sci tech quiz 2013 - prelims
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1. Star Cast of Which Popular
TV Show
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2. Identify the aircraft name ?
This Swiss-built solar powered aircraft completed its first cross-country flight across
the US recently.
It has the wingspan of a Boeing 747, the weight of a Chevy Volt, 10-horsepower electric motors to spins its four props - and nearly 12,000 solar cells.
It wants to mobilize this enthusiasm in favour of technologies that will allow
decreased dependence on fossil fuels and induce positive emotions about renewable energies.
There is a plan to fly around the world, scheduled for 2015.
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Clue
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Solar Impulse
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3. Which technology ?
Invented by the U.S. Department of
Defense (D.O.D).
1983
President Reagan offers to make it available for use by civilian aircraft,
free of charge, when the system becomes operational. This marks
the beginning of the spread of this technology from military to civilian.
President Bill Clinton reaffirms the United
States’ commitment to provide it to the
international civilian community of users.
1995
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GPS Global Positioning System
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4. Identify the Company and Chairman ? 9
• 2013 Most Innovative Car - Popular Mechanics.
• 2013 "Motor Trend Car of the Year"
• 2013 "World Green Car"
• 2013 "Car of the Year“ - Automobile Magazine
• ‘Best 25 Inventions of the Year 2012 award’ - Time
Magazine
• At X he is Chairman
• At SpaceX, he is the CEO and Chief Designer
• At PayPal, he is a Co Founder
• He is widely compared with the Tony Stark
character of Iron man.
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Tesla Motors Model S / Elon Musk
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5. Identify
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Atomium, Brussels
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6. Identify this device ?
This device containing a rapidly spinning wheel or circulating beam of light that is used to detect the deviation of an object
from its desired orientation.
They are used in compasses and automatic pilots on ships and
aircraft, in the steering mechanisms of torpedoes, and in
the inertial guidance systems installed in space launch vehicles,
ballistic missiles, and orbiting satellites.
It’s one of the basic components of an Inertial Guidance
System (INS) along with accelerometers, and a computer.
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Gyroscope
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7. Connect
X is the illumination that is produced
by sunlight scattering in the upper
atmosphere, illuminating the lower
atmosphere when the Sun itself is not
directly visible because it is below
the horizon, so that the surface of the Earth is neither completely lit nor
completely dark. The word “X" is also
used to denote the periods of time
when this illumination occurs.
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Twilight Series ( for the lack of questions )
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn
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8. Connect
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Einstein – Rosen Bridge Wormhole
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9. CubeStormer II is a machine
designed for ?
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Solve Rubik's Cube
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10. FITB’s
The Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, commonly known as
the _____ ___ ____ ________) is a large-yield thermobaric (non-
nuclear) bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L.
Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. At the time of
development, it was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear
weapon ever designed.
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), nicknamed
“_____ ___ ___ _______" (FOAB) is a Russian made thermobaric bomb.
It is reportedly four times more powerful than the US military's MOAB
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MOAB – Mother Of All Bombs
FOAB – Father OF All Bombs
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11. What is a row of a periodic
table called ?
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A Period !!
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12. The Good Word
The taxon X was formally named in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen,
who used it to refer to the "distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian
Reptiles" that were then being recognized in England and around
the world.
The term is derived from the Greek words meaning "terrible,"
"potent," or "fearfully great" and meaning "lizard" or "reptile".
Though the taxonomic name has often been interpreted as a
reference to X‘s teeth, claws, and other fearsome characteristics,
Owen intended it merely to evoke their size and majesty.
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Dinosaur
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Opportunity Mars Rover beating the record of Lunar Rover.
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15. What is claim to fame of the
City of Ulm in terms of Science ? Ulm Minster is a church located in Ulm, Germany.
Although sometimes referred to as Ulm Cathedral
because of its great size, the church is not a
cathedral as it has never been the seat of a
bishop.
It is the tallest church in the world, and the 4th
tallest structure built before the 20th century, with a
steeple measuring 161.5 meters (530 ft.) and
containing 768 steps.
