Conducted under the aegis of QuNITe NIT Jamshedpur.

1. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY QUIZ

2. POUNCE &
BOUNCE
• 15 Questions
• +20/-20 on Pounce
• +10 on Bounce

3. Q1.
• Satellite Lab is a creative studio and R&D laboratory based in New York
City. It was founded by Kiwis Carlo Van de Roer and Stuart Rutherford.
• Satellite lab owns a patent named Dynamic Light.
• When using a high speed cinema camera and light sources moving at over
10,000 feet per second, this technology creates the ability to move light
sources within images frozen in time.
• For some reason, Dynamic Light garnered a lot of attention in 2017.
• Id its claim to fame.

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5. DYNAMIC LIGHT WAS USED IN THOR RAGNAROK

6. Q2.
• International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), is a system which was
introduced in 1990 in order to enable prompt communication of safety significant
information in case of Nuclear Accidents. The Scale Ranges from zero to seven, where
zero means Deviation and seven means a Major Accident. Chernobyl and Fukushima
incidents are the only events that have been rated 7 on this scale.
• X is the only event that has been rated 6 on this scale and is the third most serious
disaster to ever occur. It occurred on 29 September 1957 at Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast,
Russia, a city built around Mayak Plutonium production plant in Russia. It took over 2
years to evacuate the impacted population, and nearly 10,000 people had to be
evacuated. In 1992, a study conducted by the Institute of Biophysics at the former Soviet
Health Ministry in Chelyabinsk found that 8015 people died winthin the next 32 years of
this incident.
• Name X or the reason behind X.

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8. KYSHTM DISASTER

9. Q3
• X is a satellite constellation being constructed by Y to provide internet
access throughout the globe. For this purpose, Y has launched 242
satellites so far, and plans on launching 60 satellites per flight, and aims to
launch 12000 satellites by mid 2020s.
• Id X and Y.

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11. X-STARLINK SATELLITES
Y- SPACEX

12. Q4.
• Even though he was nominated 41 times for the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry, he nver won the award, resulting in one of the most
famous controversies regarding Nobel Prize. There's evidence to
suggest that this was due to his lifelong enmity with Walther
Nernst.
• He was the man who first coined the term photon, and was the
first person to produce heavy water. His more famous
achievements include Valance Bond Theory.
• Id the Person
This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.

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14. G N LEWIS

15. Q5.
• To this day, there have been six Nobel laureates who refused their prize
for different reasons.
• Out of these 3 occurred during 1938-39. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry
was refused in 1938 and 1939, while the Nobel Prize for Physiology and
Medicine wasn't accepted by it's recipient in 1939. However all three
awards were later awarded to their recipients in July 1949.
• What was the cause behind this delay?

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17. FORCED REFUSALS DUE TO NAZIS

18. Q6.
• X is a Japanese Tech Giant founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in the year 1889.
It started out as a playing card company, however in 1963, after it's then
owner recognised the limited scope of selling playing cards, the company
branched out to different sectors.
• They started a Taxi company, a TV Network, a love hotel chain, a food
company, however all these ventures prooved to be a failure. In 1974, the
company finally ventured into the sector its actually known for, handheld
consoles.
• Id X.

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20. NINTENDO

21. Q7.
• A hook-and-loop fastener typically consits of two fabric strips, which
naturally stick together on contact.
• X is a privately owned company, best known for being the original
patentor of hook-and-loop fastener. It's founder George de Mestral came
up with the idea after a walk in the woods, when he observed that
burdock seeds clung to his coat and dog.
• Id X.

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23. VELCRO

24. Q8.
• Orignally this device used to have doors that could only be opened from
outside, because of this it was common for kids to get accidentally
trapped in this device while playing hide and seek. Because this device is
airtight, accidental entrapment always led to death due to suffocation.
Due to this it was mandatory to remove doors of the device before
dumping it. The continued occurence of deaths led to a law that required
a change in the way the doors were locked. This is the primary cause
behind the adoption of magnetic locks we are all familiar with today.
• Name the device.

