Science Quiz

1. SCIENCE AND A TINY BIT OF ENGINEERING QUIZ
DELHI 42 QUIZ CLUB
Mrudang Mathur

2. RULES
• 20 questions
• Infinite Bounce +10/0
• Infinite Pounce +10/-10
• Q.17-Q.20 is a connect round
• Quizmasters decision is final and binding

3. Q1. Put funda
0 : 1

4. ANSWER
• Duality

5. Q2. ID ( Scientific Name )

6. ANSWER
• Tardigrade

7. Q3. ID X and Y
Scott Kelly ( left ) is an American astronaut,
engineer and a retired U.S. Navy Captain.
A veteran of three previous missions, Kelly
was selected in November 2012 for a
special year-long mission to the
International Space Station, which began in
March 2015.
At the end of this mission Kelly will be
studied along side astronaut X to determine
the effects of extended space travel on the
human body.
This mission has a striking resemblance to a
thought experiment Y ,based on a famous
theory of modern physics.

8. ANSWER
• X : Mark Kelly
• Y : Twin Paradox

9. Q4. X and Y?
• X was a German scientist awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize for his work in the
production of inorganic compounds with Carl Bosch.
• He is considered to be the father of chemical warfare as he was instrumental in
the creation of Y, one of the most infamous chemical weapons in history. He
defended ____ warfare against accusations that it was inhumane, saying that
death was death, by whatever means it was inflicted.
• X is also known for his work in finding the lattice energy of an ionic solid alongside
Max Born ( shown below ).

10. ANSWER
• X : Fritz Haber
• Y : Zyklon B

11. Q5. X , Y ?
• X was the second ____ to be set up in the country after
_______ . It was established on 11 December 1961
with the active support of the Government of India
and the industry. The physicist Y and businessman
Kasturbhai Lalbhai, both natives of ______ , played
pivotal roles in setting up the Institute.
• The institute's main building was designed by American
architect Louis Kahn. The New Campus, an extension
stemming from growing needs of the institute, and an
underpass connecting the two campuses, has been
designed by Bimal Patel.

12. ANSWER
• X : IIM Ahmedabad
Y : Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

13. Q6. FITB
• A _________ is a mechanical device that changes
the direction or magnitude of a force.
• The term _________ is said to be coined by
Renaissance scientists who drew upon the works
of Greek thinkers such as Hero of Alexandria.
• ________ are considered the foundations of
modern mechanisms.
• +5 for each example of the above.

14. ANSWER
• Simple Machines
1. Lever
2. Pulley
3. Wheel and Axle
4. Wedge
5. Inclined Plane
6. Screw

15. Q7. ID X
• X is a disease whose symptoms include frequent
urination, increased thirst and increased hunger. Indian
physicians around 1500 BCE first identified the disease
and classified it as ‘madhumeha’ . Its modern name X
or "to pass through" was first used in 230 BCE by the
Greek Apollonius of Memphis.
• The 1989 "St. Vincent Declaration" was the result of
international efforts to improve the care accorded to
those with X .
• The testing for X has changed over the years. It has
moved from investigating the properties of a
Newtonian Fluid to those of a Non- Newtonian Fluid.

16. ANSWER
• X : Diabetes

17. Q.8 NDT responding to who and why ?

18. ANSWER

19. Q.9 Connect

20. ANSWER
• Fullerenes / Buckyballs

21. Q.10 What is blanked out ?

22. ANSWER
• Mathematics

23. Q11. To which family does Eve belong
?
• This is Eve
• Eve wrote her
mother’s biography
• Eve is not a scientist
but the rest of her
family is .
• Eve’s family is full of
overachievers.
• We’re all a bit like Eve.

24. ANSWER
• The Curie Family

25. Q12. What monikers ?
• Mrs. Tessy Thomas hails from Alappuzha and
born on April 1963, Kerala. She was born to a
small-businessman father and a homemaker
mother and did her engineering graduation
from Government Engineering College,
Thrissur. She grew up near a rocket launching
station and says her fascination with rockets
and missiles began then. She also has an
M.Tech in Guided Missile from the Institute of
Armament Technology, Pune (now known as
the Defence Institute of Advanced
Technology).
• She was appointed as director for the
_________ project and conferred the Lal
Bahadur Shastri National Award for her
outstanding contribution for making India
self-reliant in its own defence.
• This has led to her gaining two monikers from
the Indian media.

