auto-scitech quiz finals conducted at IITG

1. SEISMECH – QUIZ
FINALS
ADITYA PARASHAR
ANGSHUMAN DAS

2. Rules
• 24 questions, first 12 clockwise remaining anticlockwise.
• Standard pounce, bounce.
• +15/-10 on pounce, +10 on bounce.

3. Q1.

4. • What is being described in the video, and name the painting for full points.

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6. Shell drilling in the arctic
Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

7. Q2.
• In Euclidean geometry, the X flag theorem says that if a point P is chosen
inside rectangle ABCD then the sum of the squared Euclidean distances
from P to two opposite corners of the rectangle equals the sum to the other
two opposite corners. As an equation:
• This theorem takes its name from the fact that, when the line segments
from P to the corners of the rectangle are drawn, together with the
perpendicular lines used in the proof, the completed figure somewhat
resembles a X Flag.

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9. British Flag Theorem

10. Q3. Removed piece?

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12. Comic Sans

13. Q4.
X?
• Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"; nicknamed X ) is an extinct species widely
thought to be in the genus Homo. The remains of an individual that would
have stood about 3.5 feet (1.1 m) in height were discovered in 2003 at Liang
Bua on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Partial skeletons of nine
individuals have been recovered, including one complete skull, referred to as
"LB1". These remains have been the subject of intense research to determine
whether they represent a species distinct from modern humans.
• The most important and obvious identifying features of H. floresiensis are
its small body and small cranial capacity. Brown and Morwood also
identified a number of additional, less obvious features that might
distinguish LB1 from modern H. sapiens.

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15. X = Hobbit

16. Q5.
• In May 2014, a team of scientists in the Philippines discovered a new species
of plant, which was named the Rinorea niccolifera. This is a type of
'hyperaccumulator', which means it can flourish in soils with a high degree
of metals and even absorb them. Which metal does this plant absorb?

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18. Nickel

19. Q6.
X?
• The IgNobel prize in 2001 for technology was presented jointly to John
Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the X in the year 2001,
and to the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) for granting him
Innovation Patent.
• While a standard patent must be drafted by a lawyer with engineering or
science qualifications and must also demonstrate a significant advance, the
innovation patent need only to show an advance.
• Keogh, who is a freelance patent lawyer himself, says that he applied for the
patent in order to test this new class of new patents. He says that innovation
patents are not examined in detail by the Australian patent office.
• “The patent office would be required to issue a patent for everything,” he
told The Age newspaper. “All they’re doing is putting a rubber stamp on it.”

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21. Wheel

22. Q7.
• The word Y was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer Karel
Čapek in his play R.U.Y1. (Rossum's Universal Ys), published in 1920. The
play begins in a factory that uses a chemical substitute for protoplasm to
manufacture living, simplified people called Ys. The play does not focus in
detail on the technology behind the creation of these living creatures. At
issue is whether the Ys are being exploited and the consequences of human
dependence upon commodified labor.

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24. Y = Robot

25. Q8.
• The design attracted criticism, with Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber
labelling the cars "ugly" and Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali
calling them "not that pretty". At the 2012 Australian Grand Prix, Charlie
Whiting, the FIA technical delegate, announced that although the changes to
the sporting regulations planned for the 2014 season would effectively
remove the "______" effect, the sport's governing body is planning to phase
the stepped nose out for 2013. The FIA later accepted a proposal that would
allow teams to cover up the particular thing with a "modesty plate", a panel
designed to obscure the step without fundamentally altering the
aerodynamic profile of the car or offering any aerodynamic gain itself. Which
particular change am I talking about?

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28. Platypus nose effect

29. Q9.
• To simplify the engine and reduce costs, the V-twin ignition was designed to
operate with a single set of points and no distributor. This is known as a
dual fire ignition system, causing both spark plugs to fire regardless of
which cylinder was on its compression stroke, with the other spark plug
firing on its cylinder's exhaust stroke, effectively wasting a spark. The
exhaust note is basically a throaty growling sound with some popping. The
45° design of the engine thus creates a plug firing sequencing as such: The
first cylinder fires, the second (rear) cylinder fires 315° later, then there is a
405° gap until the first cylinder fires again, giving the engine its unique
sound.

