The document is a quiz hosted by Ritwik Mishra on Engineers' Day, featuring multiple questions related to significant historical figures, inventions, and events. Participants must follow strict rules during the quiz, such as no phones, discussions, or googling. The questions cover a range of topics, including identity management, mathematics, world history, and environmental issues.

1. EngTech Quiz
For
ABVP-JNU
(On the auspicious occasion of Engineers’ Day)
Hosted by
Ritwik Mishra
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2. Rules
• No Phones
• No Discussion
• No Googling
• No naare-baazi against quiz master :p
• Star marked questions will act as tie breakers.

4. 1
The UIDAI awarded the contract to X to
implement the core biometric identification
system for the “Aadhaar” project; the largest
identity management program in the world. X’s
team includes Daon, a leading global provider of
biometric technologies & MindTree, a Bangalore-
based global IT company that delivers innovative
technology solutions. Which is the X company?

6. 2
This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market.
Built by Shah Jahan for his favorite daughter
in 1650 AD so that she could shop all she
wanted to, this marketplace derives its name
from the canals filled with water that
sparkled like silver in the moonlight.
Id the place, and the name of daughter.

7. Chandni chowk
Shah jahan for her daughter Jahan Ara

8. 3
• X Buyukkokten is a Turkish
software engineer at Google.
During his early years at
Google he developed this
service by saving time over
coffee breaks. His product
manager thought of naming
the service after its creator and
hence X.com was launched in
2004. It became one of the
most visited websites in India
and Brazil in 2008. Identify X

10. 4
• X was born in Darbhanga, Bihar in 1952 in a
Kayastha family and spent most of his
childhood in Patna. He was trained with basic
arithmetic by his father who was a teacher. As a
student who struggled for passing marks was
changed into a third place student in Patna
University, receiving a B.Sc. (Honours) degree
in Physics.
• X joined the IIT Kanpur for his
M.Sc and doctorate. He spent
eight years of his life in writing
this 'work' which was a huge
success and made him a hero
of young Indian students.
Identify X.

12. 5
• In 1831, George X hired this brilliant young mathematician,
Radhanath Sikdar (then only 19), at a salary of thirty rupees per month
as a "computor". George retired in 1843 and Col. Andrew Waugh
became the Director.
• At the order of Col. Waugh, Sikdar started
working near Darjeeling and compiling
data about ______ from six different
observations, he eventually came to the
conclusion that the ______ holds a world
record. The norm was that while naming a
_______, the local name should be
preferred (like Sikdar).
• But in this case, Waugh made an
exception. He paid a tribute to his ex-boss
by proposing that the _____ be named
after X.
• X agreed, and Sikdar was conveniently
forgotten. Identify X.

13. EVEREST
Sikdar precisely calculated its height as 29002 ft

14. 7*
• The calculus controversy was an argument between 17thcentury
mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried X over who had first
invented the mathematical study of change, calculus.
"Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man with other academics where
notorious, with most of his latter life spent embroiled in heated disputes...
A more serious dispute arose with the German philospher Gottfried X. Both
X and Newton had independently developed calculus... Newton discovered
calculus years before X, he published his work later... As the row (dispute)
grew, X made a mistake of appealing to Royal Society... Newton, as
president, appointed an 'impartial' commitee, consiting entirely of
Newton's friends... Newton wrote the commitee report himself and accused
X of plagiarism. Following the death of X, Newton is reported to have
declared that he had taken great satisfaction in 'breaking X's heart’”
- A Brief History Of Time By Stephen Hawking

15. LEIBNIZ
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

16. 8
• Vishvakarma's daughter Sanjana was married to Surya, the Sun God. Due
to the Sun's blazing light and heat, she was unable to go near the Sun. She
complained to her father about this. Vishvakarma took the Sun and made
him shine less so that his daughter would be able to hug the Sun. The left
over Sun "dust" was collected by Vishvakarma and made into three divine
objects.
• First was Sudarshana Chakra which was given to Vishnu, second being
the Trishula (Trident) gifted to Lord Shiva and third was X which made
for Brahma, later Brahma gave it to Kuber where it was stolen/acquired
by someone else and later appeared in Treta Yuga.
• What was X?

