Here are the connections between the terms provided: Stuxnet - Computer worm that targeted Siemens industrial software and equipment, specifically developed to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities by damaging centrifuges. Flame - Malware that targeted Middle Eastern countries and was believed to be developed jointly by US and Israel to monitor Iran's nuclear program. Duqu - Precursor to Stuxnet that stole digital certificates which were then used by Stuxnet. Gauss - Described as a cyber-espionage toolkit targeting financial institutions, designed to steal sensitive data. Shamoon - Wiper malware that destroyed data on computers of Saudi Aramco and Qatari natural gas firm. Caused significant

1. PARADIGM:
The St.Xavier's College Science Fest
Mumbai
SAPIENTIA
THE SCIENCE QUIZ

2. 11 infinite bounce questions clockwise
2 set of connection question
11 infinite bounce questions counter clockwise

3. 1)The Philosopher Diderot was once invited to
the court by Catherine the Great, but then
annoyed her by trying to convert everyone to
atheism. Catherine, then asked X for help,
who then came to court and presented an
algebraic proof of the existence of God.
According to De Morgan, X advanced toward
Diderot, and said gravely, and in a tone of
perfect conviction: "Sir, ( a + bn )/n = x , hence
God exists; reply! "
IDENTIFY X

5. Euler

6. 'Turdus merula' singing
In the dead of night
Take these broken wings
And learn to fly..’
Identify the common name of this Turdus
merula from the lyrics of the song?

8. blackbird

9. “X is a reduced scale Piccard, as the real chap was very
tall. He had an interminable neck that sprouted from a
collar that was much too large... I made X a mini-
Piccard.....”
Identify the character X, the author is talking about, which
was based on this scientist.

11. professor calculus (Tin Tin)

12. Due to this condition one person might be able to
hear smells, while another feel sounds, and yet
another can taste shapes. Nobel Prize winning
Physicist Richard Feynman also experienced this
type of condition, reporting that he saw equations
in colour. For him the variable n was “mildly violet-
bluish”. The cause for this condition is said to be
heriditary, but can also be caused by psychedelic
drugs, a stroke, during temporal lobe epileptic
seizure, and also by blindness and deafness.
many musicians and artists are said to have this
condition includeing Billy Joel, Marilyn Monroe,
Stevie Wonder, etc. name this condition

14. synesthesia

15. Names Country ____________ Notes
Chao Lu China 67,890 World Record (current)
Hiroyuki Goto Japan 42,195 World Record 1995-2006
Krishan Chahal India 43,000 Indian record holder
Dave Turner Great Britain 1,250 Record – both forward and
backward
Andreas Lietzow Germany 1,088 While Juggling 5 balls
Grace Hare Canada 31 Youngest person in the top 200
list - 3yrs 56 days
Identify the column
#events of the blanked out coloumn was
displayed in a very famous movie recently.

17. recitation of decimal digits of pi from memory.

18. The word X was introduced to the public by
the Czech interwar writer Karel Čapek in his
play R.U.R. in 1920. He later explained that he
had originally wanted to call the creatures
laboři. However, he did not like the word, and
sought advice from his brother Josef, who
suggested the word "X". The word means
literally "serf labor", and figuratively "drudgery"
or "hard work" in Czech and also in many
Slavic languages.
Whats the word X ?

20. ROBOT

21. This phenomenon occurs in just 2 regions of the
brain- the sub-ventricular zone and the sub-
granular zone of the dentate gyrus. This property
was exhibited in the popular movie ‘Rise of the
planet of the apes’ directed by Rupert Wyatt in
which a chimp used for experimentation attained
exceptional intelligence. It was 1 discovered by
st
Elizabeth Gould. Music is known to aid this
particular process. It is said that It was due to the
playing of the violin for decades that Albert
Einstein’s brain showed the manifestation of this
phenomenon.

23. Neurogenesis

24. It is described as ‘a test for intelligence in a
computer, requiring that a human being should
be unable to distinguish the machine from
another human being by using the replies to
questions put to both’. It is commonly
regarded as the barrier which a computer
program must break to be considered an
artificial intelligence. Identify the Test.

