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Though the poster saysScience quiz, it is actually a Science and technology quiz

Special Thanks to…

Two 20 years old , highly functioning Sociopaths ;-) roaming in the world of Life-Science…

Your QMs

Rules…→22 questions. → 1 point for each correct answer/s of a question, no negative points. So, go for guesses !! → In case of a tie in the final , the marks from the prelims will be counted.→ Wrong spellings shall be accepted as long as they are phonetically correct. → Mobile phones of the participants shall remain in switched off mode. Audience are requested to put their mobile phones on silent mode.All questions are self researched by the QMs and have tried to cross-check almost every info. Any resemblance to questions in other blogs/pages/quizzes are purely coincidental.

→ Quizmaster’s decision shall be final and binding.

Lock , Stock and Six Best Teams Elimination Round

Prelims with answers

1. Which 2014 blockbuster was based upon these ?

The ‘10 percent of the brain myth’ is a widely popular urban legend that most of the humans only make use of 10% of their brains. It has been misattributed to many people including Albert Einstein. By extrapolation, it is suggested that a person may harness the unused potential and increase intelligence.There is a drug in the film called CPH4 which is a representation of Estradiol or its derivative which is a female steroid hormone in the family of Estrogen. It not only influence the sex in the embryo it also helps in neural development and Neuroprotection. The drug may also refer to Human Chorionic Gonadotropin ( HCG ) secreted by the placental cells during 6th week of pregnancy.

In 1995 Ericsson Mobile Communications was working on a project called MC Links or Multi-communicator Links involving short-range radio links with low output. This project was headed by Sven Mattisson along with Jim Kardach, the head of technological development of Intel. At the end of summer of 1997 they were taking part in a competition with their project. But their presentation was not successful supposedly because their project lacked a name. They engaged consultants to dream up a suitable name but nobody had come up with anything good. At that time Jim Kardach was reading the English translation of Frans G. Bengtsson’s “The Long Ships” and he was fascinated by the man described as its hero’s father-in-law. So he decided to name their project after that character’s nickname.

2. What was the result of this project?

This is an X-Ray diffraction photograph, known as photograph 51, of a certain molecule taken by Rosalind Franklin, a noted chemist and X-ray crystallographer. The photo was acquired through 100 hours of X-ray exposure from a machine Franklin herself had refined.

Her colleague Maurice Wilkins, in 1953, secretly disclosed this picture to two competing scientists working on this particular molecule at Cambridge. Based on what they saw in the picture the two scientists published their findings.

3. This picture facilitated which famous scientific discovery?

Watson and Crick’s DNA double helix structure

Ductile to brittle transition is a phenomenon found mostly in body centered cubic crystals where the toughness of the metal decreases with decrease in temperature and after a certain transition temperature the mode failure changes to brittle fracture from ductile fracture. This special behavior of metal was not discovered in early 20th century and no special metallurgical treatment was done on steels to be used in cold conditions. Due to which a sufficient force could bring about catastrophic failure of the structure which is significantly smaller than the tensile strength of the metal.

4. This metallurgical phenomenon is in many theories regarded to be responsible for which disaster ?

Titanic

It is produced by a force based reaction which occurs as a result of the state-change of water. 13.5% to 14% water by mass is required for this reaction to occur and it is provided by the small drop of water that stays encapsulated inside soft starch. As temperature reaches 212 degree Fahrenheit water transforms into steam and changes the starch into a superhot gelatinous goop. It continues to heat up to about 347 degree Fahrenheit. The pressure inside reaches about 135 psi and it bursts the hull open.

5. What do we get after the completion of this reaction?

6. What brand in the world of technology is named after this flower?

Snapdragon Processors

Retro reflection is a type of reflection in which the reflected beam of light traces along a vector that is parallel to but opposite in direction from the wave's source. A device or surface that possesses this ability is called a retro reflector.

These retro reflectors are used extensively in road signs, embedded in roads at the corners and divider lines, vehicles mainly bicycles, and special safety clothing etc.

In the world of comics X uses the retro reflective panels in its stealth mode to make it invisible to normal human vision below a certain elevation.

7. Simply identify X.

The S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier

8. Name the game they are playing.

3D Chess

Capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 8 percent of victims show evidence of this syndrome. It can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."

