1. ScEnt Prelims (with answers) Chandra and Ananth 2. A Big Thank You to Nptel for their Sponsorship Support! 3. A big thank you also to Rishi Rajashekaran from NITT for contributing to the quiz! 4. Rules.. 1. Teams of upto two. 2. Cross-College teams allowed. 3. 32 Questions. 4. Questions 14-21 are starred, and will be used to resolve ties. 5. If a tie still exists, sudden death starting from Q. 1 will be pursued. 6. If you do not have a second, please inform us. Well try and find you a team. 7. Feel free to guess, no negatives. 5. 1. The New York Times called it Ether Music Albert Einstein famously described it saying.. It was an experience as significant as that when primitive man for the first time produced sound from a bowstring." This instrument became known in the 1950s Sci-Fi classic: The Day the Earth Stood Still. The following circuit diagram is the most common one referred by all manufacturers. 6. Theremin. 7. 2. ID this upcoming virtual reality gaming system that is being worn by the people in the pictures. The company is based out of California, and Facebook agreed to acquire it in March, last year, though it is pending due to legal issues. 8. Oculus Rift. 9. 3. What song is the inspiration behind the lyrics of this song by Phil Kirk and Mike Gospel? (Starting Stanza)... Is this x defined? Is f continuous? How do you find out? You can use the limit process. Approach from both sides, The left and the right and meet. I'm just a limit, defined analytically Function's continuous, There's no holes, No sharp points, Or asymptotes. Anyway this graph goes It is differentiable for me ... for me. (Ending Stanzas) To revolve around the y-axis Integrate outer radius minus inner radius squared. (multplied) multiplied by pi (multiply). Multiply the integral by pi! Pi tastes real good with whipped cream! Mama mia, mama mia! Mama mia, let me go! Precalculus did not help me prepare for Calculus, for Calculus, help me! ... 10. Final Stanza... So you think you can find out the limit of y? So you think you'll find zero and have it defined? Oh baby ... can't define that point baby. It's undefined ... Goes to positive and negative infinity. (Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah) Differentiation, anyone can see Any mere equation It is differentiable for me. Any way this graph goes. 11. Bohemian Rhapsody 12. 4. Season 1 Episode 7 of Breaking Bad, which aired on March 9th, 2008: In the episode, the protagonist Walter White informs Pinkman he discovered an alternative method to cooking methamphetamine that does not require pseudo- ephedrine as an ingredient, to which Pinkman exclaims Yeah Mr. White!, _______________! How do we know this better? Though many erroneously add another word that this character is famous for. 13. 5. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Hominidae Tribe: Hominini Genus: Homo Species: H. floresiensis What nickname from the world of entertainment the was given to this extinct species upon discovery by the researchers due to the unique shape of the skull? 14. Hobbit. 15. 6. Due to the massive popularity of it, many people now mistakenly believe the popular game Threes! to be a clone of it, rather than the other way around. The game has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "almost like Candy Crush for math geeks", and Business Insider called it "Threes on steroids." It was the second most googled game of the year 2014 globally. It was created in a single weekend and received over 4 million visitors in less than a week. JayIsGames compared it to Flappy Bird "but without the infuriating mindlessness. What am I talking about, something all of have definitely spent hours together on? 16. 2048. 17. 7. The Economist went ahead and defined it as the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science. The most obvious symptom of the ________ effect is that jurors think they have a thorough understanding of science they have seen presented on television, when they do not. FITB. 18. 8. This is the largest flower on Earth. What is it called? It also serves as an inspiration for which Pokemon? Part Points. 19. Rafflesia (Rafflesia arnoldii), and Vileplume 20. 9. What is the green blank? 21. Moore. 22. 10. His research includes searching for Trojan asteroids at the Earth-Sun L5 Lagrange point. For his discovery of a planetary object beyond the Kuiper belt, 2008 NQ17(which he calls "Planet Bollywood"), he is included in People magazine's "30 Under 30 to Watch", granting him some form of celebrity status. He is also known for a publication on Kuiper belt object size distribution, having run a simulation to correct for the observational efficiency, and was awarded the Newcomb Medal. When his research testing the predicted composition of trans-Neptunian objects ends, his working permit and visa are bound to become void, as they are only valid as long as he is employed. Who? 23. 11. These are the features of a certain fictional device. Where would you have seen it? A central button called the Infusion Trigger that can activate all IV lines at once. Configurable control settings for the accurate monitoring and adjustment of Somnacin levels. 12 foot (4 meter) IV lines for versatile in the field set-up. LED display with atomized timer for monitoring precise flow rates. Synchronization monitoring chip for flow check monitoring and automated adjustment to optimize output flow. Lithium iodide batteries with life of 200 hours. Additional vial storage for multiple doses in the field. Case lock for prevention of system tampering. Memory backup for retention of infusion output data. Easy access to fuses and batteries for replacement. 