2. 1.What resulted?
• On his 72nd birthday, UPI photographer Arthur
Sasse was trying to persuade this famous scientist
to smile for the camera, but having smiled for
photographers many times that day, he did
something else.
• What?
• (The scientist goes to the connect, not the
complete answer.)
11. 4.This symbol is known as Ourobus
and is seen in several ancient
scriptures and texts. It inspired a
person to a revolutionary scientifc
finding in 1850’s .What was that
finding?and who is the person related
to this finding?
24. Q8.
• The kilogram is the only such remaining base
SI unit.
• What differentiates it from other SI base
units?
25.
26. It is a only unit to be defined using
an artefact. All other units are
defined by physical constants
27.
28.
29. Magdeburg hemispheres.
They are a pair of large copper hemispheres
with mating rims, used to demonstrate the
power of atmospheric pressure. When the rims
were sealed with grease and the air was
pumped out, the sphere contained a vacuum
and could not be pulled apart by teams of
horses.
• Pic 1: The original Magdeburg hemispheres
and Guericke's vacuum pump.
• Pic 2: Logo is inspired by this experiment.
• Pic 3: Otto von Guericke.
30. Q10.
• Ammonium ferric citrate & potassium
ferricyanide coated on paper/cloth was used
to reproduce images. The result is a copy of
the original image with the clear background
area rendered dark and the image itself
reproduced as a white line, making it difficult
to alter or add new information to the
document.
Which commonly used word is derived from this
now-obsolete technology?
35. Peeing before going to space.
• Russian astronauts have the unique
tradition of urinating on the bus tire before
going to space. After getting into their
sokol suits and before reaching the launch
pad, the bus stops and the crew pees on
the tire. This tradition is supposed to have
started with Gagarin.
36. Q12.
• A binary star is a star system consisting of
two stars orbiting around their common center
of mass. Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet
consisting of half gas and half rock and ice,
and it orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a
period of 229 days.
• What was kepler-16 nicknamed, in reference
to a fictional planet orbiting two suns, which
resulted in one of the most iconic sunset
scenes in the film industry?
37.
38.
39. Q13.
• X during his time as an honours program undergraduate,
worked in the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and
wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C.
Urey. He was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist,
author, science populariser and science communicator in
astronomy and natural sciences.
• He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). One of his famous
quotes is: "The idea that God is an oversized white male
with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall
of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the
set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly
there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying… it
does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity"
His saga has been carved indelibly in the history of
astronomy and astrophysics. Who?
42. Q.14
• 1. Alnitak is approximately 736 light years away from Earth
and, taking into consideration ultraviolet radiation, which
the human eye cannot see, it is 100,000 times more
luminous than the Sun.
• 2. Alnilam is is approximately 1340 light years away from
Earth and shines with magnitude 1.70. Considering
ultraviolet light it is 375,000 times more luminous than the
Sun.
• 3. Mintaka is 915 light years away and shines with
magnitude 2.21. It is 900,000 times more luminous than
the Sun. It is a double star. Both stars orbit around each
other every 5.73 days. What are they collecting known as?
64. Q.25
X and Y were the sons of Ares and Aphrodite. X is the
Greek god of fear. The word phobia is derived from his
name. Y is the Greek god of terror. Identify X and Y.
What is the relevance of this question in this quiz?
65. Q26
______________is a photograph of
planet Earth taken in 1990 by the
Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record
distance of about 6 billion kilometers
from Earth, as part of the solar
system Family Portrait series of
images. In the photograph, Earth is
shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in
size) against the vastness of space.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had
completed its primary mission and
was leaving the Solar System, was
commanded by NASA to turn its
camera around and to take a
photograph of Earth across a great
expanse of space, at the request of
Carl Sagan.
66. Q27
The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a
year-long celebration of astronomy that took place
in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the
first recorded astronomical observations by whom?
67. Giotto di Bondone painting The Adoration of the Magi(1301) is
believed to be also representing X. The painting is considered to be a
milestone in the history of astronomical art because of this. What is X?
