Enthiran mains

Enthiran
Dr P Kumarasamy
Memorial Open Science
Quiz
MAINS

TOTAL ROUNDS – 7
6 QUESTIONS IN EACH ROUND
1,3,5 AND 7 – BOUNCE AND POUNCE
2 – WRITTEN ROUND
4 – CONNECT ROUND
6 – BUZZER ROUND
7 QUESTIONS FOR AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE QUESTION 1
The Kerala state tourism department of the previous government
sanctioned a proposal to appoint a world renowned sports celebrity as
the Ayurveda brand ambassador of God’s Own Country Kerala.
Identify the personality.

ROUND 1
DISCOVERY
Pounce and bounce
+10 / -5

1.
There was a tradition, established as part of
a programme set up in 1957 by Sandoz
(Novartis) for its employees on business
trips and holidays to take plastic bags with
them to collect soil samples from the places
where they travel, for discovering new drugs
from fungal metabolites.
The drug was initially isolated from the
fungus Tolypocladium inflatum found in a
soil sample in 1969 from Norway.
It is on the WHO Model List of Essential
Medicines.
Since Norway in 1969 had an open access
regime there is no benefit sharing for the
source country (Norway), from Novartis'
present sales of that drug.
Identify the drug that revolutionized
modern medicine in its own way.

1. Ciclosporin (cyclosporine), is an
immunosuppressant drug widely used in
organ transplantation to prevent
rejection.

2.
In 1993, UK Science Minister William
Waldegrave observed that British taxpayers
were paying a lot of money for something very
few of them understood. So he announced
that, the scientist who gives the best lay
explanation of X would be awarded a bottle of
champagne. Professor David J miller (Bottom
right) of University College London earned
Waldegrave’s bottle of champagne by giving the
below analogy to explain X.
“A well-known scientist walks into the room and
causes a bit of a stir - attracting admirers with
each step and interacting strongly with them -
signing autographs and stopping to chat. As she
becomes surrounded by admiring fans, she
finds it harder to move across the room. If a
less popular scientist enters the room, only a
small crowd gathers, with no-one clamouring
for attention. He finds it easier to move across
the room”.
Identify X

It’s
me
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Steven Wright

4. The name of this dog breed has an association with
something that happened between 1831 to 1836
which made a very significant contribution to the
world of science.
Identify the association.

Charles Darwin’s voyage on board HMS
Beagle

5. A mixture of acetylene and oxygen is ignited in the lower chamber of
the machine. As the resulting blast passes through the neck and into the
cone, it develops into a shock wave. These devices frequently engender
conflict between farmers and neighbours when used, because they are
very loud and repeatedly fired every 1 to 10 seconds. In the French
wine-growing regions church-bells were traditionally rung which was
later replaced by firing of these devices. Identify the purpose of this
device.

HAIL CANONS – PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC
DEVICES THAT CALIM TO PREVENT HAIL
STONES

6. Manuel del Río discovered X in 1801 . He sent samples of ore & a letter describing
his methods to the Institute de France in Paris, for confirmation. But his letter was lost
in a shipwreck & the Institute only received his samples, which contained a brief note
in which he had named it erythronium. He withdrew his claim when he received a
letter from Paris claiming it is just impure chromium.
X was rediscovered by Sefstrôm, in 1830 while analyzing samples of iron from a mine
in Sweden. He chose a name beginning with a particular alphabet, which had not been
assigned to any element yet. Because of the many beautiful coloured chemical
compounds it produced he named it after the Nordic goddess of beauty.
In 1831, the geologist G. William suggested that X should be renamed "rionium" after
Río, but this was not accepted.
ID X which is primarily used in high speed steel alloy tools.

AUDIENCE QUESTION 2
47-year-old Muduga tribal Mari
started off as a 15-year-old daily
wage worker with the Forest
Department. In 2012 he was
presented with a conservation
award instituted in memory of
former Chief Conservator of
Forests N. Madhavan Pillai. In
2014, he became a permanent
employee after passing a Public
Service Commission (PSC)
examination with first
rank. Which unique ecosystem
(place/forest) in Kerala, he has
helped conserve?

