Quizzone Finals - The Sci-Biz-Tech Quiz @ Convolution 2014, EE Dept., Jadavpur University

2. INFINITE BOUNCE - 1
• Clockwise
• 12 Questions
• +10 Flat scoring

3. 1.
• A thin-film transistor is a special kind
of field-effect transistor made by
depositing thin films of an
active semiconductor layer as well as
the dielectric layer and metallic contacts
over a supporting (but nonconducting) substrate. A common
substrate is glass. Where are these most
commonly used?

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5. • Thin-film transistors (TFTs) are mainly
used in LCD displays.

6. 2.

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9. 3.
• It was initially named „punkt‟ by Arthur
Korn. When brought to the notice of the
world it was described by Alfred Dinsdale
as “a mosaic of selenium cells, a great
number of small parts, thousands of little
squares, and a succession of little areas of
varying brilliance”.
• What is being talked about here?

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11. Pixel

12. 4.
• Three-dimensional versions of X are known to as
far back as at least 1862 (Pre-dating the widely
accepted 2-D 1869 version). More recent examples
include Courtines' Classification (1925), Wringley's
Lamina System (1949), Giguère's Helix (1965) and
Dufour's Tree (1996). Going one better, Stowe's
Physicist's version (1989) has been described as
being four-dimensional (having three spatial
dimensions and one colour dimension).
• What is being talked about here?

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15. 5.
• There is a story about an Indian temple
in Kashi Vishwanath which contains a large
room with three time-worn posts in it
surrounded by 64 circular plates made of
gold. Brahmin priests, acting out the
command of an ancient prophecy, have been
moving these disks, in accordance with the
immutable rules of the Brahma, since that
time.
• What is being talked about here?

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17. Tower of Hanoi

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20. • Einstein electrocuting an elephant to show
how dangerous A.C. can be.

21. 7.
• Despot Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko
banned a certain activity of public
acknowledgement, also used to show dissent, and
went to the extent of having an one-limbed man
arrested for supposedly indulging in it.
• What activity?
• What repercussion did this achieve in 2012 in the
US, something he had to give a miss since he was
banned from entering the States?

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23. • He banned clapping in public and for that
he received the IgNobel award for Peace.

24. 8.
• Cameroon tops this „dangerous‟ list with a
36.7% according to McAfee, followed by
the likes of China, Philippines and Samoa.
• Japan, Ireland, Croatia, Luxembourg and
Vanuatu are considered to be the safest.
• What am I talking about?

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26. • Domain name safety. Cameroon‟s TLD
(.cm) accounts for the most number of
phishing sites.

27. 9.
• 12th April 1888 - the Paris newspaper
"Ideotie Quotidienne" ("daily nonsense")
posted a headline “Le Marchand de la
Mort est Mort”.
• What happened as a result?

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30. 10.
• In colloquial lingo, what can be defined as
The defacing of
universities, schools, libraries and other
non-commercial spaces with
advertisements, logos, or corporate
slogans?

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32. • Brandalism

33. 11.

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35. UCB‟s Unhate Campaign

36. 12.

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39. AUDIENCE

41. SCORES

42. THEME ROUND

43. RULES
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Written round.
8 Questions connected by a common theme.
+5 for every correct answer.
+40/-20 for the theme in 1st set.
+30/-15 for the theme in 2nd set.
+20/-10 for the theme in 3rd set.
+10/-5 for the theme in 4th set.
Teams have 1 chance per set to guess the
theme.

44. 1.
• Albert Einstein kept a picture of X on his study
wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and
James Clerk Maxwell. Physicist Ernest
Rutherford stated; "When we consider the
magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their
influence on the progress of science and of
industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the
memory of X, one of the greatest scientific
discoverers of all time".
• It is said that had the Nobel Prize existed in his
time, he could have won as many as six.
• Who is being talked about here?

45. 2.
• 10th century mathematician Halayudha gave a
detailed description of this and drew a reference to
Meru prastaara or „Staircase of Mount Meru‟
which is perhaps the only surviving description of
the „arranged form‟ of the numbers.
• In China it is named after Yang Hui, in Iran after
Omar Khayyam and in Italy after Tartaglia.
• The widely recognized name was popularized by
De Moivre after he read a treatise on it being used
to solve problems in probability theory.
• What am I talking about?

46. END OF SET 1
• +40/-20

47. 3.
• Since college, Elon Musk's primary goal
was to commercialize electric
vehicles, starting with a premium sports
car aimed at early adopters and then
moving as rapidly as possible into more
mainstream vehicles, including sedans and
affordable compacts.
• What did he co-found as a result of this?

48. 4.
• In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize for
Physics along with Marie and Pierre
Curie?

49. END OF SET 2
• +30/-15

50. 5.
• X is global brand developed by Unilever. It
started as “Sunlight Flakes” in 1899 and is
noted have pioneered female celebrity
endorsements.
• ID X.

51. 6.
His forecast for practical
aviation was negative. In
1896 he refused an invitation
to join the Aeronautical
Society, writing that "I have
not the smallest molecule of
faith in aerial navigation
other than ballooning or of
expectation of good results
from any of the trials we hear
of.” And in a 1902 newspaper
interview he predicted that
"No balloon and no
aeroplane will ever be
practically successful.“
Who is he?

