This document contains a series of scientific trivia questions organized into different rounds, including Cake Walk, Know It Right, Audio/Visual, and Hands On. The rounds have different rules for scoring, timing, and whether questions can be passed. The questions cover topics in science, history, and general knowledge and would be used to test teams in a trivia competition.

1. WELCOME TOWELCOME TO

2. ROUNDS
CAKE
WALK
KNOW IT
RIGHT
HANDS
ON
A/V
STAKE
IT!
MONEY
BAG

3. CAKE WALK

4. Rules
• This round consists of questions related to scientific trivia.
• Each team will get to choose from a set of 12 questions.
• This is a passable round.
• +20 points for correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.
• There is no negative marking .
• Each team will get 20 seconds to answer.

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7 8
9
5 6
11 1210

6. Name the ore which is
concentrated using Serpek’s
process.
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7. Bauxite

8. What/is/common/between/the/
elements,/Cerium/and/Palladium/
with/respect/to/their/naming/?/
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9. Both the elements are named
after asteroids.

10. Observe/the/following/equations:
MnO4
I Mn2+
Cr2O7
2I Cr3+
If/change/in/Oxidation/numbers/of/
Mn and/Cr/are/a/&/b/respectively
What/is/a/+/b/equal/to/?
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11. 11

12. Aamir Khan/has/recently/been/in/
news/for/putting/his/health/at/risk/
for/his/upcoming/film,/‘Dangal’./
What/is/the/health/risk?
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13. He gained up to 90 kilos using steroids

14. She lived in an era where it was believed that
women could never become scientists. But for
her indispensable work the world would have
never known about ‘The Secret of Life.’ Years
after her death due to ovarian cancer, did the
propounders of ‘Double Helix’ admit:
“We owe our discoveries to her work.”
Who was this woman scientist?
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15. Rosalind Franklin

16. According to Faraday’s Paradox
of electrochemistry , steel reacts
with dilute X but not
concentrated X.
Identify X.
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17. Nitric/Acid/(HNO3)

18. State the principle according to
which a top does not fall when it
is rotated on its axis.
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19. Gyroscopic effect

20. The largest muscle of our body is
the one on which we sit.
Name it .
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21. Gluteus maximus ( hip muscle )

22. X is an additional entity of its kind that appears in
a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full
moons in a season or, a second full moon in a
month of the common calendar.
“X" may occur in certain atmospheric conditions;
e.g., when there are volcanic eruptions or when
exceptionally large fires leave particles in the
atmosphere.
Identify X.
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23. Blue moon

24. Given/below/are/the/initial/BLUEPRINTS/of/an/
important/invention./Which/invention/is/it?
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25. The/first/plane/by/the/Wright/Brothers.
Wilbur(Wright(and(Orville(Wright(on(the(Wright(Flyer(I(in(1910

26. What is this Google Doodle
commemorating ?
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27. Discovery of water on moon by Chandrayaan.

28. Death/of/a/person/is/marked/by/loss/in/
movement./Gradually/stiffening/sets/in/as/cell/
membranes/become/more/permeable/to/calcium/
ions./However,/a/sudden/short/and/quick/
movement/is/often/noticed/in/fingers,/toes,/
eyelids/etc./in/the/dead/body!!
What/is/this/phenomenon/technically/known/as?
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29. Rigor/Mortis

30. What is created due to the
collision between a positron
and an electron?
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31. Gamma ray photons

32. KNOW IT RIGHT
Basic/Principles

33. Rules
•The questions are based on basic principles.
•Each team gets to choose from a set of 7 questions.
•Questions are passable.
•+20 for each correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.
•There is no negative marking.
•Teams will get 20 seconds to answer.

34. 1 2 3
5 6
4
7

35. A pilot performs a 360° aerobatic
maneuver in air. Simultaneously, the co-
pilot pours water in a glass from a jar.
The water falls only inside the glass and
does not spill at all! The spilling of water
is prevented because of a phenomenon
involved. Which phenomenon is it?
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36. Centripetal
Acceleration

38. Which type of
interactions enable ice
cream to adhere to its
wooden stick?
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39. Hydrogen/Ibonding/
As/wood/has/Cellulose/(OH/groups)

40. 21 September, 1995 was the day that
attracted the attention of masses and the
media, particularly in India as Deities of Lord
Ganesha allegedly ‘drank milk’ offered by the
devotees. This ‘Hindu milk miracle’ actually
happened due to a simple scientific
phenomenon. Name the phenomenon
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41. Capillary action of the material
of the statue.

