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- 1. PEPSCI - Refreshingscience quiz (nothingofficialabout it)
- 2. TOTAL QUSTIONS –25 THEMES - 4 All questions on Pounce & Bounce marks - +10/ -5
- 3. Round 1 miscellaneous KEEPCALM and KEEP QUIZZING
- 4. 1. She onceconfided to a visitor that she fell in love with her handsome cousin X for quite a different reason: “because he played Mozart so beautifully on the Y.” X loved the music of Bach and Mozart that had much the same clarity, simplicity, and architectural perfection as his scientific work. X did not like less organized, more emotive music of late 19th-century figures such as Wagner. X owned several Ys throughout his life—but he reportedly gave each one in turn the same affectionate nickname. Identify X and Y
- 6. X - EinsteinY - Violin
- 7. 2. ‘Fenghuang’ (phoenix),‘Tianwen’ (questions for heaven), ‘Huoxing’ (X), ‘Tenglong’ (soaring dragon), ‘Qilin’ (Kylin), ‘Zhuque’ (rose finch), ‘Zhuimeng’ (chasing dreams) and ‘Fengxiang’ (flying phoenix). The above are eight names selected by Republic of China in first round. What do they relate to ?
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- 10. 3. The grandprize includes a National Geographic trip to the Galapagos Islands, a US $50,000 scholarship, and an "experience" at a small broken shack for a small organization; finalists will receive a US $15,000 scholarship and assorted packages from sponsoring organizations. The Competition is not open to residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Myanmar/Burma, Syria, Zimbabwe. Identify the event.
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- 13. 4. Which isthe largest volcanic (including dormant and inactive) region on Earth ?
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- 16. 5. X isdefined as “the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture, such as f/2.8 or wider.” identify X which is the pleasing or aesthetic quality of out-of-focus blur in a photograph.
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- 19. Round 2 –Business of science
- 20. 1. On June16, 1992 Paul Lewis, a Professor of English at Boston College, wrote in New York Times as follows: "...Ever since X’s baron rolled his improved human out of the lab, scientists have been bringing just such good things to life. If they want to sell us Y, perhaps it's time to gather the villagers, light some torches and head to the castle.“ Identify the writer (x) and the term used pejoratively to denote Genetically modified foods (y)
- 22. X – MaryShelley; Y - Franken food
- 23. 2. Nokia hasrecently launched a multi-purpose digital assistant which will act as an intuitive knowledge assistant for the telecom operators. Identify it which is known by its acronym. The acronym is the same as that of first name of a Bollywood singer whose brother is also a famous pop and bollywood singer.
- 25. MIKA ('Multi-purpose Intuitive KnowledgeAssistant‘)
- 26. 3. Identify thecompany (logo -big dipper) founded in 1998, whose name is derived from an element which is a rare earth metal known as most corrosion resistant. The metal is named after the Greek goddess that personifies rainbow.
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- 29. 4. In hishome laboratory in Philadelphia, Engineer Richard James attempted to invent springs that would support and stabilize sensitive instruments in naval ships on rough seas. One spring was knocked off the worktable and fell down. Seeing that he got an idea. Since the Navy was unresponsive to the springs, James spent the next couple of years perfecting his idea. He converted his idea into a commercial success. What was it?
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- 32. 5. Dr DavidHanson has created Sophia, a very advanced android to date. It was inspired by X and Hanson's wife. Identify X who was supposed to be the embodiment of classic beauty in Hollywood.
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- 35. ROUND 3: Failuresin Science
- 36. 1. Where (country)would you find the Museum of Failure?
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- 39. 2. Recently NASApaid tribute to astronauts who perished in missions that went wrong. Robert Donald Cabana the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Centre, while delivering a speech at the ceremony said, “. We got to the moon not in spite of X but because of X”. Identify X (mission or project name)
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- 42. 3. The companyTEB Technologies first unveiled X in 2010, and then again in 2016 at Beijing’s 19th International High-Tech Expo. X was touted as a solution for urban transport problems of China. But recently this year X was scrapped and found to be a scam. Identify X (technology or project). +
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- 45. 4. In the1880s, Albert Michelson tried to measure the “luminiferous ether” that scientists thought was the carrier of light. He couldn’t find it, because it didn’t exist. The Michelson-Morley experiment (1887) became what might be regarded as the most famous failed experiment to date. What was the personal significance of this failed experiment to Mr Albert Michelson?
- 47. The Nobel Prizein Physics 1907 was awarded to Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid".
- 48. 5. On 12November 2014, X touched down on the comet, but it bounced when its anchoring harpoons failed to deploy. Since it landed in a non optimal location away from sunlight its battery ran out soon ending the mission prematurely. Even though it was a failure, X achieved the first-ever "soft" (non-destructive) landing on a comet nucleus. Identify X.
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- 51. ROUND 4 –INDIA
- 52. 1. Forza Horizon3 is an open world racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows 10. Which Indian car (yet to be manufactured) has been selected as one of the cars in the latest edition?
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- 55. 2. Which Indianfictional character was played by the following actors? (the list is not exclusive)
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- 58. 3. Recently ISROsuccessfully launched GSAT 9 (south Asian satellite)into space. For the first time India achieved a feat with this satellite. Identify the feat.
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- 61. 4. The ministryof earth sciences is planning to dig a very deep borehole up to 8 kms into earth to study earthquakes. Identify the region or place which is known for high frequency of earthquakes including a very devastating one in 1967.
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- 66. DEEPAK PENTAL –INVENTOR OF GM MUSTARD
- 67. 6. In the1970s Economist Jagdish Bhagwati proposed a tax. Identify it.
- 69. TAX ON BRAINS(BRAIN DRAIN TAX)
- 70. 7. The drugwas invented by Koen Andries and his team (Swedish company -Janssen Pharmaceutica) in 2004. Recently 18-year-old girl from Patna, won a court battle to get access to this drug. Either name the drug or mention the disease this drug is used to treat.
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- 73. 8. In 2012,a jute bag of diplomatic mail, stamped "On Indian Government Service, Diplomatic Mail, Ministry of External Affairs", was recovered. The mailbag contained still-white & legible copies of The Hindu & The Statesman from mid-January 1966, Air India calendars, & a personal letter to the Indian consul-general in New York. This is proof of an accident which killed X, a famous Indian scientist. Identify X.
- 75. X - HomiJehangir Bhabha MONT BLANC (France) Air India flight 101 Crash
- 76. 9. Although educatedin the traditional allopathic system of medicine, X turned to homoeopathy. X established The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in 1876 which was the first national science association of India. Identify X
- 79. 10. What isArvind Gupta famous for?
- 81. HE MAKES TOYSFROM TRASH TO POPULARIZE SCIENCE
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