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53. 7.
• Historically a part of Lancashire, X was formerly a
farming area, but adopted the factory
system following the Industrial Revolution. The
principal industry in the area was
engineering, although many were employed in the
mining and textiles industries in the thriving areas
of Clayton Vale and Bradford.
• It takes its name from the old English for “new
town on the -----” where ----- means “an area of
open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy
soil, with characteristic vegetation of
heather, gorse, and coarse grasses.”
• Give me a two word name for X.

54. 8.

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• +10/-5
• LAST CALL FOR THEMES

56. EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS
PLEASE…

57. THE THEME

58. SCORES

59. INFINITE BOUNCE - 2
• Anti-Clockwise
• 12 Questions
• +10 Flat Scoring

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61. • Peter Higgs.
• The news that he had received the Nobel
Prize for Physics.

62. 2.
• The enterprise was started by Mahashay
Chuni Lal in Sialkot. In a few years it
became quite famous and they were called
“the pot chili people”. His son later shifted
to Delhi and opened the shop there under
the title Mahashian di hatti of Sialkot or
the shop of the magnanimous.
• How is this enterprise known to us?

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65. Ingredients
375g/12oz plain or sweet
meal digestive biscuits, crushed
150g/5oz unsalted butter
grated zest and juice of 8 large limes
570ml/1 pint double cream
1 x 397g/14oz can
sweetened condensed milk
crystallized lime zest, to decorate
Preparation method
Melt the butter in a small pan and stir
in the crushed biscuits. Lightly press
into the base of a 23cm/9 inch deep
loosed-bottomed fluted flan tin. Chill
whilst preparing the filling.
To prepare the filling: place the lime
juice into a large bowl, add the cream
and condensed milk. Whisk for 1-2
minutes. Add the lime zest and lightly
stir. Pour onto the prepared biscuit
base. Place onto a tray and chill in the
fridge for 1-2 hours. Decorate with
crystallized lime zest and serve.
• 3. The recipe shown
on the left would
probably have been
on the menu of most
cafeterias throughout
the world had the
„original decision‟
stuck. In fact it was
discarded for the very
reason that most
people around the
world hadn‟t heard of
it and/or had no idea
how it tasted.
• What is this recipe for
and what replaced it?

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68. 4.
• Padmashri M.S.Sathyu is well known for
his film Garam Hawa which deals with the
partition of India. Recently he came into
the spotlight again after being cast in an
iconic advertisement with a similar theme.
• Who was the advertiser and what was the
name of the character that he had
portrayed?

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71. • 5. X is an electronic
device that generates the
same tones employed by
a telephone operator's
dialling console to
switch long-distance
calls. It emerged in the
1960s and '70s and
allowed the users to
make free calls.
• ID this gadget. Who
made the one shown in
the picture which is kept
at the Computer History
Museum?

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73. • The Blue Box.
• Steve Wozniak

74. 6.
• The aim of the „Stop
The Cyborgs‟
movement is to stop
a future in which
privacy is impossible
and where the iron
cage of surveillance,
calculation and
control pervades
every aspect of life.
• What invention led to
its founding?

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77. 7.
• Though records of this practice date long
back to the 3rd century B.C. by Chinese and
Babylonian traders, a certain Nicholas
Barbon is credited to have started the
modern version of this concept after the
Great Fire of London had devoured more
than 13000 houses in 1666.
• What am I talking about?

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79. • Insurance 

80. 8.
• X died earlier this year after being in a
coma for eight years
• Such was the hatred for him that for many
years, a household product was the subject
of boycotts in many parts of the Middle
East, with some groups asking people to
shun it because it was supposedly named
after him.
• ID X and the product.

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83. 9.
• Because X occurs too fast for the pupil to
close, much of the very bright light passes
into the eye through the pupil, reflects off
the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out
through the pupil. The reflected light is
recorded. The main cause is the ample
amount of blood in the choroid which
nourishes the back of the eye and is located
behind the retina.
• What is being described here? Also, what is
X?

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86. 10.
• For people who get exasperated when their
computer/laptop hangs (e.g. yours
truly), more than often we perform, what
is known in geek lingo as PLOKTA or
PLOKTE.
• What exactly is PLOKTA or PLOKTE?

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88. • Pressing Lots of Keys to Abort/Exit

89. 11.
• Some say it‟s either Ben Lomond or
Pfeifferhorn from Utah‟s Wasatch Range;
others claim that it is Peru‟s Artsoneraju
or Italy‟s Monviso. All in all the true
inspiration is a mystery.
• What am I talking about?

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92. 12.
• How do the currency notes from
Bermuda, Colombia, Israel, Cape Verde
and Switzerland differ from the ones used
in the rest of the world?

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94. Vertically Oriented Currency

95. AUDIENCE

96. SCORES

97. Long Visual Connect
•20 Slides.
•+50/-25 for Set 1.
•+40/-20 for Set 2.
•+30/-20 for Set 3.
•+20/-10 for Set 4.
•+10/-5 for Set 5.

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102. END OF SET 1
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122. END OF SET 5
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• AND THE THEME IS…..

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