Science Quiz Conducted By Science Center SB College Changanassery. By Albin P James

1. SciΨ warsi n t e r D e p a r t m e n t S c i e n c e q u i z
PRELiMS

2. rules
• The preliminary round consists of 25 questions.
• No negative marking, all are free to guess.
• Each question carries a weightage of 1 points
• There are 5 starred questions
• In case of a tie, these decide your future.
• Clues will be given by the quiz master whenever he feels like.
• However teams can object to clues being given

3. May the force be with you

4. 1
• The partially reusable Falcon Heavy falls into the heavy-lift
range of launch systems, capable of lifting 20 to 50 metric tons
into low Earth orbit (LEO).
• This was recently used by the space X to launch a Tesla
Roadster into orbit.
• Name the most powerful heavy lift launch vehicle ever build.
• Image on next slide

6. answer
Saturn V

7. 2
• Robert Jarvik, MD is widely known as the inventor of the first
successful permanent artificial X, the Jarvik 7.
• In 1982, the first implantation of the Jarvik 7 was done in
patient Barney Clark. The extraordinary openness of this
medical experiment.
• Image of Jarvik 7 on next slide.

9. answer
• Heart

10. 3
• ID this picture of H2O

11. answer
Triple Point Of Water

12. 4

13. ANSWER

14. 5
• This is Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 1962), a social
entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.
• How is he better know us or give the funda!

15. answer
• The Padman

16. 6
• Being a kind of a flywheel of a gyroscope in principle, X come
with similar effects enabling a player to pull various tricks and
stunts while forces of a gyroscope take hold.
• X has been promoted as helping people who have trouble
focusing or those who move restlessly by relieving nervous
energy or psychological stress
• X became popular in April 2017, although similar devices had
been invented as early as 1993.

17. answer
Fidget Spinner

18. 7

19. answer

20. 8
• We all know environmental day is celebrated on june 5.
• The theme for 2018 has been recently announced as 'Beat
Plastic Pollution’,
• which urges governments and communities to explore
sustainable alternatives and reduce production and excessive
use of single-use plastic.
• Which country is supposed to host the World Environment Day
this year.

21. answer
India

22. 9

23. answer
Biohazard symbol

24. 10
• This is XDiego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la
Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Y was a Spanish painter,
sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and
playwright who spent most of his adult life in France
• We commonly know him as XY
• Name him

25. answer
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de
los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

26. 11

27. 11
S. Chandrasekhar’s 107th Birthday

28. 12
• X is a glycoprotein found in saliva of vampire bats.
• It is composed of 411 amino acids, and functions as an
anticoagulant, thus keeping the blood of the bitten victim from
clotting while the bat is drinking.
• The anticoagulant may be useful as treatment for strokes and
heart attack.
• It may also be used as a blood thinner for prevention of heart
attacks.
• ID X

29. answer
Draculin

30. 13
• ID the object the boy is holding

31. answer
• Kalamsat

32. 14

33. answer

34. 15

35. answer

36. 16
• CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences in bacteria.
• The sequences contain snippets of DNA from viruses that have
attacked the bacterium.
• These sequences form the basis of a technology known as
CRISPR/Cas9 that effectively and specifically changes genes
within organisms
• Recently, scientists have begun exploring new uses for the
technology, as a multifunctional tool that also works as a
biosensor, a medical detective, and an invaluable instrument for
basic research
• What does CRISPR stands for.

37. answer
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat

38. 17
• Stanford university scientists have successfully grown sheep
embryos containing human cells, paving way for animal human
organ transplant.
• It was terminated after 28days as the US laws prohibits
developing cross-species embryos called X, for longer
durations.
• X also plays an important role in the plot of the acclaimed
animie Full Metal Alchemist
• ID X

39. answer
• Chimera

40. 18
• The building describe as the darkest building on earth has been
unveiled at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
• The building's exterior is covered with a substance called X
VBx2, a derivative of nanomaterial X.
• Touted as the darkest man-made substance in the world, the
original X is so black the human eye can't quite decipher what it
is seeing.
• Image on next slide
• ID X

42. answer
Vantablack

43. 19
• It was on Feb 19 1878 ______received patent for phonograph,
the first device capable of recording and reproducing sound.
•____ Successfully recorded “Mary Had A Little Lamb” as the
first words on the device.
• The public demonstration of the device earned him the nick
name X
• ID X

44. answer
The wizard of Menlo park

45. 20
Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
The Nobel Prize in Literature
1931
From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a
Nobel Prize cannot be awarded __________

46. answer
Dag Hammarskjöld
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931
They are the only two who are
awarded nobel prize posthumously.

47. 21
• The notation was introduced by the German mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm X in 1675 in his private writings;
• it first appeared publicly in the paper "De Geometria Recondita
et analysi indivisibilium atque infinitorum" (On a hidden
geometry and analysis of indivisibles and infinites), published in
Acta Eruditorum in June 1686.
• He based the character on the Latin word summa , which he
wrote ſumma with the elongated s commonly used in Germany
at the time
• ID X and the symbol

48. answer
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and the integral sign

49. 22
•X Day is a celebration to commemorate the anniversary of the
birth of X on 12 February 1809.
• 2009 was the 200th anniversary of X’s birth .
•X's alma mater, Christ's College, Cambridge, commemorated
the bicentenary with the unveiling of a life-sized bronze statue
of the Young X, sculpted by their former graduate Anthony
Smith.
• HRH Prince Philip unveiled the statue and it was later
shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public
Sculpture 2009.
• Image on next slide

51. Answer
Darwin Day

52. 23
• E numbers are codes for substances that are permitted to be
used as X additives for use within the European Union[1][2]
and EFTA.
• The "E" stands for "Europe".
• Commonly found on X labels, their safety assessment and
approval are the responsibility of the European X Safety
Authority.
A solution of E101 riboflavin (also known as vitamin B2)

53. Answer
Food Additives
E100–E199 (colours)
E200–E299 (preservatives)
E300–E399 (antioxidants, acidity regulators)
E400–E499 (thickeners, stabilisers, emulsifiers)
E500–E599 (acidity regulators, anti-caking agents)
E600–E699 (flavour enhancer)
E700–E799 (antibiotics)
E900–E999 (glazing agents, gases and sweeteners)
E1000–E1599 (additional additives)

54. 24
• First, when gamma radiation hits DNA, it breaks the molecule's
double-stranded, ladder-like helix, a process known as
chromothripsis. Your body can repair a few breaks without
significant loss of function.
• If many breaks occur – say, if you were caught in a giant gamma
explosion – the repairs can become sloppy, and new instructions can
be keyed into the genetic code. Alvarado suggested that it's possible
that when Y's DNA reassembled after the initial blast, it now
included a handful of epigenetic switches. Instead of the switches
being activated by light, however, the hormones produced when Y is
angry might flip the genetic switches to reconfigure his DNA to

55. answer
Bruce Banner
The Hulk

56. 25
• In photography, X is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced
in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens.
•X has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus
points of light".
• X occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.
Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus
technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.
• Image in next slide

58. answer

59. Do or do not. There is no try.