Science and technology 5/1/2021

1. WEEKLY QUIZ
SCIENCE & TECH
TCE QUIZZARDS

2. QUESTION 0

3.  ID THE AUTHOR

5. STEPHEN HAWKING
THIS WAS HIS LAST BOOK

8. MARIE CURIE

9.  FIND THE MISSING WORD

11. MOBIUS STRIP

12.  Hooke was a huge rival of Newton’s. in a letter
to Hooke, Newton wrote a statement which
became extremely famous. Some believe that it
was meant to be sarcastic to Hooke, who was
actually short statured.

14. STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

15.  ID THE DESIGN

17. EUTHANASIA COASTER

18.  Cosmos Redshfit 7 is a high-redshift Lyman-
alpha emitter galaxy, in the constellation
Sextans, about 12.9 billion light years from
Earth.
Whom is it named after?

21.  ID THE SHOW

23. CARL SAGAN
NEIL de GRASSE TYSON
BOTH ARE HOSTS OF COSMOS
SHOW

24.  Marcian Hoff, along with a handful of
visionary colleagues working at a
young silicon valley startup is credited
for inventing what in 1971?

26. INTEL 4004
FIRST EVER MICROPROCESSOR
THAT CAUSED REVOLUTION IN 1970s

27.  IF
RESISTANCE : SUPERCONDUCTORS
THEN
VISCOSITY : ???

29. Viscosity= 0
SUPERFLUIDS

30.  “The rumor that I’m secretly creating a
zombie apocalypse to generate demand for
flamethrowers is completely false”.
Which famous personality tweeted this with
respect to making $3.5 million by selling
flamethrowers?

32. ELON MUSK

33.  ID X, X IS THE NAME OF ONE OF THE INITIAL
STAGES OF TESTING ANY MEDICINE/VACCINE OR
ANY PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS.
X IS A SUBSTANCE OR TREATMENT WHICH IS
DESIGNED TO HAVE NO THERAPEUTIC VALUE.

35. PLACEBO EFFECT
DEALS WITH HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY

36.  One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was
thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, And I
said, “Do you know about X?” And she said “Yes.” I said, “What
do you know about him?”, and she said, “Open Sesame”. And I
said, “Yes, this is the name!” Then I went on to the street and
found 30 people and asked them, “Do you know X?” People
from India, people from Germany, and people from Tokyo and
China… they all knew about X. X is a kind, smart business
person and he helped the village. So easy to spell and globally
known. X opens sesame for small to medium sized companies.
Identify the person behind the above explanation.

38. X: ALI BABA
JACK MA

39.  CHARLES DARWIN, FATHER OF EVOLUTION IN
HIS BOOK ‘ORIGIN OF SPECIES’ HAS
MENTIONED ABOUT A SPECIFIC ISLAND, WHERE
HE DID HIS MOST OF THE RESEARCH WORK
NAME THE ISLAND

41. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
GALAPAGOS TURTLE
THESE ARE GIANT TURTLES THAT CAN
FOUND IN THE WORLD.
THESE CAN WEIGH UPTO 0.5 TONS!!!
ALSO, THESE TURTLES LIVE UPTO 300
YEARS WHICH IS THE HIGHEST AMONG
ALL SPECIES.

42.  Union health minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said
that “X is the single largest infectious cause of
death among children under the age of five
years, worldwide”, during the launch of Y,
India’s first ever indigenous vaccine against X.
Identify X and Y.

44. X:PNEUMONIA
Y:PNEUMOSIL

45.  ID THE MISSING WORD

47. MOMENTUM
BASED ON HEISENBURG UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE

48.  FILL IN THE BLANKS
Tardigrades are animals that are responsible
for polluting the _____, after Beresheet
crash-landed on ______, thereby spilling the
Tardigrades.

50. MOON
TARDIGRADES

51.  ID THE ROBOT

53. ASIMO
DEVELOPED BY HONDA IN 2000s
NOW PLACED IN MUSEUM IN TOKYO

54.  ID THE MACHINE

56. KALI 5000
(KILO-AMPERE LINEAR INJECTOR)
INDIA’S EMP GUN

57.  ID THE PLACE

59. OUTSIDE CERN
EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

60.  ID THE NAME OF THE
CURVE AND ALSO A
FAMOUS COMPANY’S
PRODUCT RESEMBLES THE
SHAPE
ID THE COMPANY

62. HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID
LAYS,PRINGLES

63.  ID X, X IS A TECHNOLOGY USED IN
VARIOUS SPORTS. PART OF X CONTAINS A
WORD THAT IS USED AS A COLLECTIVE
NOUN AMONG BIRDS

65. HAWK-EYE TECHNOLOGY

66.  CONNECT THESE

68. CORNING
THE COMPANY MADE GLASSES FOR EDISON’S BULB

69. THANK YOU!!!