IET Presents

TECHXTREME ‘09

Rules

• The quiz will consist of two parts- an elimination round and a final round to which 6 teams will qualify.

• The elims will consist of 15 questions out of which few will be starred (*). The teams answering these questions correctly will be given higher priority in case of a tie.

• There is no negative marking and answers are expected to be precise.

• The questions will be displayed again after we run through all the questions.

• In any case of discrepancy the decision of Team IET will be final.

ALL THE BEST !!

Question 1

I am a professional organization working for science , engineering and technology.

I ‘m based in UK and am the 2nd largest engineering institution in the world.

With over 153,000 members world wide, I make a perfect representation of engineering profession in public concern and assist governments to make public aware of technological issues.

NAME ME???

Question 2(*)

What is the device that allows a cars driving wheels to turn at different speeds when cornering?

Question 3

What can be Truck mounted, sidelift, rail-road or bulk handling?

Question 4(*)

Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. "I sent a number of test messages to myself from one machine to the other," he recalls now. "The test messages were entirely forgettable... Most likely the first message was ___________ or something similar.“

Fill the blank space.

Question 5

_________ was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page and later Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, _________ continues to provide the basis for all of Google's web search tools

Question 6 (*)

TOPIO the bipedal humanoid robot is designed to play which sport ?

(HINT- He can give the Chinese a run for their money in this sport )

Question 7

Relate the three pictures

Question 8(*)

• _________is the nickname for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (codenamed "Ivan” by its developers)—the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons. However, the bomb yield was reduced by half in order to limit the amount of nuclear fallout that would result.

Question 9

In 1993, Dr Karlheinz Brandenburg, in collaboration with scientists at the FraunhoferSociety in Germany , used Suzanne Vega’s song Tom’s Diner to assess and refine an algorithm which would go on to become a revolutionary audio encoding format. What nickname did this earn Suzanne Vega?

Question 10

• Name the first genetically modified organism to be sold .(shown in the pic)

Question 11

Douglas Engelbart had invented a number of interactive, user-friendly information access systems that we take for granted today. Engelbarthas earned nearly two dozen patents, the most memorable being perhaps for his "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System“.

How do we know it now?

Question 12

“I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.”

This is the epitaph on the grave of which famous astronomer?

Question 13

What is used to indicate that the exchange is working, has recognized an off-hook, and is ready to accept a call?

Question 14

One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. X is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by X): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small that perhaps in the course of the hour, one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges, and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that X still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead X (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

Question 15

RISAT is a series of Indian reconnaissance satellites built by ISRO. They provide all-weather surveillance using Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR).The RISAT series are the first all-weather earth observation satellites from ISRO. Previous Indian observation satellites relied primarily on optical and spectral sensors which were hampered by cloud cover.After the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, the launch plan was modified to launch RISAT-2 before RISAT-1, since the indigenous SAR to be used for RISAT-1 was not ready.What does the acronym RISAT stand for?

Question 16(*)What is this?

Question 17

What was the patent-ship war between the Council of Scientific and Industrial research(CSIR) and the US over medicinal and healing uses of turmeric called ?

Question 18

The BAE Systems Land and Armaments XM1203 ________is a 155 mm cannon intended to provide improved responsiveness and lethality to the "Unit of Action" (UA) commander as part of the US Army's Future Combat Systems project. This mobile armored artillery piece provides networked, extended-range targeting, and precision attack of point and area targets in support of other combat units with a suite of munitions that include special purpose capabilities. The _ provides sustained fire for close support and destructive fire for tactical standoff engagement. The __ uses technology from the canceled XM2001 Crusader.

Give the name of the latest technology cannon.

Question 19

Chemical refrigeration in its earliest stages consisted of adding two salts in water, which cooled the water and created a refrigeration bath for cooling.

What are the two salts?

Question 20(*)

This photograph confirmed Einstein’s theory of bending of light. Who was the scientist behind this photo?