National Science Day 2019 Quiz, Cotton College - Mains

Venue: Cotton College
Date: 28/02/2019
Time: 12.30 pm
Researched and conducted by: Dr. Bibhuti Handique

 Round 1 – 14 questions
 Round 2 – 6 questions (written)
 Round 3 – 14 questions

 14 questions
 +10/-5
 Infinite pounce and infinite bounce

Its existence was first discovered by SirWilliam Crookes in 1879
using an assembly that is today known as a “Crookes tube”, an
experimental electrical discharge tube in which air is ionized by
the application of a high voltage through a voltage coil. At that
time, he labeled it “radiant matter” because of its luminous
quality. However, it was not until 1928 that the term ________was
coined by Irving Langmuir who was apparently reminded of
something inside the human body.
FITB.

A scientific study on acoustics published in the year 1988
contains 55 publications in the field of Acoustics and includes the
famous landmark paper ‘On the MechanicalTheory ofVibration
of Bowed Strings’ perhaps the most important contribution to
the theory of violins since Helmholtz.The volume includes six
remarkable papers on the acoustics of Indian musical
instruments--the mridangam and tabla, the only percussion
instruments in the world that produce harmonic vibrations, and
the tanpura and veena. Whose scientific landmarks in the field of
acoustics are being talked about?

 "Walking on the Moon" is a song by an English rock band , released
as the second single from their second studio album, Reggatta de
Blanc (1979). It is one of the first music videos to be shot at a
certain location in USA.
 Identify the band. And where was it shot?

 The Police
 JFK Kennedy Centre

 Krasevietz, Beck, Ikar,Tungus, Nalyot andToi are some of
the set of individuals that made critical contributions to a
seminal early 20th century scientific study.
 Who or what are these?

 In 2002 he received a patent for a "drumhead tensioning device
and method,"•one of several patents he held for drum devices.
His motorized "simple and inexpensive drum tuning device is
accurate and reliable and not subject to inadvertent
adjustments.”
 Who?

 Located at an altitude of 725m above mean sea level at Kavalur in
theVellore district in Tamil Nadu is a 2.3 metre long structure which
is one of the largest of its kind in Asia.The structure has been
operated as a national facility and attracts proposals from all over
the country and sometimes from outside India. In a befitting tribute,
the then Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, at a function held at
Kavalur on 6 January 1986, named it after someone who is regarded
in India as the father of a certain field.
 What structure is being talked about? After whom is this structure
named?

 Vainu Bappu telescope,
one of the largest
telescopes in Asia.
 He is the founder of
Indian Institute of
Astrophysics

 In computer programming jargon, a ________ is a software bug that
seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study
it.The term is a pun on the name of a physicist who first asserted the
observer effect of quantum mechanics.
 What is this software bug named as?

 ??
 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
 Life, the Universe and Everything
 So Long, andThanks forAll the Fish
 Mostly Harmless
 "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe”
 This is a series of novels created by an English author which
originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy. Name the first novel
in this series.

 Year 1977. In the upper left-hand corner is an easily recognized drawing
of the phonograph record and the stylus carried with it. Below this
drawing is a side view of the record and stylus, with a binary number.
The information in the upper right-hand portion of the cover is
designed to show how pictures are to be constructed from the recorded
signals.The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the
pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11.
Electroplated onto the record's cover is an ultra-pure source of
uranium-238 with a radioactivity of about 0.00026 microcuries.The
steady decay of the uranium source into its daughter isotopes makes it
a kind of radioactive clock. Half of the uranium-238 will decay in 4.51
billion years. What am I rambling about?

 Voyager the Golden Record Cover

 Gompertz function, is a type of mathematical model for a time
series. It is a sigmoid function which describes growth as being
slowest at the start and end of a given time period.The
Gompertz function is used in the Raza point score system.The
system was developed by, and is named after, Masoom Raza, a
PerformanceTechnology Analyst for UK Athletics
 What is the most famous use of the Raza point score system?

 Aplastic anaemia is a rare disease in which the bone marrow and the
hematopoietic stem cells that reside there are damaged.This causes a
deficiency of all three blood cell types: RBCs,WBCs and platelets.
 In the 20th century, two famous personalities succumbed to aplastic
anemia: one from the world of science who died in July 1934 after working
unprotected with radioactive materials for a long period of time and the
other one from the world of politics and social activism who was diagnosed
with aplastic anemia soon after being struck by a car in NewYork City and
later died in 1962.
 Identify both.

