Sci-tech Quiz conducted by Aayush Patni during QuizWeek 2018.

1. PRELIMS
-Answers

2. Rules
■ Written round
■ 18 questions in prelims.
■ Each question carries 1 mark.
■ * marked questions will act as tie breakers.
■ Top 8 teams will qualify for the finals.
■ The Quizmaster’s decision is final and binding.

3. Q.1 id the blanked out word

4. Eureka

5. Q.2Who
■ 10100 is an investment fund that focuses on real estate, e-commerce, and emerging
tech companies in China and India.The fund, created by X also supports non-profit
work with focus on education.
■ One of X’s other ventures was RedSwoosh , a peer to peer file sharing company which
was sold to Akamai in 2007 for $15 million.

6. Travis Kalanick

7. Q.3 Id X andY
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an
American actress and producer. She was best
known for her roles as Nurse Christine
Chapel in the original Star
Trek series and Lwaxana Troi on StarTrek:The
Next Generation and StarTrek: Deep Space
Nine, as well as for being the voice of most
onboard computer interfaces throughout the
series. She was sometimesreferred to as
"the First Lady of StarTrek“.
X , was given the nickname Project Majel by
the company Y, in reference to her.

8. ■ X- GoogleAssistant
■ Y- Google

9. Q.4What term?
X is the process of making changes to your lifestyle in order to “hack” your body’s biology
and feel your best.
X can include body modifications, in which groups of people known as "grinders"
experiment with implants and other methods of applying technologies to their bodies,
such as wearable computing.Other types of X may involve self-medical hacks, such as
home DNA or genetic testing. X also can apply to the use of advanced IT for hydroponic
plant systems or other projects that apply IT concepts to biological organisms.

10. ■ Biohacking

11. Q.5 Id X
■ The idea to raise funds in X came from a Reddit post called "Let's send the Jamaican bobsled team to
theWinter Olympics!" on the X subreddit.
■ "This is a great opportunity to promote X on the world stage," wrote the original poster Laika1954.
"We also need your help to bring the team's awareness to the fund by getting in contact with them via
Facebook,Twitter, email, or anything else you might try."
■ Fellow X enthusiasts were excited by the prospect of getting more attention for the currency.
■ "If we were to get behind this cause, we would generate a great deal of positive buzz.The return of a
Jamaican bobsled team alone will break headlines, but imagine if it was on the shoulders of X they
got there!" wrote one user in a post called "Fellow Shibes...We need more publicity! Let's sponsor the
Jamaican bobsled team make it to the Olympics.Think of the positive press!!!! Such rhythm! Such
rhyme!Wow, its bobsled time!!!"
■ Within hours of the original post, so many people had donated to the campaign that the price of the
currency itself rose against bitcoin by 50 per cent, according to the Guardian.

12. ■ Dogecoin

13. Q.6Who is being welcomed?

14. ■ NeilArmstrong

15. Q.7
■ A chicken walks into the library and says to the librarian:
■ “book, book, book”
■ The librarian hands the chicken three books. On the way out the chicken runs into a
frog.The chicken shows the books to the frog and says “book book book”.
■ The frog replies “ X X X “

16. ■ Reddit

17. Q.8What has been blanked out?
This is a tool which was
originally built for Macintosh by
Forethought Inc but later added
to Microsoft and rest is history.
Which software which has
become ubiquitous with
presentations?

18. ■ Microsoft Powerpoint

19. Q.9
X is a 2015 endless runner snowboarding video game by
Snowman.The player-character automatically moves to the
right of the screen through procedurally generated
landscapes.The player taps the screen to jump and perform
tricks, and works towards goals, competitive high scores, and
upgrades. Snowman, aToronto-based, three-person indie
development team, previously worked on productivity apps
before X.The game was made to emulate the ethereal
atmosphere of snowboarding, and was inspired by Journey
(2012), MonumentValley (2014),Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
(2000), and Windosill (2009).
A few days ago the sequel Y, to this game was released to
much critical acclaim. Id X and Y.

21. Q.10

22. ■ Instagram

23. Q.11
■ Which signal is X?
■ X signal is sent between two telecommunication devices as a part of handshaking
protocol.
■ X is a signal in the form of a brief interruption in an otherwise continuous signal.
■ X can be used to indicate certain conditions, or to cause specific actions to be
performed by a telephone switching system.

24. ■ WINK signal

25. Q.12
Identify this person and why has he become
famous recently?

26. Parag Agarwal
CTO of twitter

27. Q.13Which company?
■ It unveiled the first phone with an under screen fingerprint scanner at CES 2018.
■ It also unveiled the world’s first phone with a 2k screen.
■ It is the official smartphone partner of the 2018 and 2022 FIFAWorld Cup.
■ It is currently endorsed by Stephen Curry in China and Philippines .

28. Vivo

29. Q.14
■ In the olden days of spectroscopy, spectral lines, on the basis of their observed fine
structure, were classified as “fundamental”, “principal”, “diffuse” and “sharp”.This
terminology is now obsolete but it survives in modern chemistry in a different form.
How?

30. S,p,d,f blocks in the periodic table

31. Q.15 Connect

32. Lunar X prize finalisists

33. Q.16 Id blanked out part

35. Q.17 Id and claim to fame

36. ■ RayTomlinson
■ Inventor of @ symbol

37. Q.18
Identify this billion dollar company which
has recently become famous for it’s BRCA
testkit.
In 2007, it also became the first company
to begin offering autosomal DNA testing
for ancestry, which all other major
companies now use. Its saliva-
based direct-to-consumer genetic
testing business was named Invention of
theYear byTime magazine in 2008.