Sci Tech quiz for Cognizance 2016 IITR

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2. SciTech Quiz
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3. Rules.
1. QM is Daddy.
2. Teams of 3 or less.
3. Don’t use your phones. Upar wala dekh raha hai.
4. Have fun. Peace.

4. Prelims
+10/-0
Top 6 teams will qualify to the finals.
“I don’t want to belong to any club that will have me as a member”

5. 1.
X was a scientist majorly known for additional forces when the frame of reference
is rotated. He is said to have coined and defined the term ‘work’ too. The flow
ocean currents is said to be predicted using X’s calculations and the reason is
cited to be X force.

6. 2.
Back in 1870, a German chemist, examined the amount of Y within X, among
many other green vegetables. In recording his findings, he accidentally misplaced
a decimal point when transcribing data from his notebook, changing the Y content
in X by an order of magnitude. While there are actually only 3.5 milligrams of Y in
a 100-gram serving of X, the accepted fact became 35 milligrams.
This error was eventually corrected in 1937, when someone rechecked the
numbers. But the damage had already been done.
What popular cultural image resulted from this decimal-point error?

7. 3.

8. 4.

9. 5.
The 'Special' tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS
messages seems to be the Morse code for 'SMS'. Furthermore, the 'Ascending'
SMS tone is Morse code for ________. Finally, the "Standard" SMS tone is Morse
code for 'M' (Message).
FITB

10. 6.
This term was coined in a 2005 article in the Sunday Telegraph Times. In August
2012, this word was listed for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary. In 2011, this term was also voted as the most hated “slang”
in the United Kingdom. Some famous acronyms related to the word being talked
about include : TDTM Cu46 POS RUH SorG
and the list is never ending. What word/term is being talked about here?

11. 7.
"The Little Box Challenge" is a competition launched by Google & IEEE in 2014.
This offers a million dollars to anyone who invents the smallest 'little box', which, if
it comes through will significantly affect the economics of such things as electric
cars and household equipment. 'Little box' refers to miniaturizing what kind of
electrical equipment?

12. 8.
In May 2014, a 'hologram' of this person appeared at the Billboard Music Awards
ceremony in the USA as a hologram, dancing along to a song named "Slave to the
Rhythm". This is from an album named "Xscape", which is a posthumous
compilation of that person's songs.
Who?

13. 9.
The company X just announced a self-lacing shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0,
bringing to life the dream that sneaker fans have shared since Y premiered almost
30 years ago.
Company X does most of its product designing at its Blue Ribbon Studios located
at its headquarters.

14. 10.
Name the inventor and industrialist who said this in the mid-1850s:
"People of this world are never satisfied with each other and my ____ are the best
peacemakers."

15. 11.
A player's X is represented by a number which increases or decreases depending
on the outcome of games between rated players. After every game, the winning
player takes points from the losing one. The difference between the ratings of the
winner and loser determines the total number of points gained or lost after a
game. In a series of games between a high-rated player and a low-rated player,
the high-rated player is expected to score more wins. If the high-rated player wins,
then only a few rating points will be taken from the low-rated player...

16. 12.
The name ____ was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter. After
seeing the prototype, he thought of a phrase from the movie 2001: A Space
Odyssey. It referred to the fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity
seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiter spacecraft Discovery One
carries three of these small, one-man maintenance vehicles.
What popular product name is this?

17. 13.
X is a fun, new and rapidly growing form of digital currency. This form of digital
currency is called "cryptocurrency"; a type of digital currency. Cryptocurrency is
completely anonymous, decentralized, and extremely secure.
X is used with a wallet on your computer, your smartphone, or a website.
You can use it to buy goods and services, or trade it for other currencies (both
other cryptocurrencies or traditional currency like US dollars).
One of the most popular uses for X is "tipping" fellow internet-goers who create or
share great content. Think of it as a more meaningful "like" or upvote, with real
value that can be used all across the internet.

18. 14.
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident but the girl’s name nowhere appeared in
the dead list. This guy grew up and became an IT technical architect in his late
20s.He hired developers from the whole globe and planned to make a software
where he could search for his girlfriend through the web. Things went as planned
and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years. It was time to
shut down the search operation, when the CEO of a company had a word with this
guy and took over this application.
Who?

19. 15.
This film contains numerous references to Apple computers: when ______ is fully
charged by the sun, he makes the same “boot up” sound that most of Apple’s
Macintosh computers have made since circa 1996. _____ watches his favorite
movie every night on the screen of an iPod. The villainous _______’s voice is
provided by Apple’s text-to-speech system, MacinTalk. _______’s sleek design as
an evolution of _____’s parallels the sleek iMac design having evolved from the
boxy Apple IIe.
Which film?

20. 16.

