CONTEST AT ADISCO

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22ND October, 2021

ROUND ONE
PREAMBLE: Distinguish between collenchyma cells and sclerenchyma cells with respect to the
following
1. Status at maturity
ANSWER: collenchyma cells are usually living while sclerenchyma cells are dead at maturity.
2. Nature of cell wall at maturity
ANSWER: collenchyma cells have irregularly thickened walls (uneven primary walls) but
sclerenchyma cells extremely thick walls
3. Polymer constituent associated with secondary thickening in the cell wall apart from cellulose.
ANSWER: Collenchyma: pectin and hemicellulose
Sclerenchyma: lignin

PREAMBLE: Different species of bacteria have different numbers and arrangements of flagella.
Provide the names of the bacteria to which the following descriptions refer.
4. Bacteria which have multiple flagella located at the same spot on the bacterial surfaces and act in
concert to drive the bacteria in a single direction.
ANSWER: Lophotrichous bacteria
5. Bacteria which have a single flagellum on each of two opposite ends. Only one flagellum operates
at a time, allowing the bacterium to reverse course rapidly by switching which flagellum is active.
AN SWER: Amphitrichous bacteria
6. Bacteria which have numerous flagella located entirely around the bacterial surface hence
projecting in all directions.
ANSWER: Peritrichous bacteria

PREAMBLE: A thin rectangular plate of length 15cm and width 12cm has a mass of 6.0kg. What
is the moment of inertia of the plate through;
7. An axis along its shorter edge
ANSWER: 0.045𝑘𝑔𝑚2
1
𝐼 = 𝑚𝑎2 (𝑎 = 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒)
3
8. An axis along its longer edge
ANSWER: 0.029𝑘𝑔𝑚2
1
𝐼 = 𝑚𝑏 2 (𝑏 = 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒)
3
9. An axis passing through its centre.
ANSWER: 0.018𝑘𝑔𝑚2
1
𝐼= 𝑚(𝑎2 + 𝑏 2 )
12

PREAMBLE: leave all answers to three significant figures

10. Calculate the energy in joules of the longest wavelength photons in the Paschen series.
ANSWER: 1.06 × 10−19 𝐽
11. What is wavelength of the least energetic photon of the Balmer series
ANSWER: 6.56 × 10−7 𝑚 𝑜𝑟 656𝑛𝑚
12. Calculate the wavelength of the most energetic photon in the Paschen series
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22ND October, 2021

ANSWER: 8.20 × 10−7 𝑚

PREAMBLE: The purple colour of the permanganate ion is lost when reacted with ammonia
solution in catalytic amounts of an acid to yield a brownish-black manganese (IV) oxide
precipitate and trioxonitrate (V) ions in the process.
13. State the initial and final oxidation state of the central atom of the reductant.
ANSWER: −3 𝑡𝑜 + 5
14. Give the reduction half-equation for the reaction
ANSWER: 𝑀𝑛𝑂4− + 4𝐻 + + 3𝑒 − → 𝑀𝑛𝑂2 + 2𝐻2 𝑂
15. Provide the oxidation-half equation for the reaction
ANSWER: 𝑁𝐻3 + 3𝐻2 𝑂 → 𝑁𝑂3− + 9𝐻 + + 8𝑒 −

PREAMBLE: Write balanced equation for the complete combustion of a mole of the following in
excess oxygen.
16. Benzyl alcohol (𝐶7 𝐻8 𝑂)
17
ANSWER: 𝐶7 𝐻8 𝑂 + 𝑂2 → 7𝐶𝑂2 + 4𝐻2 𝑂
2
17. Benzaldehyde (𝐶7 𝐻6 𝑂)
ANSWER: 𝐶7 𝐻6 𝑂 + 8𝑂2 → 7𝐶𝑂2 + 3𝐻2 𝑂
18. Benzaldehyde (𝐶7 𝐻6 𝑂2 )
15
ANSWER: 𝐶7 𝐻6 𝑂2 + 𝑂2 → 7𝐶𝑂2 + 3𝐻2 𝑂
2

PREAMBLE: Calculate the area of a triangle with the following side lengths
19. 7cm, 6cm and 9cm
ANSWER:2√110 𝑠𝑞. 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠
20. 4cm, 8cm and 10cm
ANSWER: √231 𝑠𝑞. 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠
21. 5cm, 11cm and 12cm
ANSWER: 6√21 𝑠𝑞. 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠

PREAMBLE: Evaluate
22. The coefficient of the 5th term in the binomial expansion of (1 − 2𝑥)9
ANSWER: 2016
1
23. The 4th term in the binomial expansion of (4 + 2 𝑥)7
ANSWER: 1120𝑥 3
24. The 5th term in the binomial expansion of (3 + 2𝑥)6
ANSWER: 2160𝑥 4
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22ND October, 2021

ROUND TWO
1
1. If the geometric mean of 4 and 4 is x+3 ,find the possible values of x.
ANSWER: x= -2 or -4
6
2. If √𝑥 = 6, evaluate √𝑥 6 .
ANSWER: 618
1
3. If tan(A+B) = 7 and tan A = 3, find tan B.
ANSWER: -2

4. A sound wave of wavelength 45m passes through a wood block. Find the time taken to complete
two cycles if the velocity of the wave is 1.5 ms-1.
ANSWER: 600s
5. A -20mC charge moves with a speed of 8ms-1 in a uniform 0.5T magnetic field. Find the
magnitude of the magnetic force on the charge at an instance when its velocity vector makes an
angle of 30˚ with the magnetic flux.
ANSWER: 40mN
6. What is the SI unit of electrical conductivity?
ANSWER: Siemens per meter/ mho per meter

7. What products of glucose oxidation are essential for oxidative phosphorylation?

ANSWER: NADH and FADH2.
8. The alternate forms of a gene are called?
ANSWER: Alleles
9. State the function of the rostrum in prawns.
ANSWER: For defense.