18. 9
X, was a famous codebreaker during the World War II from UK. He
was convicted of homosexuality by the English in 1952 & was given
experimental castration as “treatment”. Two years later, he
committed suicide.
In December 2013, he was issued an apology by British Government
which cleared him of all “criminal charges” and he was granted the
Queen’s pardon.
Id X.

19. Alan Turing
QUIZZINE

20. 10
• Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (est 1937)
is a company located in the city of Mysore,
India. It is the only company in India
authorised to produce X.
• The manufacturing process is a closely guarded
secret and is based on a chemical formula
devised by the National Physical Laboratory of
India.
• X is also exported to countries like Thailand,
Singapore, Nigeria, Malaysia, Afghanistan, and
South Africa. What is X?

21. Election ink

22. 11
• During India's freedom struggle,the British could not accommodate large numbers of those
who participated in the armed struggle or the non-cooperation movement in ordinary jails.
• So the British decided to establish a few detention camps; the first one was located in Buxar
Fort followed by the creation of the Hijli Detention Camp in 1930.
• In Sept 1931 two unarmed detainees were shot dead by the British Police and Subhas
Chandra Bose came to Hijli to collect their bodies.National leaders, including Rabindranath
Tagore, voiced strong protests against the British Raj over this incident.
• The Hijli Detention Camp was closed in 1937 and was reopened in 1940. In 1942 the camp
was again closed and the detainees were transferred elsewhere.
• Into what did the Indian Government convert the Hijli camp in Sep 1950?
• <picture in next slide>

24. IIT Kharagpur

25. 12*
Identify

26. STEVE WOZNIAK

27. 13

28. ASHISH HEMRAJANI
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29. 14

30. JACK DORSEY
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31. 15
Asimo, the robot, made by which
company?

32. QUIZZINE

33. 16*

34. WikiLeaks headquarters
QUIZZINE

35. The following book title
has been blanked out
partially to hide the
name of a company.
Modern day perception
of this company is
much different as
compared to the
subject of the book or
what the company did
earlier. Which
company are we talking
about?
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36. The Nazis kept a record of the inmates in the concentration camps
through the punch cards made by IBM .
QUIZZINE

37. 18*
Old logo of which company?
QUIZZINE

38. QUIZZINE

39. 19
This is the earliest logo of what?
(Their current logo takes inspiration
from this and has some added
elements to it)
QUIZZINE

40. QUIZZINE

41. 20

43. Where have you seen this logo?
21

45. In 1794, due to the growing need for surveyors by the East
India Company, the 'School of Survey' was established
near the first British fortress in India (Fort St. George).
This school was one of the first of its kind in the country
and it started out with 8 boys. It became the Civil
Engineering School in 1858. It is also the oldest technical
institution to be established outside Europe.
22

46. College of Engineering, Guindy

47. Scientists and art historians have developed what they say is a
foolproof way of identifying forged works of art. They can
distinguish between art created before 1945 and that produced
after that date by measuring levels of the isotopes caesium–137
and strontium–90.
These isotopes do not occur naturally but are released into the
environment by a specific human activity that started in 1945.
Since that activity started, tiny quantities of caesium–137 and
strontium–90 make their way into the Earth’s soil and plants. It
is then via the natural oils, such as linseed from the flax plant,
that are used as binding agents in paints that these isotopes end
up in post-1945 art.
What specific human activity we are talking about?
23

48. NUCLEAR BOMB TESTING

49. 24
Connect

50. All are examples of cantilever

51. 25
Connect

52. Bhopal gas leak

53. Action
Reaction
26

55. An installation depicting the human lungs, retrofitted with HEPA filters
and a fan that mimics breathing, was installed in various cities of India to
demonstrate the impact of air pollution.
In Delhi, the lungs turned black in 6 days. In Mumbai, the time was 7 days.
For Bengaluru, it was 21 days. But for one Indian city, the time was 24
hours. Which city?
27

56. Lucknow

57. 28
What is happening in this video?

58. •Sonic Boom

59. 29
Which device is shown in the video which has no
edge?

60. • Klein Bottle

61. 30*
Which device is shown in the video?

62. • Galton Board

63. That’s all!