Quizzards of tce : Friday Quiz

1. QUIZZARDS OF
TCE
Quiz by Prashanth

2. Question - 1
This famous mathematician, astronomer and astrologer wrote a science fiction novel in which his
mum starred as a witch. The poor old woman was thought to be a real witch and she was arrested
and threatened with torture. He put his work on hold, defended her in court, and secured her
freedom.
Identify the Personality

4. 1)Johannas Kepler - Somnium

5. Question – 2
Identifty the commonality of these two structures

7. 2) The Pyramids and The Parthenon were the famous
buildings that was built around the golden ratio
φ = 1.61805...

8. Question-3
During his final illness, this test tube was close to his bedside. Upon his death, his son sat by his
dying father to catch his final breath. He later sent his father’s last breath to Henry Ford as they
were close friends.
Identify Who’s Breath is this!

10. 3)Thomas Alva Edison

11. Question - 4
X refers to text that the DTP (Desktop Publishing) and typeface
industry use as replacement text when the real text is not available and it has
no meaning.
X has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s. X was
popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets and more recently
with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker.
Identify X

13. 4) X - Lorem ipsum

14. Question-5
He wrote in his book, “Here, I saw a painting prominently displayed in the reception
lobby. It depicted a battle scene with a few rockets flying in the background. A
painting with this theme should be the most commonplace thing at a Flight Facility,
but the painting caught my eye because the soldiers on the side launching the
rockets were not White , but dark-skinned, with the racial features of people found in
South Asia.”
Whose army he mentioned and who was he?

16. 5) Tipu Sultan
Dr.APJ.Abdul Kalam – Wings of Fire

17. Question-6
Identify the logo and explain its relevance with its
product

19. 6) Starbucks
The Starbucks is a multinational chain of coffeehouses originated in Seattle.
The logo indicates a mermaid or Siren, resembling its seductive nature and
their company’s location near to sea.

20. Question-7
His family feared that something was wrong with their son when he was a toddler. He
did’nt talk until he was almost three years old. When the 2.5 -year-old-was told of
the arrival of a little sister with whom he could play, he imagined a kind of toy, at the
sight of this new creature he asked, with great disappointment, “Yes, but where are
its wheels?”
Identify who he is!

22. 7)Albert Einstein

23. Question-8
For a brief time in the 1860s, Brazil and Uruguay were in the midst of a war
where much of the fighting was done between ships. During one such battle, a
Uruguayan ship ran out of cannonballs. However, instead of quickly shedding
his uniform and diving into the ocean, the captain ordered his men to fire balls
of X at the enemy. One of the balls of X improbably shattered the main mast of
the enemy ship, killing men with cheese shrapnel and shredding their sails,
which led to their victory.
Identify X

25. 8)Cheese

26. Question-9
While on his death-bed, he wrote this letter to
his mentor, English mathematician G.H.Hardy in
1920, outlining several new mathematical
functions never before heard of, along with a
hunch about how they worked. Almost a
century after his death, his cryptic deathbed
theory has been proven correct and scientists
say it could explain the behaviour of black
holes.
Identify who wrote this!

28. 9)Srinivasa Ramanujan

29. Question-10
Connect these two pictures!

31. 10)Python language was created for
Amoeba operating system
Guido Van Rossum