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Ulm being Einstein’s Birth Place
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16. Give the two word, X and Y ?
Dewang Mehta (August 10, 1962-12 April
2001) was the head of NASSCOM from 1991 to 2001. He is credited with a large portion of India's momentous rise as a "software giant“.
He wanted the benefits of IT to make its way down to the grass root levels and his favorite slogan, “roti, kapada, makan, X and Y” epitomized the needs of the emerging, 21st century Indian.
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Bijli aur Bandwidth
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17. Which place ?
According to the FAI (Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale) guideline, as of Jan 3, 2013, a total of 530
people from 38 countries are known to have gone into
space, but only 3 people have visited this place on earth.
Which place ?
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MARIANA TRENCH
23 Jan 1960 - Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard
26 Mar 2012 - James Cameron
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Zero-gravity Flights
In order for passengers in a plane to experience a free fall safely,
the aircraft must climb at a steep angle, level off, and then dive,
creating a path called a parabolic arc, also called a Keplerian
Trajectory or free-fall path.
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19. List Of ?
1. Train à Grande Vitesse
2. Shinkansen
3. ICE
4. Acela
5. Eurostar
6. Alvia
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Hi Speed Trains
1. Train à Grande Vitesse – TGV of France
2. Shinkansen – also known as Bullet Train in Japan
3. ICE - InterCity Express in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Germany
4. Acela - Only HiSpeed train in North America.
5. Eurostar - connecting London with Paris and Brussels.
6. Alvia – Spain, which is recently in news due to accident.
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20.List Of ?
Louvre Museum, Paris
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas
_______ Arena, Memphis
Walter ________, California State University, Long Beach
Transamerica ________, San Francisco
Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan
Osho international meditation resort, Pune
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Modern Pyramid Structures 42
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21. What is Urohydrosis ?
Condor is the name for two species
of New World vultures. They are the
largest flying land birds in the
Western Hemisphere.
Usually found in hot arid regions,
the condor uses urohydrosis to cool
its body temperature.
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The habit in some birds of defecating onto the scaly portions of the legs
as a cooling mechanism, using evaporative cooling of the fluids.
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22.Identify X and Y
Sixty years ago, on 28 February 1953, X walked into the
Eagle pub in Cambridge, UK, and announced something for which he would later share a Nobel Prize.
"We have found the secret of life," his collaborator and
subsequent fellow Nobel laureate Y later quoted him as saying.
The pair really had figured out something very close to
that.
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Double helix structure of DNA James Watson & Francis Crick
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23. Id the variables….rather the
constants.
X a former NASA roboticist had originally used Y as an instant
messaging screen name because he wanted a name without a
meaning so he wouldn't eventually grow tired of it. He registered
the domain name, but left it idle until he started posting his
drawings in September 2005 when X decided to scan doodles
from his school notebooks and put them on his webpage.
Eventually the comic was changed into a stand-alone website,
where X started selling T-shirts based on the comic.
The recurring themes include computer science, technology,
mathematics, science, language, pop culture and romance.
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Randall Munroe and XKCD
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24. Identify the movie and director ?
A is a movie by Director, B.
The plot of A takes a group of scientists through a wormhole into another dimension. From there,
we are taken on a heroic interstellar voyage to
the furthest borders of our scientific
understanding.
Mainly based on the scientific theories and
script treatment of renowned theoretical
physicist, Kip Thorne. A is set to be released in late 2014.
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25. The X Samhita is a Sanskrit text on surgery,
attributed to X , a physician who possibly resided
in Varanasi around 6th century BCE.
The text is one of three foundational texts of
Ayurveda alongside the Charaka Samhita and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript..
The text was translated to Arabic as Kitab-i-X in
the 8th century CE.
Reconstructive surgery techniques were being
carried out in India by 800 BC. X , the father of
Surgery, made important contributions to the field
of plastic and cataract surgery in 6th century BC.
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Sushruta
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Thank You
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