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31. Potato potato sound made by Harley
Davidson bikes

32. Q10.
• “____ ___ _ _______ ____" is an English language nursery rhyme of
nineteenth-century American origin. The nursery rhyme was first published
by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as an original poem by
Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual
incident.
• The rhyme is also famous for being the first thing recorded by Thomas
Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. It was the first instance
of recorded verse. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still
survives. The earliest recording (1878) was retrieved by 3-D imaging
equipment in 2012

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34. Mary Had a Little Lamb

35. Q11.
• The Spirit of Ecstasy, was designed by English sculptor Charles Robinson
Sykes and carries with it a story about secret passion between John Walter
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, (second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu after
1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car
Illustrated magazine from 1902) and the model for the emblem, Eleanor
Velasco Thornton.
• Where would you find it?

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37. Mascot on the Rolls-Royce bonnet

38. Q12.
• In 1978, Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo wrote a short biography
of Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre in the university’s ChemNews bulletin.
• •The detailed biography traced the story of Claude, born in Medoc, France in a
family of wine bottle manufacturers, going on to become a master chemist,
rubbing shoulders with Anders Celsius and Joseph Priestley.
• •While many fell for the joke, Woolner said the idea for the fictional Litre was
born as a solution to problems faced by U.S. chemists, journal readers and
typists.
• What specific rule(nowrelaxed) of the International System of Units was Woolner
trying to take advantage of with this fictional biography?

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40. • Only units named after people can be represented in upper case (L)
• The lower case ‘l’ was indistinguishable from upper case ‘I’ or the digit ‘1’

41. Q13.
• In 1896 the grading system in Aargau, a canton in Switzerland had its
grading system completely overhauled. A score of 6 which was previously the
lowest score was made into the highest and 1,which was the lowest score
became the bottom score. What legendary myth traces its origins to this
harmless change?

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43. Einstein was not a maggu (myth)
• The myth that Einstein failed in school. It was the opposite. He was among
the better students.

44. Q14.
Also called Gauss’ formula or the surveyor’s formula, it is a mathematical
algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are
described by ordered pairs x,y) in the plane by cross-multiplying these pairs..
• •When you list the coordinates in columns and cross-multiply the pairs, the
resulting image looks like a daily use object, that involves similar crossing
on a repeated basis.
• As a result, the algorithm is known by what popular name?

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46. Shoe-Lace Formula

47. Q15.
• Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist born at Bologna. His scientific work was
chiefly concerned with galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications,
with the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and with experiments
for preserving human life and material objects from destruction by fire.
Aldini's most famous public demonstration of the electro-stimulation
technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George
Forster. Many critics believe that Aldini was an inspiration for a fictional
character due to many public experiments of bio-electric galvanism. Identify
the character?

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49. Frankenstein

50. Q16.
• In medicine, a A (Latin for "I shall harm") is an inert substance or form of
therapy that creates harmful effects in a patient. The A effect is the adverse
reaction experienced by a patient who receives such a therapy. Conversely, a
B is an inert substance or form of therapy that creates a beneficial response
in a patient. The phenomenon by which a B creates a beneficial response is
called the B effect. In contrast to the B effect, the A effect is relatively
obscure.
• The term A ("I shall harm") was coined by Walter Kennedy in 1961 to denote
the counterpart of one of the more recent applications of the term B ("I
please"); a B being a substance that produced a beneficial, healthful,
pleasant, or desirable effect as a result of the subject's beliefs and
expectations, in spite of not containing any active ingredients that could
explain these effects.

