QUIZZLY BEARS

AN INTER-SCHOOL SCI-TECH QUIZ BY D.A.V. PUBLIC

SCHOOL

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This is a widely popular mobile game in which the archenemies of the main characters were decided thanks to the prevalent H1N1 flu. The protagonists were selected as the creators liked the characters shown by John Isallo in a simulated shot.

2Established in 1959 and beginning operations in 1968, it is Ecuador's first national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site (whose logo is shown in the picture); and has many famous visiting sites, including Tortuga Bay.

Name it.

The concept of X was first introduced by Danish chemist Søren Lauritz Sørensen at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1909 and revised to the modern X in 1924 to accommodate definitions and measurements in terms of electrochemical cells.

What is X?

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The Shiitake is an edible mushroom native to East Asia, which is cultivated and consumed in many Asian countries. It is considered a medicinal mushroom in some forms of traditional medicine. These mushrooms have been used to model one of the most memorable characters in the history of video gamesIdentify the game

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The character X lives a double life as a member of an all-animal espionage organization - OWCA (Organization Without a Cool Acronym). It was made a ____ because of the animal's striking appearance and the lack of public knowledge of the animal, which allowed the writers to make things up about the species. Many environmentalists have also rated this TV series highly for spreading awareness among people about the existence of such an animal.

Identify X

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When the Internet was still a nestling, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on the World Wide Web. In an office on the fourth floor they placed the World Wide Web's central database. Some faulty requests were answered with a standard message: “___________”

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What feature of the confectionary is being highlighted

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X, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills X. There is a supposed 50% chance of this happening. Y implies that after a while, X is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the X either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.

This poses the question of when exactly superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.

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Winston Churchill was saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy X. A few years later Churchill telephones X’s parents, in gratitude, will sponsor X’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education.

X graduates with honours and in 1928 discovers that certain bacteria cannot grow in certain vegetable moulds. Identify X.

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Keratin reacts with Hennatonnic acid (aka Lawsone), via a mechanism known as Michael addition to create a stain. How do we know this process better as?

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Which famous scientist would you associate with the residence :

10 , Rajaji Marg,New Delhi

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The brand is the only drink in its family to have a Ph rating greater 7 indicating it’s basic nature, this fact is behind the name of this brand.

ID the drink.

IDENTIFY THE POSTER

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The disease was named so because of a prior belief that it happens by contaminated/bad air.

Hence it was called X (break it in 2 parts). X is till now responsible for maximum no. of deaths caused worldwide. Bubonic Plague comes a distant second .

Name the disease.

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Henry Tresca LavoisierPierre Laplace AmpereGay- Lussac CoulombPoisson PetietBreguet DumasFourier CarnotCauchy PerrierMorin Le

ChatelierLagrange Legendre

Fresnel and 53 Other Names.

16Where would you find these names ?

 In 1909, Mark Twain is quoted as saying: “I came in with ____ in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with ____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”

His prediction was accurate; Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910. What was he talking about?

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Taglines of which company

“Helping people rise up since 1850.”

“We are what is common to Empire state building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers.”

If I didn’t have you, life would be blueI’d be Doctor Who without the TARDISA candle without a wick, a Watson without a __________

I’d be cheese without the Mac,Steve Jobs without the WozniakIf I didn’t have you, life would be drearyI’d be string theory without any stringI’d be binary code without a one,A cathode ray tube without an electron gun

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On which monument, one can find this compound FePO4.H3PO4.4H2O

(Iron hydrogen phosphate hydrate) which gives the

monument a unique property ?

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