 Marie Curie
 Eleanor Roosevelt

 The only three countries in the world which are not using the
metric system: Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of
America

 ‘Measuring the World’ is a 2005 novel by German author Daniel
Kehlmann.The novel re-imagines the lives of German
mathematician X and German geographerY —who was
accompanied on his journeys by French explorer Aimé Bonpland—
and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure,
as well asY's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in
1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between X and his son
Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father
decreed that he study law.
 Identify X andY.

 X- Carl Friedrich Gauss
 Y-Alexander von Humboldt

 DiGeorge syndrome, also known as 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, is a
syndrome caused by the deletion of a small segment of chromosome
22.It is characterized by cardiac defects, abnormal facial features,
thymic hypoplasia, cleft palate, and hypocalcemia.
 What is the more common name of this syndrome that also has a
literary connection?

 Written round
 6 questions
 All the answers will consist of a number
 +10 for each correct answer

 __________ __ is an award-winning play by Anna Ziegler. It won the third
STAGE International Script Competition in 2008 and opened in theWest End
of London in September 2015. The title of the play comes from the nickname
given to an X-ray diffraction image taken by Raymond Gosling in May, 1952,
under the supervision of X, a PhD student at King'sCollege London. Later
JamesWatson was shown the photo by his collaborator, MauriceWilkins,
without X's approval or knowledge.Along with Francis Crick,Watson used
characteristics and features of this image, together with evidence from
multiple other sources, to develop the chemical model of the DNA molecule.
 FITB and give X.

 The writer’s favorite topic of speculation was the vehicle, but he also wrote
about weapons that didn't yet exist back then like the one he described in
one of his famous works ‘X’ as a gun that delivers a strong electric jolt.
 Of this device, the writer wrote: "The balls sent by this gun are not ordinary
balls, but little cases of glass.These glass cases are covered with a case of
steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles"—
18th-century devices used to store static electricity—"into which the
electricity is forced to a very high tension.With the slightest shock they are
discharged, and the animal, however strong it may be, falls dead.”
 Which present day device holds resemblance to the one described above?
Identify the work.

 In 2013, a pair ofAustralian scientists published a study in the journal
‘Physica Scripta’ that provides tools to measure the impact of forces like
gravity, atmospheric drag, wind and “lift” on the trajectory. Among other
things, the paper was able to measure the impact of wind on “lift” or
“Magnus” force, a course-changing effect. A cross-wind of only 14
kilometres per hour (nine miles per hour) could divert the point of pitching
by as much as 14 centimetres (5.5 inches), wrote the brothers.They added
the effects were not included in their calculations, and the results “are
really an approximation to the real situation”.To add to the conclusion
they said it was a combination of drag force (Fd), Magnus force (Fl),
velocity vector (V) and angular velocity vector (w).
 What am I rambling about?

 During its development, the creators humorously referred to their
lofty project as “How the Solar SystemWasWon,” a play on the
title of the 1962 western epic, How theWest WasWon.
 The first working title for the project was Project: Space, which is
listed in their first outline. Other temporary titles included Across
the Sea of Stars, Universe,Tunnel to the Stars, Earth Escape,
JupiterWindow, Farewell to Earth, and Planetfall.The official
press release lists the title as Journey Beyond the Stars, though
two months later the creator selected “X” as the final title, as an
homage to an 8th century BC work.
 What was the final title given to the project?

 This phrase is used to describe the emergence of an unforeseen
problem. It is believed to be an erroneous quote from the radio
communications between John Swigert and the NASA Mission
Control Center.The erroneous wording cum phrase was
popularized by the 1995 work “X” in which actorTom Hanks,
portraying Commander Jim Lovell, uses that wording, which
became one of the clichéd taglines.
 Write the phrase. And the 1995 work.

 Larry Shaw was an American physicist, curator and artist.While
working at the Exploratorium in 1988, he conceived the idea of X
which started off with a mini celebration.The next year, the holiday
was held for all at the museum and every year since, even the
museum was closed during its move.The celebration includes a
parade at 1:59 p.m. with visitors holding a ‘certain’ sign ,eating of
___ and singing happy birthday to Albert Einstein which falls on the
same date.
 Identify X.

