Science-Technology Quiz (School Quiz 2024)

Science-Technology Quiz (School Quiz 2024)

1. Schrödinger’s Quiz FINALS

2. Rules QMs decision is final +10 for every right answer Infinite Bounce Format Part Points wherever applicable All The Best!

3. Round 1 dRIES

4. 1. For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, has been tinkering with ______ _____ machines, getting them to spin out networks of tiny threads comparable in size, density and complexity to the patterns formed by capillaries. His goal has been to make fiber networks that can be used as templates to produce the capillary systems required to create full-scale artificial organs. FITB with a sweet treat.

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7. Answer Cotton Candy

8. 2. When asked about the structure, Wang Qing- the main architect of the building said, “The client wanted to promote Buddhism by building a contemporary Buddhist temple near Shanghai, so we read some sutras and extracted one of it’s basic concepts- reincarnation.” “We decided that the best way to represent it was by making the shape of the building stand out and created this one of a kind building.” What shape is this building based off?

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10. Answer Möbius strip

11. 3. X is a mechanically-interlocked molecule composed of five interlocking macrocycles that resembles the _______ rings. The molecule is a linear pentacatenane or a [5]catenane. It was synthesized and named by Fraser Stoddart and co-workers in 1994. Give the inspiration for the X’s name, that was in the news around June 2020.

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13. Answer X- Olympiadane or Olympics

14. 4. When this iconic vehicle was first made, the Metropolitan Police was skeptical about the stability of the vehicle due to its height and thought it would present a tipping hazard. The manufacturer disproved this using a tilt test showing that the vehicles were "capable of leaning , fully laden on top, at an angle of 28 degrees without toppling over”. What Iconic Vehicle are we talking about here ?

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16. Answer London Double-Decker Buses

17. 5 . On X's 72nd birthday, a UPI photographer was trying to persuade X to smile for the camera, but having smiled for photographers many times that day, X did something different. This photograph became one of the most popular photographs of X, often used in merchandise depicting him in a lighthearted sense. X liked this photo and requested UPI to give him nine copies for personal use, one of which he signed for a reporter. Which famous photograph am I talking about?

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19. Answer X- Albert Einstein Photograph---->

20. 6 . The _____ Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Centre with South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. The structure symbolises life and continuity,everlasting abundance and growth. Each night, pairs of green and red buttons labeled “c” and “g” or “a” and “t” and generate creative illumination from the ground, collaborating even more for a sensational experience of those who pass by the bridge. What is the inspiration behind the design of the bridge? FITB.

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22. Answer Helix Bridge DNA

23. 7. The fact that there was a component of air that does not support combustion was clear to Rutherford, although he was not aware that it was an element.It is referred to as burnt air _____ was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as "mephitic air" or azote, from the Greek word for “no life". In an atmosphere of pure ____ animals died and flames were extinguished. ID the element.

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25. Answer Nitrogen

26. 8 This asteroid was discovered by James B. Gibson on 16 August 1971. He decided to name this particular asteroid after his dog ‘Mr.X’. Though the asteroid was named after a dog, we know the name X for a different reason today as it is the name of a particular half-vulcan character of a famed and acclaimed sci-fi television series that premiered in 1966 with a pilot titled “The Man Trap”. Identify the TV series and the character X.

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28. Answer X - Spock Star Trek

29. Round 2 Video round

30. RULES SEND ANSWERS VIA CHAT to Rishi Karthikeyan ONLY ONE PARTICIPANT TO SEND ANSWERS (all in one message) VISUALS WILL BE PLAYED TWICE +10 FOR EVERY RIGHT ANSWER

31. 1 What is the common name of the foamy substance in the video?

32. 2 Identify the liquid shown in the video

33. 3 What experiment is being done in the following video ? (Specific Name)

34. 4 What scientific principle is demonstrated in this video?

35. ANSWERS

36. 1 What is the common name of the foamy substance in the video?

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38. Answer Elephant’s Toothpaste

39. 2 Identify the liquid shown in the video

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41. Answer Ferrofluid

42. 3 What experiment is being done in the following video ? (Specific Name)

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44. Answer Pavlov’s Experiment

45. 4 What scientific principle is demonstrated in this video?

