal species

Q. 27

• An early form of Z was described by Thomas Edison in an 1879 patent application, although he he did not use it in his power system. Its purpose was to protect lighting circuit wiring from accidental short-circuits and overloads. A modern Z similar to the ones now in use was patented by Brown, Boveri & Cie in 1924. Z?

Answer

• Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB)

Q. 28

• I bought a can of X 4.5 billion years ago. Today I opened it and it was half empty (with respect to what it contained initially, not to be taken literally). “Little boys” shouldn't use X as it can induce increased mutagenicity and induction of tumours. Gimme X

Answer

• Uranium

Q. 29

• The image is actually a diagram for a patent titled as 'The cathode ray tube amusement device' patented by Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. While this device was never sold due to the manufacturing cost being too high, its successors enjoy tremendous success today. We know it better as ____

Visual

Answer

• The first video game

Q. 30

• In the image on the following slide, what comes in place of the topmost blank space?

Visual

Answer

• UNICS which stood for “UNiplexed Information and Computing Service”

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