SciTech Quiz Finals 2015 IEEE First Year Fest NITK Surathkal

1. Nischita Kaza
Prabhanjan Mannari

2.  6 questions
 Infinite Bounce
 +10 on direct and bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

3.  The molecule responsible for the action is lawsone,
otherwise known as Xtonic acid (2-hydroxy-1,4-
naphthoquinone).
 The acid in lemon juice serves to destabilize the
plant’s cellulose while allowing the lawsone molecules
to remain intact.The lemon juice attacks the lawsone
molecule to create a unified acidic substance.
 Lawsone is a relatively small molecule, migrates to
the site of action quickly and undergoes Michaels’
addition.
 Lawsone is found in which commonly used plant
extract?

5.  Henna or mehendi

6.  The Five Fists of Science is a graphic novel
showing X, his (real-life) friend MarkTwain
and BerthaVon Stuttner combine forces to
try to bring about world peace through
superior firepower.They are soon confronted
by dark forces led by the dastardlyY (X’s real
life arch rival), John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew
Carnegie and Guglieimo Marconi.The
protagonists are shown on the cover.
 ID X andY

8.  X- NikolaTesla
 Y-Thomas Alva Edison

12. John Bardeen
Marie Curie
Frederick Sanger
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 What connects them?
 Who is missing from the exhaustive list?

14.  All are double winners of the Nobel prize
 Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace)

15.  The name X comes from the Spanish word
chafer beetle.The species name for this
organism origianted from the fact that there
were a lot of these found in the United States,
however the US ships carried these
organisms to other parts of the world and
now they are found all over the world but
almost non existent in the US.
 Which organism ?

17.  PeriplanetaAmericana
Cockroach

18.  This is a photo taken by Goldin + Senneby in
California in 2006.This picture although now
obsolete, was an integral part of the tech
world till last year(sort of xP)
 Pic in the next slide

22.  4 sets of 3 slides each
 Each slide has visual connecting to a theme
 Points for theme shown before each set
 Please write the theme and show it to the QM

36. .pot - PowerPointTemplate

37. .fm – Adobe Framework

38. .tiff –Tagged Image File Format

39. .tar –Tape Archive Files

40. .pages – Apple pages file format

41. .txt –Text Document

42. .doc –Word Document

43. .bmp – bitmap file format

44. .jar – Java Archive Files

45. .mp3 – Audio File Format

46. .mp4-Audio File Format

47. .bat – Batch File

48.  File Formats

49.  +5 for each answer
 +10 if you get all right
 NO negs

72.  Benjamin Franklin

75.  6 questions
 Infinite Bounce
 +10 on direct and bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

76.  David Saltzberg is a professor of Physics and
Astronomy at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
 Saltzberg earned a bachelor's degree in physics in
1989 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics
from the University of Chicago in 1994. From 1995-97
he worked at CERN in Switzerland.
 His research interests include high-energy collider
physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos.
 Now, however he does something very different.
What does he do?

78.  He is the technical director of The Big Bang
Theory. He writes the formulae and equations
on the whiteboards on the sets.

79.  Ammonium ferric citrate and potassium
ferricyanide coated on paper or cloth was
used to reproduce images.The result is a
copy of the original image with a clear
background area rendered dark and the
image itself produced as a white line, making
it difficult to alter or add new information to
the document.
 Which commonly used word is derived from
this now obsolete technology?

81.  Blueprint

82.  Later epicondylitis is a condition in which the
outer part of theY becomes sore and tender.
 Most of the names for this disease are
misnomers: XY is a misnomer because most
people that get the disease don’t have
anything to do with X and lateral epicondylitis
is a misnomer because the patho-physiology
does not involve inflammation (it is an –osis,
not an –itis).

84.  Tennis Elbow

85.  The term originated during the development
of the IBM OS/2 operating system at Lattice
Inc, the makers of earlyWindows & OS/2
compilers. Developers encountered the error
screen when the bugs in the OS
software(typically null pointers) slipped
through the net during beta testing.The term
comes as a humorous reference to IBM and
the finality of the error.
 Which term ?

87.  Blue Screen Of Death

90.  Faraday Cage

93.  Tribute to Leonard Nimoy