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The GK Club, SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE QUIZ QUEST 2015

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The GK Club,SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE

QUIZ QUEST 2015

Finals

The Finalists

A SAI KUMARR VIJAY

SBIOA MODEL MATRIC & HR SEC

SCHOOL

NIVESH KUMAR VYASANIIRUTHAN R

SINDHI MODEL SR SEC SCHOOL

ABISHEK KRISHNAN S VIGNESH

CHINMAYA VIDYALAANNA NAGAR

JONATHAN THANGADURAIB KARTHIK

SBOA MATRIC & HR SEC SCHOOL

RAGHURAMAN SMADHAV S

VIDYA MANDIR SR SEC

General Rules

1. 5 Rounds2. Quiz Master's decisions are final3. Don’t forget the previous rules.

Round 1

Rules for Round 1 -

● +10/-0● +10 on Pass● Infinite Bounce

Question 1

Put funda.

Answer

R.K. Laxman’s cartoon after Neil Armstrong landed

on moon.

Question 2

Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m, this day is celebrated in many schools to instill an interest in chemistry. What day is celebrated on this day?

Answer

Mole Day

based on Avogadro's Number - 6.02 x 10^23

Question 3

X is a research and development project being developed by Google with the mission of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas.

ID X.

(Image next slide)

Image

Answer

Project Loon

Question 4

The red bar, which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes the places as it is today. The green and blue symbolize the possible stages in future. Explain.

Answer

The proposed flag of Mars.

Question 5

The concept of X was first introduced by Danish chemist Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1909 and revised to the modern X in 1924 to accommodate definitions and measurements in terms of electrochemical cells. The exact meaning of X is disputed. It is suggested that Sørensen used the letters "p" and "q" (commonly paired letters in mathematics) simply to label the test solution (p) and the reference solution (q). This is something we all have used in our chemistry practicals. What is X?

Answer

The pH Scale

Audience Question

Audience Question

She was the first Indian to win the British Championship title in 2003 in the under 19 category and was also the youngest Indian women's national champion. She is also the first beneficiary of Mittal Champions Trust. She currently ranks 21 in the sport. Moreover, she is an alumni of this school.

Identify her as well as the sport.

Answer

Joshna Chinappa

The toughies!

Round 2

Rules for Round 2 -

+20/0

+10 on pass

Pounce +20/-10

Question 1

Put Funda

Answer

Steve Wozniak was extremely good at tetris. He topped the ranks so many times that he was banned from playing it. Wozniak reversed his name and played again. He topped the charts again as shown in the picture.

Question 2

The following are the main components of X.

• Plasticizers to yield non-brittle films.• Dyes and pigments.• Opalescent pigments for a glittery look.• Adhesive polymers.• Thickening agents to maintain the sparkling particles.• Ultraviolet stabilizers to resist color changes.

ID X

Answer

Nail Polish

Question 3

Put Funda

Answer

The Facebook notification icon changes based on the location you are in. Facebook wants to show that it is a global service in a very symbolic way.

Question 4

Sound technicians spent the early part of the year trying to find the right sounds. Some, such as animal sounds like tigers' and walruses', were bought. Human voices were also used. Fran Walsh contributed to the Nazgûl scream and David Farmer the Warg howls. Other sounds were unexpected: The Fell Beast's screech is taken from that of a donkey, and the mûmakil's bellow comes from the beginning and end of a lion's roar. In addition, ADR was used for most of the dialogue. The technicians worked with New Zealand locals to get many of the sounds. They re-recorded sounds in abandoned tunnels for an echo-like effect in the Moria sequence.

(PTO)

Question 4

20,000 New Zealand cricket fans provided the sound of the Uruk-hai army, with Jackson acting as conductor during the innings break of a one day International cricket match between England and New Zealand at Westpac Stadium. They spent time recording sounds in a graveyard at night, and also had construction workers drop stone blocks for the sounds of boulders firing and landing. Mixing took place between August and November at "The Film Mix", before Jackson commissioned the building of a new studio in 2003. What am I talking about?

Answer

Sounds for The Lord Of The Rings series of movies

Question 5

In 2010, NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas, using images obtained by Cassini. The warmest regions, which are along one edge of Mimas, create a shape similar to a video game character. Which character?

Answer

Pac-man eating the dot!!

