AIIMS School Quiz Fest - Catalyst'17 Science Prelims
- 1. CATALYST Science Quiz Prelims + Answers
- 2. The low cost (450 Crore Rs) Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launched by ISRO is one of Indian Science’s greatest Achievement. On which day of the week was the mission launched? 1
- 4. Although popularly known as the gift of the Americas to Europe, There are two hypotheses to the origin of this disease. Columbian and Pre-columbian - One proposes that X was carried to Europe from the Americas by the crew of Christopher Columbus in the early 1490s, while the other proposes that X previously existed in Europe but went unrecognized. What disease? 2
- 6. First, when gamma radiation hits DNA, it breaks the molecule's double-stranded, ladder-like helix, a process known as chromothripsis. Your body can repair a few breaks without significant loss of function. If many breaks occur – say, if you were caught in a giant gamma explosion – the repairs can become sloppy, and new instructions can be keyed into the genetic code. Alvarado suggests that it's possible that when X's DNA reassembled after the initial blast, it now included a handful of epigenetic switches. Instead of the switches being activated by light, however, the hormones produced when X is angry might flip the genetic switches to reconfigure his DNA to transform. Simple. Who’s X or funda. 3
- 8. • Neil deGrasseTyson claims that he has been falsely described as the killer of ______. • He goes on to say that the actual killer of ______ is Mike Brown, author of this book 4
- 10. During the early 2000s, Indian scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, proposed a plan to clone these animals obtained from Iran. India requested Iran to translocate one live pair to India. If not possible, Indian scientists requested Iran to allow them collect some live cells of this animal in Iran itself, which can then be made into living cell lines. What animal are we talking about? Hint: Which animal is extinct in India but still found in Iran? *5
- 11. Cheetah
- 12. • Back in around the late 1930s the dewan of the tiny princely state of Travancore Sir C P Ramaswamy Aiyar was instrumental in setting up the Travancore University in Trivandrum. (Now University of Kerala) • Aiyar tried to bring X to head the university offering a monthly offering a salary of Rs 6000 per month. This was a huge figure considering the Diwan himself drew a salary of Rs 4500. Though, citing 'his own reasons' X turned down the offer. • After X, CP tried to rope in a scientists like C V Raman, philosopher and former President Dr S Radhakrishnan and Dr Meghanatha Saha as pro-Vice Chancellors of the university, but those attempts also failed. • ID X 6
- 14. 7 • The exact meaning of the "p" in ______ is disputed, but according to the Carlsberg Foundation, the p stands for power. It has also been suggested that the "p" stands for the German Potenz (meaning "power"), others refer to French puissance (also meaning "power”) Another suggestion is that the "p" stands for the Latin terms pondus hydrogenii or potentia hydrogenii. It is also suggested that the initial founder, used the letters "p" and "q" (commonly paired letters in mathematics) simply to label the test solution (p) and the reference solution (q).
- 16. Identify this ‘liquid’ which seems to go about against gravity 8
- 18. • Identify the Author 9
- 19. A O Hume
- 20. • The Osmania University in Hyderabad has a Department of Parasitology. Whom is this Institute of Parasitology named after? *10
- 21. Sir Ronald Ross
- 22. Supposedly, the origin of what term? • Three ______ for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (The blank is the answer) 11
- 23. Quark
- 24. • The Department of Pediatrics, AIIMS has played a significant role in the development of Rotavac – A low cost vaccine against Rotavirus. • What does the Rotavirus cause? A leading cause of childhood mortality in countries like India 12
- 25. Diarrhea
- 26. • Law I Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. • Law II Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. • Law III Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. • Law IV The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. • Law V Everything falls faster than an anvil. • Law VI For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance. 13Incomplete list of what?
- 28. 14 The glossy blue fruit of Pollia condensata is one the most intense color by any biological material. But the color is not derived from any pigments. (Like chlorophyll, a pigment gives green). How then does Pollia condensata get its brilliant color?
- 29. Structural color, Bragg’s Scattering, Scattering, Constructive interference
- 30. The following are famous quotes of X about Y. Id X and Y. • "If he had a needle to find in a haystack he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once, with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was almost a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.” —New York Times, October 19, 1931 (the day after Y died) • "had no hobby, cared for no amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene." • “When you become a full-fledged American, you will appreciate an American joke.” (Y to X) • X vs Y is the most celebrated rivalry in science. Part points! *15
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- 34. 16 Here is the grave of Werener Heisenberg. There’s no fancy epitaph. But there is an urban myth that something is written on his epitaph. What?
- 35. He lies somewhere here
- 36. X was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic councils. All of these political and economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death. Benjamin Franklin was familiar with X, as they were both members of the "Benjamin Franklin inquiries" into Mesmer and animal magnetism. Who is X? The simplest one. 18
- 37. Lavoisier
- 38. 19
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