24. Inception. 25. 12. 35 kms South-West Ica, Peru, in the November of 2008, researchers found a remains of Livyatan _________, an extinct species of a physeteroid whale. Researchers named the first part of this extinct species based on the English name of the biblical monster Leviathan, a sea monster referenced in the old testament. The second part incidentally came because the researchers behind the excavation were fans of a certain novel and appropriately decided to dedicate this discovery to the author of that novel by naming it after him. What is the second part to the name of this species or FITB. 26. A reconstruction of the whale. 27. Livyatan melvillei from Herman Melville. 28. 13. Other than the fact that these are Greek entities, they also form an inexhaustive collection of a mode of transportation in a fictional comic book universe. What is this a list of: Prometheus Hercules Odyssey Hermes Pericles Pericles III Pericles V Iliad Argonaut 29. List of S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarriers. 30. Start of Starred Questions 31. *14. X mitochondrii is a species of bacteria which infects the ovaries of the tick species Ixodes ricinus. Unusually, it specifically infects the mitochondria of the ticks. X refers to organisms described in the Star Wars prequel trilogy as being present inside all living cells, and being responsible for the Force. As X are believed to have been modeled after real-world mitochondria, and mitochondria are thought to have evolved from free-living bacteria which were incorporated into more complex cells, naming a bacterium which infects mitochondria after X is doubly appropriate. X? 32. Midi-Chlorians. 33. *15. Connect: 34. Hawaizadda. Shivkar Bapuji Talpade is an Indian scientist supposedly to have made have invented a flying machine during the end of 19th century. Ayushmann Khurrana is portraying Shivkar Bapuji Talpade. Pallavi Sharda and Mithun Chakraborthy is also acting in the movie. 35. 16.* She's a ________, pretty and bright with soft curls. She's a ________, a girl unlike other girls. She's a miracle, and I grant you She'll enchant you with her sight She's a small wonder, and she'll make your heart beat twice. She's fantastic, made of plastic, Microchips here and there. She's a _________, brings love and laughter everywhere. This is the opening theme song you would be listening to where you watching a popular Sci-Fi Sitcom if you were in the 1980s. The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human girl, then tries to pass it off as their adopted daughter. The story lines revolve around V.I.C.I. (an acronym for Voice Input Child Identicant, pronounced "Vicki"), an android in the form of a 10-year-old girl. Enough clues. FITB to get the name of the show. 36. Small Wonder. 37. *17. It went by the name Kensington Gore, and was the original trademark for this substance. The name came because of a pun on a London street and the name of a mansion nearby that street. Many varieties were available, having various degrees of viscosity, shades and textures. It was manufactured by a retired British pharmacist, John Tinegate, during the 1960s and 1970s, in the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset. Previously before this became common, in movies like Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho, the director used Chocolate Syrup instead of the above. What did this now dysfunctional trademark stand for? 38. Fake blood in movies 39. *18. In the video shown in the next slide, the person substitutes liquid Nitrogen for Ice Cubes for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, but does not end up suffering frostbite as we all think. What scientific principle did he employ to pull this off? 40. Leidefrost Effect. Him being careful to shake his clothing and hair is probably the main reason he's still fine, but, as you might already be able to tell, this isn't a very effective method of removing the liquid nitrogen from your body and personal effects. 41. 19.* Danish headphone manufacturer Aiaiai have recently released a model named the TMA-1 due to the Matte Black Finish and design of the headphones. (Picture on next slide) What is the name a tribute to? 42. Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1 ("TMA-1"), the name given to the moon monolith in 2001, a space odyssey. 43. *20. Mark O Donnell, an American writer and humorist, published an article containing the following for the magazine Esquire in 1980 Later in 1994 IEEE refined and popularised this idea. Some of the most frequently mentioned points of this idea are: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. All principles of gravity are negated by fear. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. Everything falls faster than an anvil. What two-word term has been used to describe the above list? 44. Cartoon Physics or Laws of Cartoon Motion. 