9. Which syndrome and which bollywood movie popularized this?

Stockholm Syndrome and Highway

10. Connect.

Windows phone versions

And the Answer is…

Rakesh Sharma.

The prevalence of sexual cannibalism, a behaviour in which the female eats the male after mating, in some species of Latrodectushas is found. This inspired the common name of the genus. Research at the University of Hamburg in Germany suggests this ultimate sacrifice strategy has evolved to promote the survival odds of the offspring; however females of some species only rarely show this behavior, and much of the documented evidence for mate cannibalism has been observed in laboratory cages where the males could not escape.

12. Their common name please!

Black Widow spider

13.

X is a genus of scyphozoan jellyfish. There are at least 13 species in this genus . It has been suggested that X is the best studied group of gelatinous zooplankton.Most of the species of this genus can be found in Atlantic ocean , arctic and Pacific ocean.

*A fashion Brand

And the answer is…

14.X is one of the most important and famous organic compound. It appears as a colorless liquid with molecular mass 78.11gmol-1 .In 1858 Kekule reported the discovery of this organic compound. Since then , various versions of the dream have found their way into scholarly analysis . According to one version , Kekule discovered the specific structure after dreaming of ‘The royal Marriage’ In another version kekule dreamed a self-devouring snake alchemists of the 3d century A.D. Devised to symbolize the underlying unity of nature . In others , the dream involved six monkeys linking hands and tails.

About which compound or structure am I talking about ?

Benzene or the Benzene ring.

15.X is another famous phenomenon which can be described by the linkage of atoms of the same elements into longer chains. It occurs most readily in carbon , which forms covalent bonds with other carbon atoms to form longer chains and structures. This is the reason for the presence of the vast number organic compounds in nature. Several other main group elements are also capable of forming a expansive range of this structure including Silicon , sulfur and Boron.

X=?

16.

X is a term/phrase used to refer to South Korea’s post-war export-fueled economic growth . It includes rapid idustrialization , technological achievement , education boom , large rise in living standards , rapid urbanisation , skycraper boom , modernaization , successful hosting of the 1988 summer Olympics and co-hosting of the 2002 FIIFA World cup .More specifically , this phrase refers to the economic growth of Seoul . The growth of Seoul was accompanied by a democratization and globalization from the destruction of the Korean war to a wealthy and developed one , with globally influential economy and prominent multinational conglomerates such as Samsung , LG and Hyundai-Kia.

“Miracle On The Han River.”

I love Cardiology :-)

17.--- --- is the name of two characters in DC comics . First They one is a supervillain that appeared in Peter Devid's Super-Girl series. ( First appeared in issue 33, 1999) . Its a demon , has an angel like appearance , dark blue skin and golden armor. He rides a golden gryphon and wielded a powerful golden lance.

Another form of this character appears as a Flash Villain appears more frequently than the previous one.

It also makes an appearance in the Arrow episode as Michael Amar , the leader of a criminal gang.

Mur-Mur

ChemoEntomology

18.Name this Colorless , crystelline , tasteless and almost odorless organochloride with the help these two pictures.

DDT …

No extra points for DiChloroDiPhenylTrichloroEthane !!!

Feel yourself like a daring archaeologist with a penchant for deadly situations. :-P

19.What is being left out ? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Harbor Master. 6.Harbor Master HD 7.Max Adventure 8.Hippo High Dove. 9.Geospark 10.Little red sled 11.Word Squares 12.PhotoMarkr.

1.Temple Run 2.Temple Run 3.Temple Run : Brave 4.Temple Run : Oz 5.Harbor Master. 6.Harbor Master HD 7.Max Adventure 8.Hippo High Dove. 9.Geospark 10.Little red sled 11.Word Squares 12.PhotoMarkr.

- By Imangi Studios.

-''A scientist painted by a scientist.''-''No, an artist painted by an artist.'‘

20.

Whose Portrait by Whom ?

*No Half Points.

Portrait of C.V. Raman by Homi Bhabha.

Bio-Biz

21.

X is an American corporation which designs, manufacters , markets and sells machinery, engines, financial and defence products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. It is the world leading and largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment , diesel and natural gas engines , industrial gas turbines and diesel electric locomotives with more than US$89 Billion in assets.

*Also the common name for the larvae of members of the order Lepidoptera.

