Science- Tech Quiz
     Prelims
(1) Everyone knows the story. Just give name of spacecraft?
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    (2) Every living organism is the outward physical
    manifestation of internally coded, inheritable
    information. The “internally coded inheritable
    information” is called the genotype while the
    “outward physical manifestation” is called X.
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    (4*)Connect:
    1. Rajesh Gopakumar
    2. Thanu Padmanabhan
    3. S. Chandrashekhar
    4. Jayant Narlikar
(5)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.
(6*). What unique distinction does he hold among
                   physicists?
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    (8) “The surface of the apple is "simply connected,"
    but that the surface of the doughnut is not. X,
    almost a hundred years ago, knew that a two
    dimensional sphere is essentially characterized by
    this property of simple connectivity, and asked the
    corresponding question for the three dimensional
    sphere (the set of points in four dimensional space
    at unit distance from the origin).” The text taken
    from the website of the Clay Mathematics
    Institute describes what?
(9) Identify this
polymath?
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    (10) “Computer chess has developed much as
    genetics might have if the geneticists had
    concentrated their efforts starting in 1910 on
    breeding racing Drosophila”, said X when Deep
    Blue beat Gary Kasporov in 1997. Just X.
(12)"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.
(13)X is a next-generation
wearables research platform
developed by researchers at Y .
The goal of the X project is the
development and prototyping
of new techniques of human-
computer interaction for
body-worn applications.
(14)The theory X is (mis)attributed to L but was
actually proposed by R first. X(1 pt), L+R(1 pt)
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    (15*)"Yields falsehood when preceded by its
    quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its
    quotation is known as the X paradox, which
    demonstrates that a sentence can be paradoxical
    even without referring to itself. X is also the name
    given to a computer program that produces its
    source code as its output. Give X.
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    (16) At the 1927 Solvay Conference, while all the
    bright chaps were discussing religion and X
    disclosed his dislike for “religious myths”,
    Wolfgang Pauli got up and said about X, “X also
    has a religion whose first commandment says:
    there is no God and X is His prophet.”
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    (17*) The word X is a transliteration of the
    Russian acronym toroidal chamber with magnetic
    coils, or toroidal chamber with axial magnetic
    field. It was invented by Igor Tamm and Andrei
    Sakharov based on an original design by Oleg
    Lavrentyev.
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    (18)1. Romain Charles,France,Engineer.
    2. Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov, Russia,
    Surgeon
    3.Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev, Russia, Engineer
    4. Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy, Russia,
    Physiologist
    5. Diego Urbina, Italy, engineer
    6. Wang Yue, China, Instructor
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    What “experiment” were these people a part of?
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    (19*) His most famous work was Theorie der
    Transformationsgruppen, which was applied by
    Hermann Weyl in 1922 to Quantum Mechanics.
    He initiated the field of transformation groups
    and has spurned into a field of its own, known by
    his name. Name this Norwegian mathematician.
Prelims- Science Quiz at NSF 2012

Prelims- Science Quiz at NSF 2012

  • 1.
  • 2.
    (1) Everyone knowsthe story. Just give name of spacecraft?
  • 3.
    (2) Every living organism is the outward physical manifestation of internally coded, inheritable information. The “internally coded inheritable information” is called the genotype while the “outward physical manifestation” is called X.
  • 5.
    (4*)Connect: 1. Rajesh Gopakumar 2. Thanu Padmanabhan 3. S. Chandrashekhar 4. Jayant Narlikar
  • 6.
    (5)George de Menstralwhile 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.
  • 8.
    (6*). What uniquedistinction does he hold among physicists?
  • 11.
    (8) “The surface of the apple is "simply connected," but that the surface of the doughnut is not. X, almost a hundred years ago, knew that a two dimensional sphere is essentially characterized by this property of simple connectivity, and asked the corresponding question for the three dimensional sphere (the set of points in four dimensional space at unit distance from the origin).” The text taken from the website of the Clay Mathematics Institute describes what?
  • 12.
  • 13.
    (10) “Computer chess has developed much as genetics might have if the geneticists had concentrated their efforts starting in 1910 on breeding racing Drosophila”, said X when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasporov in 1997. Just X.
  • 15.
    (12)"It was theunique 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.
  • 16.
    (13)X is anext-generation wearables research platform developed by researchers at Y . The goal of the X project is the development and prototyping of new techniques of human- computer interaction for body-worn applications.
  • 17.
    (14)The theory Xis (mis)attributed to L but was actually proposed by R first. X(1 pt), L+R(1 pt)
  • 18.
    (15*)"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation is known as the X paradox, which demonstrates that a sentence can be paradoxical even without referring to itself. X is also the name given to a computer program that produces its source code as its output. Give X.
  • 19.
    (16) At the 1927 Solvay Conference, while all the bright chaps were discussing religion and X disclosed his dislike for “religious myths”, Wolfgang Pauli got up and said about X, “X also has a religion whose first commandment says: there is no God and X is His prophet.”
  • 20.
    (17*) The word X is a transliteration of the Russian acronym toroidal chamber with magnetic coils, or toroidal chamber with axial magnetic field. It was invented by Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov based on an original design by Oleg Lavrentyev.
  • 21.
    (18)1. Romain Charles,France,Engineer. 2. Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov, Russia, Surgeon 3.Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev, Russia, Engineer 4. Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy, Russia, Physiologist 5. Diego Urbina, Italy, engineer 6. Wang Yue, China, Instructor ● What “experiment” were these people a part of?
  • 22.
    (19*) His most famous work was Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, which was applied by Hermann Weyl in 1922 to Quantum Mechanics. He initiated the field of transformation groups and has spurned into a field of its own, known by his name. Name this Norwegian mathematician.