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WELCOME TOWELCOME TO
ROUNDSCAKE WALK
KNOW IT RIGHT
HANDS ON
A/V
STAKE IT!
MONEY BAG
CAKE WALK
Rules• This round consists of questions related to scientific trivia.
• Each team will get to choose from a set of 12 questions.
• This is a passable round.
• +20 points for correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.
• There is no negative marking .
• Each team will get 20 seconds to answer.
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Name the ore which is concentrated using Serpek’s
process.
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Bauxite
What/is/common/between/the/elements,/Cerium/and/Palladium/with/respect/to/their/naming/?/
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Both the elements are named after asteroids.
Observe/the/following/equations:MnO4
I Mn2+Cr2O7
2I Cr3+If/change/in/Oxidation/numbers/of/
Mn and/Cr/are/a/&/b/respectivelyWhat/is/a/+/b/equal/to/?
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Aamir Khan/has/recently/been/in/news/for/putting/his/health/at/risk/for/his/upcoming/film,/‘Dangal’./
What/is/the/health/risk?
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He gained up to 90 kilos using steroids
She lived in an era where it was believed that women could never become scientists. But for her indispensable work the world would have never known about ‘The Secret of Life.’ Years after her death due to ovarian cancer, did the
propounders of ‘Double Helix’ admit: “We owe our discoveries to her work.”
Who was this woman scientist?
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Rosalind Franklin
According to Faraday’s Paradox of electrochemistry , steel reacts
with dilute X but not concentrated X.
Identify X.
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Nitric/Acid/(HNO3)
State the principle according to which a top does not fall when it
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Gyroscopic effect
The largest muscle of our body is the one on which we sit.
Name it .
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Gluteus maximus ( hip muscle )
X is an additional entity of its kind that appears in a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full
moons in a season or, a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.
“X" may occur in certain atmospheric conditions; e.g., when there are volcanic eruptions or when exceptionally large fires leave particles in the
atmosphere. Identify X.
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Blue moon
Given/below/are/the/initial/BLUEPRINTS/of/an/important/invention./Which/invention/is/it? 000102030405060708091011121314151617181920
The/first/plane/by/the/Wright/Brothers.
Wilbur(Wright(and(Orville(Wright(on(the(Wright(Flyer(I(in(1910
What is this Google Doodle commemorating ? 000102030405060708091011121314151617181920
Discovery of water on moon by Chandrayaan.
Death/of/a/person/is/marked/by/loss/in/movement./Gradually/stiffening/sets/in/as/cell/
membranes/become/more/permeable/to/calcium/ions./However,/a/sudden/short/and/quick/movement/is/often/noticed/in/fingers,/toes,/
eyelids/etc./in/the/dead/body!!What/is/this/phenomenon/technically/known/as?
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Rigor/Mortis
What is created due to the collision between a positron
and an electron?
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Gamma ray photons
KNOW IT RIGHTBasic/Principles
Rules•The questions are based on basic principles.
•Each team gets to choose from a set of 7 questions.
•Questions are passable.
•+20 for each correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.
•There is no negative marking.
•Teams will get 20 seconds to answer.
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A pilot performs a 360° aerobatic maneuver in air. Simultaneously, the co-
pilot pours water in a glass from a jar. The water falls only inside the glass and does not spill at all! The spilling of water is prevented because of a phenomenon
involved. Which phenomenon is it?
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Centripetal Acceleration
Which type of interactions enable ice cream to adhere to its
wooden stick?
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Hydrogen/Ibonding/As/wood/has/Cellulose/(OH/groups)
21 September, 1995 was the day that attracted the attention of masses and the
media, particularly in India as Deities of Lord Ganesha allegedly ‘drank milk’ offered by the devotees. This ‘Hindu milk miracle’ actually
happened due to a simple scientific phenomenon. Name the phenomenon
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Capillary action of the material of the statue.
Collisions/between/gaseous/particles/in/the/earth's/atmosphere/and/the/charged/
particles/released/from/the/sun's/atmosphere/result/into/an/interesting/
phenomenon.Identify/the/phenomenon.