It is not real ;-)

22.Whose cartoon is this ?

Erwin SchrÖdinger.

Dial Q for Quiz

</Round 1>

Rules...

1. A written round.2. +10 for every correct answer.3. No negative mark.4. For 10 Correct answers +20 Extra.5. For 7≤ Correct answers +15 Extra.6. For 5 ≤ Correct answers +10 Extra.

Easy One.

1.He is Earle Dickson , an American inventor best known for creating ------- . He was actually a cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson company. His wife Josephine often cut herself while doing housework and cooking. Thus to help her and to prevent certain infections , he started to something with Gauze and Crinoline. James Johnson, his boss liked the idea and put it into production . In 1924, Johnson & Johnson installed machines to mass-produce this product.

Following the commercial success of this design , Dickson was promoted to the vice-president.

About which household product am I talking about ?

2.Why the national RQ-565D cassette player-cum-radio model from Panasonic was on the news a few months back ?

3.

“ It was not intended to be used by end users , originally – it was meant to be used by people writing programme or documentation , so they could reboot their computers without powering them down . This was useful since after a computer was powered down , it was necessary to wait a few seconds before powering it up again to avoid potential damage to the power supply and hard drive. Since soft. Developers and technical writers would need to restart a computers many times , it was a big time-saver”-David Bradely (04/01/1949-- ), IBM PC.

About what is Bradely talking about ?

4.

Question on the next slide.

He is Roy Frank RJ Mitte best known for his role as walter Flynn White Jr. on Breaking Bad as shown in the video. Like his character on the show , he has ----- ----- , a group of permanent movement disorders that appear early childhood characterised by poor coordination , stiff muscles , weak muscles , trouble swallowing and speaking , and tremors among others.

Just name this disorder.

5.

This term first appeared in 1996 in the bestselling book Between Parent and Teenage by Dr. Haim Ginott . This book mentions a teen who complains about his mother that , “Mother hovers over me like a -----------------” .This term/Phrase gained wide currency when American College Administrators began using it in the early 2000s as the Millennial Generation began reaching college age.

About which term/Phrase am I talking about which actually tells about a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child’s or children’s experiences and problems , particularly at educational institutes ?

Ankur P. Agarwal, the co-founder of PriceBaba.com started a campaign to name this next release of

something as X. Some of the things he did for this included mailing boxes of X to Larry Page and

Andy Rubin and campaigning outside the Google headquarters. This campaign was however a failure as the product was named Y in October 3,2013. Ankur

instead of giving up, decided to restart the campaign for the next name, using Z this time .His second attempt

also ended in failure as it was named A in June25,2014.

6. What I am talking about? And X and Z please!

The company enlisted the help of creative director Bradley G. Munkowitz known for his futuristic work on Tron: Legacy, for this fresh new photograph hoping it to express the company’s identity. Munkowitz assembled a team at a photography studio in San Francisco to shoot images showing the logo of the company created by shining a projector through a pane of glass by a 50 MP camera. The crew used lasers, smoke, haze, projectors, flares and a special camera mapping technique. The amount of light was the main component in the picture. He describes it as modern, sleek and moody.

7. They were shooting which photograph ?

The pictures show screen shots of an iPhone application named FontSwap. It allows user to use many different sets of fronts. It has been downloaded 8 million times. Though the name of the author appears as Gourav Giri it was co-developed by a computer science engineer from Guru Teg Bahadur Institute of Technology in New Delhi who left the field to pursue another interest.

8. Who is this unusual co-developer?

Furfural

Cellulose and lignin, present in paper, degrade chemically over a period of time. The chemical breakdown occurs due to the presence of acids in the surroundings. This reaction is generally known as acid hydrolysis. It produces a wide range of volatile organic compounds some of which are identified as Benzaldehyde, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Vanillin, 2-Ethylhexanol, Furfural etc. Other aldehydes and alcohols are also produced in the reaction and contribute slightly to the outcome pleasant to many!

9. These degradation reactions are the reason behind what?

The Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique, used in theatre, haunted houses, dark rides, and magic tricks and is named after scientist John Henry Pepper.The basic trick involves two rooms one of which is hidden from the audience. A plate of glass is placed somewhere in the main room at an angle that reflects the view of the hidden room towards the audience. Altering the intensities of light in the two rooms the objects of the hidden room can be projected in the main room. It creates the effect of things magically appearing in mid air.In the modern modified version of this trick a patented foil, completely invisible to the naked eye is rigged at 45° across the stage and content is projected on it. By multiple reflections at different screens the impression of a real 3D volumetric image is created.

