Science day quiz finals with answers conducted by Dept of BT & BCE

This is the final round of quiz conducted by the department of Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering on national Science day 2020
Prelims round - https://www.slideshare.net/ManuSankarvSankarV/scienece-quiz-prelims-with-answers-conducted-by-dept-of-bt-bce

1. Created by, Manu Sankar V(B8) Amrutha V(B2) Pranoy J N(T8B) Date- 28-February 2020 Time – 1.00 pm Venue- SCTCE, Papanamcode

2. FINAL ROUND

3. RULES The finals would have five rounds , each containing five questions under the catgories of Women in science Science today India in science Science and history Visual round Each correct answer would yield 10 points 10 seconds would be provided for all teams , except the team whom the question is directed to for pouncing .

4. RULES A wrong answer for a pounced question would yield -10 points No negative points would be awarded for giving a wrong answer for the team, to whom the question is directed to . Questions can be passed , if the original team fails to answer the question correctly Answering a passed question correctly would yield 5 points No negative points would be awarded for answering a passed question incorrectly

5. ROUND -1 WOMEN IN SCIENCE

6. Q.1 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to accomplish a feat in 1984. Who was the first to do that , 19 years earlier in 1963?

7. Valentina Tereshkova

8. Q.2 Only two elements in the periodic table has been named after women .One is Curium (named after Marie Curie).which is the other element?

9. Meitnerium ( after Lise Meitner)

10. Q.3 Overshadowed, perhaps, by her more famous brother ,who was the first female to discover a comet?

11. Caroline Herschel

12. Q.4 I was a French scientist, born in 1897. My mother , father and my husband all were recipients of the Nobel Prize. Who am I?

13. Irene Curie

14. Q.5 Identify the personality mentioned in the doodle

15. Rosalind Franklin, an English chemist & X-ray crystallographer, who contributed to demystifying many bio-molecules including the DNA

16. ROUND 2 SCIENCE TODAY

17. Q.1 Due to their crown like projection on the s urfaces,_____ got its name. It resembles a crown when viewed under an electron microscope. ______ in Latin means halo or crown.

18. Corona Virus

19. Q.2 This invention was used internationally for the first time during the semi- finals of U-19 world cup held in UAE in . The inventor Bronote Eckermann said that he got the idea for this from a ball which lit up when it was thrown. Identify the invention.

20. LED glowing stumps & bails

21. Q.3 This place from UP gained sudden prominence in the news for having deposits of gold of 3000 tons. But the GSI said that only 160 tons could be mined. This is also the only district in India that borders four states. Name the place.

22. Sonbhadra

23. Q4 Hanson Robotics Limited is a Hong Kong based engineering and robotics company founded in 2013 by Dr. David Hanson. The company has patented the use of a spongy elastomer skin called ‘ Frubber ’- flesh rubber which has been called disturbingly realist to human skin. In 2017, a product of the company made news across the world and is the most popular product of the company. What ?

24. Sophia Robot

25. Q.5 Founded by Trip Hawkins in 1982 at Redwood, it is the most popular developer and distributor of video games. As of now it is the 8 th largest gaming company by revenue. ID the company.

26. ROUND 3 INDIA IN SCIENCE

27. Q.1 Plastic surgery is claimed to have originated from India, from which book has this claim originated?

28. Sustrutha Samhitha

29. Q.2 Rasa shastra is a controversial method treatment in ayurveda using a substance that is found to have toxic effects by modern medicine. Which is the substance?

30. Mercury

31. Q.3 Name the ancient Indian mathematician who authored a book by the name of his daughter Leelavathi .

32. Bhaskaracharya

33. Q 4. This Indian chemist has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He was the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He was awarded Bharath Ratna along with Sachin Tendulkar (2013). He has also authored around 1500 research papers and 45 scientific books.

34. C N R Rao

35. Q.5 They are depicted as the doctors of Gods and devas in Ayurvedic medicine. They are called Nasatya and Dasra though, not commonly known by another name. According to Mahabharata, Kunthi is depicted as worshiping them. Who are they?

36. Aswini Devas

37. ROUND 4 SCICENCE & HISTORY

38. Q.1Joseph Lister was a British surgeon.He went on to research about pathogens and introduced phenol for sterilization. What were his most important contribution to medical science?

39. Anti-septic Surgery

40. Q.2 This mathematician is credited with the discovery of the theorem of musical harmony and its basic intervals. He also believed that numbers also possessed gender. He is better known for a theorem he learned from the mathematicians of India and Babylonia. This theorem is very popular and often referenced in pop culture. Name the mathematician.

41. Pythagoras

42. Q.3 “Yes the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toes. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal. I go in only a fraction of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and treads in fine sandy particles.” What is being described here?

43. The surface of moon

44. Q.4 Mendeleev through his periodic table predicted the existence of three then undiscovered elements. Two of them are Gallium and Germanium. Name the other one, which he had referred to as ‘ eka -Boron’.

45. Scandium ( Sc )

46. Q.5 A device was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose to measure the growth of plants. It uses a series of clock workgears and a smoked glass plate to record the plant movements in higher magnifications. Name the instrument.

47. Crescograph

48. ROUND 5 VISUAL ROUND

49. Q.1 This Symbol, known as Ourobus is found in many ancient texts. This has inspired a person to a revolutionary scientific finding in the 1850s.What was the finding and who is the person related to the finding?

50. KEKULE BENZENE

51. Q.2 Identify the logo

52. Indian Council of Agriculture and Research [ICAR]

53. Q.3 The logo of which social media giant is inspired from this figure

54. Q.4 Identify the biological process shown here

55. Metamorphosis

56. Q.5 Connect

57. Cricket