THE SCI-TECH QUIZ

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Q-1

• Who’s guest starring in the new Angry Birds game?

• Shakira

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• The core philosophy of this is summarized by the document "PEP 20 (The Zen of X)", which includes aphorisms such as:

• Beautiful is better than ugly• Explicit is better than implicit• Simple is better than complex• Complex is better than complicated• ______________ counts• ID X

• Python

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• X was first demonstrated on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, playing The Castle and as a playable concept during E3 2014. X is revolutionising the industry massively and the industry which is barely known to shift trends has finally found its calling in this device being one amongst others. ID X.

• Project Morpheus or Playstation VR

Q-4• Web developer Jonathan Porta reported uncovering the issues in a

blog post on Friday. His concerns focus on seven key privacy settings. The settings allow X to:

• "Personalize your speech, typing, and inking input by sending contacts and calendar details.

• "Send typing and inking data to Y to improve the recognition and suggestion platform."

• "Let X and apps request your location.• "Send Y and trusted partners some location data to improve

location services."• "Use page prediction to improve reading.• "Automatically connect to suggested open hotspots. Not all

networks are secure."• ID X, which was the source of much controversy

• Windows 10

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• X was invented by two engineers Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne, N.J. in 1957. The two were not, however, trying to make a product to be used as ________. Rather, they were trying to create a textured wallpaper. They started out by sealing two shower curtains together in such a way that would give the textured appearance of their wallpaper. Needless to say, this wallpaper idea didn’t sell too well. Then they tried it as insulators. Give X.

• Bubblewrap

Q-6

• Id what this formula is used for?

• Temple Run score calculator

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• In 2008 _________ reached its most hydrodynamic iteration: called the LZR, it was designed in collaboration with NASA. It was comprised of polyurethane panels that were ultrasonically welded together to ensure there were no seams that would disturb the flow of _______. The polyurethane panels also helped to trap air. Incomplete description of what?

• Speedo’s most advanced swimsuits yet

Q-8

• Moore’s Law

Q-9

• Close up of what cell?

• Tongue

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• Madam Curie's daughter and Son-in -law also went on to win the Nobel Prize thus making the Curie family the first in history to be the truly 'Nobel' family. Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband won the Nobel prize for discovering artificial radioactivity, which had many implications because their experiment achieved a 'fantastical' dream. What?

• The alchemist’s dream of converting one substance into gold. ( they discovered artificial radioactivity which made this possible)

Q-11

• This highly rated 2015 science fiction thriller is often seen as a parallel of Google's attempts to dabble in Artificial Intelligence. The movie involves the creation of artificial intelligence using a Google like search engine that dominates the internet and routing all personal and public data to 'teach' the machine about human behaviour. ID the movie.

• Ex Machina

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• Will Shortz is the only person in the world to hold a degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles. What unique and prized occupation does he have considering the information given above?

• Editor of the New York Times crossword

Q-13

• The name of deadly X was a combination of the names of two of the components of its thickening/gelling agent:

• Co-precipitated Aluminium salts of Napthenic and palmitic acid.

• Also a very powerful attack in the popular game Pocket tanks.

• Napalm

Q-14

• X contains a strong pigment known as lawsone. Lawsone has a tendency of temporarily staining our skin. It gets absorbed in porous surfaces like skin and hair. The dye sinks into the uppermost layer of dead and soon to be dead skin. Due to natural exfoliation, our skin starts flaking and fresh skin replaces the old one and the colour of X also fades with the old skin

• Mehendi

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• Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modelled on Japanese image boards, particularly Y. The site quickly became popular and expanded, though much of X's content still features otaku, anime, and other Japanese cultural influences.

• ID X, Y

• 4chan, and 2chan

Q-16

• In current news, ID what the picture is representing. Be as specific as possible.

• Homo Naledi

Q-17

• ID the space craft or where it has been taken from

• The serenity from Firefly

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• In 1950, X published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, explaining the process of auditing, in which a counsellor guides a subject to recall traumatic memories and resolve the associated negative emotions. In 1953, having lost the rights to Dianetics, X created an expansion in Camden, New Jersey. What is being described here?

• Ron L. Hubbard and Scientology

Q-19

• X was named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist Thomas J. X 'He' was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! In 2011, Watson competed on Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. X received the first place prize of $1 million.

• IBM Watson

Q-20

• In 1905, a patent clerk from Bern published a number of articles that changed the world. The year 1905 was later called his ‘annus mirabilis’. Who was this man?

• As you might have easily guessed, Einstein.

Q-21

• Unlike most birds which hunt by sight or hearing, this bird has nostrils at the tip of its beak. It uses these to smell and find its food. What is this bird, which known for another reason to most of us?

• Kiwi

Q-22

• Who said this with regard to recent events?

• Richard Dawkins(Biologist)

Q-23

• What does this map depict?

• Areas without Internet

Q-24

• Mick Pearce designed the Eastgate Centre, a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe. He states that the design was modelled based on a X. Give X.