10. In which event this modified version of Pepper’s Ghost was used that created a Guinness World Record for most simultaneous shows of the Pepper's ghost illusion?

(Picture follows)

Now Exchange your sheets...

Easy One.

1.He is Earle Dickson , an American inventor best known for creating ------- . He was actually a cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson company. His wife Josephine often cut herself while doing housework and cooking. Thus to help her and to prevent certain infections , he started to something with Gauze and Crinoline. James Johnson, his boss liked the idea and put it into production . In 1924, Johnson & Johnson installed machines to mass-produce this product.

Following the commercial success of this design , Dickson was promoted to the vice-president.

About which household product am I talking about ?

2.Why the national RQ-565D cassette player-cum-radio model from Panasonic was on the news a few months back ?

3.

“ It was not intended to be used by end users , originally – it was meant to be used by people writing programme or documentation , so they could reboot their computers without powering them down . This was useful since after a computer was powered down , it was necessary to wait a few seconds before powering it up again to avoid potential damage to the power supply and hard drive. Since soft. Developers and technical writers would need to restart a computers many times , it was a big time-saver”-David Bradely (04/01/1949-- ), IBM PC.

About what is Bradely talking about ?

4.

Question on the next slide.

He is Roy Frank RJ Mitte best known for his role as walter Flynn White Jr. on Breaking Bad as shown in the video. Like his character on the show , he has ----- ----- , a group of permanent movement disorders that appear early childhood characterised by poor coordination , stiff muscles , weak muscles , trouble swallowing and speaking , and tremors among others.

Just name this disorder.

5.

This term first appeared in 1996 in the bestselling book Between Parent and Teenage by Dr. Haim Ginott . This book mentions a teen who complains about his mother that , “Mother hovers over me like a -----------------” .This term/Phrase gained wide currency when American College Administrators began using it in the early 2000s as the Millennial Generation began reaching college age.

About which term/Phrase am I talking about which actually tells about a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child’s or children’s experiences and problems , particularly at educational institutes ?

Helicopter Parent.

Ankur P. Agarwal, the co-founder of PriceBaba.com started a campaign to name this next release of

something as X. Some of the things he did for this included mailing boxes of X to Larry Page and

Andy Rubin and campaigning outside the Google headquarters. This campaign was however a failure as the product was named Y in October 3,2013. Ankur

instead of giving up, decided to restart the campaign for the next name, using Z this time .His second attempt

also ended in failure as it was named A in June25,2014.

6. What I am talking about? And X and Z please!

A -Lollipop

Android Versions 4.4 and 5

X - Kajukatli Y -Kitkat

Z - Laddoo

The company enlisted the help of creative director Bradley G. Munkowitz known for his futuristic work on Tron: Legacy, for this fresh new photograph hoping it to express the company’s identity. Munkowitz assembled a team at a photography studio in San Francisco to shoot images showing the logo of the company created by shining a projector through a pane of glass by a 50 MP camera. The crew used lasers, smoke, haze, projectors, flares and a special camera mapping technique. The amount of light was the main component in the picture. He describes it as modern, sleek and moody.

7. They were shooting which photograph ?

The Windows 10 default wallpaper ‘HERO’

The pictures show screen shots of an iPhone application named FontSwap. It allows user to use many different sets of fronts. It has been downloaded 8 million times. Though the name of the author appears as Gourav Giri it was co-developed by a computer science engineer from Guru Teg Bahadur Institute of Technology in New Delhi who left the field to pursue another interest.

8. Who is this unusual co-developer?

Taapsee Pannu!

Furfural

Cellulose and lignin, present in paper, degrade chemically over a period of time. The chemical breakdown occurs due to the presence of acids in the surroundings. This reaction is generally known as acid hydrolysis. It produces a wide range of volatile organic compounds some of which are identified as Benzaldehyde, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Vanillin, 2-Ethylhexanol, Furfural etc. Other aldehydes and alcohols are also produced in the reaction and contribute slightly to the outcome pleasant to many!