42. Collisions/between/gaseous/particles/in/
the/earth's/atmosphere/and/the/charged/
particles/released/from/the/sun's/
atmosphere/result/into/an/interesting/
phenomenon.
Identify/the/phenomenon.
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43. Northern/Lights//Aurora/Borealis/(Known/as/
such/over/north/pole/and/aurora/australis or/
southern/lights/over/south/pole/of/earth)

44. Rohan applied for the army. During his
medical examination, the doctor heard
peculiar sound while listening to his heart
beat , which sounded like
‘Lubshhh….Dubshhh’, and rejected Rohan.
Which abnormality could Rohan be possibly
suffering from?
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45. Heart/Murmur//

46. Rahul/was/sleeping/while/sitting/on/chair./
Suddenly/his/friend/came/and/pushed/him/
from/the/side./Rahul/was/about/to/fall/but/
woke/up./
Which/part/of/his/sensory/system/helped/him/
to/balance?
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47. Vestibular Apparatus
(This sensory system is a part of the inner ear that
provides sense of balance and spatial orientation for the
purpose of coordinating movement with balance)

48. When round projectiles were fired from a
firearm, the ball would grip one side of the
barrel, making it spin, and instead of flying
straight would curve off right, left, up or down.
This was rather frustrating and there are some
estimates that old unrifled missiles managed to
hit their intended target less than 5% of the
trials. What effect does it depict?
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49. Magnus effect

50. Audio/Visual

51. Rules
• Each question consists of an Audio/Visual.
• +30 for each correct answer and -10 for each wrong answer.
• The questions won’t be passed.
• Each team will get 30 seconds to answer the question.

52. The/pictures/given/below/depict/people/suffering/from/
a/common/disorder./Identify/the/disorder.
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53. Down’s Syndrome

54. The/picture/shows/a/statue/of/
the/dancing/Nataraja/
unveiled/at/X.//The/statue/
symbolizes/Nataraja's/cosmic/
dance/of/creation/and/
destruction,/was/given/to/X/
by/the/Indian/Government/to/
celebrate/its/long/association/
with/India./Identify/X.
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55. CERN/(Conseil(Européen(pour(
la(Recherche(Nucléaire)

56. Identify/the/Speaker 212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819202122232425262728293000010203040506070809101112131415161718

57. MS Swaminathan

58. This patient is showing symptoms of
which lethal disease ?
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59. Hydrophobia (due to Rabies)

60. This is the most dangerous
piece of junk in the world. A
week after just 30 seconds of
exposure, a person becomes
dizzy and fatigued. Two
minutes of exposure and
cells will soon begin to
hemorrhage; four minutes:
vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
Identify this lethal junk.
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61. Elephant’s Foot

62. Identify the instrument
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63. Theremin

64. This symbol is associated with a
doctor’s prescription. What does it
stand for?
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65. The symbol "Rx" is usually said to
stand for the Latin word "recipe"
meaning "to take." It is customarily
part of the superscription
(heading) of a prescription.
It may also denote treatment given
or a kind of pledge: I give this
treatment in the name of God.

66. Also known as the ‘corpse
flower’, it heats up on
flowering to produce the
stench of rotting flesh which
attracts carrion beetle
pollinators over vast
distances. It was recently in
news for having flowered after
a long time at the Botanic
Garden, UK. Identify the plant.
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67. Titan arum / Amorphophallus

68. Hands On
Rack Your brains

69. RULES
•This round consists of workable questions.
•The questions are open to all.
•+ 30 for each correct answer.
•There is no negative marking.
•The allotted time for each question is 1 minute.

70. Using the calculator provided
to you , display 100 on the
screen using only 3 different
buttons.
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71. Pedigree charts are pictorial documents used to record ancestry
and in the study of human family lines.
The given pedigree is for studying the pattern of inheritance of a
particular disease in a family.
Note that in the second generation, the third child (a male) has
inherited the disease from his father. The inheritance of the
disease by him RULES OUT what type of inheritance?
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72. XIlinked/inheritance/because/he/
inherited/the/disease/from/his/father,/but/
his/X/chromosome/from/his/mother./

73. Two aliphatic aldehydes P and
Q react in presence of aq.
NaOH to give compound R
which upon treatment with
HCN provides compound S. On
acidification and heating,
S gives the product
shown .
The/compounds/P/and/Q/are/?
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75. 2-methyl propanal Methanal

76. MoneyBag
Work Hard Earn Hard

77. Rules
• Questions/in/this/round/are/open/to/all/the/teams.
• Teams/will/have/to/write/down/the/answers/and/show/it/to/the/
Quizmasters.
• Each/Question/is/of/60/points.
• The/points/will/be/divided/amongst/teams/who/attempt/to/answer/.
• If/a/team/gives/an/incorrect/answer/,/then/the/points/divided/will/be/
subtracted/from/their/total.
• Teams/can/choose/not/to/answer/the/question./No/points/will/be/
awarded/or/deducted/in/this/case.
• Time/limit/for/each/question/is/30/seconds.

