2. Rules
โข This is a written round.
โข There will be exponential scoring
as follows:
2(n+1) marks for โnโ correct answers
out of 6 questions.
3. 1. Everything Runs On Caffeine
โข Cosmic Latte and Cappuccino Cosmico were
two names suggested by Peter Drum for X.
Though Drum's suggestion Cappuccino
Cosmico received the most votes, Cosmic
Latte was preferred because 'Latteo' means
milk in Italian, Galileo's native language.
Drum came up with the name while sitting in
a Starbucks coffeehouse drinking a latte
while reading the Washington Post. He
noticed that X displayed in the newspaper
was the same colour as his latte.
โข What is X?
8. 3. So Popular
The following video has two kinds of
smokes: black and white.
The black smoke is produced when
cartridges of potassium perchlorate,
anthracene and sulphur are burnt with the
organic material.
Whereas, the white smoke is produced
when potassium chlorate, lactose and
chloroform resin are burnt with the organic
material.
For which world-famous event are these
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11. 4. Oopsy
DWorld, a computer simulation, is a
hypothetical world orbiting a star whose radiant
energy is slowly increasing or decreasing. It is
meant to mimic important elements of the Earth-
Sun system, and was introduced by James
Lovelock and Andrew Watson in a paper
published in 1983 to illustrate the plausibility of
the Gaia hypothesis. In the original 1983
version, DWorld is seeded with two varieties of
_____ as its only life forms: black _____ and white
_____. White petaled _____ reflect light, while
black petaled ______ absorb light. The simulation
tracks the two _____ populations and the surface
temperature of DWorld as the sun's rays grow
more powerful. ID DWorld. Or fill in the blank.
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13. 5. Disastrous Butterflies
The following image from the
web comic XKCD mentions 3
concepts which are usually
associated with X theory. While
doing so, the comic parodies the
movie Jurassic Park (1993). ID X.
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16. 6. LittleYellow Pegman
SVHN is a collection of real-world images
that are used for developing machine
learning and object recognition
algorithms. These images are taken from
unsolved real-world problems, such as
shown below, and require minimal
processing and formatting. Where are
these images sourced from and where
would one see a crowdsourced solution
to this challenge?