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52. A = Nocebo effect
B = Placebo effect

53. Q17.
• It has been sponsoring sport competitions since 1907 and is the exclusive
tyre supplier for the Formula One Championship for 2011-2016 and for the
FIM World Superbike Championship. the company has also launched
fashion project PZero, a high-tech sportswear brand, and operates in
renewable energy and sustainable mobility .
• __________ is well known for its long term primary sponsorship of the Italian
football team Internazionale. _________ previously appeared as a sponsor on
the shirts of the Maltese football club Valletta for a short time. ________ is
currently the event title sponsor of the Spanish and Hungarian Grand Prix.

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55. Pirelli tyres

56. Q18.
• License plates issued in Nevada for autonomous cars will have a red
background and feature an infinity symbol, on the left side because,
according to the DMV Director, "...using the infinity symbol was the best
way to represent the 'car of the future'.

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58. Google Driverless Car

59. Q19.
• In 1504, __X__ was stranded in north coast of Jamaica, due to worm-eaten
leaking ship. The native inhabitants were no longer awed by the newcomers.
Annoyed by their voracious appetites and angry at the depredations of crew
members, who had plundered several villages, the population was hostile
and would no longer supply food. __X__ came up with a clever plan and
warned the islanders that his god was upset with their refusal of food and
that the moon would “rise inflamed with wrath” as an expression of divine
displeasure. He successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting
a __Y__, using the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus.
On the appointed night, the moon darkened and turned red, and the
terrified islanders offered provisions and beseeched __X__ to ask his god for
mercy.

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61. X = Christopher Columbus
Y = Lunar eclipse

62. Q20.
• X is often called the father of medicine in Western culture. The original form
was written in Ionic Greek, in the late Fifth Century BC. It is usually
included in the X Corpus.
• Scholars widely believe that X or one of his students wrote it between the
5th and 3rd century BC. Alternatively, classical scholar Ludwig Edelstein
proposed that it was written by the Pythagoreans, an idea that others
questioned for lack of evidence for a school of Pythagorean medicine.

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65. Hippocratic Oath

66. Q21.
Connect and give me X or Y
• 1. Hamsa Padmanabhan – “Hamsa”
• 2. Sainudeen Pattazhy – “Sainudeen”
• 3. Vishnu Jayaprakash – “Jayaprakash”
• 4. Anish Mukherjee – “Mukherjee”
• 5. Debarghya Sarkar – “Sarkar”
• 6. Hetal Vaishnav – “Vaishnav”
• 7. Akshat Singhal – “Singhal”
• 8. Madhav Pathak – “Pathak”
• 9. X – “Y”

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68. People with planets named after
them
• X = Vishwanathan Anand
• Y = Vishyanand

69. Q22.
• Claude Goodman Johnson (24 October 1864 – 12 April 1926), motor vehicle
manufacturer, was the British businessman who built Rolls-Royce Limited.
• Johnson described himself as the _________ in the Rolls-Royce name but,
without Royce who was ill and took his design staff home from 1908, and
losing Rolls in July 1910 it was Johnson the founding entrepreneur who kept
the business alive until his own death in April 1926.

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71. Hyphen(Rolls-Royce)

72. Q23.
• Greg North, Commercial Director at Barnshaws, comments: “We became
involved with the project back in 2007 and in all, we delivered 66 sections for
the roof structure, all precision curved. These were then assembled by
Bolton-based Watson Steel Structures that was responsible for the steel
construction on the project. ”The project also involved changes to the fixed
roof structure so that it would provide sufficient support for the retractable
section as well as increasing the seating capacity by 1,200.Because of this
project now, a huge change come and issues related to weather protection
have been solved. What project am I talking about? Where we see this ?

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74. Retractable roof on centre court of
Wimbeldon

75. Q24.
• The most common type of Z was first invented in 1997 by Mark D.
Lillibridge, Martin Abadi, Krishna Bharat, and Andrei Z. Broder. Because
the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing
test that is administered by a human. It may be described as a fully
automated public Turing test to tell non-humans and humans apart. A Z is
sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. This term is ambiguous
because it could also mean a Turing test in which the participants are both
attempting to prove they are the computer.

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77. CAPTCHA