Mains of the Sci/Tech quiz held at Pantheon '13

2.  100*(Mental age/ Chronological age)

10.  The first mammal to be cloned (Dolly the
sheep) was named after her.

11.  The name was inspired by the Firefly television
series in which a _____ is an electronic
communication (often consisting of a video call
or video message). During the developer preview,
a number of references were made to the series
such as Lars Rasmussen replying to a message
with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series
to mean cool or good, and the crash message of
_____ being a popular quotation from the series:
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!".

14.  ________ is world famous. A roving random
distributed denial of service attack before
which web, network and systems
administrators alike quake and have terrible
nightmares about.
 The _______ is a website whose URL was
chosen to confuse those who tried to
pronounce the URL.

16.  http:///..org

19. Gauss: Unit of
magnetic field Gaussian Curve
Gauss Gun
Gauss Map

26.  "Mammon slept. And the beast reborn
spread over the earth and its numbers
grew legion. And they proclaimed the times
and sacrificed crops unto the
fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they
built a new world in their own
image as promised by the sacred words,
and spoke of the beast with their children.
Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a
follower."

29.  X is the official mascot of Y. X was originally
designed as a submission for a logo contest.
Y’s creator took his inspiration for X from a
photograph he found on an FTP site, showing
a figure looking strangely like the Creature
Comforts characters made by Nick Park. X is
also an abbreviation of the outfit which
springs to mind when one sees the creature.

33.  X was created by Dr. Gero after the
destruction of Red Ribbon Army, to seek
vengeance on Y.
 She eventually married Y’s best friend and
with whom she had a daughter Marron.

51.  X, an industrial metalworking robot, was built
in 2996 at Fábrica Robotica De La Madre, a
manufacturing facility of Mom's Friendly
Robot Company in Tijuana, Mexico.
 He is described as an "alcoholic, whore-
mongering, chain-smoking gambler“ by
fellow colleagues at the Planet express
delivery firm.

67.  X is an Indian computer scientist. At present,
he is the head of Think Tank Team and
Director of Research of Samsung. He is best
known for his work on Y and Samsung Galaxy
Gear. World Economic Forum honoured X as
one of the Young Global Leader 2013.

70.  X was an Indian American entrepreneur.
A sound engineer, he was a professor at
the MIT . He was also the founder and
chairman of X Corporation known for its
loudspeakers, noise-cancelling headsets, and
automotive sound systems.

73.  X is one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems,
where he served as its first CEO and Chairman in
the early 80s. In 2004 he formed his own firm, X
Ventures, which focused on venture investments
in various technology sectors, most notably clean
technology.
 In May 2010 it was announced that former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair was to join X Ventures
to provide strategic advice regarding investments
in technologies focused on the environment

76.  X was created by Phanindra Sama and Charan
Padmaraju from BITS Pilani seven years ago.
 The idea emanated from an experience that
Phanindra had in the winter of 2005 in
Bangalore, when he struggled to make it
home for Diwali.
 It was taken over by the Ibibo Group, a joint
venture of South Africa's Naspers and China's
Tencent in June 2013.

80.  A was a Swiss scientist who served as an inspiration for
professor Calculus in Tintin. A’s son B was the first man
to reach Challenger Deep. C was a physicist who is known
for his experiments depicting quantum theory using a cat.
D was a Dutch scientist known for developing equations
relating dipole moments to temperature and dielectric
constant. E is the youngest Nobel Laureate winning the
Nobel prize along with his father F for laws of X-Ray
Diffraction. G was a Dutch physicist known for G force
which is a force on the point charge due to Electro-
Magnetic field. G shared the Nobel prize with H
for discovery and theoretical explanation of the H effect
which is the effect of splitting a spectral line into several
components in the presence of a static magnetic field.

81.  I shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with
her husband J and with physicist K for their
work on radioactivity. The SI unit for
radioactivity is named after K. I’s daughter L
also won the Nobel prize for chemistry along
with her husband for discovery of artificial
radioactivity. M was a French

82.  A- Auguste Piccard
 B- Jacques Piccard
 C- Erwin Schrödinger
 D- Peter Debye
 E- William Lawrence Bragg
 F- William Henry Bragg
 G- Hendrik Lorentz
 H- Pieter Zeeman
 I- Marie Curie
 J- Pierre Curie
 K- Henri Becquerel
 L- Irène Joliot-Curie

92.  Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
 Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
 Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
 Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

101.  Bell
 Ampere
 Ohm
 Faraday
 Pascal
 Tesla
 Newton

110.  Apogee of Fear- Fictional film to be made in
space
 Jingle bells- Song performed in space
 Golf- Sport played in Space
 Valentina Tereshkova-Woman in Space
 Laika- Mammal in space
 Yuri Gagarin- Human in Space
 Rakesh Sharma- Indian in space