Science Quiz- Endeavour IIT Hyderabad

Prelims

• 15 direct questions

• Questions 7-11 are starred questions for tie breaks

• Top 5 teams will be selected for the finals

This phenomenon is named after the Austrian physicist , who proposed it in 1842 that it is the change in frequency of a wave  for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher during the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is lower during the recession. Which effect?

Question 1

With whom would you relate these two pictures?

Question 2

X was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death. Benjamin Franklin was familiar with X, as they were both members of the "Benjamin Franklin inquiries" into Mesmer and animal magnetism. Who is X?

The simplest one.

Question 3

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?

Question 4

What has been blacked out?

Question 5

What was first introduced to the West through this publication named Liber Abaci. The author of this work is also credited to having introduced the Hindu-Arabic number series to the West. Here I am not looking for the name of the author but of the other ‘significant’ thing which was documented here.

Question 6

This is the logo of which organization?

Question 7

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”

Who said this famous quote?

Question 8

PEM MCFCSOFC

are all different types of what?

Question 9

• Playboy has provided researchers with a tool in their November 1972 issue which continues to be used to this day

• It has been criticised as an example of sexism in computer science, reinforcing gender stereotypes

• Coincidentally, Playboy states the issue (November 1972) was its best-selling issue ever, having sold 7,161,561 copies as of May 2006

• What?

Question 10

The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research centre's long association with India. Identify X

Question 11

PrithviNagAkashTrishulAgni

What are these?

Question 12

Connect

Question 13

He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent.Identify him.

Question 14

Question 15

• A is a mineral found in Earth's continental crust and it's crystals are widely used to keep time in wall-clocks. B is the chemical name of the compound commonly found in nature as sand or as "A".

• C is a term that refers to southern part of the Bay Area (in US) and is so named because of a large number of innovators who developed technologies based on chips made out of one of the chemical constituents of B.

• D is a Fortune 500 company based In C and the largest maker of security products for computers.

• E is the flagship product of D and one the widely used software products in the world. Almost each one of us downloads E from the Internet to keep our computers safe.

• F is a mass mailing computer virus. One of the versions of F is attached to an document and is triggered when the document Is opened. It deletes hard drive data and once complete, beeps three times and then shows a message box with the text: "Hint: Get E not McAfee 4.02"

Answers

This phenomenon is named after the Austrian physicist , who proposed it in 1842 that it is the change in frequency of a wave  for an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher during the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is lower during the recession. Which effect?

Question 1

Doppler Effect

With whom would you relate these two pictures?

Question 2

AnswerHeinrich Rudolf HertzThe second photo is that of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm radio telecommunication tower in Hamburg named after him.

X was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death. Benjamin Franklin was familiar with X, as they were both members of the "Benjamin Franklin inquiries" into Mesmer and animal magnetism. Who is X?

The simplest one.

Question 3 - Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

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?

Question 4 – Vitamin C

What has been blacked out?

Question 5 – Higgs Boson or God Particle

What was first introduced to the West through this publication named Liber Abaci. The author of this work is also credited to having introduced the Hindu-Arabic number series to the West. Here I am not looking for the name of the author but of the other ‘significant’ thing which was documented here.

Question 6

AnswerThe Fibonacci SeriesThe author is Leonardo Pisano Bigollo also known as Leonardo Fibonacci.

This is the logo of which organization?

Question 7 - ISRO

“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”

Who said this famous quote?

Question 8

Nikola Tesla

PEM MCFCSOFC

are all different types of what?

Question 9

Fuel Cells

• Playboy has provided researchers with a tool in their November 1972 issue which continues to be used to this day

• It has been criticised as an example of sexism in computer science, reinforcing gender stereotypes

• Coincidentally, Playboy states the issue (November 1972) was its best-selling issue ever, having sold 7,161,561 copies as of May 2006

• What?

Question 10

It is the Image of Lena Söderberg used in many image processing

experiments.

The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research centre's long association with India. Identify X

Question 11

CERN

PrithviNagAkashTrishulAgni

What are these?

Question 12

Indian Missiles

Connect

Question 13

AnswerCERN (European Center for Nuclear Research)

The first photo is that of the member states of CERN.The second one is it’s logo.The third is that of Rolf Dieter Heur, the current director-general of CERN

He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent.Identify him.

Question 14

Felix Baumgarter

Question 15

• A is a mineral found in Earth's continental crust and it's crystals are widely used to keep time in wall-clocks. B is the chemical name of the compound commonly found in nature as sand or as "A".

• C is a term that refers to southern part of the Bay Area (in US) and is so named because of a large number of innovators who developed technologies based on chips made out of one of the chemical constituents of B.

• D is a Fortune 500 company based In C and the largest maker of security products for computers.

• E is the flagship product of D and one the widely used software products in the world. Almost each one of us downloads E from the Internet to keep our computers safe.

• F is a mass mailing computer virus. One of the versions of F is attached to an document and is triggered when the document Is opened. It deletes hard drive data and once complete, beeps three times and then shows a message box with the text: "Hint: Get E not McAfee 4.02"

A – QuartzB – Silicon Di Oxide (SiO2)C – Silicon ValleyD – SymantecE – NortonF- Melissa Virus

Finals

Doodle Design

• 20 direct

• 10 pass

• No negatives

Answer

Neil Bohr’s 127th birthday

Answer

Marie Curie’s 144th birthday

Answer

Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday

Answer

Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday

Answer

Edmund Hailey’s 355th Birthday

Answer

Albert Einstein’s 144th birthday

Answer

400th anniversary of Galileo Galelie’s telescope

Answer

Gregor Mendel’s 189th birthday

Answer

Juliard Petri’s 131st birthday

Answer

Issac Newton’s 367th birthday

Bonus

Hint – This doodle relates to an event

Answer

Discovery of water on the moon

Answer

Discovery of X-Rays

Find the Funda

• 20 direct

• 10 pass

• No negatives

Scientist

BCS THEORY

Bell Labs

All of them tried to arrange the elements in the periodic table

• Lavoiser

• John Newlands

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Doberiener

AnswerThe Manhattan Project.It was the project which developed the atomic bomb during the Second World War.