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Northern/Lights//Aurora/Borealis/(Known/as/such/over/north/pole/and/aurora/australis or/southern/lights/over/south/pole/of/earth)
Rohan applied for the army. During his medical examination, the doctor heard
peculiar sound while listening to his heart beat , which sounded like
‘Lubshhh….Dubshhh’, and rejected Rohan. Which abnormality could Rohan be possibly
suffering from?
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Heart/Murmur//
Rahul/was/sleeping/while/sitting/on/chair./Suddenly/his/friend/came/and/pushed/him/from/the/side./Rahul/was/about/to/fall/but/
woke/up./Which/part/of/his/sensory/system/helped/him/
to/balance?
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Vestibular Apparatus(This sensory system is a part of the inner ear that
provides sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance)
When round projectiles were fired from a firearm, the ball would grip one side of the barrel, making it spin, and instead of flying
straight would curve off right, left, up or down. This was rather frustrating and there are some
estimates that old unrifled missiles managed to hit their intended target less than 5% of the
trials. What effect does it depict?
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Magnus effect
Audio / Visual
Rules• Each question consists of an Audio/Visual.
• +30 for each correct answer and -10 for each wrong answer.
• The questions won’t be passed.
• Each team will get 30 seconds to answer the question.
The/pictures/given/below/depict/people/suffering/from/a/common/disorder./Identify/the/disorder.
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Down’s Syndrome
The/picture/shows/a/statue/of/the/dancing/Nataraja/unveiled/at/X.//The/statue/symbolizes/Nataraja's/cosmic/dance/of/creation/and/destruction,/was/given/to/X/by/the/Indian/Government/to/celebrate/its/long/association/with/India./Identify/X.
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CERN/(Conseil(Européen(pour(la(Recherche(Nucléaire)
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MS Swaminathan
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Hydrophobia (due to Rabies)
This is the most dangerous piece of junk in the world. A
week after just 30 seconds of exposure, a person becomes
dizzy and fatigued. Two minutes of exposure and cells will soon begin to
hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
Identify this lethal junk.
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Elephant’s Foot
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Theremin
This symbol is associated with a doctor’s prescription. What does it
stand for?
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The symbol "Rx" is usually said to stand for the Latin word "recipe"
meaning "to take." It is customarily part of the superscription
(heading) of a prescription.It may also denote treatment given
or a kind of pledge: I give this treatment in the name of God.
Also known as the ‘corpse flower’, it heats up on
flowering to produce the stench of rotting flesh which
attracts carrion beetle pollinators over vast
distances. It was recently in news for having flowered after
a long time at the Botanic Garden, UK. Identify the plant.
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Titan arum / Amorphophallus
Hands OnRack Your brains
RULES•This round consists of workable questions.
•The questions are open to all.
•+ 30 for each correct answer.
•There is no negative marking.
•The allotted time for each question is 1 minute.
Using the calculator provided to you , display 100 on the
screen using only 3 different buttons.
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Pedigree charts are pictorial documents used to record ancestry and in the study of human family lines.
The given pedigree is for studying the pattern of inheritance of a particular disease in a family.
Note that in the second generation, the third child (a male) has inherited the disease from his father. The inheritance of the
disease by him RULES OUT what type of inheritance?.
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XIlinked/inheritance/because/he/inherited/the/disease/from/his/father,/but/
his/X/chromosome/from/his/mother./
Two aliphatic aldehydes P and Q react in presence of aq. NaOH to give compound R which upon treatment with
HCN provides compound S. On acidification and heating,
S gives the product shown .
The/compounds/P/and/Q/are/?
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2-methyl propanal Methanal
Money BagWork Hard Earn Hard
Rules• Questions/in/this/round/are/open/to/all/the/teams.• Teams/will/have/to/write/down/the/answers/and/show/it/to/the/Quizmasters.• Each/Question/is/of/60/points.• The/points/will/be/divided/amongst/teams/who/attempt/to/answer/.• If/a/team/gives/an/incorrect/answer/,/then/the/points/divided/will/be/subtracted/from/their/total.• Teams/can/choose/not/to/answer/the/question./No/points/will/be/awarded/or/deducted/in/this/case.• Time/limit/for/each/question/is/30/seconds.
