Quiz 3 (Modern Science & Space Race) of QUEST-ion quiz series in IIT Patna's technical fest, Celesta '20. Hosted on 15th December 2020 at Dare2Compete.

3. In the image you see a Nobel Laureate X
looking at the picture of another Nobel
Laureate Y.
X was also involved in the making of a
very popular sci-fi movie of this century.
It was Y who had predicted the existence
of Z and the discovery of Z in the 21st
century awarded X his Nobel Prize.
What is Z?
1.

4. X - Kip Thorne
Y - Albert Einstein
Z - Gravitational Waves
(Kip Thorne worked in Interstellar)

5. This company has arranged all eight of the trips completed by private citizens to date. All
of the clients had to use the Russian made vehicles, and have lived and worked alongside
professionals for 10 days or more.
You will spend approximately 10 days at this location, during which time you are
principally free to do as you choose. You can marvel at the wonder of the Earth, assist in
science research or design your own program.
The price depends on the vehicle you choose, the timing and the exact ‘tourist’ profile.
To where does this company provide you a trip?
2.

6. International Space Station
(Company - Space adventures)

7. In the mid-1940 Kodak started receiving complaints about black spots being formed on their films which
made them useless. An investigation later found out that the problem was with the packaging material.
To rectify the problem, they contacted the concerned agency but with no steps taken from their side,
Kodak threatened to sue them as their actions were affecting the business. As an immediate result, the
agency disclosed its classified information to the whole of the film industry about their future plans,
information about ____ _____, weather patterns and more, so that the concerned companies can take proper
steps to keep their products and materials protected.
Quite obviously, the general public had no idea about it.
What was the reason behind the films getting black spots and making them useless? / FITB
3.

8. The radioactivity due to nuclear bomb tests

9. In 1979, The Associated Press reported several instances of “X parties” occurring across
the United States. In St. Louis, Missouri, the “X Watchers and Gourmet Diners Society”
announced plans to view X’s last _____ during a garden gathering at which “hard hats or
similar protective headgear” were required. The Charlotte, North Carolina,
News-Observer reported that a local hotel designated itself an “official X _____ zone
(complete with painted target)” and was holding a poolside disco party. Entrepreneurs
across the country sold T-shirts emblazoned with large bullseyes. Another enterprising
individual took a different tack and sold cans of “X repellent.”
Id X. (blanks are different and just added to hide the obvious)
4.

10. Skylab

11. Which scientific achievement is celebrated
by this US Coin?
5.

12. Apollo 11 moon landing

13. When the present Boeing 747s were first introduced in the late 1980s, this storage
device had just entered the markets and provided 1.44Mb storage and was thus used as
navigation database loader. It used to store the data for 28 days after which an
engineer had to change it as to upload the data of the next 28 days.
What yesteryear device which now exists only as an “icon” for the new generation?
6.

14. Floppy Disk

15. In his work X puts how due to ‘inexplicable’ reasons,
the ‘administrative apathy’ towards Y control
programmes continues, even after more than
century of X’s discovery. The building in India where
he made this discovery now lies in ruins. X always
believed that this disease, which is still the cause of
more than 4 lakhs death worldwide, could be
eradicated if the governments exploited his
discovery.
The image below may help you to arrive at the
answer. Give me X.
7.

16. Ronald Ross

17. The inscription is taken from Vergil’s Aeneid, book 6, line 663. There the hero Aeneas
is in the underworld and looking upon the spirits of past human beings who made
great contributions to the betterment of humankind by their unique creations and
discoveries.
Also associated with this inscription is the goddess Nature holding a cornucopia and a
veil that covers her face.
Where would you find them?
8.

18. Nobel Prize Medal
Of Physics and Chemistry
(Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes)

19. Ariel : UK
Asterix : France
Explorer : USA
X : India
Identify X.
9.

20. Aryabhata
The first satellites of the respective countries

21. A strip from a comic about a Nobel Prize winning scientist and his discovery.
Name the scientist.
10.

22. Barry Marshall
(comic - Ulcer tales)

23. This ‘royal’ substance is said to have been discovered in the Middle Ages by an
alchemist who wanted to use this to find the Philosopher's stone. It also finds a
mention in the works of the famous alchemist Basil Valentine, who represented it’s
famous property by foxes and roosters but the most famous use of this substance
happened during World War II in Denmark.
Name this substance.
11.

24. Aqua Regia

25. These group of scientists coming from the same part of the world acquired the name X which given as a
response to the Fermi Paradox.
A good coincidence that would support this fact is that many of them, born in the same city, have no places
named after them in their city of birth but have craters and other places on celestial bodies named after
them. The major characteristics of X included their superhuman intellect and their native language which was
quite different from their neighbours and also gave them a strong accent in English. As a famous sci-fi author
joked, there was a rumour that they were a part of another intelligent species on Earth apart from humans.
Most of these people emigrated to the USA in the early 1930s. X is also the name of a 21st-century sci-fi
movie.
Which country’s nationals are being talked about here and what was the name given to the X?
12.

26. Hungary
The Martians

27. This experiment before being started lead to a lot of objections with the objectivists claiming that it would
lead to Doomsday scenarios. The most popular theories were-
1. It would lead to formation of many small blackholes that may converge to form a large blackhole on
Earth.
2. New strange particles would form, which, like Midas’ touch would convert any particle that it touches
into these strange particles.
3. Massive particles with only one magnetic pole unlike the normal matter which have both poles and
would convert any particle into other forms.
4. According to some conspiracy theories, it would provide a portal to another world.
Which experiment are we talking about which is running for more than a decade now without any of the above
situations?
13.

28. Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

29. Just a week after the 9/11 attacks, people were receiving some letters which looked like had
a contact with the Al-Qaeda, but the letters also gave the advice to take antibiotics. These
letters lead to 5 deaths. It took FBI more than 8 years to solve the case.
Interestingly, the man who was behind the attacks (and was dead by the time investigation
ended) had contributed more than 20 years for X vaccine programme and he believed that
different allegations on the programme and major developments in politics would put an end
to funding of this programme which would lead to it’s discontinuation. Following these
attacks, the program was rejuvenated and the vaccine of X is now available.
What, present in the letters, killed people? Alternatively, give me X.
14.

30. Anthrax

31. The following is the letter from William
Crookes, the President of the Royal Society.
Whose experiment is being discussed?
15.

32. Jagdish Chandra Bose