Space Quiz - Interhouse Senior quiz at ISG, 2024

Interhouse space quiz at ISG on 12/09/2024 conducted by sabyasachi and atharv

1. SPACE QUIZ -Sabyasachi & Atharv

2. ROUND -1: Round-Robin 8 questions going clockwise If a team is directly given a question, they have 1 minute to come up with an answer for +20 points. If the team gets it wrong, it passes to the next team and the direct team gets no negatives, and so on. If a team receives a question on a pass, they have to answer within 10 seconds. +20 for a correct answer, -10 points for a wrong answer. If they too pass it, they get 0. Questions pass until they return to the direct team, at which point the question is closed.

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4. Answer The Drake Equation From wikipedia : The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy In other words, it calculates the number of intelligent alien life forms in the Milky Way.

5. Captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Saturn’s moon Mimas, the image alongside presents the infrared response of the moon. The specific moon is associated with two pop culture icons. ID the pop culture entities being talked about.

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7. Answer Pac-Man and the death star

8. The symbols for the planets, moon and Sun ( along with zodiac constellations) were developed for use in both astronomy and astrology. Two of these have been greatly associated with gender, which were later adopted by greeks , and by extension, the Romans and became symbolic for genders. What famous phrase comes from these that became famous because of a popular 1992 book by John Gray.

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10. Answer Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus

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12. Answer Michael Collins - the loneliest human ever

13. A common urban legend says that NASA spent a large amount of money to develop ________, while the soviets just used a simpler solution. The truth is that the Fisher ___ company made the product privately and sold it to NASA due to the dangers associated with the earlier method. The product saved astronauts from smeared recordkeeping and inadequate quality documentation which led to russians starting to use it. What is this item that was perhaps most iconically used in a 2007 hindi comedy-drama film.

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15. Answer Space Pen

16. Q3 Purdue University in Lafayette, USA, is known for its amazing engineering department and alumni. However there is one such alumni who stands a cut above the rest. In fact, there’s a statue of him on the university campus, in front of an engineering hall named after him. Who is he?

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18. Answer

19. In the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Russia decided to honour its space culture in various ways. As part of this, the olympic flame was lit by the olympic torch which earlier had been carried to the ISS. In the same ceremony, a former textile factory worker and amateur skydiver was featured prominently. Why was she specifically given so much attention?

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21. Answer Valentina Tereshkova

22. Secretly established in 2000 with the goal for an ‘enduring human presence in space’, this private space company has been given due credit by it’s one time employee Neal Stephenson in his 2015 sci-fi novel ‘ Seveneves ’ Identify the company, and it’s very well known owner

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24. Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin

25. Round 2 6 Questions, all on the buzzer To buzz, raise your hand. Quizmaster’s decision regarding who buzzed first is final. +20 points for a correct answer, -10 for a wrong answer Questions do not pass

26. IDENTIFY

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28. Aryabhatta

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30. Answer The dog star - Sirius

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32. Answer Robert Goddard Creator of the world’s first liquid fuelled rockets

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34. Answer First complete picture of the earth, taken from the ATS 1

35. The very popular space film X explored a shortcut in space travel through means of Y. Albert Einstein was credited to have developed the equations for the discovery of Y and the equations for the discovery of Y and the equations are scientifically known as Einstein-Rosen Bridges. Y is named after an analogy where a curve is traversed through its medium, the latter which coincidentally has an important place in the annals of scientific history as according to legend it helped in the discovery of one of the most important concepts in physics. ID X,Y and this analogy(optional)

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38. Answer Rakesh Sharma’s answer, when he was talking to Indira Gandhi from the Salyut 7 space station

39. Round 3 8 questions going counterclockwise If a team is directly given a question, they have 1 minute to come up with an answer for +20 points. If the team gets it wrong, it passes to the next team and the direct team gets no negatives, and so on. If a team receives a question on a pass, they have to answer within 10 seconds. +20 for a correct answer, -10 points for a wrong answer. If they too pass it, they get 0. Questions pass until they return to the direct team, at which point the question is closed.

40. In a curious case of gender mismanagement, the 3 stars - Alnitak , Alnilam, and Mintaka are sometimes referred to as the three sisters, and sometimes as the three kings. Where can one find them together?

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42. Answer 3 stars of Orion’s Belt

43. Following is an exhaustive list of something in order: -58.64, -243.02, 1, 1.03 0.41, 0.43, -0.72, 0.67 What is it that we are talking about?

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45. Answer Lengths of days of every planet, in terms of Earth days

46. X initially called his discovery the Cosmica Sidera in honour of Cosimo II de’ Medici. At Cosimo’s suggestion, the name was changed to Medicea Sidera to honour all 4 Medici brothers (Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo and Lorenzo). The names that eventually prevailed were chosen by Simon Marius, who also discovered them independently at the same time as X. What is this discovery?

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48. Answer Jupiter’s 4 ‘main’ Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

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50. Answer Oman’s first satellite - Aman, developed by Etco .

51. The X’s primary mirror is comprised of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of gold coated beryllium, These combine to create a 6.5 meter diameter mirror that is much larger than the X’s 2.4 meter mirror. Unlike the Y, which observes in the near UV, visible, and near infrared spectra, the X will observe in a lower frequency range from long wavelength visible light to mid infrared. This will allow the X to observe high redshift objects that are too old and too distant for the Y and other earlier instruments to observe. It must be kept very cold to observe infrared radiations without interference, so a large sunshield made of 5 sheets of silicon and aluminium coated Kapton will keep X’s mirror and four of its scientific instruments below 50K. These two components - the mirror and shield give X its iconic shape.

