1. Science Quiz
Prelims

2. 1.Connect the 4 guys surrounding
the central guy.He is just a clue.

3. Answer

Fields Medal Winners 2010

In clockwise manner starting from top left corner:

Elon Lindenstrauss

Ngo Bau Chau

Stanislav Smirnov

Cédric Villani
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Vladimir Voevodsky is the guy in the centre. He is
also a field medallist. He was a speaker in
Techkriti 2011.

4. 2. What is being illustrated here?
(be specific)

5. 2.

Mendel's Laws of genetics showing the concept
of dominant and recessive characteristics

6. 3. What was this contraption used
for ?

7. 3.

Joule's heating apparatus used for verifying 1st
law of thermodynamics, by converting
mechanical energy from the paddles into heat
which caused the temperature of the water to
rise

8. 4.Identify.

9. 4.
Irene Curie(Daugther of Marie Curie) and
Frederick Joliot (her husband) recipients of
nobel prize in 1935 for their discovery of artificial
radioactivity.

10. 5. Identify this famous tree??

11. 5.
Newton's Apple tree.

12. 6. What discoveries/inventions do
these google doodles
commemerate? (0.5 points each)

13. 6.
Vitamin C.
Photography.

14. 7.ID X
Dr.X, Ph.D., is an experimental
physicist at the California Institute of Technology
Dr. X specializes in high energy physics, particularly
searching for supersymmetry with like-sign dileptons.
X believes loop quantum gravity is the future of
physics and better unites quantum mechanics with
general relativity than does string theory. She posits
that only loop quantum gravity calculates the entropy
of black holes and expects quantized spacetime to
manifest itself as minute differences in the speed of
light for different colors.

15. • Leslie Winkle from TV Show “The Big Bang
Theory”

16. 8. Who said this???
“We have always had a great deal of difficulty
understanding the world view that quantum
mechanics represents... I cannot define the real
problem, therefore I suspect there is no real
problem, but I'm not sure there's no real
problem.”

17. 8.
Richard Feynman

18. 9.
The customary unit for nuclear cross sections is
the barn. How much is 1 barn??

19. 9.
100 fm^2

20. 10.
After hearing whose lecture did Einstein remark:
“Marvelous, what ideas the young people have
these days. But I don't believe a word of it.” ???

21. 10.
Werner Heisenberg

22. 11. Arrange the following scientists
with their period of active research –
earliest period first.
Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo

23. 11.
Kepler, Copernicus,Galileo,Newton

24. 12. Identify.

25. 12.
Dexter's Laboratory, a cartoon from the late 90’s
in which the main character is a child scientist.
The series was a major hit in making science
“cool”.

26. 13. What is being talked about
here??

The text consists of the 108 verses and 13
introductory verses, and is divided into four
pādas or chapters:

Gitikapada: (13 verses): large units of time

Ganitapada (33 verses): mensuration, AP,GP
and equations.

Kalakriyapada (25 verses):different units of time
and astronomy

Golapada (50 verses):Astronomy

27. 13.
The Aryabhatiya

28. 14.
Give the term coined by the Scottish philosopher
James Frederick Ferrier meaning “study of
knowledge or science” in greek ???

29. 14.
Epistemeology
From greek “Episteme” meaning “knowledge or
science”

30. 15.
This class of particle derives its name
from the Greek word for intermediate,
because its predicted mass was
between that of the electron and that of
the proton, which has about 1,836
times the mass of the electron.What
are we talking about?

31. Meson

32. 16.
A did the experiment similar to shown in image A
B described the experiment shown in image B.
Id A and B

33. Galileo and Newton

34. 17. Connect
A.E.Beguyer de Chancourtois
John Newlands
Lothar Meyer
Glenn Seaborg
Hennig Brand

35. They all published precursors of the modern
periodic table

36. 18. Id X and Y
X said that he had discovered the shape of
Y analogus to a snake seizing its own tail (this
is a common symbol in many ancient
cultures) . It is curious that a similar
humorous depiction of Y had appeared in
1886 in the Berichte der Durstigen
Chemischen Gesellschaft a parody of
the Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen
Gesellschaft, only the parody had monkeys
seizing each other in a circle.

37. Kekule
Resonance structure of benzene

38. 19.
• “That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines
make the interior angles on the same side less than
two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced
indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the
angles less than the two right angles.”
• This is the last element of which famous set ?

39. Euclid’s Postulates

40. 20. Who are we talking about here ??
• One day a mother brought her son, Joseph, to ______.
He had fourteen wounds spread all over his body. Every
one felt sorry for the boy. They said, “The child is sure to
die.” Even _______had no hopes. But he had decided to
save the boy.
_______ had prepared a serum from a rabbit. He
injected the serum into the boy’s body, at first small
quantities. Slowly, he increased the dosage. On the ninth
day Joseph showed improvement. He was out of danger.
In three months time, Joseph walked out of the hospital.
He then became a perfectly healthy child. The year was
1885.

41. Louis Pasteur
Rabies Vaccine