ROUND 2
PK
WRITTEN ROUND – 6 QUESTIONS
+ 5 / No negatives

1.
The X effect is the phenomenon whereby an
attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of
information has the unintended
consequence of publicizing the information
more widely, usually facilitated by
the Internet.
It is an example of psychological reactance,
wherein once people are aware something is
being kept from them, their motivation to
access the information is increased.
It is named after American entertainer X,
whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs
of her residence in Malibu, California,
inadvertently drew further public attention to
it.
She is among a small group of entertainers
who have been honoured with an Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. She is one of
the best-selling music artists of all time.
Identify X who is a popular American singer,
songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

2.
X money has been proposed as an alternative
to Quantitative Easing when the economy enters
recession. Economists have used the term ‘X
money' to refer to two very different policies. The
first set of policies emphasizes the 'permanent'
monetization of budget deficits & the other
involves the central bank making direct transfers
to private sector without direct involvement of
fiscal authorities.
Economist Milton Friedman is the one who coined
the term ‘X Money' .
But the term gained popularity after Ben
Bernanke, then US Federal Reserve
governor made a passing reference to it in
2002. After this media started calling him X Ben.
Recently RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
questioned the concept of X money
What is X

3.
In 2011, nature photographer David Slater,
from united kingdom, travelled to Indonesia to
take photographs of some animals.
He licensed some images to the Caters News
Agency, under the presumption that he
held copyright to the photo.
His copyright claim was questioned by the
blog Techdirt which posted the photos.
The photos were also uploaded to the Wikimedia
Commons. He requested that the Wikimedia
Foundation, either pay for the photos or remove
them, claiming that he owned copyright on them.
His claim was rejected by Wiki.
The case went to court & Us supreme court judge
in 2016 ruled that nobody holds the copyright for
the images.
What is the popular name used to refer to the
photos in dispute?

4.
Even though wildlife author
and entertainer Paul Rosolie stated that
the documentary programme which was
aired on Discovery Channel on December 7,
2014 was intended to draw attention to
wildlife conservation and the destruction of
the Amazon, the programme was
condemned prior to its premiere by critics
and the animal rights group PETA as
an inhumane publicity stunt oriented
towards shock value, resulting in calls for
Discovery Channel to cancel the programme.
But the programme was aired which turned
out to be an anti-climax of disappointing
outcome that did not meet promoted
expectations.
Identify the central content of the
programme.

5. The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in
central Italy. It was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter magnitude scale.
There have been several thousand foreshocks and aftershocks since
December 2008, more than thirty of which had a Richter magnitude
greater than 3.5. The earthquake was felt throughout central Italy; 308
people are known to have died, making this the deadliest earthquake to
hit Italy since the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. Identify the controversial
outcome of this earthquake.

6.
X lighting is so named because the
X , the painter often used this
pattern of light in his paintings. This
type of lighting is identified by the
triangle of light on the cheek. One
side of the face is lit well from the
main light source while the other
side of the face uses the interaction
of shadows and light, also known
as chiaroscuro, to create this
geometric form(triangle or diamond
shape of light underneath the eye)
on the face.
Identify this lighting technique (X)
that is used in studio portrait
photography.