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53. Answer The James Web Space telescope, which replaced the Hubble space telescope

54. Identify:

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56. Answer Copernicus

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58. Answer Antrix (from the hindi word antariksh ), the marketing branch of ISRO

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60. Answer Stephen Hawking

61. Round 4 6 Questions, all on the buzzer To buzz, raise your hand. Quizmaster’s decision regarding who buzzed first is final. + 20 points for a correct answer, -10 for a wrong answer Questions do not pass

62. Complete the list Mars : X Jupiter: Descendants or lovers of Zeus Saturn: Titans, Titanesses and Giants Uranus : Y Neptune: Water-based gods

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64. Answer Theme on which the naming of moons of the planet are based Mars: Phobos and deimos , the charioteers of Mars. Uranus: Shakespearean characters, eg. Titania, Umbriel, Miranda, Ariel

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66. Answer: The curiosity rover playing Happy Birthday to itself on August 5

67. This image is a perfect example of pareidolia - the psychological phenomenon of perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images. This particular image got its name due to this phenomenon. Specifically, it shares its name with something that happened on a hot summer afternoon in 1986 in Mexico city in front of an audience of 114,850 people.

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69. Answer The Hand of God

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72. SCA 905 and SCA 911, two extensively modified boeing aircraft

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74. Answer These were flights designed to carry the Space Shuttles

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76. Answer Historical sightings of halley’s comet which were captured on paintings.

77. Round 5 Challenge Round 8 questions, first 4 clockwise, last 4 anticlockwise At each questions teams have 2 choices - A) Answer directly for +20 or -10 B) Throw it to any other team. Team which receives questions like this MUST answer for +20 or -10. If u receive a throw, you may not throw again. Additionally, all the Qs have a common theme. Any team can buzz at any point to guess the theme for +50 or -25. Once a team takes a guess, no more teams may buzz for the theme.

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79. Mercury (The planet)

80. Venus, while being the hottest planet in the solar system and having a day longer than its year length, is also unique in being the only planet to undergo this phenomenon. This pair of these “events” happens 8 years apart, with a 120 year hiatus in between, a period of time which increases by 2 days every 243 years. What is this phenomenon, which helped early astronomers provide the first semi-accurate estimate of our solar system’s size.

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82. The Transit of Venus- Venus travels across the sun

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84. AURORA BOREALIS

85. Mars is known for having some of the most extreme terrain in the solar system, including it’s tallest mountain, Olympus Mons. However, before the discovery of more powerful telescopes, this geographical feature of its surface had a variety of theories behind its origin. The leading theory during the late 19th century was that the only explanation for these could be that they were created by an intelligent species with advanced technology. This led to widespread interest in the planet as a potential life harbouring planet, a theory popular even today even though the previous theory had been debunked by the 20th century. What is this a reference to?

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87. CANALS ON MARS

88. The Great Red Spot is a famous storm present almost perpetually on surface of Jupiter which is larger in size than the earth. In April 2017, a different “Spot” was discovered on the North Pole of the planet which is 24,000 km across, 12000 km wide and 200K cooler than the surrounding material. While this spot changes form and intensity over the short term, it has maintained its general position in the atmosphere for more than 15 years.

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90. THE GREAT COLD SPOT

91. In order to maintain its rings, Saturn has a number of satellite moons, the chief ones being X and Y. X - named after the first woman in greek mythology, who is said to have released all evil into the world Y- Champion of mankind who gave us fire by stealing it from the hearth of olympus , and in some versions of the myth, created humans from clay. What are X and Y

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93. X- Pandora Y- Prometheus

94. In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, 'In the reign of King George the Third'. This was a letter from ____ to Joseph Banks in 1781 regarding the naming of a newly discovered planet. FIB and name the planet

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96. WILLIAM HERSCHEL URANUS

97. Most languages today use some variant of the name "___X____" for the planet. In Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as "sea king star" ( 海王星 ). In Mongolian , ___X___ is called Dalain van ( Далайн ван ), reflecting its namesake god's role as the ruler of the sea. In modern Greek , the planet is called ___Y___ ( Ποσειδών ας), the Greek counterpart of ___X___. In Hebrew , Rahab (רהב), from a Biblical sea monster mentioned in the Book of Psalms , is the most common name. In Māori , the planet is called Tangaroa, named after the Māori god of the sea . In Nahuatl , the planet is called Tlāloccītlalli , named after the rain god Tlāloc . In Thai , __X___ is referred to by Dao Ket ( ดาวเกตุ , lit. 'star of Ketu'), after Ketu ( केतु ), the descending lunar node , who plays a role in Hindu astrology . In Malay , the name___Z ___, after the Hindu god of the s eas.

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99. Answer X: Neptune Y: Poseidon Z: Varuna NEPTUNE

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101. Tie breaker 2 The _____ is a zone of energetic charged particles originating from solar wind that are held around Earth, captured by the planet’s magnetosphere. Earth has two such belts, and they pose a huge threat to satellites due to the intense radiation which can damage sensitive equipment. Interestingly, this zone starts at about a height of 100 km and is normally considered the boundary between the atmosphere and space.