21. 17.
Launch of the X coincides with the Y, which originated in the forests of Uganda,
spread rapidly through Latin America last year. The deadly virus is held
responsible for surge in brain-damaged babies. Incidentally, X’s brand
ambassador and ace footballer Lionel Messi hails from the south American
country of Argentina where the first case of Y affected person was reported a few
days ago.

22. 18.
Australia pioneered this monetary innovation: some other countries have also
adopted it. India was to trial this by introducing it via Reserve Bank of India offices
in five cities (Cochin, Jaipur, Shimla, Mysore and Bhubaneswar), choosing the Rs.
10/- denomination.
Thus, if you have it in your pocket, you can use a phrase that is usually applied to
credit cards. What innovation is this?

23. 19.

24. 20.

25. Answers
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”
Murphy about life and this quiz

26. 1.
X was a scientist majorly known for additional forces when the frame of reference
is rotated. He is said to have coined and defined the term ‘work’ too. The flow
ocean currents is said to be predicted using X’s calculations and the reason is
cited to be X force.

27. 1.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

28. 2.
Back in 1870, a German chemist, examined the amount of Y within X, among
many other green vegetables. In recording his findings, he accidentally misplaced
a decimal point when transcribing data from his notebook, changing the Y content
in X by an order of magnitude. While there are actually only 3.5 milligrams of Y in
a 100-gram serving of X, the accepted fact became 35 milligrams.
This error was eventually corrected in 1937, when someone rechecked the
numbers. But the damage had already been done.
What popular cultural image resulted from this decimal-point error?

29. 2.
X = Spinach
Y = Iron
Popeye the Sailor Man.

30. 3.

31. 3.
Apple

32. 4.

33. 4.
Meteor Shower

34. 5.
The 'Special' tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS
messages seems to be the Morse code for 'SMS'. Furthermore, the 'Ascending'
SMS tone is Morse code for ________. Finally, the "Standard" SMS tone is Morse
code for 'M' (Message).
FITB

35. 5.
Connecting People

36. 6.
This term was coined in a 2005 article in the Sunday Telegraph Times. In August
2012, this word was listed for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary. In 2011, this term was also voted as the most hated “slang”
in the United Kingdom. Some famous acronyms related to the word being talked
about include : TDTM Cu46 POS RUH SorG
and the list is never ending. What word/term is being talked about here?

37. 6.
Sexting

38. 7.
"The Little Box Challenge" is a competition launched by Google & IEEE in 2014.
This offers a million dollars to anyone who invents the smallest 'little box', which, if
it comes through will significantly affect the economics of such things as electric
cars and household equipment. 'Little box' refers to miniaturizing what kind of
electrical equipment?

39. 7.
Inverter

40. 8.
In May 2014, a 'hologram' of this person appeared at the Billboard Music Awards
ceremony in the USA as a hologram, dancing along to a song named "Slave to the
Rhythm". This is from an album named "Xscape", which is a posthumous
compilation of that person's songs.
Who?

41. 8.
Michael Jackson

42. 9.
The company X just announced a self-lacing shoe called the HyperAdapt 1.0,
bringing to life the dream that sneaker fans have shared since Y premiered almost
30 years ago.
Company X does most of its product designing at its Blue Ribbon Studios located
at its headquarters.

43. 9.
X = Nike
Y = Back to the Future II

44. 10.
Name the inventor and industrialist who said this in the mid-1850s:
"People of this world are never satisfied with each other and my ____ are the best
peacemakers."

45. 10.
Samuel Colt

46. 11.
A player's X is represented by a number which increases or decreases depending
on the outcome of games between rated players. After every game, the winning
player takes points from the losing one. The difference between the ratings of the
winner and loser determines the total number of points gained or lost after a
game. In a series of games between a high-rated player and a low-rated player,
the high-rated player is expected to score more wins. If the high-rated player wins,
then only a few rating points will be taken from the low-rated player...

47. 11.
Elo Rating

48. 12.
The name ____ was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter. After
seeing the prototype, he thought of a phrase from the movie 2001: A Space
Odyssey. It referred to the fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity
seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Jupiter spacecraft Discovery One
carries three of these small, one-man maintenance vehicles.
What popular product name is this?

49. 12.
iPod

50. 13.
X is a fun, new and rapidly growing form of digital currency. This form of digital
currency is called "cryptocurrency"; a type of digital currency. Cryptocurrency is
completely anonymous, decentralized, and extremely secure.
X is used with a wallet on your computer, your smartphone, or a website.
You can use it to buy goods and services, or trade it for other currencies (both
other cryptocurrencies or traditional currency like US dollars).
One of the most popular uses for X is "tipping" fellow internet-goers who create or
share great content. Think of it as a more meaningful "like" or upvote, with real
value that can be used all across the internet.