 __________ __ is an award-winning play by Anna Ziegler. It won the third STAGE
International ScriptCompetition in 2008 and opened in the West End of London
in September 2015. The title of the play comes from the nickname given to an X-
ray diffraction image taken by Raymond Gosling in May, 1952, under the
supervision of X, a PhD student at King's College London. Later James Watson
was shown the photo by his collaborator, MauriceWilkins, without X's approval or
knowledge. Along with Francis Crick,Watson used characteristics and features of
this image, together with evidence from multiple other sources, to develop the
chemical model of the DNA molecule.
 FITB and give X.

 The writer’s favorite topic of speculation was the vehicle, but he also wrote about
weapons that didn't yet exist back then like the one he described in one of his
famous works ‘X’ as a gun that delivers a strong electric jolt.
 Of this device, the writer wrote: "The balls sent by this gun are not ordinary balls,
but little cases of glass.These glass cases are covered with a case of steel, and
weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles"—18th-century
devices used to store static electricity—"into which the electricity is forced to a
very high tension.With the slightest shock they are discharged, and the animal,
however strong it may be, falls dead.”
 Which present day device holds resemblance to the one described above?
Identify the work.

 TASER
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by JulesVerne

 This phrase is used to describe the emergence of an unforeseen
problem. It is believed to be an erroneous quote from the radio
communications between John Swigert and the NASA MissionControl
Center.The erroneous wording cum phrase was popularized by the 1995
work “X” in which actorTom Hanks, portraying Commander Jim Lovell,
uses that wording, which became one of the clichéd taglines.
 Write the phrase.And the 1995 work.

 Houston, we’ve a problem

 Larry Shaw was an American physicist, curator and artist.While working
at the Exploratorium in 1988, he conceived the idea of X which started off
with a mini celebration.The next year, the holiday was held for all at the
museum and every year since, even the museum was closed during its
move.The celebration includes a parade at 1:59 p.m. with visitors holding
a ‘certain’ sign ,eating of ___ and singing happy birthday toAlbert
Einstein which falls on the same date.
 Identify X.

 This instrument, as defined on Encyclopaedia Britannica is an "instrument
of unknown origin but going back to the 16th- century English
mathematician Leonard Digges; it is used to measure horizontal and
vertical angles. In its modern form it consists of a telescope mounted to
swivel both horizontally and vertically.”
 In 1802, for a scientific project, this instrument, weighing half a ton was
shipped to India from England.On the way, it was captured by the French
and taken to Mauritius. However, realizing that it was no weapon, it was
eventually returned by the French to Madras with good wishes.
 A)What is this instrument called and
 B) For what scientific project was it brought to India?

 A)Theodolite used to
measure the angles to
construct Indian map
as small triangles.
 B)The project was the
Great trigonometric
survey of India.

 This person’s contributions to the
science fiction genre as publisher
although not as a writer, were so
significant that, along with the
novelists H. G.Wells and JulesVerne,
he is sometimes called "The Father of
Science Fiction”.TheWorld Science
Fiction Society (WSFS) gives out
annual awards each year for the best
science fiction or fantasy which are
named after him.
 Just name the award.

 Hugo Award, named
after Hugo Gernsback

 PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse
width of 0.04 seconds. Discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and
Antony Hewish on November 28, 1967, it is the first discovered
radio pulsar.The image of the radio waves from this pulsar was
originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo
Observatory for his 1970 PhD thesis and later on it featured inThe
Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy.
 How did the image of the radio waves gained public consciousness
since the year 1979?

 In 2012, Monopoly came out with a special edition to celebrate
the centennial of X’s birth. X had enjoyed playing Monopoly
during his life, and the X-themed Monopoly edition was
designed based on a hand-drawn board created in 1950 by his
friendWilliam Newman.
 This special edition of Monopoly is based on whom?