• Ant Hills/ Termite Mounds

*Q-25

• This science fiction object was in the news over period of 2014 and early 2015 when X released a video in which he had “tested” it. But later in a video, he apologised saying that he also wished like many fans of a particular science fiction franchise and beyond that it would soon become a reality. Then Lexus came out with a model that actually worked. Here’s an audio describing it.

• Queue Audio

• The Hoverboard

FINALS

SCI-Tech QUIZ

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• Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning "nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion"), is a form of brief cranial pain or headache commonly associated with consumption of certain foods quickly. It is caused by having something ____ touch the roof of the mouth (palate), and is believed to result from a nerve response causing rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of pain from the roof of the mouth to the head.

• Brain Freeze or Ice Cream headache

Q-2• The XY approach is a computational biology method of protein

function prediction, based on the idea that some proteins involved in a given physiological process may exist as two separate genes in one organism and as a single gene in another. Genomes are scanned for sequences that are independent in one organism and in a single open reading frame in another

• In November 2007, during its second flyby, the X was mistaken for a near-Earth asteroid and given the designation 2007 VN84. A trajectory calculation showed that it would make its closest flyby of the Earth at a distance of 5,700 km. This lead to the speculation that 2007 VN84 might be at risk of impacting the Earth. The asteroid later was identified to be X

• Rosetta Stone

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• Y’s work presaged the discovery of black holes, which at the time seemed so absurdly non-physical that X refused to believe that Y’s purely mathematical derivation had consequences for the real world. History clearly proved X wrong, but his motivation remains a matter of some controversy. Y’s narrative of this incident, in which his work is harshly rejected, portrays X as rather cruel, dogmatic, and racist. ID X and Y.

• X- Arthur Eddington• Y- Chandrasekhar

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• X is launching an ad-supported social network called Merry Jane for users and sellers of _______ products, something he has known to have endorsed quite a lot of times in the past, example via books which turn into makeshift accessories for ____________ etc. He announced the move at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this afternoon, saying the platform would launch next month with the perfect number of beta users—420. ID X.

• Snoop Dogg

Q-5

• Who working at an early version of what?

• John Logi Baird, Television

Q-6

• X is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line. It was derived from ____________, a patient who eventually died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951

• X is a fictional character , the Asgardian Goddess of death in the Marvel comic universe, based on the Norse Goddess ____. The ruler of Niffleheim, The character has been a frequent foe of Thor.

• HeLa or HeLa Cells

Q-7

• With an aptly named “Ludicrous Mode,” the top-spec, all-wheel-drive P90D touts a 2.8-second run to 60 mph. he 90, 85D, 85, 70D, and 70 trims dial back performance and range slightly as you step down, but still offer a classy cabin and electrifying driving experience. Range anxiety is almost eliminated, thanks to generous battery capacity and an ever-growing Supercharger network. Description of what? Be specific.

• Tesla Model S

Q-8

• This scientist, credited with coining the word 'Electrodynamics' for the first time, ordered the epitaph ' happy at last' to be placed on his tombstone. This was because he was chronic depressant, who lamented the death of his wife. ID the scientist.

• Andre Marie Ampere

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Q-1• X refers to a subgenre of science fiction and sometimes

fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial _____powered machinery. X works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which ________ power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs _______power. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Miéville.

• Steampunk

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• X came to Y's defence when only two days before being awarded the Nobel prize, news of Y's affair with her husband's former student broke in the newspapers and Y was asked to stay in France and not come to Sweden to accept the Nobel Prize. “ I am convinced that you [should] continue to hold this riffraff in contempt…if the rabble continues to be occupied with you, simply stop reading that drivel. Leave it to the vipers it was fabricated for” Id X and Y, who shared a professional and personal relationship as great friends

• Einstein and Curie

Q-3

• What phrase if you type on Google will give this number as the first result:

1.6699016 x 10^-8 Hertz

• Once in a Blue Moon

Q-4• X and other ________ represented light in a different way

than their predecessors, seeming to capture its motion, for instance, across sun-dappled waters, or in star light that twinkles and melts through milky waves of blue night sky.

• The effect is caused by luminance, the intensity of the light in the colors on the canvas. The more primitive part of our visual cortex — which sees light contrast and motion, but not color — will blend two differently colored areas together if they have the same luminance. But our brains primate subdivision will see the contrasting colors without blending. With these two interpretations happening at once, the light in many _________ works seems to pulse, flicker and radiate oddly.

• ID X, and fill in the blank

• Van Gogh and Impressionism

Q-5

• The last years of X’s life, 1710–1716, were embittered by a long controversy with John Keill, Y, and others, over whether X had discovered _______ independently of Y, or whether he had merely invented another notation for ideas that were fundamentally Y’s. Y manipulated the quarrel. The most remarkable aspect of this struggle was that no participant doubted for a moment that y had already developed his method of fluxions when X began working on_____________. Yet there was seemingly no proof beyond Y’s word.

• Leibnitz and Newton

Q-6• Sales of this device in India were halted following a temporary

injunction granted to Micromax Mobile, alleging that it violated its exclusive rights to distribute Cyanogen-branded products in South Asia as part of a new joint venture and that its agreement superseded the agreement it had established with X.