9. These degradation reactions are the reason behind what?

The Aroma of Old Books

The Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique, used in theatre, haunted houses, dark rides, and magic tricks and is named after scientist John Henry Pepper.The basic trick involves two rooms one of which is hidden from the audience. A plate of glass is placed somewhere in the main room at an angle that reflects the view of the hidden room towards the audience. Altering the intensities of light in the two rooms the objects of the hidden room can be projected in the main room. It creates the effect of things magically appearing in mid air.In the modern modified version of this trick a patented foil, completely invisible to the naked eye is rigged at 45° across the stage and content is projected on it. By multiple reflections at different screens the impression of a real 3D volumetric image is created.

10. In which event this modified version of Pepper’s Ghost was used that created a Guinness World Record for most simultaneous shows of the Pepper's ghost illusion?

(Picture follows)

Narendra Modi’s 3D Holographic Speech in the campaigning of 2014

general elections

12 Angry Men

</Round 2>

Rules

Questions on Pounce

Direct question - +10 / No negative

Indirect question - +10 / No negative

On pounce - +10 / - 10

Are we really getting smarter ?

1.

---- ----is a phase which describes about the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly to the present day. More commonly it describes the concept of intelligence increasing (IQ) universally by each generation.This phrase is named for James R. --------- , who did much to document it and promote awareness of its implications.

Name this phrase or FITB.

Pictures on the next slide…

Flynn Effect named for James R. Flynn

2.

X is a American virtual reality technology company founded by Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe in 2012 . Their first product , still in development , is the -------- ------- , a head mounted display for immersive technology virtual reality or VR .

In March , 2014 , Facebook agreed to acquire X for US $2 Billion in cash and Facebook Stock.

Give me X and name of that particular display device .

Pictures on the next slide…

X= Oculus VR.

And the device is Oculus Rift.

3.

ZTE open is an entry-level smartphone released by ZTE in July 2013. It is intended for software developers wanting to build and test mobile applications on the new ----------- OS.

It was sold commercially only in Spain.

But later it was launched worldwide. In India it was launched in Oct. 2013 in collaboration with eBay.in

Which OS was installed in this device for the very first time ?

4.X studied Physics and Mathematics at Imperial College of London . Graduated with B.Sc. (hons) degree and ARCS in Physics with Upper Second-Class honours . From 1970 to 1974, he studied for a PhD. Degree at Imperial College, studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of Solar System. In 1974 X abandoned his doctoral studies due to Certain Reasons , but co-authored two scientific research papers.

In Oct. 2006, X re-registered for his PhD. At Imperial college and submitted his thesis in August 2007.

On November 2007 , X was appointed as the Chancellor of Liverpool University and held that post until 2013.

Just name this astrophysicist with the help of this Audio clip.

Brain Harold May , Musician , singer , song writer and astrophysicist and The Lead Guitarist and Backing Vocalist of the rock-band Queen.

5.

Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is an America educated Iraqi scientist . She earned a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Missouri , Columbia. After returning to her country , she helped to rebuild Iraq’s biological weapon program after the Gulf-War and become associated with it .

Ammash was number 53 on the Pentagon’s list of the 55 most wanted , the five of hearts in the deck of Most-Wanted Iraqi playing cards , and the only woman to be featured.

Later Ammash surrendered to coalition forces on May 9,2003 . She was released in December ,2005 after she was found no longer a security threat.

By what name was she popularly known to Western Press and Media? (Pic. on the next slide…)

Mrs. Anthrax or Sometimes Chemical Sally.

May be the easiest one…6.Connect.

. Open Pounce . (+20 , -20)

7.

• X , born in 1948 , is the first lady Mechanical Engineer of Assam as well as of the NE region . Passed her B.E in Mechanical Engineering from AEC in 1971.

•X offered her service as an engineering graduate and held prestigious posts in Assam gas company , OIL , ACTL and AIDC.

•“Joymoti”, a comic written by her in English , was published by Amar Chitra Katha , Mumbai ,also been translated to various Indian Regional Languages .

• The first lady Sci-Fi writer of N.E. region.

• Sahitya Academy for Children Literature in 2011

Bandita Phukan.

