Science Quiz Prelims at National Science Fest 2012

1. Science- Tech Quiz
Prelims

2. (1) Everyone knows the story. Just give name of spacecraft?

3. ●
(2) Every living organism is the outward physical
manifestation of internally coded, inheritable
information. The “internally coded inheritable
information” is called the genotype while the
“outward physical manifestation” is called X.

5. ●
(4*)Connect:
1. Rajesh Gopakumar
2. Thanu Padmanabhan
3. S. Chandrashekhar
4. Jayant Narlikar

6. (5)George de Menstral while on a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps
found that seeds of the above plants stuck to his legs and that of his
dog as well.(Bigger picture next slide) He examined them under a
microscope, and noted hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything
with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. This was the
inspiration behind X.

8. (6*). What unique distinction does he hold among
physicists?

11. ●
(8) “The surface of the apple is "simply connected,"
but that the surface of the doughnut is not. X,
almost a hundred years ago, knew that a two
dimensional sphere is essentially characterized by
this property of simple connectivity, and asked the
corresponding question for the three dimensional
sphere (the set of points in four dimensional space
at unit distance from the origin).” The text taken
from the website of the Clay Mathematics
Institute describes what?

12. (9) Identify this
polymath?

13. ●
(10) “Computer chess has developed much as
genetics might have if the geneticists had
concentrated their efforts starting in 1910 on
breeding racing Drosophila”, said X when Deep
Blue beat Gary Kasporov in 1997. Just X.

15. (12)"It was the unique dense
golden hairs on the fly's
abdomen that led me to name
this fly in honor of X as well as
giving me the chance to
demonstrate the fun side of
taxonomy — the naming of
species” Just give X.

16. (13)X is a next-generation
wearables research platform
developed by researchers at Y .
The goal of the X project is the
development and prototyping
of new techniques of human-
computer interaction for
body-worn applications.

17. (14)The theory X is (mis)attributed to L but was
actually proposed by R first. X(1 pt), L+R(1 pt)

18. ●
(15*)"Yields falsehood when preceded by its
quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its
quotation is known as the X paradox, which
demonstrates that a sentence can be paradoxical
even without referring to itself. X is also the name
given to a computer program that produces its
source code as its output. Give X.

19. ●
(16) At the 1927 Solvay Conference, while all the
bright chaps were discussing religion and X
disclosed his dislike for “religious myths”,
Wolfgang Pauli got up and said about X, “X also
has a religion whose first commandment says:
there is no God and X is His prophet.”

20. ●
(17*) The word X is a transliteration of the
Russian acronym toroidal chamber with magnetic
coils, or toroidal chamber with axial magnetic
field. It was invented by Igor Tamm and Andrei
Sakharov based on an original design by Oleg
Lavrentyev.

21. ●
(18)1. Romain Charles,France,Engineer.
2. Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov, Russia,
Surgeon
3.Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev, Russia, Engineer
4. Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy, Russia,
Physiologist
5. Diego Urbina, Italy, engineer
6. Wang Yue, China, Instructor
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What “experiment” were these people a part of?

22. ●
(19*) His most famous work was Theorie der
Transformationsgruppen, which was applied by
Hermann Weyl in 1922 to Quantum Mechanics.
He initiated the field of transformation groups
and has spurned into a field of its own, known by
his name. Name this Norwegian mathematician.