Sci tech quiz finals

WELCOME TO THE FINALS

RULES

• No Negatives

• No Pass

• Correct Answer = +10

1

> During one such debate on Quantum Mechanics, scientist X told scientist Y – ” God doesn’t play dice.”

To this Y replies by telling – “Don’t tell God what to do with his dice!”

Identify the scientists.

ANSWER

“God doesn’t play Dice”

2

The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) That’s the distance to the giant X. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray “cloud” almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.

ANSWER

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

3

Little Boy was made with U-235 isotope. While on the other hand, for making Fat Man, some other element was used. WHAT?

ANSWER

PLUTONEUM

4

• The Law of Ellipses

• The Law of Equal Areas

• The Law of Harmonies

What am I talking about?

ANSWER

KEPLER’S LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

5

• Natural Way: X takes place naturally, as for instance when hot air rises from the land on a warm day. This heated air has a lower density than that of the less heated air in the atmosphere above it, and, therefore, is buoyant. As it rises, however, it loses energy and cools. This cooled air, now denser than the air around it, sinks again, creating a repeating cycle.

• Forced way: Heat of an oven—a situation in which some sort of pump or mechanism moves heated fluid. X can also take place within a natural system. The human heart is a pump, and blood carries excess heat generated by the body to the skin. The heat passes through the skin by means of conduction, and at the surface of the skin, it is removed from the body in a number of ways, primarily by the cooling evaporation of moisture—that is, perspiration. WHICH PHENOMENON?

ANSWER

CONVECTION

6

The Method of loci is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises. In basic terms, it is a method of memory enhancement which uses visualization to organize and recall information. In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. How do we better know this technique as? (SHER-LOCKED)

ANSWER

MIND PALACE

RULES

• No Negatives

• No Pass

• Correct Answer = +10

1

Which company’s official blog has this as the opening of a post, that explains one of their core principles? Jim Goetz reached the top of the Midas list in the business world for investing in this.

ANSWER

WHATSAPP

2

What annual event which was held online in 2009 and is still conducted online, was affected by two viruses ‘Conflicer’ and ‘W32 Nimda’ which attacked the system display of the test, causing severe slow down?

ANSWER

CAT

3

• “Easter eggs” are hidden symbols, messages and jokes worked into movies, books, paintings, video games and computer software—often intended as a little “reward” to viewers who are paying close attention or know where to look. And in fact, there’s probably an Easter egg in your Android device right now. So tell me the game to which the Lollipop (Android 5) Easter egg depicts!

ANSWER

FLAPPY BIRD

4

• The logo concept was created by Teiyuu Goto in Tokyo. He incorporated many meanings into the logo and acronym: the pronunciation is similar to “bio”, which is symbolic of life and the product’s future evolution; it’s also near “violet”, which is why most early versions of the product were purple or included purple components. The sound some models make when starting up is derived from the melody created when pressing a telephone keypad to spell the letters of the product. Name the product?

ANSWER

VAIO

5

• This Dot Com was started by Marc Lore and Vineeet Dharva, is the largest online retailer of baby products. Name it.

ANSWER

DIAPERS.COM

6

• The first instance of X came in 2008 on 4chan image board. The image consisted of a 4-pane comic made in MS Paint portraying the “Toilet Splash” experience. The first 3 panes described the incidence and the 4th was a drawing of X screaming appeared with a caption saying “FFFFFUUUUU” in the right of the face in red letters. Identify X.

ANSWER

MEME

POUNCE IT OUT

INFINITE POUNCE ROUNDS

RULES

• Passing Allowed (Correct Answer = +10; Wrong Answer = 0)

• Correct Answer = +20

• Wrong Answer = -10(Kill Yourself)

1

Consider the following analogy:

Suppose an enormous football was placed in a field containing a crowd of people much smaller, about thousand times smaller than the football. Now imagine that the crowd kicks the ball in all possible directions. If you were to observe this scene from a helicopter so high up that you could see the ball, but not the people, you would see the ball moving randomly, without any apparent cause. What you would be observing then?

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2

• IDENTIFY THE SCIENTIST’S DIGITAL VOICE (Who physically can’t talk) FROM THIS SONG. He HAS ACTUALLY SUNG THE FIRST VERSE.

• NOW TELL ME THE FAMOUS SMARTPHONE APP WHICH HAS DESIGNED A MECHANISM BY WHICH HE (Who physically is unable to write) ACTUALLY WRITES!

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3

• Imagine a bottle completely filled with water except for some air bubbles. Now if the bottle is inverted, the air bubbles move up because the water rushes down due to gravity.

• Bottle: Valence band, Water: Electrons, Bubbles: Holes, Then what is Gravity?

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4

• These tweets are taken from a famous Twitter Account which was created on the 30th

anniversary of an event.

Name the event and name the Chemical that was responsible for this event.

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5

• His work was not without its real physical dangers. He kept whole kennels of mad dogs, which he would handle fearlessly. He was so eager to secure the specimens of the germs of the rabbits that in one occasion he actually sucked through a tube the saliva of a mad dog. It is through the saliva that the mad dog transmits the disease. He ended up by discovering a serum which when injected into a boy recently bitten by dog and cured it. Name the scientist.

SECURITY SLIDE

6

• A new material found on the moon surface by Appolo 11, has its name derived from the names of the three men who set their foot first on the moon. What is the name of that element?

ROUND 4

RULES

• Correct Answer = +30 (Game Changer)

• Wrong Answer = -15 (Bite Yourself)

1

• Playtex is a brand name for lingerie and female undergarments, founded in 1947, by the International Latex Corporation (ILC). In the 1960s, after much trials and tribulations, Playtex received a contract from an organization Y for successfully designing X. They spend six weeks working around the clock, at times breaking into their own offices to work 24-hour shifts, to arrive at a ___ solution. ILC manages to produce a superior X by drawing on the craft-culture handiwork and expertise of seamstresses, rather than on the hard-line culture of engineering.” What did Playtex create/X?

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2

• X was originally developed by Luis von Ahn, Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and Manuel Blum at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus, and acquired by Google in September 2009.

• Not only does it stop spammers but it helps digitize books. While digitizing books, sometimes the character recognition is unsatisfactory, so the computer my save some gibberish of a sentence without knowing any better, which is where X comes into the picture.

• X has helped digitize the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books, and as of 2012, thirty years of The New York Times had been digitized.

• In 2012, X began using photographs of house numbers taken from Google's Street View project, in addition to scanned words. X is reported as being used over 100million times a day. ID X

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3

• DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira is a fictional character had a weapon named Lasso of truth. So what in the field of technology did the creator of Wonder Woman (William Moulton Marston) thus had some major contributions in?

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4

• Id

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5

• Id the code from the Tune

DECODING

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6

• Relate this guy with Google.

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7

• Chief Ion, Chief Noisy Ion, Chief Tech Ion, Chief Engineering Ion and Chief Product Ion – the designations of five founders of a Bangalore-based company, who all met during their stints at IBM. They based their key product on five things about apps that irritate most mobile users: Drain battery Eat up data Disc Space Slow Response Hanging handsets Which company, and why is it in the news?

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8

• ID the Indian company

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