2. Prelims
• 15 direct questions
• Questions 7-11 are starred questions for tie breaks
• Top 5 teams will be selected for the finals
3. This phenomenon is named after the Austrian physicist , who
proposed it in 1842 that it is the change in frequency of a wave for
an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard
when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and
recedes from an observer.The received frequency is higher during
the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is
lower during the recession.Which effect?
Question 1
5. 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?
The simplest one.
Question 3
6. Its IUPAC name is 2-Oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4-lactone-2,3-
enediol. It is also known as ascorbic acid. In 1747 James Lind, a
British Royal Navy found a unique way of preventing a disease if
this was taken. What are we referring to?
Question 4
8. What was first introduced to
theWest through this
publication named Liber Abaci.
The author of this work is also
credited to having introduced
the Hindu-Arabic number
series to the West. Here I am
not looking for the name of the
author but of the other
‘significant’ thing which was
documented here.
Question 6
9. This is the logo of which organization?
Question 7
10. “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He
does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken
up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty
is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point
the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”
Who said this famous quote?
Question 8
12. • Playboy has provided researchers with a tool in their November
1972 issue which continues to be used to this day
• It has been criticised as an example of sexism in computer
science, reinforcing gender stereotypes
• Coincidentally, Playboy states the issue (November 1972) was its
best-selling issue ever, having sold 7,161,561 copies as of May 2006
• What?
Question 10
13. The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X.
The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction,
was given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research
centre's long association with India. Identify X
Question 11
16. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching
an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25, on 14 October
2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular
power on his descent.
Identify him.
Question 14
18. • A is a mineral found in Earth's continental crust and it's crystals are widely used to keep
time in wall-clocks. B is the chemical name of the compound commonly found in nature as
sand or as "A".
• C is a term that refers to southern part of the BayArea (in US) and is so named because of a
large number of innovators who developed technologies based on chips made out of one of
the chemical constituents of B.
• D is a Fortune 500 company based In C and the largest maker of security products for
computers.
• E is the flagship product of D and one the widely used software products in the world.
Almost each one of us downloads E from the Internet to keep our computers safe.
• F is a mass mailing computer virus. One of the versions of F is attached to an document and
is triggered when the document Is opened. It deletes hard drive data and once
complete, beeps three times and then shows a message box with the text: "Hint: Get E not
McAfee 4.02"
20. This phenomenon is named after the Austrian physicist , who
proposed it in 1842 that it is the change in frequency of a wave for
an observer moving relative to its source. It is commonly heard
when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches, passes, and
recedes from an observer.The received frequency is higher during
the approach, it is identical at the instant of passing by, and it is
lower during the recession.Which effect?
Question 1
23. Answer
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
The second photo is that of the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm radio
telecommunication tower in Hamburg named after him.
24. 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?
The simplest one.
Question 3 -
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
25. Its IUPAC name is 2-Oxo-L-threo-hexono-1,4-lactone-2,3-
enediol. It is also known as ascorbic acid. In 1747 James Lind, a
British Royal Navy found a unique way of preventing a disease if
this was taken. What are we referring to?
Question 4 –Vitamin C
26. What has been blacked out?
Question 5 – Higgs Boson or God Particle
27. What was first introduced to
theWest through this
publication named Liber Abaci.
The author of this work is also
credited to having introduced
the Hindu-Arabic number
series to the West. Here I am
not looking for the name of the
author but of the other
‘significant’ thing which was
documented here.
Question 6
29. This is the logo of which organization?
Question 7 - ISRO
30. “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He
does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken
up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty
is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point
the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”
Who said this famous quote?
Question 8
NikolaTesla
32. • Playboy has provided researchers with a tool in their November
1972 issue which continues to be used to this day
• It has been criticised as an example of sexism in computer science,
reinforcing gender stereotypes
• Coincidentally, Playboy states the issue (November 1972) was its
best-selling issue ever, having sold 7,161,561 copies as of May 2006
• What?
Question 10
33. It is the Image of Lena Söderberg used in many
image processing experiments.
34. The picture below shows a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva, unveiled at X.
The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction,
was given to X by the Indian government to celebrate the research
centre's long association with India. Identify X
Question 11
CERN
37. Answer
CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research)
The first photo is that of the member states of CERN.
The second one is it’s logo.
The third is that of Rolf Dieter Heur, the current director-general
of CERN
38. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching
an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25, on 14 October
2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular
power on his descent.
Identify him.
Question 14
Felix
Baumgarter
40. • A is a mineral found in Earth's continental crust and it's crystals are widely used to keep
time in wall-clocks. B is the chemical name of the compound commonly found in nature as
sand or as "A".
• C is a term that refers to southern part of the BayArea (in US) and is so named because of a
large number of innovators who developed technologies based on chips made out of one of
the chemical constituents of B.
• D is a Fortune 500 company based In C and the largest maker of security products for
computers.
• E is the flagship product of D and one the widely used software products in the world.
Almost each one of us downloads E from the Internet to keep our computers safe.
