QM : Abhishek Mishra and Shivam Bhardwaj 28th Feb 2012

1. IISER Mohali Quiz Club
presents
National Science Day 2012

2.  Teams of two
 Fair quizzing rules.
 30 questions
 Internal tie-breakers

3.  What is the significance of the day i.e. Why do we
say 28th Feb as National Science Day ?

5.  Launch log of ASLV and SlV

6.  Give me the source.

7.  ISRO Bhuwan

8.  Andrew _____, the son of a farmer, was born in around 1770 and
moved from his native Mevagissey in Cornwall to London in about
1787 to train as a barber. He completed his apprenticeship in 1789 and
established a barber's shop in Gerrard Street in Soho and began to
produce cosmetic products. At that time Soho was a wealthy
residential area, and ______ clientele included many wealthy
socialites who took great pride in their appearance. The fashion
amongst the wealthy of the period was for pristine white complexions;
tanned faces were associated with those who laboured out of doors.
 _____ found that his powders and creams were frequently being used
to cover up damage caused by the harshness of the soaps and other
beauty products (many of which contained arsenic or lead) that were
in general use at the time. ____ began to experiment with soap
purification and eventually managed to produce a gentle soap based
on _______ and other natural products. The clarity of the soap gave it
a novel transparent appearance which provided a marketing
advantage. To add to the appeal, ________ gave the soap an aroma
reminiscent of an English garden.

9.  PEARS

10.  A ___________ (sometimes spelled _____), also
known as a shock cord, is an elastic cord
composed of one or more elastic strands forming a
core, usually covered in a woven cotton or
polypropylene sheath. The sheath does not
materially extend elastically, but it is braided with
its strands spiraling around the core so that a
longitudinal pull causes it to squeeze the core,
transmitting the core's elastic compression to the
longitudinal extension of the sheath and cord.

11.  Bungee

13.  V S Ramachandran

14.  To ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is
not a threat to the conservation of nature.
 Vision : Of a world in which trade in wild animals
and plants will be managed at sustainable levels
without damaging the integrity of ecological
systems and in such a manner that it makes a
significant contribution to human needs, supports
local and national economies and helps to
motivate commitments to the conservation of
wild species and their habitats.

16.  In biology,________ is the extracellular part of
animal tissue whose main purpose is to provide
structural support to the cells. Earlier, in medical
terms, _____ is the organ of a female mammal in
which the young are developed prior to birth. In
mathematics, where it is mostly used,_______ is a
rectangular array of numbers. ________ is also a
1999 science fiction-action film written and directed
by Larry and Andy Wachowski.

17.  Matrix

18.  A__________ consists of a collection device and a
"straw" attached to a cylinder. The cylinder contains
two vials, which contain a solution of sulfuric acid,
potassium dichromate, silver nitrate and water. The
individual being tested blows into the straw for
approximately two to four seconds. The object is to
test the air from deep in the lungs, which will produce
the most accurate reading in the form of a change in
colour of the solution.
 The observed degree of colour change is based on the
amount of evaporated ______ expelled in the breath.
What test is being talked about ?

19.  Breath Analyzer

21.  Scoville heat units

23.  DeFibrilator

25.  Pythagoras

26.  ______________ is celebrated on October 23rd. It
officially starts at 6:02 A.M. and ends at 6:02 P.M
on that day.

27.  Mole day
 6.02 * 10 ^23

28.  George de Menstral while on a hunting trip with
his dog in the Alps found that seeds of the above
plants stuck to his legs and that of his dog as
well.(Bigger picture next slide).
 He examined them under a microscope, and
noted hundreds of "hooks" that caught on
anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal
fur, or hair. This was the inspiration behind X.
 Give me X.

30.  Velcro

31.  It was the unique dense
golden hairs on the fly‘s
abdomen that led me to
name this fly in honor of X
as well as giving me the
chance to demonstrate
the fun side of taxonomy
— the naming of species” .
 Just give X.

32.  Beyonce Knowles

33.  The realistic proposal of this goes back to
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. His most famous work,
(The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of
Reaction Devices), was published in 1903, but this
theoretical work was not widely influential
outside of Russia. Then it became an engineering
possibility with the work of Robert H. Goddard's
publication in 1919 of his paper 'A Method of
Reaching Extreme Altitudes‘.