Audience Question

The law is presently named after Dutch astronomer X. It was first accurately described by the scientist Ibn Sahl at Baghdad court, when in 984 he used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations in the manuscript “On Burning Mirrors and Lenses”. Which law?

Answer

Snell’s Law

Current Affairs

Round 3

Rules for Round 3 -

+20/0

+10 on pass

Pounce +20/-10

Question 1

These are a modern version of the apparatus used for a historic experiment in 1654 performed by Otto von Guericke. It was used to demonstrate the power of atmospheric pressure.

Which logo was inspired by this Experiment?

Answer

Magdeburg hemisphere experiment inspires

the Levi strauss & co. logo and the Fevicol

logo

Question 2

Connect

Answer

Selfie

First Picture - The first selfie to be taken

Second picture - The first documented use of the word selfie to describe a picture.

Question 3

X is a biographical film based on the life of renowned scientist. It has been produced by the independent Indian production house Camphor Cinema. The cast consists of Indian and British film, stage and screen personalities. It marks the film debut of Abhinay Vaddi, as the main protagonist. The first two schedules were shot in India while the third was done in England, where they took the permission of Cambridge University to shoot. Id X.

Answer

Ramanujan

Question 4

Occasion for this Google Doodle

Answer

Charles Darwin’s 200th

birthday.

Question 5

The project was expected to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost of 1,500 crores, has been cleared by the Ministry of Environment (India) for construction in the Bodi West Hills Reserved Forest in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu. When completed, it will house the world's most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.Name it.

Answer

INO

India-based Neutrino Observatory

Audience Question

The position is one of the toughest ones in gymnastics. It is popularly known by two terms. One is from christian iconography (8 lettered), the other shares its name with a Prussian and German military decoration. Name either.

pto

Audience Question

Answer

The Crucifix or the Iron Cross

Long Visual Connects

Round 4

Rules for Round 4 -

● 2 Questions● Theme based● Points awarded for the correct answer will be

shown in the question.

1.

Blood

Theme

+50/-25

Okkadunnadu

+50/-25

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara

+20/-10

This blood phenotype was first discovered in India, by Dr. Y. M. Bhende in 1952

Answer

h/h blood group, also known as Oh or the Bombay blood group

2.

Numbers

Theme

+60/-30

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-5

Answer

Golden Ratio

The Decider.Separate the best from the rest.

Round 5

Rules for Round 5 -

+30/-0

+15 on pass

Pounce +30/-15

Question 1

X is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. A Type I civilization uses all available resources impinging on its home planet, Type II harnesses all the energy of its star, and Type III of its galaxy. The scale is only hypothetical, but it puts energy consumption in a cosmic perspective. Identify X.

Answer

The Kardashev Scale

Question 2

A German physician, a pioneer in linking symptoms to microscopic brain changes, describes the haunting case of Auguste D., a patient who had profound memory loss, unfounded suspicions about her family, and other worsening psychological changes. In her brain at autopsy, he saw dramatic shrinkage and abnormal deposits in and around nerve cells. What is the significance of this finding?

Answer

First report of Alzheimer's disease

Question 3

Whose grave?

Answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 4

Put funda.

(8!)*(3^7)*(12!/2)*(2^11)

Answer 4

Forty-three quintillion, two hundred fifty-two quadrillion, three trillion, two hundred seventy-four billion, four hundred eighty-nine million, eight hundred fifty-six thousand.

The number of possible permutations in the Rubik’s Cube.

Question 5

In mathematics, this theorem states that if equilateral triangles are constructed on the sides of any triangle, either all outward, or all inward, the centres of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral triangle.

What theorem am I talking about?

Clue in next slide.

Question 5

Answer 5

Napoleon’s Theorem

Hope You Enjoyed the Quiz!

Sanjay SeetharamanN Samyak Jain

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BACKUP

Question 1

Its IUPAC name is 2-Oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4-lactone-2,3-enediol. It is also known as ascorbic acid. In 1747 James Lind, a British Royal Navy found a unique way of preventing a disease if this was taken. What are we referring to?

Answer

Vitamin C

Question 2

X is a joke language with four instructions:

● H: Print "hello, world"

● Q: Print the program's source code

● 9: Print the lyrics to "99 Bottles of Beer"

● +: Increment the accumulator

Identify X.

Answer

HQ9+