1.
The X effect is the phenomenon whereby an
attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of
information has the unintended
consequence of publicizing the information
more widely, usually facilitated by
the Internet.
It is an example of psychological reactance,
wherein once people are aware something is
being kept from them, their motivation to
access the information is increased.
It is named after American entertainer X,
whose 2003 attempt to suppress
photographs of her residence in Malibu,
California, inadvertently drew further public
attention to it.
She is among a small group of entertainers
who have been honoured with an Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. She is one
of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Identify X who is a popular American singer,
songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

2.
X money has been proposed as an alternative
to Quantitative Easing when the economy enters
recession. Economists have used the term ‘X
money' to refer to two very different policies. The
first set of policies emphasizes the 'permanent'
monetization of budget deficits & the other
involves the central bank making direct transfers
to private sector without direct involvement of
fiscal authorities.
Economist Milton Friedman is the one who coined
the term ‘X Money' .
But the term gained popularity after Ben
Bernanke, then Federal Reserve governor made a
passing reference to it in 2002 . After this media
started calling him X Ben.
Recently RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
questioned the concept of X money
What is X

3.
In 2011, nature photographer David Slater, from united
kingdom, travelled to Indonesia to take photographs of
some animals.
He licensed some images to the Caters News Agency,
under the presumption that he held copyright to the
photo.
His copyright claim was questioned by the blog Techdirt
which posted the photos. Afterwards, Caters News
Agency issued a request for the photo to be removed,
citing a lack of permission.
The photographs were also uploaded to the Wikimedia
Commons. He requested that the Wikimedia
Foundation, either pay for the photographs or remove
them, claiming that he owned copyright on them. His
claim was rejected by Wiki.
The case went to court & Us supreme court judge in
2016 ruled that nobody holds the copyright for the
images.
What is the popular name used to refer to the photos
in dispute?

Showing Rosolie being "eaten" by an
ANACONDA, protected by a suit
designed specifically for this purpose
W...T...#*$*?

Six scientists and one ex-government official
were convicted of multiple manslaughter and were
each sentenced to six years' imprisonment
*On 10 November 2014, the scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to
predict the deadly earthquake have had the verdict overturned and people
expressing shock against the verdict

AUDIENCE QUESTION 3
Baby Manoj, a doctor from Kozhikode, has invented X that earned
him the Best Invention of the Year Award for 2011 from the
National Research Development Corporation of the Union Ministry
of Science and Technology. Identify his invention (X)
CLUE

The Peanut Safe syringe - Neither the syringe nor the
needle can be reused, and hence there is no danger of rag-pickers collecting it and
sending it for repacking to be channelled back to the market

ROUND 3
FAST & FURIOUS
BOUNCE AND POUNCE
+10 / - 5

1. Apart from the similarity of making world-famous
automobiles, both these companies have another similarity
when it comes to the ‘meaning 'of the respective company
names (Toyota and Honda). Identify the similarity.

Toyota means “bountiful rice field”
and Honda means “main rice field”

2. The 2016 Ad. For Jaguar SUV - F-PACE starts with actor Luke Alan
Gale driving the F-Pace, heading to meet his evil boss in a modernist “lair”.
Mr . X played the role of a villain in this AD. This is what he said about his role.
"You all know me as X . But there is another side to me that you may not know:
X the actor. I have always wanted to be in a movie playing the part of a typical
British villain. I believe my looks perfectly suit a bond villain. And now, thanks to
Jaguar my wish has come true.”
Identify X who plays the evil boss.

STEPHEN HAWKING
However difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed at

3.
Arvind Thiruvengadam, a 32-year-old
research engineer graduated from the
University of Madras in 2004, before
moving to West Virginia University for
his MS and PhD. He joined the team
which consisted of two university
professors, Gregory Thompson and Dan
Carder as well another student Marc
Besch. Going on long drives in cars was
always something Arvind
Thiruvengadam had loved. And, it was
also a part of his work. But he didn’t
know that his penchant for long drives
was going to be instrumental in helping
him unravel something significant that
shook the automotive world.
What did he discover recently along
with his colleague and professors?
Arvind Thiruvengadam Marc Besch

DIESEL GATE – VOLKSWAGEN – using
‘Cheat-software’ to lie on diesel engine
emissions