• The company disputed the arguments, noting that its Cyanogen-based software was different than that of Micromax's, and argued that the exclusivity agreement only meant that Cyanogen could not partner with any other company based in India, and did not inhibit the ability for X to market its products in the country with its trademarks. ID X.

• One Plus

Q-7

• X was a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines developed and used in the early to early-mid twentieth century for commercial and military usage. X was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. Early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, and were most notable used by _________.

• Enigma

Q-8• Neil Harbisson (born 27 July 1982) is a Catalan-raised,

British-born contemporary artist and X activist based in New York. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as an X by a government. His antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible colours such as infrareds and ultraviolets via audible vibrations in his skull as well as receive images, videos, music or phone calls directly into his head. His wifi enabled antenna also allows him to receive colours from satellites and hear extraterrestrial colours from space. What is X?

• Cyborg

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1.Mobile camera. 10. Invisible Braces2.Water filter. 11.LEDs3.Shoe insoles. 12.Smoke detector.4.Firefighter clothes. 13.Artificial limbs5.In ear thermometer6.Memory Foam7.Solar Panels8. Scratchless glass9.Cordless tools

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• The purpose is to "permit the wearer to identify for a third party a particular location on the wearer's body" in the event of something like an unreachable itch. Whose patent?

• Francis Ford Copolla

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• X disease which literally translates to, "it hurts-it hurts disease" was the name given to the mass cadmium poisoning of Toyama Prefecture, Japan, starting around 1912. The cadmium was released into rivers by mining companies. Due to the poisoning, the fish in the river started to die and water was then used to irrigate the rice fields. The rice absorbed heavy metals, especially the cadmium. The cadmium accumulated in the people eating contaminated rice. A typical case of heavy metal poisoning coupled with bioaccumulation, give X.

• Itai Itai Disease

Q-3

• The X is a method of measuring a civilizations level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilise. It is only a hypothetical tool but it puts energy consumption in a cosmic perspective. ID X

• Kardashev Scale

Q-4• In January 2014, it was revealed that X was considered a "leaky app"

and was used to collect data about its users including their sexual orientation and location by the NSA and GCHQ. In retaliation, anti-NSA hackers defaced _______'s website. Claims were made by Edward Snowden that the app was leaky and that they were capable of siphoning off data. Claims were made by Edward Snowden that the app was leaky and that they were capable of siphoning off data.

• According to The Register, the information was leaked through the in-game advertisement code like that embedded by Millennial Media: "Millennial's tracking software generates a personal record for each user that can store information from their political affiliation and sexual orientation to whether their marital state was single, married, divorced, engaged or 'swinger'. ID X

• Angry Birds

Q-5• The two-part, $100 million project, called Breakthrough

Initiatives, will be funded by Yuri Milner and span 10 years. Part one of the initiative, called Breakthrough Listen, will have access to the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory dish in Green Bank, West Virginia.

• In addition to radio observations, the project will also look for optical laser signals using the 2.4-meter Automated Planet Finder Telescope at Lick Observatory in California. In addition is also has a massive endorsement from X. What does the project deal with and who is X?

• The largest ever search for extraterrestrial life and Stephen Hawking

Q-6• Alligator, Anteater, Armadillo, Auroch, Axolotl, Badger,

Bat, Beaver, Buffalo, Camel, Chameleon, Cheetah, Chipmunk, Chinchilla, Chupacabra, Cormorant, Coyote, Crow, Dingo, Dinosaur, Dolphin, Duck, Elephant, Ferret, Fox, Frog, Giraffe, Gopher, Grizzly, Hedgehog, Hippo, Hyena, Jackal, Ibex, Ifrit, Iguana, Koala, Kraken, Lemur, Leopard, Liger, Llama, Manatee, Mink, Monkey, Narwhal, Nyan Cat, Orangutan, Otter, Panda, Penguin, Platypus, Python, Pumpkin (Sic!), Quagga, Rabbit, Raccoon, Rhino, Sheep, Shrew, Skunk, Slow Loris, Squirrel, Turtle, Walrus, Wolf, Wolverine, Wombat- CONNECT

• Names assigned by Google for anonymous doc viewers on the Drive.

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• X are a marine phenomenon which occur because of the temporary abundance of a particular species dinoflagellates. Under appropriate environmental conditions, these species can grow very rapidly, causing X. X occur in all marine regions with a temperate or warmer climate.

• X in the Gulf of Mexico, as a very specific case were a result of high concentrations of Karenia brevis, that occurs naturally but normally in lower concentrations.

• X-Red Tide

Q-8• Along with arsenic and mercury, X is one of the deadliest

elements on the table. But like osmium, this substance is also intertwined with the history of music. X bears the distinction of being the first element named in Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" song from the 1950s.

• In the grand tradition of horribly misguided medical cure-alls, doctors often prescribed X as medicine. One such patient who took it was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The genius composer was treated with X for his depression and fever shortly before dying at the age of 35.

• X is also the main constituent of Kohl and finds its usage since the Egyptian Era.

• Antimony