This document describes the rules and results of the final round of a science quiz competition held on February 28, 2020 at SCTCE, Papanamcode. It provides the details of the 5 rounds of the competition, including the categories of questions asked in each round (e.g. Women in Science, Science Today), how points were awarded for correct and incorrect answers, and lists some sample questions and answers from each round. The rounds covered topics in various areas of science and its history.

2. Created by,
Manu Sankar V(B8)
Amrutha V(B2)
Pranoy J N(T8B)
Date- 28-February 2020
Time – 1.00 pm
Venue- SCTCE, Papanamcode

3. FINAL ROUND

4. RULES
 The finals would have five rounds , each containing five questions under the catgories of
 Women in science
 Science today
 India in science
 Science and history
 Visual round
 Each correct answer would yield 10 points
 10 seconds would be provided for all teams , except the team whom the question is directed
to for pouncing.

5. RULES
 A wrong answer for a pounced question would yield -10 points
 No negative points would be awarded for giving a wrong answer for the team, to whom
the question is directed to.
 Questions can be passed , if the original team fails to answer the question correctly
 Answering a passed question correctly would yield 5 points
 No negative points would be awarded for answering a passed question incorrectly

6. ROUND -1
WOMEN IN SCIENCE

8. Q.1 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second
woman to accomplish a feat in 1984. Who was
the first to do that , 19 years earlier in 1963?

9. Valentina Tereshkova

10. Q.2 Only two elements in the periodic table has
been named after women .One is Curium
(named after Marie Curie).which is the other
element?

11. Meitnerium ( after Lise Meitner)

12. Q.3 Overshadowed, perhaps, by her more
famous brother ,who was the first female to
discover a comet?

13. Caroline Herschel

14. Q.4 I was a French scientist, born in 1897. My
mother , father and my husband all were
recipients of the Nobel Prize.
Who am I?

15. Irene Curie

16. Q.5 Identify the personality mentioned in the
doodle

17. Rosalind Franklin, an English chemist & X-ray
crystallographer, who contributed to
demystifying many bio-molecules including the
DNA

18. ROUND 2
SCIENCE TODAY

19. Q.1 Due to their crown like projection on the
surfaces,_____ got its name. It resembles a
crown when viewed under an electron
microscope. ______ in Latin means halo or
crown.

20. Corona Virus

21. Q.2 This invention was used internationally for
the first time during the semi- finals of U-19
world cup held in UAE in . The inventor Bronote
Eckermann said that he got the idea for this from
a ball which lit up when it was thrown. Identify
the invention.

22. LED glowing stumps & bails

23. Q.3 This place from UP gained sudden
prominence in the news for having deposits of
gold of 3000 tons. But the GSI said that only 160
tons could be mined. This is also the only district
in India that borders four states.
Name the place.

24. Sonbhadra

25. Q4
Hanson Robotics Limited is a Hong Kong based
engineering and robotics company founded in 2013 by
Dr. David Hanson.
The company has patented the use of a spongy elastomer
skin called ‘Frubber’- flesh rubber which has been called
disturbingly realist to human skin.
In 2017, a product of the company made news across the
world and is the most popular product of the company.
What?

26. Sophia Robot

27. Q.5 Founded by Trip Hawkins in 1982 at
Redwood, it is the most popular developer
and distributor of video games.
As of now it is the 8th largest gaming
company by revenue.
ID the company.

29. ROUND 3
INDIA IN SCIENCE

30. Q.1 Plastic surgery is claimed to have originated
from India, from which book has this claim
originated?

31. Sustrutha Samhitha

32. Q.2 Rasa shastra is a controversial method
treatment in ayurveda using a substance that is
found to have toxic effects by modern medicine.
Which is the substance?

33. Mercury

34. Q.3 Name the ancient Indian
mathematician who authored a book by
the name of his daughter Leelavathi.

35. Bhaskaracharya

36. Q 4.
This Indian chemist has worked mainly in solid-
state and structural chemistry.
He was the Head of the Scientific Advisory
Council to the Prime Minister of India.
He was awarded Bharath Ratna along with
Sachin Tendulkar (2013).
He has also authored around 1500 research
papers and 45 scientific books.

37. C N R Rao

38. Q.5 They are depicted as the doctors of
Gods and devas in Ayurvedic medicine.
They are called Nasatya and Dasra though,
not commonly known by another name.
According to Mahabharata, Kunthi is
depicted as worshiping them.
Who are they?

39. Aswini Devas

40. ROUND 4
SCICENCE & HISTORY

41. Q.1Joseph Lister was a British surgeon.He went
on to research about pathogens and
introduced phenol for sterilization.
What were his most important contribution to
medical science?

42. Anti-septic Surgery

43. Q.2 This mathematician is credited with the
discovery of the theorem of musical harmony
and its basic intervals. He also believed that
numbers also possessed gender. He is better
known for a theorem he learned from the
mathematicians of India and Babylonia. This
theorem is very popular and often referenced in
pop culture. Name the mathematician.

44. Pythagoras

45. Q.3 “Yes the surface is fine and powdery.
I can kick it up loosely with my toes. It does
adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal. I go
in only a fraction of an inch, but I can see the
footprints of my boots and treads in fine sandy
particles.”
What is being described here?

46. The surface of moon

47. Q.4 Mendeleev through his periodic table
predicted the existence of three then
undiscovered elements. Two of them are
Gallium and Germanium. Name the other one,
which he had referred to as
‘eka-Boron’.

48. Scandium (Sc)

49. Q.5 A device was invented by Jagadish Chandra
Bose to measure the growth of plants. It uses a
series of clock workgears and a smoked glass
plate to record the plant movements in higher
magnifications.
Name the instrument.

50. Crescograph

51. ROUND 5
VISUAL ROUND

52. Q.1 This Symbol, known as Ourobus is found in
many ancient texts. This has inspired a person to
a revolutionary scientific finding in the
1850s.What was the finding and who is the
person related to the finding?

53. KEKULE BENZENE

54. Q.2 Identify the logo

55. Indian Council of Agriculture and Research
[ICAR]

56. Q.3 The logo of which social media giant is
inspired from this figure

58. Q.4 Identify the biological process shown here

59. Metamorphosis

60. Q.5 Connect

61. Cricket