10. State the expected products when molten KBr is electrolyzed using graphite as the electrodes.
Give the amounts of the products that will be formed after passing 0.150Faraday of charge.
ANSWER: Bromine gas at anode. Potassium metal at cathode. Amount of K formed is 0.150mol.
Amount of Br2 formed is 0.0750mol.
11. Air was sampled and was found to contain 4.2dm3 when the pressure is 1.2atm. What volume will
it occupy at 8.6atm?
ANSWER: 0.60dm3
12. 12.0g of impure magnesium yielded 17.0g of pure MgO. Calculate the percentage purity of the
magnesium and give your answer to one place of decimal.
ANSWER: 85.0%
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22ND October, 2021

ROUND THREE
1. Two figures with the same size are congruent.
ANSWER: FALSE
2. Two figures with the same shape are congruent.
ANSWER: FALSE
3. If two triangles are similar, then their corresponding angles are congruent.
ANSWER: TRUE

4. The medians of a triangle intersect inside the triangle.

ANSWER: TRUE
5. The altitudes of a triangle intersect inside the triangle.
ANSWER: FALSE
6. The perpendicular bisectors of the side of a triangle intersect inside the triangle.
ANSWER: TRUE

7. Cancer causing genes are called oncogenes.

ANSWER: TRUE
8. Regulator genes direct the synthesis of proteins.
ANSWER: FALSE
9. Genes that control the production of repressor proteins and “turn off” segments of a DNA
molecule are called structural genes.
ANSWER: FALSE

10. The Golgi apparatus was first described by the Italian physicist Camillo Golgi in 1890.
ANSWER: FALSE
11. Protein molecules from the rough ER are stored within the Golgi apparatus.
ANSWER: TRUE
12. The process by which large molecules such as hormones and enzymes are released from cells
is known as exocytosis.
ANSWER: TRUE

13. The amount of radiant heat absorbed or radiated by a blackbody does not depend on the nature
of the surface.
ANSWER: FALSE
14. The amount of radiant heat absorbed or radiated by a blackbody does not depend on the type
of radiation falling on it.
ANSWER: TRUE
15. The amount of radiation absorbed or radiated by a blackbody completely depends on the
temperature.
ANSWER: TRUE
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22ND October, 2021

PREAMBLE: A tuning fork and a guitar strong are sounded together.

16. If the tuning fork and the string produce sound od the same frequency, no beats are heard.
ANSWER: TRUE
17. If the beat frequency decreases as the tension in the string is decreased, the fork produces
sound of lower frequency than the sound originally produced by the string.
ANSWER: TRUE
18. If the beat frequency increases as the tension in the string is increased, the fork produces
sound of lower frequency than the sound originally produced by the string.
ANSWER: TRUE

19. Whereas benzene burns in air to give a smoky flame, 2-butene will burn with a luminous
flame.
ANSWER: FALSE
20. Whereas benzene will react with a 1:1 mixture of concentrated HNO3 and concentrated H2SO4
under reflux, 2-butene will not react.
ANSWER: TRUE
21. Whereas benzene will react with bromine in the presence of aluminium chloride, 2-butene will
not react.
ANSWER: TRUE

22. In the reaction between magnesium metal and steam to form magnesium oxide, magnesium is
acting as a reducing agent.
ANSWER: TRUE
23. In the reaction between silica and calcium oxide, calcium oxide is acting as an oxidizing
agent.
ANSWER: FALSE
24. In the reaction of chlorine gas with the metal iron, chlorine acts an oxidizing agent.
ANSWER: TRUE
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Questions by WGHS
22ND October, 2021

ROUND 4
Riddle 1
 I am a thermodynamic process.
 I am accompanied by changes in internal energy whenever work is involved with me.
 For reversible processes, I am equivalent to an adiabatic process.
 I occur with no change in a measure of the degree of disorder in the system.
 I am the thermodynamic process in which entropy remains constant.
 Who am I?
ANSWER: ISENTROPIC PROCESS
Riddle 2
 I am always opposite to the norm.
 If I were a force, I would be the equilibrant.
 However, I find myself in the field of mathematics.
 If I were applicable in computing, I would be Ctrl+Z
 I am a type of function which exists only when a function is one-to-one
 Who am I?
ANSWER: INVERSE FUNCTION
Riddle 3
 I am a type of asexual reproduction in plants.
 My name literally means “away from mixing”.
 I involve development of diploid embryos.
 Plants that go through my mechanism include citruses, dandelions and certain grasses such as
Kentucky bluegrass.
 I am the asexual formation of a seed from the maternal tissues of the ovule avoiding the process
of meiosis and fertilization leading to embryo development.
 Who am I?
ANSWER: APOMIXIS

Riddle 4
 I am a consequence of le Chatelier’s principle
 The resulting increase in pH when both sodium acetate and ethanoic acid are dissolved in the
same solution is as a result of me.
 Many transition-metal compounds violate me due to the formation of complex ions.
 For instance, copper (I) chloride is insoluble in water but dissolves when chloride ions are added
due to the formation of a soluble 𝐶𝑢𝐶𝑙2− complex ions
 I am seen as an effect on the solubility of salts and other weak electrolytes.
 I refer to the decrease in solubility of an ionic precipitate by the addition to the solution of a
soluble compound with an ion in common with the precipitate.
 Who am I?
ANSWER: COMMON-ION EFFECT