4.
An Old story - A high-ranking
technician named vesely from a foreign
country had a bet with Indian technician
BS Shinde over the top speed of the bike.
Vesely was certain that the bike would
struggle to breach 90kph claiming that he
knew the motorcycle inside out. Shinde
didn’t quite agree. He told his blond friend
that he, too, had been around and among
these bikes since he was a teenager, and
that he had ridden it at around 120 km/hr
a few times. Vesely challenged if shinde
could do 120 on the bike, he would give
him a bottle of scotch. Shinde rode like a
mad man in Mysore on that day and
earned his bottle.
Name this iconic bike that is named after a
city in Iran because the founders of the
company trace their ancestry to that place.
BS Shinde

5. The Audi TT is a small two-door sports car marketed since 1998
across the world. The Audi TT takes its name from the successful motor
racing tradition in the British Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) race.
Recently Mr Rikhab Chand Jain founder of a Indian company filed a case
against Audi from using the suffix TT for the above said model. What
does Rikhab Chand’s company manufacture?

6.The dancer who starts the dance featuring in the break-dance tutorial
video shot in the 80’s is an American actor, producer, director, and
screenwriter who plays the iconic role in the film series that put him on
Hollywood's A-list, and won him the 2002 and 2014 MTV Movie
Awards for Best On-Screen Team with his co-actor. Identify him and the
film series.

AUDIENCE QUESTION 4
In February 1995, he launched an INR 15 billion project to generate 513 MW of
Power under the name of Kannur Power Projects (P) Limited in his native
Panchayat of Kalliasseri in Kannur District in North Kerala. Identify this
technocrat malayali (padma bushan awardee) who recently passed away
.

+30/ -15
Martin FleischmannStanley Pons

HOAXES IN SCIENCES
(deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as
truth)
1. Fleischmann–Pons success claim on cold fusion (1989)- USA
2. Cyril Burt faking research data on heritability of IQ (1940s -1960s) - Britain
3. Alan sokal submitted a sham article to the cultural studies journal Social Text
(1994) USA
4. Haruko Obokata committed research fraud over purported new method to create
stem cells (STAP method) – 2011, Japan
5. Charles Dawson, who faked a fossil by combining orangutan and human skull
(Piltdown hoax) – 1912, Britain
6. Ramar pillai, claimed to have invented herbal fuel – 1996, India

AUDIENCE QUESTION 5
The national biodiversity act provides for setting up of Biodiversity Management
Committees in all local bodies, whether Panchayats or Municipalities throughout the
country to prepare People's Biodiversity Register in consultation with local people.
People’s biodiversity Register shall contain comprehensive information on availability
and knowledge of local biological resources, their medicinal or any other use or any
other traditional knowledge associated with them.
Name first district in Kerala to have completed people biodiversity register.

ROUND 5
FURY
POUNCE AND BOUNCE
+10 / -5

1. The Ford GPA 'Seep' ( Seagoing Jeep), was an amphibious version of
the WWII Ford GPW Jeep. Only 12,778 of them were built between
1942–1943. After World War II, the British brought a few of these
vehicles to be put to use in the Brahmaputra region. When they were
leaving India, some were sold off to locals. One such local was the
grandfather of Mr Vinayak Shankar, partner of Krishna mines group in
Tirunelveli. Recently Vinayak used this old war-horse for a noble
mission. Identify the mission.

2.
Iraqi artist Hussein Adil and friends
were heading to a cafe to drink tea in
Baghdad when an important call came
in on his mobile phone that saved him
from the car bomb explosion that
occurred within minutes. Death of his
close friend in the bomb blast made
him look for ways of expressing his
pain and anger through art.
So he decided to create something
and enact a performance.
This is what Adil tells about his artistic
creation and performance – “We have
to be one of the countries in the world
that needs them the most. But we
don't make them." "I wanted to show
the public what we have come to...
and plant this question in their heads:
what if we all looked like this?"
What did Adil do as part of his artistic
endeavour?