The people are associated with the Project.Leslie GrovesEnrico FermiRobert J. Oppenheimer

The last is the shoulder patch which was adopted by the people who worked on it.

BONUS

Lateral Inversion

• Ghajini movie is based on Lateral Inversion

• Snow white – The Mirror

• Reflection on the mirror – laterally inverted

Connectify• 5 pictures. Find the theme/connection

• 1st pic +50, -25

• 2nd pic +40, -20

• 3rd pic +30, -15

• 4th pic +20, -10

• 5th pic +10

1st to win Nobel Prize in Respective fields

• Roentgen – Physics

• Vant Hoff – Chemistry

• Von Behring – Medicine

• Sully Pruddhome – Literature

• Henri Dunant – Peace

The Wright Brothers

• Wright Brothers memorial

• Wright Brothers bicycle

• Replica of the wright Brothers wind tunnel

• Wright brothers as children

• The glider

Nikola Tesla

• Nikola Tesla Airport

• Games with Nikola Tesla

• David bowie played Nikola Tesla

• Elon Musk Co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors

Fusion

• Nuclear Fusion in the sun

• Gilette Fusion

• Hydrogen bomb

• Only type of manmade nuclear fusion

Le Marchand de la mort est mort

Alfred Nobel

• The newspaper that declared him dead

• No math nobel prize

• Nobelium

• Inventer of dynamite

A to Z

• 10 for each correct answer

• No negatives

• A was a Benedictine monk who is often wrongly credited with discovering the champagne method for making sparkling wine. In 1981, A was chosen for the wedding of B. Soon after B’s death in Paris in 1997, the car manufacturer C, in an unprecedented move, took down all its advertisements of one of its models. The Eureka-D project, a collaboration between C’s parent company and a Munich university gave rise to a driverless car which reached 175 km/h on a German highway.

• D was a Titan known for his intelligence and is also the name of a project by E to develop a nuclear powered propulsion system. E had several other projects named after Greek gods. E owns a lab in Pasadena, California, which is run by F. The protagonists of a popular TV series work at F. G, one of F’s most well known figures popularised the field of H through his talk “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”. Though G died in 1988, his van is still kept in storage near F.

• Members of the I family form an important research area falling under H and the family is named after the most famous architect in science circles. I consists of just one element J, which is important in metallurgy. JKs are cylindrical in shape and have unusual properties. They are classified as single walled and multi walled. They have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1 . Ks are used in manufacturing L, which was envisioned by Leon Chua in 1971. In March 2012, a team of researchers from HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) labs and University of Michigan announced the first functioning L array built on a CMOS chip.

• L was first produced by M, a Fortune 500 company. M’s first financially successful product was an audio oscilloscope. N was one of M’s first customer and was responsible for creating Mortimer, who remains N’s most popular character till date. N first ventured into television in 1950 with O. O is a major beverage company. O created a product for P, which is the largest food company in the world in terms of revenue.

• P has been criticised for rapid deforestation in Borneo, destroying the habitat for Orangutans. Large parts of forests in Indonesia have been cleared for Q monoculture. P uses Q in its products. Q is naturally reddish in colour due to a high carotene content. Q is also used in Rs, which are mono alkyl esters. R is classified as B100, B20, B5 and B2.

• S, a German inventor and mechanical inventor claimed that Rs would become significant in his invention over the course of time. S’s death occurred under mysterious circumstances. His biographers present a case for suicide, and clearly consider it most likely. Conspiracy theories suggest that various people's business or military interests may have provided motives for homicide, however. Evidence is limited for all explanations. T, which effectively does the same thing as S’s invention generally has a lower efficiency. T uses something different to operate. Outside the commonwealth nations, that something different is referred to as U, despite the state it exists in under normal conditions. V studied Us by conducting experiments using a specially shaped glass bottle sealed at one end with mercury added to the tube.

• V wrote ‘The sceptical chemist’ and became the director of W, spending large sums of money to spread Christianity in the east. W literally owned General Goddard, Lord Nelson, Kent and Agamemnon. W’s counterpart, X, based in Netherlands is considered the first multinational company and was the first company to issue stocks.

• X had an interest in Y. Techies know Y as something that is supposed to “WORA”. Y has a mascot named Z. James Buchanan Z, the founder of the American Tobacco Company ordered 100 bottles of A. Z is also a title given to a member of the nobility and B was a female counterpart of a Z.

ANSWERS

• A- DOM PERIGNON

• B- LADY DIANNA

• C – MERCEDES

• D – PROMETHEUS

• E – NASA

• F- CALTECH

• G - FEYNMAN

• H - NANOTECHNOLOGY

• I - FULLERENE

• J - CARBON

• K – NANOTUBES

• L – MEMRISTOR

• M - HP

• N – DISNEY

• O – COCA COLA

• P – NESTLE

• Q – PALM OIL

• R – BIO DIESEL

• S – RUDOLPH DIESEL

• T – PETROL ENGINE

• U – GAS

• V – BOYLE

• W – BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

• X – DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY

• Y – JAVA

• Z - DUKE