• F is a mass mailing computer virus. One of the versions of F is attached to an document and
is triggered when the document Is opened. It deletes hard drive data and once complete,
beeps three times and then shows a message box with the text: "Hint: Get E not McAfee
4.02"
41. A – Quartz
B – Silicon Di Oxide (SiO2)
C – SiliconValley
D – Symantec
E – Norton
F- MelissaVirus
77. All of them tried to arrange the elements in the
periodic table
• Lavoiser
• John Newlands
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Doberiener
78.
79. Answer
The Manhattan Project.
It was the project which developed the atomic bomb during the
SecondWorldWar.
The people are associated with the Project.
Leslie Groves
Enrico Fermi
Robert J. Oppenheimer
The last is the shoulder patch which was adopted by the people
who worked on it.
90. 1st to win Nobel Prize in Respective fields
• Roentgen – Physics
• Vant Hoff – Chemistry
• Von Behring – Medicine
• Sully Pruddhome – Literature
• Henri Dunant – Peace
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
96. TheWright Brothers
• Wright Brothers memorial
• Wright Brothers bicycle
• Replica of the wright Brothers wind tunnel
• Wright brothers as children
• The glider
114. Alfred Nobel
• The newspaper that declared him dead
• No math nobel prize
• Nobelium
• Inventer of dynamite
115. A to Z
• 10 for each correct answer
• No negatives
116. • A was a Benedictine monk who is often wrongly credited with discovering the champagne method for making sparkling wine. In 1981, A was chosen for the wedding
of B. Soon after B’s death in Paris in 1997, the car manufacturerC, in an unprecedented move, took down all its advertisements of one of its models.The Eureka-D
project, a collaboration between C’s parent company and a Munich university gave rise to a driverless car which reached 175 km/h on a German highway.
• D was aTitan known for his intelligence and is also the name of a project by E to develop a nuclear powered propulsion system. E had several other projects named
afterGreek gods. E owns a lab in Pasadena, California, which is run by F.The protagonists of a popularTV series work at F. G, one of F’s most well known figures
popularised the field of H through his talk “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”. Though G died in 1988, his van is still kept in storage near F.
• Members of the I family form an important research area falling under H and the family is named after the most famous architect in science circles. I consists of just
one element J, which is important in metallurgy. JKs are cylindrical in shape and have unusual properties.They are classified as single walled and multi walled.They
have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1 . Ks are used in manufacturing L, which was envisioned by Leon Chua in 1971. In March
2012, a team of researchers from HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) labs and University of Michigan announced the first functioning L array built on a
CMOS chip.
• L was first produced by M, a Fortune 500 company. M’s first financially successful product was an audio oscilloscope. N was one of M’s first customer and was
responsible for creating Mortimer, who remains N’s most popular character till date. N first ventured into television in 1950 with O. O is a major beverage company. O
created a product for P, which is the largest food company in the world in terms of revenue.
• P has been criticised for rapid deforestation in Borneo, destroying the habitat for Orangutans. Large parts of forests in Indonesia have been cleared for Q
monoculture. P uses Q in its products. Q is naturally reddish in colour due to a high carotene content. Q is also used in Rs, which are mono alkyl esters. R is classified
as B100, B20, B5 and B2.
• S, a German inventor and mechanical inventor claimed that Rs would become significant in his invention over the course of time. S’s death occurred under mysterious
circumstances. His biographers present a case for suicide, and clearly consider it most likely. Conspiracy theories suggest that various people's business or military
interests may have provided motives for homicide, however. Evidence is limited for all explanations.T, which effectively does the same thing as S’s invention generally
has a lower efficiency. T uses something different to operate. Outside the commonwealth nations, that something different is referred to as U, despite the state it
exists in under normal conditions. V studied Us by conducting experiments using a specially shaped glass bottle sealed at one end with mercury added to the tube.
• V wrote ‘The sceptical chemist’ and became the director of W, spending large sums of money to spread Christianity in the east. W literally owned General
Goddard, Lord Nelson, Kent and Agamemnon. W’s counterpart, X, based in Netherlands is considered the first multinational company and was the first company to
issue stocks.
• X had an interest in Y.Techies know Y as something that is supposed to “WORA”. Y has a mascot named Z. James Buchanan Z, the founder of theAmericanTobacco
Company ordered 100 bottles of A. Z is also a title given to a member of the nobility and B was a female counterpart of a Z.
118. • A- DOM PERIGNON
• B- LADY DIANNA
• C – MERCEDES
• D – PROMETHEUS
• E – NASA
• F- CALTECH
• G - FEYNMAN
• H - NANOTECHNOLOGY
• I - FULLERENE
• J - CARBON
• K – NANOTUBES
• L – MEMRISTOR
• M - HP
• N – DISNEY
• O – COCA COLA
• P – NESTLE
• Q – PALM OIL
• R – BIO DIESEL
• S – RUDOLPH DIESEL
• T – PETROL ENGINE
• U – GAS
• V – BOYLE
• W – BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
• X – DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY
• Y – JAVA
• Z - DUKE