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47. Answer Bernoulli's Principle

48. Scores

49. Round 3 Tributes

50. 1 Who did Sehwag unwilling pay tribute to?

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52. Answer Aryabhatta

53. 2 Who does this stamp celebrate?

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55. Answer Laika The first dog in space

56. 3 . What is this Comic Strip about?

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58. Answer Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

59. 4 . FITB or give funda

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61. Answer Dolly The Sheep The First Mammal to be Successfully cloned

62. Round 4 dRIES

63. 9. The following picture shows the natural phenomenon X. This phenomenon occurs due to sunlight being scattered by interplanetary dust. It shares its name with a popular system of categorizing birth years with symbols. After his long stint as lead guitarist in the band Queen, Y decided to finish his astrophysics degree and subsequently wrote a paper about the phenomenon X. Identify X and Y.

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65. Answer X - Zodiacal lights / Zodiac Lights Y - Brian May

66. 10. “Cadaeic Cadenza” is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. It is also one of the most famous literary work written in " pilish ". In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature in story, structure, and rhyme. What is special about it?

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68. Answer Each word tells the right digits of pi Cadae=3.1415

69. 11. The team of the Baby _____ Project sent collection forms to schools in the St. Louis, Missouri area, hoping to gather 50,000 _____ each year. Ultimately, the project collected over 3,00,000 _____ from children of various ages before the project was ended in 1970. The focus was on detecting the presence of strontium-90 that is absorbed from water and dairy products into the bones and _____ given its chemical similarity to Calcium. FITB

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71. Answer Teeth

72. 12. X is believed to derive its name from the Countess of ________, wife of a Spanish Viceroy of Peru. After contracting “an attack of fever” whilst visiting Peru in 1630, the Countess is alleged to have been cured by the bark of this tree. The bark of X was later used by Jesuit missionaries to treat various fevers. After the compound Y was extracted from X, Y was used instead to treat malaria. Y is also found in Tonic water and a modified version of it , Hydroxychloroquine is used against COVID-19 in severe cases. Identify X and Y

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74. Answer X - Cinchona Y - Quinine

75. 13. The last years of X’s life were embittered by a long controversy with John Keill and Y over whether X had discovered _______ independently of Y, or whether he had merely invented another notation for ideas that were fundamentally Y’s. 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_____________. ID X and Y. Also FITB

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77. Answer X and Y- Leibniz and Newton Calculus

78. 14 In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland was trying to find a replacement for shellac—that's an expensive resin secreted by a South Asian beetle—when instead he produced the world's first _______. By combining formaldehyde with phenol, which is a waste product of coal tar, and mixing in other materials, he accidentally created a non-conductive and heat-resistant polymer that is used in pretty much everything you see right now. FITB and the name he gave to this invention

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80. Answer Plastic and Bakelite

81. 15. Swami Vivekananda, late in the year l895 wrote in a letter to an English friend, "Mr. X thinks he can demonstrate mathematically that force and matter are reducible to potential energy. I am to go and see him next week to get this new mathematical demonstration. In that case the Vedantic cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations." Picture Follows ID X.

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84. Answer Nikola Tesla

85. 16. Cosmos Redshift 7 is a high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitter galaxy. The galaxy is observed as it was about 800 million years after the Big Bang, during the epoch of reionization. With a light travel time of 12.9 billion years, it is one of the oldest, most distant galaxies known. After Whom is this galaxy named? (not a scientist)

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87. Answer Cristiano Ronaldo( CR7 ) C osmos R edshift 7

88. Scores

89. TIES

90. 1. Who is the author of these books?

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92. Answer Stephen Hawking

93. 2 . Connect

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95. Answer Places that have elements named after them Poland-Polonium France - Francium Germany - Germanium Cyprus - Copper Europe-Europium

96. 3 . X is the Latin name for cuttlefish which produces a rich, reddish-brown pigment that comes in handy when a larger sea creature threatens it. X tone not only adds a more natural look to monochrome photos but it also turns the metallic silver in photographs to Silver Sulphide which doesn’t fade over time hence preserving the photo from environmental pollutants. It is now famous as a filter on used various social media sites under the name of X or ‘Vintage’. Identify X

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98. Answer Sepia

99. 4 . Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia , 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 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. What is this commonly known as?

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101. Answer Brain Freeze