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Infinite Bounce 2

Anti-Clockwise19 Questions 10 Points Each

1.

"But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment.""I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod, "nothing but a ____ __.""A what?""Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy."This is an exchange between Zaphod and Ford Prefect in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Identify the phrase that fills up the blanks.

The answer is ….

Gnab Gib, which is big bang in reverse

2. In the 1950s Polio epidemic, severely affected individuals could be kept alive by Iron Lungs. But there were very few of these.

The first Respiratory Centre opened at the Bledgam Hospital in Copenhagen in 1952, the idea of Bjorn Ibsen, anaesthesiologist.

Elaborating on this, what other first did he go on to establish ?

The answer is..

The first ICU

(Intensive Care Unit)

3. It is silvery and stronger than steel but much lighter in weight. The malleability, lack of tarnishing and use of the metal in jewelry suggest some similarity to platinum, while its strength and lightness suggest titanium. Aluminum has also been suggested as a possible identity.

Connect the above description to the picture below, with one word.

The answer is….

MIThril

• MIT’s MIThril - the next generation research platform for context aware wearable computing

• The name is a wordplay on Mithril – from Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings

4.

• Microsoft Layer for Unicode (or MSLU) is a software library for Windows software developers to simplify creating Unicode-aware applications for Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me. However, the delay of its launch gave the product a pejorative codename. What was its code name?

The answer is…

GODOT

Named after the play Waiting for Godot (centered around the failure of a man named "Godot" to appear and the endless wait for him), because it was felt to be long overdue.

5.

• Tabasheer or banslochan is a translucent white substance, composed mainly of silica and water with traces of lime and potash, obtained from the nodal joints of some species of a plant. It is considered a cure for coughs and asthma, and is also thought to be an aphrodisiac. Which plant secretes this substance?

The Answer is…

Bamboo

6. Fill in the blank

• A gömböc is a convex three-dimensional homogeneous body which, when resting on a flat surface, has just one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. Its existence was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi. Its shape helped to explain the body structure of some ____________in relation to their ability to return to equilibrium position after being placed upside down.

The Answer is…

Turtles/Tortoises

7.Describe what’s happening in this video ?

The Answer is….

Flame in Microgravity/Zero Gravity

8.

• Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum is a species of great aesthetic value. After its discovery in the 50s, its status was mostly unknown, until it was found again in South America in 2009. According to School teachers in Japan, explaining the anatomy is a lot easier when you have even one such animal in your biology lab. What’s the common name of the Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum?

The Answer is….

Glass Frog or See Through Frog

9.

• This Physicist, was reportedly nominated for the Nobel Prize many times without ever winning. So the press refers to this scientist as the Dynasty of the Nobel Prize scene – that show was nominated for 24 Emmy Awards but never won. Who?

The Answer is ….

Lise Meitner

10.

• Dawn a science fiction novel by Dean McLaughlin is a re-imagining of Issaac Asimov’s classic 1941 short story, "Nightfall". Dawn is set on a world with six or seven "gods" — "Blazing A", "Red B", "Actinic C", "Bright D", "Gold Ephron", and "Embrous Zwicky". Turns out, the nomenclature began as a tribute to the authors of a 1948 scientific paper who argued that the Big Bang would create hydrogen, helium and heavier elements in the correct proportions to explain their abundance in the early universe. D was a very famous British Chemist of 18th Century.

The Answer is ….

• The Scientific paper in question was "The Origin of Chemical Elements", also known as the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper. So the planets were named Alpher, Bethe, Gamow and Dalton

11.

• The X point is a sequence of six 9s that begins at the 762nd decimal place of the decimal representation of π. It is named after X , who once stated during a lecture that he would like to memorize the digits of π until that point, so he could recite them and quip "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on", suggesting, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, that π is rational.

The Answer is…

Feynman

12. Who and what is he showing?

The Answer is…

C Ramakrishnan showing his PhD thesis. The picture is that of Ramachandran Plot

13.• A ________ is a unit of area. Originally used in nuclear physics for

expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is used in all fields of high energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process, and is best understood as a measure of the probability of interaction between small particles. A _____ is defined as 10−28 m2 (100 fm2) and is approximately the cross sectional area of a uranium nucleus. The ______ is also the unit of area used in nuclear quadrupole resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance to quantify the interaction of a nucleus with an electric field gradient.

• Two related units are the outhouse and the shed although these are rarely used in practice.

The Answer is….

Barn

14. What is being described here ?

• Dhenu stanya masoorika naraanaamca masoorika tajjalam baahu moolaaca satraatena gruheetavaan baahunoola ca sastraani raktolpatti karaani ca tajjalam rekta militam spotaka jvara sambhavam (Saakteya Grandhah by Dhanwantari)

The Answer is…

Vaccination

• “Take the fluid of the pock on the udder of the cow or on the arm between the shoulder and elbow of a human subject on the point of a lancet, and lance with it, the arm between the shoulders and elbows until blood appears: then mixing the fluid with blood the fever of the smallpox will be produced”

15. According to this recently published article in NEJM there is a positive linear correlation between a certain dietary aspect and winning nobel prizes.

What?

The Answer is…

Eating Chocolate

16. Id and connect the pics to the video.

The Answer is ….

• Dr. Paul Ehrlich with Sahachiro Hata• Salvarsan • Movie is Dr Erlich’s Magic Bullet.

17.

• In the year 2001 William Knowles, Ryoji Nyori and Barry Sharpless won the Nobel in Chemistry for their work on asymmetric synthesis. This process was mainly useful in the production of ______, the only known clinical treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

The Answer is

L-DOPA

• L-DOPA

18.

• The following curve is named after a famous 18th century scientist. The construction of this curve involves a mechanism that vaguely resembles his invention. Name the curve/scientist.

The Answer is

Watt’s Curve

19.

• In meteorology, an oktas is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of _____ _______ at any given location such as a weather station. Its value range from 0 to 8 (0 being minimum and 8 being maximum).

• A place like Hyderabad has an oktas value of almost 0 throughout the year apart from the monsoon season when the value is around 8.

• A place like Cherapunjee will probably have an oktas value of 8 throughout the year.

The Answer is

Cloud Cover