26. ANSWER
• Agniputri
• Missile Woman of India

27. Q13. X and Y ?
• M5 Industries (M5i) is a special effects company located in San
Francisco, California best known as the working lab of ______. M5
once produced special effects props for commercials and film, stop
motion animation, and animatronic puppets, such as those seen in
James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
They also extend into prototype development and various display
projects.
• The company's name was suggested by X . He intended to suggest
the name of either the branch of the British secret service which
built gadgets in James Bond fiction (Q Branch) or British secret
service itself (MI6), but was mistaken as to the correct name, and
suggested M5. X alleges that Y never paid him the promised $50
prize for having his suggestion selected.

28. ANSWER

29. Q14. What am I talking about ?
• Effects include
1. Blindness
2. Mental health problems
3. Impotence
4. Excessive growth of hair in ones palms

30. ANSWER
• Myths associated with “playing with your
selfie stick”

31. Q.15 X and Y ?
• X was invented by Paul C. Lauterbur in
September 1971; he published the theory
behind it in March 1973.
• Due to mass hysteria present in the 70s
regarding ________ the name of the process
had to be changed to Y .
• Paul C. Lauterbur received the Nobel Prize in
medicine for this in 2003.

32. ANSWER
• X: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Y: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

33. Q.16 ID
• He is an English-born
American theoretical
physicist and
mathematician, known
for his work in quantum
electrodynamics, solid-
state physics, astronomy
and nuclear engineering.
• His name has been in
the news recently due to
some ‘xeno’ affairs.

34. ANSWER
• Freeman Dyson

35. MEGA CONNECT W00T W00T

36. Rules
• Pounce and Bounce rules continue
• For the connect :
+60/-30
+40/-20
+20/-10
+10/0

37. +60/-30
• _____________ was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and
mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma
physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space.
• _______ research centered on the interstellar medium, to which he brought a
deep understanding of plasma physics. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was among the
first to recognize star formation as an ongoing contemporary process. His
monographs, "Diffuse Matter in Space" (1968) and "Physical Processes in the
Interstellar Medium" (1978) consolidated decades of work, and themselves
became the standard texts for some decades more.
• He was the founding director of Project Matterhorn, Princeton University's
pioneering program in controlled thermonuclear research, renamed in 1961 as
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
• FITB

38. ANSWER
• Lyman Spitzer

39. +40/-20
• The X Y is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.
The Y was first indicated in papers published by Wilhelm
Anderson and E. C. Stoner, and was named after X, who
independently discovered and improved upon the accuracy
of the calculation in 1930, at the age of 19. This limit was
initially ignored by the community of scientists because
such a limit would logically require the existence of black
holes, which were considered a scientific impossibility at
the time.
• The current accepted value is about 2.765 X 1030 kg.
X and Y ?

40. ANSWER
• X Y : Chandrashekhar Limit

41. +20/-10
• Cavendish Laboratory , Cambridge University
(1919 )
• Nobel Prize for Physics ( 1927 )
• Chicago Pile-1 ( 1942 )
• Manhattan Project ( 1942 )
• Chancellor ,Washington University ( 1946 )
• The Moon ( posthumous )
• Achievements and appointments of who ?

42. ANSWER
• Arthur Compton

43. +10/0
• Objects observed in deep space (extragalactic space, 10
megaparsecs (Mpc) or more) are found to have a Doppler
shift interpretable as relative velocity away from Earth;
• This Doppler-shift-measured velocity, of various galaxies
receding from the Earth, is approximately proportional to
their distance from the Earth for galaxies up to a few
hundred megaparsecs away.
Statements from which law ?

44. ANSWER
• Hubble’s Law

45. CONNECT
• NASA’s Great Observatories / Space Telescopes
• 1. Spitzer Space Telescope
• 2. Chandra X-Ray Observatory
• 3. Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
• 4. Hubble Space Telescope