Yojimbo

</Round 3>

Rules

Questions on Pounce



On pounce - +10 / - 10

It is a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, hatched by a serpent from a cock's egg. It is so poisonous that it leaves a trail of poison where it goes. It is called "king" of all reptiles because it is reputed to have crown-shaped crest on its head .It a long, slender, and mainly bright green lizard found in Central America, the male of which has a crest running from the head to the tail. It can swim well, and is able to run on its hind legs across the surface of water. Samuel Richardson, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Robert Browning, Voltaire, Shelley also mentioned this creature in their literature.

1. Name the creature.

The Basilisk

• Also called Donnai – Barrow syndrome , a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the LRP 2 gene . Another explanation of the origin of this term suggests that it may be related to the mourning caps worn as early as the16th century. Study in 1973 & 2009 say that 81 % female and only 3 % male have this disorder.

• A number of fictional people have this which is often associated with villains or antagonist . Count Dracula , Eddie Munster, The Joker, Vegeta, Superman , Doc Savage . The creator of Superman said that he had borrowed different styles from Doc Savage including this for Superman .

• Some real life notable examples of this are Chris Hemsworth , Leonardo Di Caprio , John Travolta , Marilyn Monroe , Paul Ryan ,Elvis Presley , Grace Kelly , Blake Lively , Ronald Reagan , Andrew Jackson and may be you !

2. What am I taking about ?

WIDOW’S PEAK

3. This is the first generation Yi action camera mainly used for sporting and outdoor purposes. This is mainly released as the rival and cheaper alternative to GoPro cameras and HTC Re cameras. Question is which company produces them.

Xiaomi

Explanation of Dispersion:From experimental observations , Newton concluded that white light consists of a mixture of seven different colours. The refractive index of glass is different for different colours , so that when white light falls on glass prism , each colour is refracted(or bent ) at a different angle . The colours spread out to form a spectrum . All colours are refracted towards the base of the prism, the violet being deviated the most and red, the least . The splitting up of white light into its constituent colours is, called dispersion .Each colour has its own characteristic wavelength .

4. Where in the world of popular culture we can see the phenomenon of DISPERSION very clearly?

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover

Chris Stanley, a minerologist at London's Natural History Museum, was puzzled when mining Group Rio Tinto brought him an unusual specimen. Discovered in a mine near Jadar, Serbia, the mineral had a known chemical formula—sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide. Using his own expertise and specialized resources, Stanley was unable to identify the mineral. Finally, he did what the rest of us would have done at the start—he searched for the formula on the Internet. And got lots of hits. It turns out that this mineral had already been described. Dr. Stanley said that The formula is an exact match. The new mineral does not contain fluorine (which it does in some description of X) and is white rather than green but, in all other respects, the chemistry matches that for X. However, that it fluoresces a pinkish-orange under ultraviolet light.

5. X or what is the pre existing mineral?

Kryptonite from Superman

This technology is inspired by "Gesture Entry Technique" which is a patent of Apple Inc. It was introduced by Google in commercial devices in 2008 in Android platform. Google was also granted another patent for this namely "Automatic Derivation of Analogous Touch Gestures From A User-Defined Gesture". Google credited James B. Miller for the creation of this.

6. Which everyday used technology?

Pattern Lock!

Open Pounce…

(+20 , -20)

7. What am I talking about?

This Xenotransplant was done in Mr. Purna Saikia, as claimed. Assam’s then health minister Kamala Kalita said about this ‘It is a hoax, a cheap publicity’.‘It sounds like something out of a dream’ said N.K. Mehra, HOD of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics, AIIMS, New Delhi.‘It would be very skeptical’ said William baldwin, a xenotransplantation researcher in John Hopkins university..This kind of operation was first done in the US in 1984 but the patient died within 2 weeks.

The pig heart transplantation in Human by Dr. Dhaniram Baruah!

City Of Quiz

</Round 4>

Rules

Questions on Pounce



On pounce - +10 / - 10

“…….NASA asked us, would you make us a ____? I said, I've been trying to make a good ____ for 20 years and it cannot be done. They were not deterred. They said Mr. Fisher, you do more ____ research than anyone else, and we'd like you to try again. Well, that made me think. Then about two nights later I had an interesting dream. My father had died about two years before, and in that dream, he came to me and said Paul, if you add a minute amount of rosin to the ink, that will stop the oozing. I told the chemist about that, and the chemist laughed! He said that won't work. He tried every type and quantity of rosin. Three months later he came back to me and he said I was right! He said he was trying to find a way to make rosin work, but then he realized that I meant resin! He used two percent resin, and it worked fine. Even with 140 pounds of air pressure behind it, it didn't leak. I called NASA and told them we could do it, and we developed the most valuable patent in all of the ____ industry.”

