Quiz Quest - The annual inter-school quiz competition held by the Quiz Club of SBOA School & Junior College, Chennai. Genre : General.

1. The GK Club,
SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE
QUIZ QUEST 2015

2. ANSWERS

3. Question 1
Logo of?

4. Answer 1
International Year Of Light!

5. Question 2
What was going on here?

6. Answer 2
The Manhattan Project

7. Question 3
X (1816-1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. X’s name
has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance(with
symbol S). He was also the founder of the electrical and
telecommunications company X.

8. Answer 3
Siemens

9. Question 4
What is being illustrated in this image?

10. Answer 4
The Raman Effect

11. Question 5
Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect from
Poughkeepsie, New York, decided to invent
a board game. He attempted to create a game that would use both
chance and skill. To decide on letter distribution, he studied the front
page of The New York Times and did painstaking calculations on
letter frequency. His basic cryptographic analysis of our language
and his original tile distribution have remained valid for almost three
generations. What game am I talking about?

12. Answer 5
Scrabble

13. Question 6
Connect

14. Answer 6
Photovoltaic Effect.
First Picture: Solar Cell. It is powered by this
effect.
Second Picture: Edmond Becquerel discovered
the Photovoltaic effect

15. Question 7
X was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member
of a number of other aristocratic councils. All of these political and
economic activities enabled him to fund his scientific research. At the
height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of
selling adulterated tobacco and of other crimes, and was eventually
guillotined a year after Marat's death. Benjamin Franklin was familiar
with X, as they were both members of the "Benjamin Franklin inquiries"
into Mesmer and animal magnetism. Who is X?

16. Answer 7
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier.

17. Question 8
A state funeral for this great lady, who died of cancer, took place at a
Kenyan national park she fought to save. She was cremated in a
casket made of bamboo, water hyacinth and papyrus so that no trees
would be cut down. Identify her.

18. Answer 8
Wangari Maathai

19. Question 9
The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised X against
going into physics, saying, “in this field, almost everything is already
discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes.”
His lesser known but equally important work can be traced with the
greats of Rayleigh, Jean , Wien and relying heavily on Boltzmann.
ID X.

20. Answer
Max Planck

21. Question 10
Knot theory is a branch of topology dealing with the study of
mathematical knots. The visual on the following slide shows an
example of a mathematical knot called trefoil knot. It finds
applications in a variety of areas. It is required to explain sun's
corona structure mathematically. Interestingly it also explains the
reason behind an everyday nuisance. Which nuisance we are talking
about?

22. Picture

23. Answer 10
Tangling of earphones

24. This candy-coated Tesla belongs to X. His employees played an elaborate
April Fool’s Day prank and transformed his zero-emissions car into a flashy
Batmobile. Identify X.
Question 11

25. Answer 11
Sergey Brin

26. Question 12
The Five Fists of Science is a graphic novel showing X, his (real-life)
friend Mark Twain and Bertha von Suttner combine forces to try to
bring about world peace through superior firepower. They are soon
confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly Y (X?s real-life
archrival), John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Guglielmo
Marconi. The protagonists are shown in the cover of the book.
Identify X and Y. Pic in the next slide.

27. Picture

28. Answer 12
X - Nikola Tesla
Y - Thomas Alva Edison

29. Question 13
FITB

30. Answer 13
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

31. Question 14
Connect

32. Answer 14
Pictures of solar deities

33. Question 15
Connect.
« Le marchand de la mort est mort.»
and

34. Answer 15
Alfred Nobel:
A French obituary stated "Le
marchand de la mort est mort"
("The merchant of death is dead") referring to
Alfred Nobel as they thought that he was dead
when it was his brother who had actually died.
The element was Nobelium.

35. Question 16
Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing X in 1969. By
1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named after his
childhood hero Thomas A. Swift (A fictional character). He named X
after Tom Swift because this fictional character had an electric rifle
which is a good way to describe X. X is a commonly used weapon for
self-defense.
Identify X.

36. Answer 16
The TASER

37. Question 17
This first appeared in 1946, at the University of California. At the
time, it was rendered as magenta, and was set on a blue background.
The modern version used in the U.S. is magenta against a yellow
background, and it is drawn with a central circle of radius R, an
internal radius of 1.5R and an external radius of 5R for the blades,
which are separated from each other by 60°. What is being referred
here?

38. Answer 17
The International Hazard Symbol.

39. Question 18
The prizes are presented by genuine Nobel laureates, originally at a
ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT but now in Sanders Theater at
Harvard University. It contains a number of running jokes, like a little
girl who repeatedly cries out, "Please stop: I'm bored," in a high-
pitched voice if speakers go on too long. The awards ceremony is
traditionally closed with the words: "If you didn't win a prize — and
especially if you did — better luck next year!".
The Logo ->
What am I talking about?

40. Answer 18
Ig Nobel Awards

41. Question 19
The logo of an organisation X visually depicts the upward mobility of
X with the arrow shooting upwards conveying that it can break all
barriers, be it gravity or mindsets, according to the latest edition of
the official journal of X. The name X is written in Devnagari and
English with the latter in a stylised font called 'Prakrta' resembling
the Devanagari script to create a balance in design. The colours used
are Orange and Blue.
Identify X.
Clue next slide

42. Question 19
First Chairman of X.

43. Answer 19
Isro

44. Question 20
X, one of the earliest surgeons of the recorded history (600 B.C.) is
believed to be the first individual to describe plastic surgery. X
who lived nearly 150 years before Hippocrates vividly described
the basic principles of plastic surgery in his famous ancient
treatise 'X Samhita’. Identify X.

45. Answer 20
Sushruta

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