IEI QUIZPRELIMS

O The ____________ is a professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence. It has about 425,000 members in about 160 countries, slightly less than half of whom reside in the United States.

Q1

AnswerO IEEE

What principle is being shown here?

Q2

AnswerO MAGLEV

Q3

O The origin of the name of this branch of mathematics is from the Latin word meaning pebble or stone used for counting.

O It derives its form from the Latin word for limestone.

AnswerO Calculus

Q4O This is a piece of mineral rock that’s

called Armalcolite. How did it get its name?

AnswerO Armalcolite is a titanium-rich

mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5.

O It was first found at Tranquility Base on the Moon in 1969 and named for Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, the three Apollo 11 astronauts.

O Together with tranquillityite and pyroxferroite, it is one of the three minerals which were discovered on the Moon.

Q5 What is being described?

AnswerO SIM CARDSO Subscriber Identification Module

Q6O In old theatre, a mixture of CaCo3

and Phosphorus was used to produce effects on stage.

O Which phrase originates from this?

AnswerO Limelight

Q7O In Feb ’35, the superpolyamaide

formded from hexamehtylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Dupont. How do we know this compound better?

AnswerO Nylon

Q8O X studied at the Cathedral & John Connon

School in Mumbai. He graduated from the Imperial College, London with a BE in civil engineering and holds a Master of Science in management from the London Business School. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. When he was the MD of Y, under his stewardship, the companies registered many firsts in India – construction of the tallest residential towers, the longest rail bridge, the largest dry dock and the largest affordable housing project. X and Y?

AnswerO Cyrus Mistry

Q9O They were quizzing partners at a

famous Engg College . Which Engineering college?

AnswerO IIT Bombay

Q10O On April 8, 1911, Kamerlingh Onnes found

that at 4.2 K the resistance in a solid mercury wire immersed in liquid helium suddenly vanished. He immediately realized the significance of the discovery (as became clear when his notebook was deciphered a century later). He reported that "Mercury has passed into a new state, which on account of its extraordinary electrical properties may be called the ___________________ state".

AnswerO Superconductivity (superconducting)

Q11O In 1919,  William Henry

Eccles coined the term ______ from the Greek roots meaning "two", and meaning "path"

AnswerO Diode

Q12O The editor warned Stephen Hawking

when he was writing A brief history of time that for every equation introduced, the readership would be halved. In the end what was the only equation that appeared in the book?

AnswerO E = mc2

Q13O  "We are Indians. We have a big heart. We

understand that there might be commercial pressures to do so. Or may be our voices were just not loud enough to make KajuKatli Android a reality. We still love Android and we are committed to see a version of Android that is dedicated after an Indian sweet. With enough advance notice this time, we request you to name the next version of Android as _____"

AnswerO Laddu

Q14O This industrial research lab invented the

following:O 1) Laser printingO 2) EthernetO 3) Desktop ComputerO 4) Bit-mapped GUI-based softwareO 5) Mouse point-and-click metaphor

O Except for laser printing, management ignored the development of the other inventions. Other companies soon took the lead in those areas.

Which lab?

AnswerO Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre

(PARC)

Q15

This organization was established in 1920 in Madras (Chennai) with Sir Thomas R. J. Ward as the founding president and was formally inaugurated in 1921 by Lord Chelmsford, the then-Viceroy of British India. In 1935, it obtained the Royal Charter of Incorporation from King George V “to promote and advance the science, practice and business of engineering”. Which organization are we talking about?

AnswerO Institution of Engineers

Q16O In computer terminology, if 8 bits form

a byte, 1/2 bit a nibble, what do 32 bits form?

AnswerO Dinner!

Q17

AnswerO Computer Languages

O BASICO LOGOO PythonO Java

Q18• Explain the mnemonics• Eg: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain

O Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo, Violet

1) Bad beer rots out your guts but veggies go well

2) Please email my dad a shark

Answer1) Electrical resistance

O Bad beer rots out your guts but veggies go well

2) Order of OperationsO Please email my dad a sharkO Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division,

addition, subtraction

Q19O For a short tenure, he worked as a lecturer in Civil engineering at the

Government Polytechnic, Kozhikode and a year at the Bombay Port Trust as an apprentice.

O Later he joined the Indian Railways Service of Engineers(IRSE), after clearing IES-53 conducted by UPSC. His first assignment was in the Southern Railway as a Probationary Assistant Engineer in December 1954.

O In December 1964, a cyclone washed away parts of Pamban Bridge that connected Rameswaram to mainland Tamil Nadu. The Railways set a target of six months for the bridge to be repaired while X's boss, under whose jurisdiction the bridge came, reduced it to three months. X was put in-charge of the execution and he restored the bridge in just 46 days. The Railway minister's Award was given to him in recognition of this achievement.

O X also has an advisory board slot at Foundation for the Restoration of National Values, with members like business tycoon Ratan Tata and a former chief justice of India. The foundation aims to "bring in good values in all areas of national life, to cleanse corruption in high places,"

AnswerO E. Sreedharan

Q20O The _______________ effect is the conversion

of temperature differences directly into electricity and is named after the Baltic German physicist _________ who, in 1821, discovered that a compass needle would be deflected by a closed loop formed by two different metals joined in two places, with a temperature difference between the junctions. This was because the metals responded differently to the temperature difference, creating a current loop and a magnetic field. 

AnswerO Seebeck Effect

21-25: Videos

O Which product was launched with this iconic advertisement?

Q21

AnswerO First Apple Macintosh Personal

Computer (1984)

Q22

What is this effect called?

AnswerO Stroboscopic effect

O Which engineering marvel is this?

Q23

AnswerO Hoover Dam

O Whose voice? Put Funda?

Q24

AnswerO Thomas Edison recited the first stanza of this

poem to test his invention of the phonograph in 1877, making this the second audio recording to be successfully made and played back. In 1923, Edison's friend Henry Ford moved a building to the grounds of the Wayside Inn from Sterling, Massachusetts, which he believed was the original schoolhouse mentioned in this poem.

O What a free kick! Which force explains the science behind this beauty?

Q25

AnswerO Magnus forceO Whenever a ball is spinning through the air, the Magnus

"force" will push it in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement.

O After Carlos sent the ball flying, the airflow started pushing against the ball in the direction of Carlos. This means that the side of the ball spinning toward Carlos would move with the airflow while the opposite side would move against it. This imbalance is the key to the Magnus effect.