Sci-Tech Quiz conducted my Mar Athanasius College Of Engineering(MACE) quiz club, Kothamangalam, Ernakulam, Kerala, as a part of science day

1. IEEE MACE in association with MACE Quiz Club
presents
Science & Technology Quiz
Compiled by Abhay V S
Mar Athanasius College Of
Engineering,
Kothamangalam

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Who makes these robots?

4.  Boston Dynamics
 The robots are spot mini and Atlas

5.  The _________ effect is a process in which
hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
 A practical application of this effect is seen nowadays in
social media pictures where people throwing boiling
water out into the arctic cold air during the polar vortex.
 Fill the blanks
 Image follows
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7.  Mpemba effect

8.  Identify the Australian zoologist, conservationist to
whose memory this doodle is made for.
 He is also known as the “crocodile hunter”
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10.  Steve Irwin

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*4. Connect

12.  CRISPR CAS-9 gene editing

13.  Connect
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15.  Cortana-Windows Speech Assistant
 Jen Taylor gave voice to Cortana in Windows 10 and for an AI
character also named Cortana in the Halo 5 video game.

16.  Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in
print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.
 In a list published by Fast Company in 2019 of “World’s 50 most
innovative tech companies” , Meituan Dianping, a Chinese app
maker, tops the list by kicking out a prominent tech company X to 17th
position.
 Also, Y, a music streaming app becomes the only Indian company to
be a part of the list
 Identify X & Y.(1 point each)
*6

17. X-Apple
Y-JioSaavn

18.  The United States is at second position in the list of number of
elements contributed by each country in the periodic table with
21 elements in their account, followed by Sweden with 20
elements.
 Which nation tops the list with 24 elements in its account?
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19.  United Kingdom

20.  Connect these 3 tech entities/companies to a person
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22. Evan Williams
He co-founded twitter and Blogger
He is the founder of Medium

23.  ____-___ technology was first used by Channel 4 during a Test Match
between England and Pakistan on Lord’s Cricket Ground, on 21 May
2001. It is used primarily by the majority of television networks to
track the trajectory of balls in flight.
 Its major use in cricket broadcasting is in analyzing LBW decisions,
where the likely path of the ball can be projected forward, through
the batsman’s legs, to see if it would have hit the stumps.
 Besides cricket it is also being used in Tennis, Football etc
 FITB
 Image follows
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25.  Hawk-Eye

26.  The video clip in the next slide is a scene from ‘The Abyss’, a 1989
James Cameron movie. In the scene you can see actor Ed Harris
wearing an astronaut like suit and is able to breath when drowned
in water.
 A same situation can be read in the book ‘The Lost Symbol’ by Dan
Brown where the protagonist Robert Langdon gets drowned by the
villain Mal’ak and later appears to be alive and knows that he was
drowned in a breathable liquid.
 In both the scenarios real science is depicted.
 Identify the general term for the technique/liquid used in both the
scenarios.
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28.  Oxygenated perfluorocabon/Totally Ventilating Liquid

29.  Recently NASA released a sharpest image of the Trans-
Neptunian object named Ultima Thule which was taken by the
New Horizons Space craft.
 The image is said to have a resolution of about 33 meters per
pixel.
 By this incident what record has been created by the New
Horizons Spacecraft
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30.  The farthest object ever noted by a space craft in a solar system.

31.  _________- Find Your story, boasts to be the one and only( and
likely to be true) LGBTQ focused online streaming service in
South East Asia.
 Fill the blanks.
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32. GagaooLala

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 Identify the spaceflight company from the logo

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35. Virgin Galactic

36.  Woman shown in the next slide is Elaine Herzberg
who died on March 18, 2018 in a car accident.
 Why is she featured in a Sci-Tech quiz?
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38.  First perstrain death ever which involves a driverless car.
 The car is owned by Uber

39.  How the tweets in the next slide became famous?
 And who tweeted it.
 1 point each.
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41.  They are tweeted by Microsoft’s AI chabot named Tay which
can tweet according to its interaction with people.
 But the peculiarity of these tweets is that it began sending racist
tweets after interacting with some ‘good’ people through
twitter

42.  X is a floating rubbish bin that is located in the water at marinas, docks,
yacht clubs and commercial ports.
 X moves up and down with the range of tide collecting all floating rubbish.
Water is sucked in from the surface and passes through a catch bag inside
the X, with a submersible water pump capable of displacing 25 litres per
hour, plugged directly into 110/220 V outlet. The water is then pumped
back into the marina leaving litter and debris trapped in the catch bag to be
disposed of properly.
 Identify X.
 Imaage follows
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44.  Seabin

45.  X is a French multirole, single-engine fourth generation jet fighter
plane manufactured by Dassault aviation which was designed in the late
1970s.
 It has a length of 14.36 meter and a wingspan of 91.3 meter and a
maximum speed of 2336 kmph and can travel 1550 km with drop tanks.
 X became a news topic two days ago in a crucial Indian incident.
 Y is again a fighter aircraft designed by Dassault Aviation which triggered
a political controversy in India a few years ago and is continued even now.
 Identify these two famous fighter planes.(1 point for each)
*17

46.  Mirash-2000
 Rafale

47.  What is given in the next slide and who invented it?
 1 point each
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49.  Periodic table
 Dimitri Mendeleev

50. 19
Identify this person and his invention

51.  Ray Dolby
 He invented the Dolby Noise Reduction system.

52.  _______ often involve swapping faces in videos and photos
based on an artificial intelligence algorithm.
 Videos of Barack Obama(where actually is an AI created
Obama) talking impressively very similar to his original style,
became viral in the internet a few months ago. Actually
researchers of University of Washington created this artificial
Obama.
 FITB
*20

53.  Deepfake by using Deep learning

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X on how he composed a soundtrack for one of Y’s film:
Y asked me “If I wrote one page of something, didn't tell you what it was about,
just give you one page, would you give me one day of work?”
I agreed and then one day received a one-page typewritten letter. On the paper
was a short story, no more than a precis, about a father who leaves his child to do
an important job. It contained two lines of dialogue –
"I'll come back"
"When?“
I spent a day composing the theme and then showed it to X and he loved it. This
would be the backbone music for the soundtrack of __________.
Identify X, Y and the movie.

55.  X- Hans Zimmer
 Y- Christopher Nolan
 In the movie Interstellar

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 When the legendary rock group Deep Purple sang about the "fire in the sky" in
their signature song Smoke On The Water , little did they imagine that some day
the expression might well be applied to the X space shuttle disaster.
 Y went to her first rock concert, a Deep Purple show, in 2001 with her husband.
“Y is not necessarily a rock music aficionado," her husband would say later of
that Deep Purple show they went to in 2001. "But Y nevertheless characterized
the show as a 'spiritual experience.'"
 Y carried CDs of this band to space and would listen to them every morning.
The band members were horrified and deeply saddened by X’s fate, and they
immediately channelled their emotions into composing Contact Lost, a
instrumental song within one hour of the accident.
 Identify the X disaster and Y who was on board.

57.  Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster
 X- Kalpana Chawla

58. Thank You