He made his friend wear a mock bomb
disposal suit and go about his daily life

3.
“When we awoke on the morning of December 8, 1941, we
found ourselves — without any foreknowledge — to be
embroiled in war... Since then, the majority of us who had
truly understood the awesome industrial strength of the
United States never really believed that Japan would win this
war. We were convinced that surely our government had in
mind some diplomatic measures which would bring the
conflict to a halt before the situation became catastrophic
for Japan. But now, bereft of any strong government move to
seek a diplomatic way out, we are being driven to doom.
Japan is being destroyed. I cannot do [anything] other but to
blame the military hierarchy and the blind politicians in
power for dragging Japan into this hellish cauldron of
defeat.”
These are the Excerpts from Dr. Jiro Horikoshi’s personal
diary during the final year of the world war II.
In spite of his above position he was very much part of
Japanese war machine. What is his most iconic creation and
also identify the company for which he was working, which
sells cars and ACs in India nowadays.

ZERO FIGHTER PLANE OF MITSUBISHI

4.
Zoji La had been seized by
Pakistani raiders in 1948 in their
campaign to capture Ladakh. The
initial attempt by Indian army
failed.
Later the army under the
leadership of Lt Gen Cariappa in
an operation code named Bison
launched an attack on November
1 which caught the Pakistanis by
surprise.
What engineering feat of Indian
army help spring a surprise attack
on Pakistanis that resulted in
victory for Indians?

Tanks were dismantled and winched
across bridges and reassembled in Zo jila.

5. It was an American merchant Thomas Sullivan
who, in 1908, first started sending X in small bags to
his customers. But a German company did copy the
idea and developed it, supplying troops fighting in
the war front with X bags made of cotton which
they called X bombs. Identify X

6.
Many human rights groups at a
panel discussion held recently at
United Nations, claimed use of X
by Syrian army helicopters on
opposition-held neighbourhoods
of Syria, are the main driver
behind the refugee crisis that has
overwhelmed neighbouring
countries including Europe and is a
recruitment bonanza for ISIS
because the group can claim to be
standing up to these atrocities.
Identify X , a cheap low tech but
deadly weapon that has been
used early in Israeli-Arab wars,
Vietnam war, civil wars in Srilanka,
Sudan and Balkans.

AUDIENCE QUESTION 6
He was born in an Thiyya
family on August 10, 1927,
in Chennai. His family
originally hails
from Thalassery in Kerala.
An astronomical
observatory and telescope
in Kavalur, TamilNadu has
been named after him.
Identify him.

1. The Congreve rocket was
a British military weapon designed and developed by Sir
William Congreve in 1804, based directly on ----.

Mysore rockets or Tipu rockets

2. CONNECT
MOHIT
GOEL
MADHAVA REDDY

Both owns companies that claim to sell the
World's cheapest smart phones
FREEDOM
251
NAMOTEL
ACCHE DIN
99
Rupees
only

3. After failing to make women of child bearing age take
iodine tablets, people at a NGO called “Grey for good” were
looking for creative solution to address iodine deficiency
among tribal women in north-west Maharashtra. That is
when doctors told them that it can be absorbed through the
skin. What was the creative solution the NGO came up with?

iODiNE BiNDi- Iodine skin patchin the formof Bindi

4.
A cartoon drawn by Bill
Leak published in The
Australian as his response
to something that
happened on 12th
December, 2015, in which
India had played a very
crucial role, generated
controversy over its
allegedly racist content
across the world including
India.
What was the content of
the cartoon.

Cartoon depicts starving Indians eating
solar panels given to them to curb carbon
emissions.

5. Hublot is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1980 by Italian Carlo
Crocco. He named the Hublot after the French word for "porthole". The
watch that he created featured the first natural rubber strap in the
history of watch making. All new Hublot models come with a smart card
and reader using which customers can check for authenticity of the
watch. Why was this watch in news recently?

