The Quiz Fest is an annual fest by Tack On Quiz Club at UPES, Dehradun. This is Energy & Materials Quiz by Krishna Moorthi.

1. ENERGY & MATERIALS QUIZ
FIRST ROUND
By Krishna Moorthi & Prateek

2. QUESTION 1
• Coral Reefs, the underwater structures
created by microorganisms corals, is made
mainly of which material?

3. QUESTION 1
• CALCIUM CARBONATE

4. Iron kills stars!!
• Stainless steel is a very important material in
our life , it is an alloy and comprises of 3
metals. Iron being of them, name the other
two elements which comprise stainless steel.

5. QUESTION 2
• Nickel and chromium

6. Fire in the hole!
• Little boy was made with U-235 isotope.
While on the other hand, for making Fat man,
some other element was used instead of
uranium.
• Which element?

7. QUESTION 3
• Plutonium

8. That's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit
• Give Funda

9. QUESTION 4
• Thermite reaction

10. Careful what you wash for
• Also known as hydroxyl acid, X is the major
component of acid rain. It is also a main part
of most junk foods and cold drinks available
in the market. What is X?

11. QUESTION 5
• Water

12. QUESTION 6
• Foamed polystyrene was made commercially
for the first time in 1941 by researchers in
Dow’s Chemical Physics Lab, where they
rediscovered the process already achieved by
Swedish scientist Carl Georg Munters. How
do we popularly know this substance as?

13. QUESTION 6
• STYROFOAM OR THERMOCOL

14. Now you see me
• Benjamin Franklin, in a letter writes -
'I imagine it will be found pretty generally true, that
the same convexity of glass through which a man
sees clearest and best at the distance proper for
reading, is not the best for greater distances.
Therefore , I had formerly two pair of spectacles,
which i shifted occasionally, as in travelling i
sometimes read. This was a cause of trouble'
• What did Franklin invent to overcome the
'trouble'?

15. QUESTION 7
• Bi-focals

16. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• On which monument, one can find this
compound FeP04.4H2O (Iron Hydrogen
Phosphate hydrate) - which gives the
monument a unique property?

17. QUESTION 8
• Iron pillar at Qutub minar

18. With low power comes less responsibilities?
• “Conventional electro-magnetic energy
meters did not record consumption if the load
was very small. The indicator tended not to
move when at night there was no electrical
load”
• What misnomer popular in India does the
above quote explain?

19. QUESTION 9
• Zero watt bulb

20. Jesus Christ Marie! Its a mineral!
• X is a hydrated magnesium silicate with the
chemical formula H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2.
In loose form , it is the widely used substance
known as ______ (aka X).
• It is the softest known mineral and listed as ! on
the Moh's hardness scale.
• As such , it can be easily scratched by a fingernail.
It has a specific gravity of 2.5-2.8, a clear or dusty
lustre and is translucent to opaque.

21. QUESTION 10
• Talcum Powder (derived from talc)

22. QUESTION 11
• Iron is the most abundant metal in the
universe by mass fraction. Which is the
second most abundant metal in the universe
by mass fraction?

23. QUESTION 11
• Magnesium

24. I need a dollar...
• The material used to make X is an alloy of 2 rare earth
elements. The estimated cost of the most advanced
version of X is a few hundred million dollars.
• Some of the many “unbelievable” features of X are the
User Interface and the computer providing offline support
to the person using X.
• The manner in which the energy from the power source is
converted to a stabilized electricity supply to allow the
various components of X to function in the less than ideal
situation in which an X may be used.
What is X?

25. QUESTION 12

26. QUESTION 13
• X, also known as acetylsalicylic acid with IUPAC
name 2-acetoxybenzoic acid is a salicylate drug,
often used as an analgesic to relieve minor aches
and pains, as an antipyretic to reduce fever and as
an anti inflammatory medication.
• The active ingredient of X was first discovered
from the bark of the willow tree in 1763 by Edward
stone of Wadham college, Oxford University. He
had discovered salicylic acid. X was first
synthesized by Felix hoffmann, a chemist with the
German company Bayer in 1897.

27. QUESTION 13
• Aspirin

28. QUESTION 14
• India starting its own nuclear program was
marked by the founding of an organisation.
Which organisation?

29. QUESTION 14
• TIFR (By Homi Bhabha in 1944-45)

30. QUESTION 15
• X was invented by Y. Y obtained patents for his
invention in 1867. After its introduction, X rapidly
gained wide-scale use as a safe alternative to
blackpowder.
• Y combined Ammonium Cyanate with Glycerine
forming a compound Tri Nitro Glycerine (TNG). t
was kept in a bowl while Y was researching in his
lab. On the floor was kieselguhr (Diatomaceous
earth) and the bowl fell on it. Hence the compund
X was created.
• (Hint: Following its discovery, the world economy
had a huge “boom”)

31. QUESTION 15
• X- TNT
• Y-Alfred Noble

32. My preciousss
• The name of this metal derives from a Spanish word
which means “little silver”, because it was first
encountered in a silver mine.
• It is the least reactive metal , since it has remarkable
resistance to corrosion, even at high temperatures ,it is
therefore considered a noble metal.
• It is now used in catalytic converters, laboratory
equipment, electrical contacts and electrodes,
thermometers and dentistry equipment. Being a heavy
metal, it leads to health issues upon exposure to its
salts, but due to its corrosion resistance, it is not as
toxic as some metals.
• Which metal are we talking about which is also
considered as a symbol of prestige?

33. QUESTION 16
• Platinum

34. QUESTION 17
• Pure Iron has 5 different crystalline phases in
its solid state at various temperatures and
pressures. How many crystalline phases does
Pure Ice (solid H2O) have at its solid state?

35. QUESTION 17
• 17 Phases

36. QUESTION 18
• This legendary steel gets its name from the Tamil
word urukku, or the Kannada/Telugu word Ukku,
meaning steel.
• Aus Hajr,an Arab poet, wrote in admiration in AD
540 that “It has a water whose wavy streaks are
glistening. It is like a pond over whose surface the
wind is gliding. The smith has worked out in a
grain as if it were the trail of small black ants that
had trekked over it while it was still soft.”
• Name this most famous product of medieval
Indian metallurgy.

37. QUESTION 18
• Wootz steel

38. Teenage wasteland
• What is
this?

39. QUESTION 19
• Chemical weapons used in WWI

40. QUESTION 20
• X is the least stable element known to man
today. It was synthesised in 2002 in Russia
and has the highest atomic and mass numbers
of all elements that exist presently.
X is the only element to be named after a
person who is currently alive.
Identify X

41. QUESTION 20
• OGANESSON
(After Dr. Yuri Oganessian)