26. Turin Test

27. This tree features as the Tree of Life in
Disney's "Lion King". It grows 5 to 30 metres
(16 to 98 ft) high, with a trunk diameter of 7 to
11 metres (23 to 36 ft). Its trunk can hold up to
120,000 litres of water. For most of the year,
the tree is leafless, and looks very much like it
has its roots sticking up in the air. Name the
tree.

29. Baobab Tree

30. 6) “ The LM footpads are only depressed in the
surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface
appears to be very, very fine grained, as you get
close to it. It's almost like a powder. Ground mass
is very fine.”
“ ___ ___ ”
“ Yes, the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it
up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine
layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and
sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of
an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see
the footprints of my boots and the treads in the
fine, sandy particles.”
Fill in the statement.

32. That's one small step for [a] man, one giant
leap for mankind

33. In 1967, a radio signal was detected in a UK
observatory. The signal had a 1.33 second
period and 0.04 second pulsewidth. The signal
turned out to be radio emissions from the
pulsar CP1919, the first one recognized as
such.
The discoverers had initially proposed the
explanation that the signal might be a beacon
or a communication from an intelligent
extraterrestrial civilization and hence named it
LGM-1.
What did 'LGM' stand for?

35. Little Green Men

37. "During an 'immortal dinner' 28th December 1817
hosted by Haydon and attended by Wordsworth,
Charles Lamb, Y and Monkhouse, Y
lightheartedly said X 'has destroyed all the poetry
of the rainbow, by reducing it to the prismatic
colours.' Y then proposed a toast to 'X's health,
and confusion to mathematics' to the amusement
of all."
But the funny part is, although held responsible, it
was not X but actually Z who unweavered the
secrets of the rainbow.
X - 10pts
Y – 15pts
Z - 20pts

39. The calculus controversy was an argument between X and J
over who had first invented calculus. The last years of J's life,
were embittered by a long controversy with X over whether J
had discovered calculus independently of X.
For J, who was also a philosopher, an additional central
concern was the matter of reconciling human freedom with
the determinism. J's solution casts God as a kind of
"optimizer" of all original possibilities: Giving us the best of all
possible worlds.
K actively rejected J's optimism after the Lisbon earthquake,
convinced that if this were the best possible world, it should
surely be better than it is. K wrote a very famous satirical
novel denouncing J's philosophy.
X – 5pts
J – 10pts
K - 15pts

41. X – Newton
Y – Keats
Z – Theoderic of Freiberg
J – Leibniz
K – Voltaire

43. 1) Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc
Communications, is a DoItYourself media
organization.In 1999, the cDc formed a group to the
creation of anti-censorship technology in furtherance of
human rights on the Internet . In the late 1990s, the cDc
worked with a group of Chinese dissidents called "The
Hong Kong Blondes" to disrupt computer networks
within the People's Republic of China in order to allow
PRC citizens to access censored content online.
In 1996, cDc member Omega coined the term X, which
is used very popularly to denote protests of these kinds.

45. 2) This existence of this cute marsupial animal is
limited to a specific continent. At birth it is the size
of a jelly bean and lives with it’s mother till the age
of 1. An adult female has about 1 cub in a year.
Males have a dark scent gland in the center of
their chest which they use to mark their territory.
They live in tall gumtree forests and when
stressed about their habitats develop a disease
called ‘Chlamydia’.

47. On the more legitimate side of torrent usage,
apparently both Facebook and Twitter use X to
transfer updates to their servers, and many
games including World of Warcraft deliver
patches and updates using the protocol.
The UK Government realising in 2004 that X is
the cheapest and most effective method of
sharing large files with the public, As part of the
UK Prime Minister’s transparency initiative
realesed several files with details on how the
Government spends the public’s money. These
files were shared wih the Public using X.
Identify X

49. situated in sweden, identify what this famous hideout
is used for currently. It is said to be protected from
even a nuclear holocaust!

51. Hactivism
Koala bears
Bit torrent
Wikileaks servers
Julian assagne

52. In 1961, Lorenz was using a numerical
computer model to rerun a weather prediction,
when, as a shortcut on a number in the
sequence, he entered the decimal .506
instead of entering the full .506127 .
The result was a completely different weather
scenario. In 1963 Lorenz published a
theoretical study of this effect in a well-known
paper called Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
How is the concept published by him popularly
known as to the public?