51. 13.
Dogecoin

52. 14.
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident but the girl’s name nowhere appeared in
the dead list. This guy grew up and became an IT technical architect in his late
20s.He hired developers from the whole globe and planned to make a software
where he could search for his girlfriend through the web. Things went as planned
and he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years. It was time to
shut down the search operation, when the CEO of a company had a word with this
guy and took over this application.
Who?

53. 14.
Orkut Buyukokten, of the Orkut fame.

54. 15.
This film contains numerous references to Apple computers: when ______ is fully
charged by the sun, he makes the same “boot up” sound that most of Apple’s
Macintosh computers have made since circa 1996. _____ watches his favorite
movie every night on the screen of an iPod. The villainous _______’s voice is
provided by Apple’s text-to-speech system, MacinTalk. _______’s sleek design as
an evolution of _____’s parallels the sleek iMac design having evolved from the
boxy Apple IIe.
Which film?

55. 15.

56. 16.

57. 16.
First “Bug” Reported, Grace Hooper

58. 17.
Launch of the X coincides with the Y, which originated in the forests of Uganda,
spread rapidly through Latin America last year. The deadly virus is held
responsible for surge in brain-damaged babies. Incidentally, X’s brand
ambassador and ace footballer Lionel Messi hails from the south American
country of Argentina where the first case of Y affected person was reported a few
days ago.

59. 17.
X = Zica
Y = Zika Virus
Tata Motors

60. 18.
Australia pioneered this monetary innovation: some other countries have also
adopted it. India was to trial this by introducing it via Reserve Bank of India offices
in five cities (Cochin, Jaipur, Shimla, Mysore and Bhubaneswar), choosing the Rs.
10/- denomination.
Thus, if you have it in your pocket, you can use a phrase that is usually applied to
credit cards. What innovation is this?

61. 18.
Notes made of Plastic,
Plastic Money

62. 19.

63. 19.
Twitter

64. 20.

65. 20.
Facebook

66. Mains
16 Questions.
Infinite Bounce and Pounce.
Direct +10/-0
Pounce +15/-10
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and
suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
Woody Allen

67. 1.
The term X was initially used to make fun of a particular appliance that had gone
obsolete. Later many people started making these out of multiple products of the
same manufacturer. Multiple companies like fish factories and dealers in plastic
and scrap were key to make an X.
Identify X.

68. 1.
Macquarium

69. 2.
Thanks to technological advances, experts have been able to transfer a rough 78-
second recording made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph from flimsy tin
foil to a computer. A 3-D image scanning device was used to render the tinfoil into
a topographical map resolving dots at depths of 100 microns. It was then
translated into digitized sound by a sophisticated computer software program.
What was heard?

70. 2.
Mary had a little lamb

71. 3.
Reported by Business Insider (May 13, 2010)
FRIEND: so have you decided what you are going to do about the websites?
X: yea i’m going to fuck them
X: probably in the year
X: *ear
X: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
X: just ask
X: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
X: people just submitted it
X: i don’t know why
X: they “trust me”
X: dumb fucks

72. 3.
Zukerberg

73. 4.
Mike and Jan Canaday have 30 years experience in ranching and training Border
Collies to work livestock. We know of no other company that can match this
experience in using dogs and portable electric fence to control goats, cattle and
sheep.”
This company came into news for what event?

74. 4.
Goats used to mow lawns at Google.

75. 5.
Who was the first british resident to get an iMac?

76. 5.
Douglas Adams, The Author of Hitchhiker’s Guide To Galaxy.

77. 6.
“In A.D. 2101 War was beginning.
Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It’s you!!
CATS: How are you gentlemen!!
CATS: ______________________”
FITB

78. 6.
All your base are belong to us

79. 7.
X is using radar to enable new types of touchless interactions -- one where the
human hand becomes a natural, intuitive interface for our devices. The X sensor
can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip,
can be produced at scale, and can be used inside even small wearable devices.
We want to break the tension between the ever-shrinking screen sizes used in
wearables, as well as other digital devices, and our ability to interact with them.
Give me X.

80. 7.
Project Soli

81. 8.
Non-player characters in A repeat the line: "I used to be an X like you, then I took
Y". The latter part of this phrase quickly took off as a meme in the form of "I used
to A, but then I took Y" with numerous image macros and video parodies created,
and soon became overused and considered an annoyance; it was mentioned in
an episode of NCIS.
Give A, X, Y.

82. 8.
A = Skyrim
X = Adventurer
Y = Arrow to the knee

83. 9.
X once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only
looking on girls and not listening to the teacher.
He was objected that they would be listening to HIM very attentively, forgetting
about any girls.
“But such guys won't be worth teaching” X said.