“I will use the ____X______’s trick ; differentiate under the integral sign.”
This line was said by Howard Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory.
Which scientist is being referred to as ‘X’?Hint: X assisted in the development of
the atomic bomb during World War II and got
Nobel prize in Physics in 1965.
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Richard Feynman
Cologne spirit + Oil of vitriol PP Q
Identify Q
High Temperature
O3 + Zn dust
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Formaldehyde (methanal)
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Retinol (Vitamin A)
If the following scientists expressed their love, it would be something like this.
I-am-so-certain--
about-you-!!!I-so-love-your-
cat-eyes
Identify the scientists..
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Heisenberg & Schrodinger
This 90’s scientific movie is used by NASA in their management program
where participants are asked to point out mistakes in the movie even though it is considered a
benchmark of sci-fi movies. Which movie is it ?
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Armageddon
Group 2 , Period 4 +
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Caltech
Which is the common component in both of these , which gives them one of
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Oil of winter green
(Methyl salicylate)
He/was/an/IndianIAmerican/biochemist/who/shared/the/1968/Nobel/Prize/for/Physiology/or/Medicine/with/Marshall/W./Nirenberg/and/
Robert/W./Holley/for/research/that/helped/to/show/how/the/order/of/nucleotides/in/nucleic/acids,/which/carry/the/genetic/code/of/the/cell,/control/the/cell’s/synthesis/of/proteins./ He/was/
born/in/Punjab/(Present/day/Pakistan)./Who/is/he?
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Dr. Hargobind Khorana
STAKE IT!Dare to Win
Rules • This round consists of a set of interlinked questions in which the
answers of the question will be used to answer the FinalQuestion.• Each team has to bid points from their present score.• You can buy the answers from the Quizmasters using your points.• The price of each answer will vary according to the demand and
difficulty of the question, and will be decided by the Quizmasters.• The bid score will double if you are able to answer the final
question and if not, the bid points will be deducted.
In the 1960s, small amounts of this element were produced in laboratories in the former Soviet Union and in California.
The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the element was disputed between Soviet and American
scientists, and it was not until 1997 that International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established ____ as
the official name for the element. The Soviets proposed the name – Kurchatovium for this
element. This is also the first Transactinide element.
Store the sum of the digits of its atomic number as p.
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OF
Store the number of vowels in the answer as q
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At a distance of 400m from the traffic light brakes are applied to a car moving at a velocity
of 15m/s.Determine the distance of the car from the traffic
light 1 min after the application of brakes.Its retardation is 0.3m/s2.Store this distance as ‘r’
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A rod of length 6a and mass 8m is lying on a smooth horizontal table. 2 bodies of mass m and 2m move with Velocity 2v and v respectively and collide with the rod perpendicularly at the same instant. The bodies stick to the rod after
collision . Find the angular velocity about COM of system in rad/s
Take v as ‘p’ * ‘r’ and a as ‘q’ (from the previous questions)
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Store/this/answer/as/N
This is your last round , so make it countCross your fingers and Think beyond your
expectations, cause the answer is
Hint: The first and last letters of the answer are
the same and correspond to the ‘Nth’ Letter of
the English Alphabet; eg 1=a, 2=b ….
Image of a red object(that emits and reflects only monochromatic light) placed in monochromatic blue light
when obtained on a green screen will show the object in ________
colour.
Black
What in the world of physics is the ‘Gnab Gib’
The metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe
collapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.
Which famous scientist is accredited for being the Father of old 2 kingdom classification , the Father of Zoology and the Father
of Embryology ?
Aristotle
This disease figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and
20th centuries. Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters, passed the mutation to various royal houses across the
continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. It is also called ‘the royal disease’ for this reason.
Identify the disease
Haemophilia