1. An extract from an interview of Paul C. Fisher talking about his famous invention. What is it?

Space Pen or the Astronaut’s

Pen

Given below are the screen shots of the web version a video game called Blaster. The original game was written in 1984 and its source code was sold for $500.

2. Who wrote this game when he was only 12 years old?

3. What is it commonly called because of it’s Yellowish-brown ,hairy (resembling fur) and large limbs? Kiwa hirsuta is a crustacean discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean . This decapod , which is approximately 15 cm long.

Yeti Crab

There is no perfect theory explaining this phenomenon.According to E. P. Gee and Salim Ali, the Birdman of India, the cause of it is likely to be disorientation at high altitudes and high speed winds due to the widespread fog characteristic at the time. According to Dr Anwaruddin Choudhury, the birds, mostly juveniles and local migrants, are disturbed by high velocity winds at their roost. When the disturbed birds fly towards lights as refuge they are hit with bamboo poles and killed or injured.

4. Which phenomenon happening every year?

The Bird Suicides at Jatingaa

In mathematics , X is a general a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point of an exceptional set where it fails to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as differentiability .In Astrophysics, A gravitational X or spacetime X is a location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system .The technology, X is the hypothetical advent of artificial general intelligence (also known as "strong AI"). Such a computer, computer network, or robot would theoretically be capable of recursive self-improvement(redesigning itself), or of designing and building computers or robots better than itself.

5. X please !

Singularity

It is said that John Jacob _____, a schoolteacher, was fond of playing with numbers. Once he complained to his physicist friend that he was getting bored as he had no numbers to play with. The friend gave him four numbers 656.3 nm, 486.1 nm, 434.1 nm and 420.2 nm of Hydrogen spectrum and asked if he could find a relation amongst them. And ______ soon came out with his formula:

Where n=2, h= 3.6456×10-7 m, and m= 3, 4, 5, 6, and so forth. This formula was put in a more convenient form by Rydberg.

6. FITB

Balmer of Balmer series, visible region

Open Pounce…

(+20 , -20)

7. This song is based upon which iconic and IMMORTAL figure of biology ?

Audio

Henrietta Lacks, from her cells the immortal HeLa cell line is created !

Cool hand Luke

</Round 5>

Rules

Questions on Pounce



On pounce - +10 / - 10

1.

X is an Action , Adventure and Sci-Fi movie directed by Michael Bay. NASA often shows this movie during their management training program . New managers and new staff are given the task to trying to spot as many errors and to identify as many scientific inaccuracies as possible.

168-180 errors and goofs have been found till now.

2.

Which famous law of ElectroMagnetism ?

They are Jean-Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart.

And the obvious answer……… Biot-Savart Law.

3.The ______________________ particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray/particle (most likely an iron nucleus) detected on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving ground , Utah , by the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye Cosmic ray Detector. Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists (Hence the name) , who estimated its energy to be approximately 3 Х 10^20 eV , about 20 million times more energetic than the highest energy measured in radiation emitted by an extragalactic object.Again the energy of this particle is some 40 million times that of the highest energy protons that have been produced in any terrestrial particle accelerator . ( bdw excluding the particle accelarator used in The Flash ;-) )

FITB or Name this particle.

OMG Particle.

4.

He is Franchis Arago , 25th Prime Minister of France . Besides being a Politician , he contributed to field of Magnetism also. With Leon Foucault , he showed that a magnetic needle , made to oscillate over nonferrous surfaces such as water , glass , copper etc. ;falls more rapidly in the extent of its oscillations according as it is more or less approached to the surface. A rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it , which he called “Magnetism of Rotation”.Arago earned Copley Medal of Royal Society in 1825.*The most common use of this phenomenon is in Metal Detector.

What is the most common name of this “Magnetism of Rotation” ?

Eddy Current.

5.

The Indian Clerk is a fictive biographical novel by David Leavitt , Published in 2007 . It was shortlisted for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin literary award.

On which famous partnership this book is loosely based on ?