45. End of Starred Questions 46. *21. (Long) X, a conglomerate, was founded in 1937 by Henry Ford and Ransom "Ranny" Olds after the perfection of the assembly line to serve as a front for an organisation to subjugate the world through economic control. They used the company to establish economic stability and accelerate scientific progress as a part of their duty to "shepherd those beneath us through life, even if force is required". They influenced the rise of capitalism in countries like Chile, Egypt and many other countries and started World War 2 as a means to draw attention away from their discreet activities. They also orchestrated the assassination of Kennedy and had Lyndon B. Johnson replace him so that he would launch the Apollo 11 to the Moon as a front to retrieve an ancient artifact which was believed to have been placed on its surface. They had also ventured into genetics and the association of memory with DNA. After a few issues with certain test subjects and controversies related to 'New Fluoride' and the launch of an illegal satellite in 2012, they had their accounts frozen and were subject to great investigation. Finally, they settled down to creating games through their Entertainment division as an attempt to distort history. What organisation is this? 47. Abstergo Industries from Assassin's Creed. 48. 22. The invisibility effect was achieved by having someone in a bright red suit (because it was the farthest opposite of the green of the jungle and the blue of the sky) the size of the Antogonist. The red was removed with chroma key techniques, leaving an empty area. The take was then repeated without the actors using a 30% wider lens on the camera. When the two takes were combined optically, the jungle from the second take filled in the empty area. Because the second take was filmed with a wider lens, a vague outline of the _______ could be seen with the background scenery bending around its shape. These were a part of the process in making which pioneering film, something that was remarkable in the 1980s? 49. Predator. 50. 23. Which fundamental particle gets its name from a passage in James Joyces Finnegans Wake? According to the person who discovered it, it could either mean the cry of the gull or a corruption of a measurement of alcohol. 51. Quark. 52. 24. In one of Arthur C Clarkes most acclaimed novels, a thirty- mile-long cylindrical starship is detected traveling on a course to pass through our solar system. A group of human explorers are selected and dispatched to intercept the ship in an attempt to discover its purpose, ascertain if there is any threat to Earth, and answer the mysterious questions regarding its origins and purpose. Because all extant names for Roman and Greek gods have been used on other newly-discovered celestial objects at this point, What do they do? (or) What is the name of the book? 53. They start naming celestial objects after Hindu Gods. Rendezvous with Rama. 54. 25. The following is a poster designed by General Motors for its stall in New York Worlds Fair 1964-65, similar to its predecessor hosted in the same place in 1939-40. Their stall had a show _______ in which visitors seated in moving chairs glided past elaborately detailed miniature 3D model scenery showing what life might be like in the "near-future", and proved to be the fair's most popular exhibit. Nearly 26 million people took the journey into the future during the fair's two-year run. The theme of the older fair held in 1939 was also similar to the 1964-65 version and was - "The World of Tomorow". What was this show called? 55. Futurama. 56. 26. The pheromone that attracts female mice to the odor of a particular male has been identified. Named "darcin" by researchers, contact with darcin consistently doubled the time spent near a male's scent. Touching darcin with the nose also made females learn that particular male's odour, subsequently tripling the time spent near to the airborne scent of that individual male. What famous literary character named after? 57. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. 58. 27. The Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explained that hed become an economist because of science fiction. When he was a boy, hed read X and become obsessed with the central character, Y. Y was a psychohistoriana scientist with such a precise understanding of the mechanics of society that he could predict the course of events thousands of years into the future and save mankind from centuries of barbarism. He couldnt predict individual behaviorthat was too hardbut it didnt matter, because history was determined not by individuals but by laws and hidden forces. GIve X and Y. 59. X - Foundation series. Y - Hari Seldon. 60. 28. This word, derived from Latin for maidservant, has now come to mean that which provides necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization or system. Which word, which is also used to describe AI-controlled human soldiers in Ann Leckies 2014 Hugo Award winning debut? 61. Ancillary. 62. 29. FITB/What is this a reference to? 63. Enders Game. 64. 30. This is an excerpt from Alan Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" published in 1950. The new form of the problem can be described in terms of a _____ which we call ___ _________ ____. It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex. The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." FITB 65. The imitation game. 66. 31. What is the Green Blanked out portion? 67. Comic Books. Kryptonite (Kr) and Vibranium (V) etc. 68. 32. What you will see is a revised version, but contains clips recorded on the International Space Station by this astronaut, now popular in social media. Name the astronaut. (or) Name the song and the artist both, for points. 69. Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space The song is Space Oddity by David Bowie.