 Apart from his famous inventions, he also dreamed up an unusual
musical instrument. In 1761, while in London, he heard strange sounds
created as a member of the Royal Society rubbed his wet fingers
around the rims of wine glasses. Inspired to make his own instrument,
he arranged 37 glass bowls horizontally on a rod and connected the
rod to a wheel and foot pedal. Eventually it became so popular that
Beethoven and Mozart wrote compositions for the instrument, and
over 5000 were built. But because this instrument was relatively quiet,
it lost popularity in the 1800s as louder, amplified instruments became
the norm.
 Identify this inventor and his invention.

 Benjamin Franklin
 Glass Harmonica or Armonica

 The _____ is an American technology news and media network
operated byVox Media.The network publishes news items, long-
form feature stories, guidebooks, product reviews, and podcasts.
 FITB and on which ‘impossible’ scientific concept is its logo based
upon?

 It was created by a team of IBM scientists at the company's
Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Using a scanning
tunneling microscope, CO molecules were manipulated into place
on a copper substrate with a copper needle at a distance of 1 nm.
The oxygen component of each molecule shows up as a dot
allowing the creation of images composed of many such dots.The
team created 242 still images with 65 carbon monoxide molecules
with the ultimate creation taking 18 hours each day for two weeks.
 What did they create that found its place in the Guinness Book of
World Records?

 X himself decided that he wanted his brain to be donated to science
upon his death. In a letter accompanying the donation, his son Henry
wrote: “I have no objection…to the idea of preserving the brain…Please
therefore do what you consider best…The brain should be known as his,
and disposed of in any manner which you consider most conducive to the
advancement of human knowledge and the good of the human race.”
 Half of his brain is preserved at the Hunterian Museum in the Royal
College of Surgeons in London, the other half is on display in the
Science Museum in London
 Whose brain is this?

 Charles Babbage, the father of computer

 This Google doodle is dedicated to which personality from the world
of science?
 The doodle also shows a device called a plant crescograph. What is its
use?

 Jagadish Chandra Bose
 To measure the growth of
plants

 The medal that you see on the next slide were given by a certain
country’s government to those firemen, civilians and Army
personnel who shed blood to prevent something , which by far is
one of the darkest chapters in its history.
 Which country and which infamous event is being talked about?

 Ukraine
 The infamous event talked about is the “Chernobyl nuclear
radiation leak”.
 The medals were designed to depict the blood shed due to the
radiation leak and the symbols alpha, beta, gamma refers to the
types of nuclear radiation.

 The 4 m tall bronze statue – a
naked X that interrogates the
geometries of the universe with
his dividers – was commissioned
for the new British Library in
1995, and stands in the piazza
near Euston Road. It was created
by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and was
based on a 1795 engraving by
William Blake.
 Whose statue is this?

The Balmis Expedition (1803–1806) was a three-year mission to the Americas
led by Dr. Francisco Javier de Balmis.The expedition sailed on Maria Pita and
carried 22 orphan boys (eight to ten years old) as the mainstay of the
mission.The person whose work they utilized wrote - "I don’t imagine the
annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as
this.“
Considered the first international health mission, it took ‘something’ to
the Canary Islands,Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, the Philippines and
China.
What did the expedition carry along with them?

 On November 24th, 1974, as dusk settled upon the southern edge of
the AfarTriangle near a village called Hadar, a team of scientists
organized byYves Coppens, MauriceTaieb and Donald Johanson
toasted a tremendous discovery.They had been scouring this region
for weeks--an areaTaieb had brought to the forefront of
anthropological research years earlier--and that morning their search
paid enormous dividends with the find of Dr. Johanson and his
studentTom Gray.While they celebrated for their discovery, a small
tape recorder blared ”X”, again and again. And then it struck
someone--what finer name than ____ for the incredible discovery
pulled from the sand that day?
 What discovery is being talked about and give me X?

 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
 Lucy, the Australopithecus

A _______ is a bird with a long thin beak that lives in wet areas found in Asia,
Europe and in some Outlying Islands of New Zealand.They feed mainly on
insect larvae. Camouflage may enable it to remain undetected by hunters
in marshland. If it flies, hunters have difficulty wing-shooting due to the bird's
erratic flight pattern. "Going on a ______hunt" is thus a phrase suggesting an
impossible task.
According to most sources, the origin of the term _______ was associated with
one's ability to shoot a “______”.The term came into being in the 1770s among
soldiers in British India in reference to shooting _____, which was considered a
challenging target for marksmen

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