Controversy over Rs 70 lakh Hublot
watch worn by Karnataka CM
Siddaramaiah

6. Why was the robot avatar of
Rajinikanth wearing dark
glasses all the time?

Animating the e y e s , is time-consuming and
cost more (budget & time constraints)

AUDIENCE QUESTION 7
He did his schooling at Sarvodaya High School and his pre-degree at Mar Ivanios before
graduating from Regional Engineering College, Calicut and then he joined Siemens a
German company. He started drawing when an accident left him with a broken leg and
bedridden while he was studying in class 6. One day when his German boss saw how
he could draw, he said, "Good work, you shouldn't waste your time as an engineer.
That helped him shift his career to a completely different field. Identify this malayali
who made the state proud by being part of the award winning movie's crew.

SAJAN SCARIA – Chief animation supervisor for
‘Inside Out’ movie which won the Oscar for the best animated feature film.

ROUND 7
DA VINCI CODE
POUNCE AND BOUNCE
+10 / -5

1. The culinary use of X has been mentioned in an 1890 recipe book titled Fancy
Ices authored by Mrs. Agnes Marshall. But this molecular gastronomical technique
was generally made famous by chef Heston Blumenthal at his restaurant, The Fat
Duck.
X in the hands of trained chefs can help create exotic cocktails and ice creams. But in
the hands of amateurs it can be deadly, like the teenager who had her stomach
removed after drinking a cocktail containing X or a wannabe cook who lost both arms
in an explosion while trying to cook with X . Identify X

2. Warp drive is a faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion system in many science
fiction works, most notably Star Trek. A primary component of the warp drive is the
warp core. It is a fictional reactor that taps the energy released in a matter-
antimatter annihilation to provide the energy necessary to power a starship's warp
drive.
This experimental facility in USA was used as the set for the starship Enterprise's warp
core in the movie Star Trek Into Darkness. It is one among the 15 experimental
facilities in the world.
Identify the purpose of this scientific facility which is largest and most energetic
device of its kind built to date, and has the largest laser in the world.

TO PRODUCE FUSION ENERGY
NATIONAL INGITION FACILITY (NIF), USA

3. An actor recently lent his voice to Google's GPS navigation
app Waze for a limited time
as a marketing strategy for movie "London Has Fallen" in which he has
acted. Identify this actor whose calming, trustworthy voice has been
heard ranging from describing penguins in documentaries to voicing
God in movies.

4. Diemut Strebe, an artist who
specialises in unique type of
artworks had paid a tribute to the
artist Vincent Von Goh by creating a
art installation in museum in
Germany.
He insists it is more than just a
display of art, it’s a scientific feat.
Titled ‘Sugababe’, he said the art
installation is based on the Theseus’s
paradox by Plutarch( if a ship would
be the same ship if all its parts were
replaced).
Identify the art installation.

He created a living replica of Vincent van Goh’s EAR
using DNA from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great
grandson of the Vincent Van Goh’s brother Theo and a
3 D printer.

5. Anshu Agarwal, a 25-year-old freelance
photographer, teacher in an NGO working in the
village in Uttarkhand, as an exercise to teach the
children English showed them X movies on
Sundays.
They were so smitten by them and once expressed
how they wished to be like the characters in the
movies.
He has been specializing for some time in a
particular type of photography which involves
compulsory elaborate editing once the photos are
taken. His expertise in this type of photography and
the children’s wish to be like in the movie series
they saw made him do the photo shoot and release
the series of photos on his page Anshoots
Photography recently.
What was the photo shoot about and also identify
X.

Children playing a game of Quidditch;
Harry Potter

6. "Sexy and I Know It" is a hit song by American duo LMFAO from
album, Sorry for Party Rocking. A group called satire came up with a
video which was a play on the above song to parody a very significant
scientific achievement of the century. The video became viral on the
net not just because it was funny but it also was accurate about the
scientific facts and depicted even the scientists involved in that
mission accurately down to their hair styles and mannerisms.
Identify the scientific achievement or mission.

MARS CURIOSITY ROVER – We’re NASA and we know it

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