The document outlines the rules and questions for the Noesis 2015 Quiz Chapter 2 prelims. It provides 20 multiple choice or short answer questions on various topics to test participants. The top 6 teams that correctly answer the most questions will advance to the finals. The quiz master's decision is final.

1. Noesis 2015 Quiz Chapter 2

4. THE PRELIMS
KILL THE OPPONENT TEAM WITH YOUR ANSWERS
RULES
• NO NEGATIVE MARKING
• QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE REPEATED
• USE OF INTERNET PROHIBITED
• DO NOT CHEAT
• TOP 6 TEAMS WILL BE IN THE FINALS
• QM’S DECISION IS FINAL

5. PRELIMS 1
A high gravity region in space
where even light can’t escape is
known as?

6. PRELIMS 2
‘The Imitation Game’ is a movie starring
Benedict Cumberbatch who depicts a famous
personality. Who? (5 points). Name the
machine he decodes, (5 points more), and
what did he call his decoder?(The tie breaker).

7. PRELIMS 3
An apparent change in wavelength
occurs if the source and the observer are
moving apart.
This is known as?

8. PRELIMS 4
• Identify the website.

9. PRELIMS 5
• What do you call the mixture of
Hydrochloric Acid and Nitric Acid
in the ratio of 1:3?

10. PRELIMS 6
• Identify the company

11. PRELIMS 7
• Imagine you’re in a room with a bunch of golf balls on the floor and a thin
beam or rail suspended between two walls. Now imagine for some reason
you start lining up the golf balls on the rail. It would take you a lot of work
to do that, right? The most “stable” place for the golf balls to be is back on
the floor, and the slightest disturbance could send them careening
downwards.
• Finally, with more than half of your golf balls sitting perfectly still on the
rail, you decide to take break to admire your work. Foolishly, you sit down
on the floor with a thud and look in horror as a few golf balls fall to the
floor with an instantaneous clack. This clack sends a few more golf balls
speeding towards the floor and soon your once-quiet room is a chorus
of clacks. This is an Analogy of the working of a device.
• What (famously known by its abbreviation) am I talking about?

12. PRELIMS 8
• In relation to a famous start-up based
out of Bangalore, if “Lemontee” and
“Backbenchers” were discarded, what
was eventually selected?

13. PRELIMS 9
• Name the only group of animals
that make milk to feed their
young?

14. PRELIMS 10
• He is an advisor to the Prime Minister. He
heads the National Innovation Council, 2014.
He spear headed the telecom revolution in
India. You find STD booths everywhere due to
him. Who is he ?

15. PRELIMS 11
• The principal ingredient in a brick
wall and a plate glass window is
same. What?

16. PRELIMS 12
• According to the ‘Top Google Searches of
2014’ released by Google, if ‘IRCTC’ topped
the list and ‘SBI Online’ came third what
search keywords were 2nd and 4th in the list,
respectively? (5 points for each)

17. PRELIMS 13
• How long is guinea pig’s tail? (Tie Breaker)

18. PRELIMS 14
• Identify him and the Company he is associated
with.

19. PRELIMS 15
• If a man can jump 1.5 meters on
the Earth. How high can he jump
on the Moon?

20. PRELIMS 16
• Expand HTTP!

21. PRELIMS 17
• O is the most common blood group
in the World, except in Norway.
What is the most common blood
group there?

22. PRELIMS 18
• In Arabic, the literal translation of this
corporate tycoon’s first name is Defender. His
surname stands for Love. His company recruits
a lot of students from our college. Who is this
IT baron from India I am talking about?

23. PRELIMS 19
• It states that the universe emerged from a hot
and dense state billions of years ago. The
universe has been expanding over since this
creation event. What?

24. PRELIMS 20
• What is Nomo-phobia?

27. 1
Black Hole

28. 2
• WHO? – Alan Turing
• THE MACHINE HE DECODED- Enigma
• THE NAME HE GAVE TO HIS DECODER (The
Universal Machine)- Christopher

29. 3
Doppler’s Effect

30. 4
OLX

31. 5
Aqua Ragia

32. 6
SnapChat

33. 7
Light Amplification by Simulated
Emission of Radiation

34. 8
www.almamaterstore.com

35. 9

36. 10
Sam Pitroda
(Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda)

37. 11
Sand

38. 12
• SECOND: flipkart.com,FOURTH: snapdeal.com

39. 13
They do not have a tail!

40. 14
Sunder Pichai
Google Inc

41. 15
9 meters
(1.5*6)

42. 16
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

43. 17
Blood Group: A

44. 18
Azim Premji

45. 19
The Big Bang Theory

46. 20
Nomophobia is the fear of being out of
Mobile Phone Contact (No Mobile Phobia)

47. THE TOP SIX TEAMS
THE RESULTS