55. Butterfly Effect

56. In 1960 cambridge university, where X was a
fellow, elected to erect a chapel. X, believing
that a religious institution had no place at a
university dedicated to knowledge, made a
fuss. X was sent a letter by Winston Churchill
pointing out that the funds for the chapel's
construction had been raised by private
means, and nobody would be forced to attend.
X's response was to propose the construction
of a college brothel, since after all nobody
would be forced to attend and and he would
personally raise the money for it.
Identify X

58. Francis Crick

59. This condition was thought to exist only in
women and was thought to have been caused
due to a 'wandering womb'. The symptoms for
this was said to include muscle spasms,
irritability, loss of appetite, sexual
dissatisfaction and "a tendency to cause
trouble". Treatment recommended for this was
'pelvic massages' however later on vibrators
were used. Name this disorder

61. Hysteria

62. Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official
were sentenced to six years in prison in 2011
when a regional court in Italy found them guilty of
multiple manslaughter in L'Aquila in 2009.
Malcolm Sperrin said about this trial - "If the
scientific community is to be penalised for making
predictions that turn out to be incorrect, or for not
accurately predicting an event that subsequently
occurs, then scientific endeavour will be restricted
to certainties only and the benefits that are
associated with findings from medicine to physics
will be stalled."
What was the crime that these six scientists
supposedly committed?

64. they couldn't predict an earthquake which
killed more than 300 people.

65. As a young child, X had difficulty making friends, and was
considered a lonely, remote child. X was talented in
language; X also liked to quote himself and other poets, and
often referred to himself in a third person perspective.During
further studies in medicine, X identified among other
children, a similar pattern of behaviour and abilities such as, a
lack of empathy, little ability to form friendships, one-sided
conversations, intense absorption in a special interest, and
clumsy movements. X called these children "little
professors". One of the children studied - Fritz V. became a
professor of astronomy and solved an error in Newton’s work
he originally noticed as a child. Another one of these children
were, Austrian writer and Nobel Laurete in literarture, Alfred
Jellinek.
Who is X and what is being talked about?

67. Hans Asperger and aspergers syndrome

68. In their biography of X, Hunt and Draper write, “X
furnished grist for the believers in occult
theories ...such as his conviction that amber was
a magic substance having the properties of
electrons.... also believing that Moses was
undoubtedly a practical and skilled electrician
far in advance of his time”, etc. X also later
claimed that he could communicate with other
planets like Mars.
In 1972, Ruth Norman, Co founder of UNARIUS-
a new religious movement began publishing X
Speaks, a series of messages that she said were
given to her by X from his dwelling in outer space.
Identify X

70. Nikola Tesla

71. The innovation patent by APO in Australia was
designed to provide a quick, easy and cheap
alternative to a traditional patent for small
businesses. APO has been criticised for granting
patents for impossible or absurd, already known,
or arguably obvious inventions.
John Keogh was issued the innovation patent for
a "circular transportation facilitation device" under
this patent system introduced in May 2001 .
For this grant, IP Australia (under APO) was later
awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2001.
How do we better know that which John Keogh
was issued a patent for?

73. wheel

74. Arthur Sasse a photographer, wanted to get X
smiling on his 72nd birthday, in 1951. X was
tired, and so, in order to get rid of the
photographer, X did something which Sasse
took a picture of.
On June 19, 2009, the photograph was
auctioned at a record $74,324, the most for
any picture of X.
Identify X

76. Albert Einstein

77. This herb is of the genus Musa. It is slightly
radioactive on account of small amounts of
potassium-40 and can exist in various colours
ranging from bubblegum pink to green and
white stripes among several others.
A song on this herb was written by Frank
Silver and Irving Cohn in 1923 during its
shortage and for many decades was the best
selling sheet music in history.

79. Bananas

80. The name of this drug is derived from the spanish
pronunciation of the slang words for prostitute and
brothel. The psychoactive effects of this drug
includes, inhibition, elation, and a distorted sense
of time, visual sensitivity and heightened
imagination. It was documented that this drug was
used to treat rheumatism and gout, in 2737 B.C.
by Chinese emperor Shen Nung, supporters of
this drug have shown the effectiveness of this
drug in treating AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple
sclerosis, epilepsy, and chronic pain. Name this
drug.

82. Marijuana

83. Connect the following specifically : stuxnet,
flame, duqu, gauss, shamoon, mahdi.
The list may not be exhaustive

85. virus (aimed at middle east countries)