84. 9.
Einstein

85. 10.
X paper is made from thin and lightweight "rag fibers" (nonwood plant fibers) such
as flax, hemp, sisal, rice straw, and esparto. It may be transparent, colored and
flavored. It has a high filler content and a basis weight of 18-28 g/m². Among the
fillers used are calcium carbonate to influence the permeability and color,
magnesium carbonate, or titanium oxide, Sodium potassium tartrate (Seignette
salt), sodium and potassium citrate are used as a combustion regulator in X.
X needs to be permeable. Permeability is measured in CORESTA units. US
commercial X brands have permeability between 14 and 51 CORESTA units.

86. 10.
Rolling Paper

87. 11.
This book is published by a company called BreadPig (founded by Alexis Ohanian
in 2007), that aims to use donate all its profits from sales of ‘geeky things’ to
charity. The author of the book has a hobby of kite photography.
Which book?

88. 11.
Xkcd : Volume 0 by Randall Munroe

89. 12.
Mingus
Strayhorn
Duke
Ella
Getz
Dexter
Brecker
Tyner
Coltrane
Baker
Carmen
Thelonious
Reinhardt

90. 12.
Wordpress Version CodeNames

91. 13.

92. 13.
Walter Isaacson wrote biographies of all of ‘em.

93. 14.
The IgNobel Prizes are given annually for curious, weird, and usually interesting
works in science and other disciplines. 2013's prizes were awarded went to
authors of papers such as "Are Cows More Likely to Lie Down the Longer They
Stand?" (for "Probability") and "'Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder': People
Who Think They Are Drunk Also Think They Are Attractive" (for "Psychology").
The Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Belarus, Alexander
Lukashenko. A couple of years ago, he made it illegal to do something in public.
The prize was also given to the Belarus State Police, who arrested a one-armed
man for doing that very thing the President had banned.
What had been banned?

94. 14.
Applause or clapping.

95. 15.
"Gravity" is a 2013 science fiction thriller directed bt Alfonso Cuaron and starring
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. The film has been much talked about for its
depiction of an accident during a space mission.
The film has a running time of 90 minutes - this coincides with the amount of time
it takes for what object referenced in the film to orbit once around the earth?

96. 15.
International Space Station

97. 16.
The weather around the Atlantic has been terrible in March 2013, with the
American East Coast and the United Kingdom being hit by snow and rain.
Which iconic weather forecaster has been indicted by a prosecutor in Ohio for
'predicting' that spring will be early this year in the US?

98. 16.
Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who emerged from his burrow this year and
did not see his shadow, which is considered a sign that spring will be early.

99. Connect
+10/-0 for each standalone question.
Non-Exhaustive.
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

100. +40/-20
The X was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its Y, which
reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flaghip product
line. The company's original dominant market was in polarized sunglasses, an
outgrowth of Land's self-guided research in polarization after leaving Harvard
University at the age of 17 (he later returned to Harvard to continue his research).
After X defeated Kodak in a patent battle, Kodak left the Y business on January 9,
1986.
X, Y Go into the connect.

101. +30/-15
The ____ device, as well as providing meticulous control over the dosage of Somnacin to subjects in the field, also has the
following features:
A central button called the Infusion Trigger that can activate all IV lines at once.
Configurable control settings for the accurate monitoring and adjustment of Somnacin levels.
12 foot (4 meter) IV lines for versatile in the field set-up.
LED display with atomized timer for monitoring precise flow rates.
Synchronization monitoring chip for flow check monitoring and automated adjustment to optimize output flow.
Lithium iodide batteries with life of 200 hours.
Additional vial storage for multiple doses in the field.

102. +20/-10
Length: 15 ft (4.572 m)
Width: 2.8448 m broad
Weight: 2.5 tons
Acceleration: 0-60 mph in 5.3 seconds. Under full acceleration, the car could
actually rise up on its front “legs” while the front wheels stayed planted on the
ground creating an effect like a giant spider.
Engine : 350-cubic-inch Chevy engine capable of 500 horsepower. 340-
horsepower General Motors V8 engine. The jet engine and vector controls could
jump up to 6 feet vertically and 40 feet horizontally.
Fuel: The “jet engine” on the back of the car was fed by propane tanks.
Tires: “Super swamper” tires by TSL standing 37 inches tall (via titanium axles).

103. +10/-5
"I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.”
X is one of three former U.S. Marine Corps robots along with CASE and KIPP. He
is one of the crew members with Cooper, Amelia, Doyle, Romilly, and CASE.
X’s personality can be characterized as witty, sarcastic, and humorous, traits
programmed into him to make him a better suited companion. X also appears to
be somewhat more versatile than CASE, being suited for tasks ranging from
piloting to data collection.
X goes into the connect.

104. Answer
Christopher Nolan