78. “I will use the ____X______’s trick ;
differentiate under the integral sign.”
This line was said by Howard Wolowitz of
The Big Bang Theory.
Which scientist is being referred to as ‘X’?
Hint: X assisted in the development of
the atomic bomb during World War II and got
Nobel prize in Physics in 1965.
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79. Richard Feynman

80. Cologne spirit + Oil of vitriol P
P Q
Identify Q
High Temperature
O3 + Zn dust
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81. Formaldehyde (methanal)

82. +
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83. Retinol (Vitamin A)

84. If the following scientists expressed their
love, it would be something like this.
I-am-so-
certain--
about-you-!!!
I-so-love-your-
cat-eyes
Identify the scientists..
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85. Heisenberg & Schrodinger

86. This 90’s scientific movie is used by
NASA in their management program
where participants are asked to
point out mistakes in the movie
even though it is considered a
benchmark of sci-fi movies. Which
movie is it ?
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88. Armageddon

89. Group 2 , Period 4 +
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91. Caltech

92. Which is the common component in
both of these , which gives them one of
the main medicinal properties ?
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94. Oil of winter green
(Methyl salicylate)

95. He/was/an/IndianIAmerican/biochemist/who/
shared/the/1968/Nobel/Prize/for/Physiology/or/
Medicine/with/Marshall/W./Nirenberg/and/
Robert/W./Holley/for/research/that/helped/to/
show/how/the/order/of/nucleotides/in/nucleic/
acids,/which/carry/the/genetic/code/of/the/cell,/
control/the/cell’s/synthesis/of/proteins./ He/was/
born/in/Punjab/(Present/day/Pakistan)./
Who/is/he?
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97. Dr. Hargobind Khorana

98. STAKE IT!
Dare to Win

99. Rules
• This round consists of a set of interlinked questions in which the
answers of the question will be used to answer the Final
Question.
• Each team has to bid points from their present score.
• You can buy the answers from the Quizmasters using your points.
• The price of each answer will vary according to the demand and
difficulty of the question, and will be decided by the Quizmasters.
• The bid score will double if you are able to answer the final
question and if not, the bid points will be deducted.

100. In the 1960s, small amounts of this element were produced
in laboratories in the former Soviet Union and in California.
The priority of the discovery and therefore the naming of the
element was disputed between Soviet and American
scientists,and it was not until 1997 that International Union
of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established ____ as
the official name for the element.
The Soviets proposed the name – Kurchatovium for this
element.
This is also the first Transactinide element.
Store the sum of the digits of its atomic number as p.
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102. OF
Store the number of vowels in the answer as q
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103. At a distance of 400m from the traffic light
brakes are applied to a car moving at a velocity
of 15m/s.
Determine the distance of the car from the traffic
light 1 min after the application of brakes.
Its retardation is 0.3m/s2.
Store this distance as ‘r’
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104. A rod of length 6a and mass 8m is lying on a smooth horizontal table. 2 bodies
of mass m and 2m move with Velocity 2v and v respectively and collide with
the rod perpendicularly at the same instant. The bodies stick to the rod after
collision . Find the angular velocity about COM of system in rad/s
Take v as ‘p’ * ‘r’ and a as ‘q’ (from
the previous questions)
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Store/this/answer/as/N

105. This is your last round , so make it count
Cross your fingers and Think beyond your
expectations, cause the answer is
Hint: The first and last letters of the answer are
the same and correspond to the ‘Nth’ Letter of
the English Alphabet; eg 1=a, 2=b ….

107. Image of a red object(that emits and
reflects only monochromatic light)
placed in monochromatic blue light
when obtained on a green screen
will show the object in ________
colour.

108. Black

109. What in the world of physics is the
‘Gnab Gib’

110. The metric expansion of space
eventually reverses and the universe
collapses, ultimately ending as a
black hole singularity.

111. Which famous scientist is
accredited for being the Father of
old 2 kingdom classification , the
Father of Zoology and the Father
of Embryology ?

112. Aristotle

113. This disease figured prominently in the
history of European royalty in the 19th and
20th centuries. Britain's Queen Victoria,
through two of her five daughters, passed the
mutation to various royal houses across the
continent, including the royal families
of Spain, Germany and Russia. It is also
called ‘the royal disease’ for this reason.
Identify the disease

114. Haemophilia