34.  Space Light

35.  Robert Recorde was a physician. He entered the University of
Oxford in about 1525, and was elected a fellow of All Souls
College in 1531. Having adopted medicine as a profession, he
went to the University of Cambridge to take the degree of M.D.
in 1545.
 Thus it was obvious that this guy would have great future in
medical world and that he did have, after all he did go to
London, and acted as physician to King Edward VI and to Queen
Mary.
 But the single greatest thing that Robert Recorde left behind
was indeed great and definitely not very much linked to the field
of medicine .Rather he changed mathematical notation forever.
He invented something which he called ”Gemowe lines” .

37.  Identify him and his claim to fame.

38.  Creator of JAVA
 James Gosling

39. • Inventive. Innovative. Artistic. Imaginative. Thought
provoking. Futuristic. Inspired. All words used to
describe Homaro Cantu’s moto, an internationally
recognized leader in the world of _____________.
Chef and inventor, Cantu challenges culinary
convention and diners, stretching the boundaries of
the former and taking the latter on a post-modern,
interactive and fantastical gastronomical ride.
• What is the ingredient they use in almost 95% of
their dishes ?

41.  .“By shortening the labors, the invention of
__________ doubled the life of the astronomer.”
 – Pierre Simon Laplace.

42.  Logarithm

43.  X, born on 10 March 1957, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala is an
Indian theoretical physicist. He is currently Distinguished Professor
at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics,
(IUCAA) at Pune, India.
 His principal fields of research are Cosmology and the interface
between Gravity and Quantum theory. X has received several
national and international awards including the Birla Science Prize
(1991), the Millennium Medal, Al-Khwarizmi International Award,
Sackler Distinguished Astronomer, Miegunah Fellowship Award
and the G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research. His work has won
awards from the Gravity Research Foundation, USA five times, in
1984, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2008. He is an elected Fellow of the
three National Academies of Science in India.
 Some of his research papers have been rated as the ‘most
influential paper of the year’. He has also been awarded the Padma
Shri by the Government of India in the year 2007. ID X.

44.  T. Padmanabhan

45.  Id the
blank in
the
comic
strip.

47.  One of very few substances of which the liquid
phase is denser than its solid phase, which
element was
considered to be the last naturally occurring
stable, non-radioactive element on the periodic
table until scientists
discovered in 2003 it’s half-life is actually
1.9*1019 years? The element with the atomic
number 83 is heavy and
brittle, used in cosmetics, medicines, and in
medical procedures.

48.  Bismuth

49.  Which bird is known for making the longest
annual migration, about 70,000 kilometres a
year? It breeds in the southerly reaches of the
Arctic and winters in Antarctic regions. The bird
performs almost all of its tasks in the air landing
only once every one to three years.

50.  Arctic Tern

51.  Give funda.

52.  Apple does not support FLASH.

53.  Id this mythical creature which gave Kekule the
inspiration for the structure of Benzene.

55.  ______________ is an oral based neuroaminidase
inhibitor, which serves as an effective anti-viral
by chemically cutting ties with the host cell. It
was first developed by Gilead Sciences of USA
and is marketed in Japan by Chugai
Pharmaceuticals. Name it.

56.  Oseltamivir.
Trade name Tamiflu

57.  This happens to be the only illustration in which
famous book?

58.  On the origin of species
 Charles Darwin

59.  What is called a solidus if written as a diagonal
line or a viniculum if written as a horizontal line?

60.  The line between the numerator and the
denominator in a fraction.

61.  XYZ (Name has three parts) is an Indian nuclear
experimental physicist, though he is presently
working on nanocrystalline magnetic materials and
alloy systems. He is also, however, interested in
Earth Sciences like extinction boundaries and
meteorites. XYZ sometimes talks about India's
cultural values and ancient heritage . He is an avid
Hindi poet.
 But most of all, he is best known for two of his
works that has changed the lives of a lot of young
people in India.
ID XYZ.

62.  Harish Chandra Verma

64.  A Glorious Dawn
 We Are All Connected
 Our Place in the Cosmos
 The Unbroken Thread
 The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)
 The Case for Mars
 A Wave of Reason ______________
 The Big Beginning
 Ode to the Brain
 Children of Africa (The Story of Us)
 The Quantum World
 Onward to the Edge
 The Greatest Show on Earth