Srinivasa Ramanujan and his British Mentor , The Mathematician , G.H.Hardy.

6.

According some common Indian Myth , X’s mother prayed to God Suryadev asking for a boy who would do something for the greater development of the society and the world. While she was praying with cupped hands , a snake like creature fall onto her hands. Later this creature converted to a boy.

Again in some another Sankskrit works , X was called “the Man from Gonarda” . Gonarda is the ancient name of Gonda , adistrict from Uttar Pradesh near Ayodhya. Greek chronicles also mention about him ,when they laid their siege on Ayodhya in 2nd century BC.

‘x’ = ?

Patanjali , ‘Pat’ menas fall down and ‘Anjali’ means cupped hands.

Open Pounce…

(+20 , -20)

This is known as petrichor, an oily compound that exists in the cracks and pores of dry rocks, which is spread when the rocks get wet. The name petrichor comes from the Greek words “petro” which is “rock” and “ichor” which is“blood (of gods)” or literally, rock blood. When analyzing this compound, you would find that petrichoris mostly palmitic acid, stearic acid, and oleic acid, and comes from plants.The real source of this is a compound called geosmin. Geosmin is an alcohol with two rings, and is produced by a type of soil bacteria called strepromyces and is a byproduct of the bacteria living their normal bacteria life. This compound is responsible for this, but it doesn’t need to be a major compound to do so; the human nose is especially sensitive to geosmin, and it can be detected at levels of 5 parts per trillion!

6. What I am talking about?

The smell of the first rain

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Rules …

Questions on PounceYou have to identify the persons

Direct question = +10 / No negative

Indirect question = +10 / No negative

On pounce = +10 / - 10

Again , all the 12 slides have a common connection between them.

For The connection…

•In first 3 slides = +40 , -35• In next 3 slides =+30 , -25• In Next 3 slides =+20 , -15• In the last 3 slides = +10 , -5You have to write down the connection.

Here we go…

Albert Einstein

Niels Bohr

Ernest Rutherford

Enrico Fermi

Wilhelm Röntgen

Marie Skłodowska- CuriePierre Curie

Dmitri Mendeleev

Ernest Lawrence

Glenn T. Seaborg

Georgy Flyorov

JohanGadolin

Lise Meitner

Nicolaus Copernicus

Alfred Nobel

Hence , the connection is…

All those scientists whose names are used in element nomenclature.

or

Chemical elements are named after all these scientists.

The elements are……Gadolinium ,Curium , Einsteinium , Fermium , Mendelevium , Nobelium , Lawrencium , Rutherfordium , Seaborgium , Bohrium , Meitnerium , Roentgenium , Copernicium , Flerovium .

For Audience

Audience’s Connect :

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• It is a Painting by Salvador Dali

• It is one of a series of large canvases Dali created in 1963 now displayed at Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida

• The painting is essentially a tribute to lives lost in the Barcelona flood (a flash flood that killed 450 people).

• There are turbaned riflemen arranged in geometric squares each holding a gun to another's head, and a representation of something

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1. What was the inspiration behind this painting ?

• The name of the painting is Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid

• The name of the painting is taken from that of his wife (Gala), himself, and DNA; Galacid, dalacid, desoxyribonucleicacid

THE INSPIRATION OF THE PAINTING IS THE DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE OF DNA .

2.

X is an animal under the class Mammalia . A common myth about X’s English name is that X was a Guggu Yimithirr phrase for “I don’t understand you” . According to this myth , Cook and Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called . The local respond X , meaning , “I don’t understand you” , which Cook took to be the name of the creature . Though This myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guggu Yimthirr people , it is still in the controversy.

3.Identify this international award.

Breakthrough Prize.

4.

X is the most fascinating of all pregnancy related syndromes . It represents the characteristic idiopathic lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy mainly presenting in third trimester and associated with facial asymmetry caused by protracted and incomplete motor regeneration of the facial nerve.If one encountered a pregnant female with idiopathic left facial nerve palsy of initial House-Brackmann Grade vi who on serial monitoring with facial electroneurography was identified as this syndrome.

( A clue is on the next slide)

Mona Lisa Syndrome.

5.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury , published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and Fireman burn any that are found .

A movie With same Name and topic was also made in 1966.

Why the number 451 was selected ?

The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be Autoignition point of Paper.

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