School quiz for High school students conducted by Malayala Manorama in April 2017

1. PRELIMS WITH ANSWERS

2. Lets start with an
Indian Techie Success story
Rashmi Sinha,who hails from
Lucknow with the help of her
Husband and her elder brother
set up a website for helping
professionals to connect.
It was acquired by Linkedin in
2012.
What website are we talking about.
Logo has the clue to the site
Q-1

3. Answer-1

4. Think laterally
 Now, a moon, a lover refulgent in flight
 How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the
heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
 See, I have a rhyme assisting my feeble brain,
its tasks sometimes resisting.
 Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling In mystic force, and
magic spelling
These are all examples of Piems?What are they
used for?
Q-2

5. Think Laterally
 To memorise the Value of Pi
π =
3.1415926535897932384626433
832795028841971693993751058
209749...

6. The Coke Technology
 In 1982,In Carnegie Mellon
University(CMU),Programmers after working for
long hours had to walk a long distance to the
nearest Coke vending machine,often to find it
empty or filled only with Soda. Something
needed to be done about these wasted trips to
the machine.
 Soon, conversation spun into action. The CMU
Coke machine was filled with a number of
microswitches and connected to the Internet.
And soon, its contents and their temperatures
could be found by anyone who could reach the
IP address: 128.2.209.43.
 What Phenomena did this give birth to?
Q-3

7. Coke Technology decoded

8. Lets check your chemistry
The Origin of this brand is unclear but some
Theories are:
 It has a Ph level of above 7
 It contains seven ingredients Sugar, carbonated
water, essences of lemon,Essence of lime oils,
citric acid, sodium citrate, and lithium citrate.
 It contains Lithium which has approximate atomic
mass of 7.
Identify this brand?
Q-4

9. Answer to Summer

10. Identify
 Samosely are group of self settlers in Ukraine living in a zone of
alienation after 1986. The zone contains a number of abandoned
towns and villages whose current population is made up of people
who either refused to evacuate the area or secretly resettled in
the relatively unprotected region after it was cordoned off.
 Which area are we talking about?
Q-5

11. Chernobyl Nuclear power
plant

12. The Indian Whats app
What messaging platform did Kavin Bharati
Mittal start in 2012 that has nearly 100
million users currently?
Q-6

14. The Turing award
Who are referred to as the
Steel Collar workers?
Q-7

15. Answer
ROBOTS

16. The first victory of a
computer
 On May 11,1997, the chess champion Garry
Kasparov was defeated by a computer
becoming the first computer to beat a Human.
Name the computer?
Q-8

17. Answer to Kasparov
IBM DEEP BLUE

18. Rare honour
This scientist had the rare honour of being the second person to
have a element named after him while still being alive.Identify the
person
Q-9

19. Rare honour
Yuri Oganessian
Element-118

20. Identify
 This moth species of Genus
Neopalpa ocurring in Southern
California and Northern Mexico was
first described by Canadian Scientist
Vazrick Nazari .
 This moth has propensity to spin in
circles on leaves. The upper surface
of the moth has forewings in orange-
yellow except for dark brown patches
on the fringe and anterior portions .
 What did Nazari name the Moth
based on the moths head cover
Q-10

21.  Name the Moth

22. Neopalpa Donaldtrumpi

23. Identify
 Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao (died 1988) was a Telugu
author,wrote this piece and gave to nationalist leader Tenneti
Viswanadham, who forwarded it to the then Education Minister of
Andhra Pradesh, P.V.G. Raju who was also the Raja Saheb of
Vizianagaram.Raju then took it to the National level.
 What are we talking about?
Q11

24.  National pledge

 India is my country.
All Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country, and I am proud of its rich and varied
heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give my parents, teachers and all elders respect
and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well being and prosperity alone lies my happiness

25. Identify
 This is the logo of Institute of
National importance set up by
PC Mahalanobis in 1931 in
Calcutta being deeply
influenced by wisdom and
guidance of Rabindra Nath
Tagore?
 Name the Institute
Q-12

26. Answer

27. Just crack it
 Norman Woodland was inspired by the Morse code and
developed a classifying method.He adapted technology from
optical soundtrack in movies using an incandescent light bulb
shining through paper onto photo multiplier tube to read it
He filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and
Method".
What are we talking about
Q-13

28. The right answer
BAR CODE

29. Identify
 This is the logo of consortium launched by
Google?What is it called?
Q-14

30. The right answer
Open Handset Alliance

31. Identify
Which film won the best Feature
film award at 64th National Film
award for films made in 2016?
Q 15

32. Kasaav

33. The tech in sports
 What is Dr. Paul Hawkins contribution to the
world of sports ?
Q 16

34. Answer
Hawk Eye

35. Yersinia pestis?
 Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, rod-
shaped coccobacillus, a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect
humans.Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre
Yersin, Swiss/French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur
Institute.
What disease does it cause?
Q-17

36. Answer
Bubonic Plague

37. Question 18
 What are Sunway TaihuLight,Tianhe-
2,Titan,Sequoia,Cori types of ?

38. Answer
All types of
Supercomputers

39. Identify the state
Which state derives its name
from Sanskrit word which
mean abode or place of
residence
Q19

40. Correct answer
BIHAR

41. Root of the name
 The American multinational computer software company’s
company name comes from the name of a stream
originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County,
California, United States, which ran behind the houses of
John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the founders of this
company. Which company am I talking about?
Q 20

42. Root of the name

43. Identify
 It is of cylindrical form,
with diameter and height
of about 39 mm, and is
made of an alloy of 90 %
Platinum and 10 %
Iridium.This is kept in
Sevres,Paris.
 What is this a protype of ?
Q 21

44. Answer
KILOGRAM

45. Tribute to an engineer
On whose Birthday is
Engineers Day (Sept 15)
celebrated?
Q 22

46. M. Visvesvaraya

47. The only novel
Who wrote the Fiction Novel
“Foot lights” in 1948 which is his only Work?
Q23

48. Charlie Chaplin

49. Tech to revolutionise travel Q 24
This technology proposed by Billionaire Elon Musk in 2013 in
which Pods travel in a sealed tube at high speeds of more than
1000 kilometres per hour is powered by Magnetic propulsion
and making use of solar energy.
What is the name of this technology which will be launched in India
by 2020?

50. Right answer
Hyperloop

51. Its Monetization !!!!
 For whom is QUIDS the
currency been developed?
Q 25

52. The quid is for
Space Travellers
Quasi Universal Intergalactic
Denomination (QUID)

53. Take a guess
 Which company has developed the “Project
LOON “whereby Internet is provided to Rural
and remote areas through aerial wireless
networks created by High Altitude balloons
Q 26

54. Its Loony project
Google
Google itself found the idea of providing
Internet access to the remaining 5
billion population unprecedented and
crazy/loony

55. Guess the term
John McCarthy was a towering figure in computer science at
Stanford most of his professional life. In his career, he
developed the programming language LISP, played computer
chess via telegraph with opponents in Russia and invented
computer time-sharing?
 What term did he come up with in 1955?
Q 27

56. Right answer
Artificial Intelligence

57. The 20 year old space craft
 NASA unmanned Spacecraft Cassini
Huygens launched in 1997 to the planet X
is named after 2 astronomers Giovanni
Cassini and Christiaan Huygens who did
major studies on the planet X?
 Which planet are we talking about?
Q
28

58. Saturn

59. Google doodle
In whose honour on his 200th Birthday
was this Google Doodle released
Q-29

61. Last question
 What is the smallest detectable
movement of a mouse cursor on a
screen called?
Q-30

62. Last answer
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