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26. REFRIGERATOR

27. Q9. WHAT HAS BEEN
PUT ON DISPLAY IN
THIS IMAGE?

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29. X- IT'S THE CORPSE OF VLADIMIR KOMAROV, THE
COSMONAUT WHO DIED IN THE FAILED SOYUZ 1 MISSION

30. Q10.
• Space Probe Rosetta was launched in the year 2004, along with its lander
module Phillae to study a specific kind of celestial body.
• On September 30 2016, the Rosetta probe completed its mission after
accomplishing a one of its kind feat. The images and clips sent by Rosetta
featured a dark, icy terrain.
• What feat was accomplished by Rosetta?

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32. IT LANDED ON A COMET

33. Q11.
• X was an American Psychologist, inventor and comic book writer.
• Under his penname Charles Moulton, he created a first of her kind comic
book character for DC comics, the creation of whom later earned him a
spot in American comics Hall of Fame.
• Apart from his iconic comic book character, X is also remembered for
inventing a machine Y with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, which is
very similar in function to a tool which was regularly used by the comic
book character he created.
• Id X and his invention Y.

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35. X- WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON
Y- POLYGRAPH
THE COMIC BOOK CHARACTER IS WONDER WOMAN

36. Q12.
• X first originated on Tripod.com, and was created by Ethan Zuckerman.
• According to its creator, advertisers on his site used to complain about
their ads appearing on pages with sexual content, so he developed a way
to launch ads separately from the webpage.
• What is X?

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38. POP UP ADS

39. Q13.
• After a string of negative press targeting him due to his factories safety
procedures, X stated that he will launch a site where any user can rate the
credibility of a journalist.
• This decision was met with major backlash, as a platform like that would
be prone to abuse.
• Originally, the name for the site was supposed to be pravda, but later on X
purchased the domain pravduh.com because the former was already used
by a Ukrainian Newspaper.
Who is the person in question?

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41. ELON MUSK

42. Q14.
• The person in image is Gatean Dugas, a Canadian Flight
attendant. What is he better known for?

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44. ALLEGED PATIENT ZERO FOR AIDS EPIDEMIC IN US

45. Q15.
• X is an extremely lightweight software. It names starts with a Greek letter
generally used to denote the prefix micro.
• Y is a Company founded by Ashwin Navin and Bram Cohen in the year
2004. Y owns X, and is also the name of the protocol that X runs on.
• What are X and Y?

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47. X
Y

48. Q 16.
Given below are some accomplishments of X. Id him.
• He was appointed Commander of Most excellent order of the British
Empire(CBE) in 2005 for "services to the music industry and for
charity work".
• HE attained PhD in astrophysics from Imperial college London in 2007 and
was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moors University from 2008 to 2013.
• He was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto
Mission.

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50. BRIAN MAY FROM THE BAND QUEEN

51. Q17.
• Project Loon is a R&D project being developed by Google with the mission
of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas.
• Which country was the first to get full LTE coverage under Project Loon?

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53. VATICAN CITY

54. Q18.
• When Microsoft launched x64 version of Windows, millions of lines of
code had to be transported.
• One program ran into trouble, when a bug was discovered due to which X
would pass through obstacles like a ghost.
• The Program X was later on dropped because it was absolutely
uncommented and written by an outside vendor, due to which the
debugging the program wasn't possible.
• Name the Program X.

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56. PINBALL

57. Q19.
• His wife passed away in 1909 due to Tuberculosis. Both his daughters died
during childbirth. His oldest son died during WW1, while his second son
Erwin was captured by the french troops.
• During WW2, his son Erwin was executed for his involvement in a plot to
assassinate Hitler.
• In 1944, an allied bomb fell on his house, due to which he lost a lifetime
worth of research, diaries etc.
• He is a popular name in quantum mechanics. Name him

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59. MAX PLANK

60. Q20.
• On 17 October 1978, helicopters were used to drop 4,050 disembowelled
chicken heads across the shores of Lake Geneva.
• Why was this done?

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62. IT WAS DONE TO VACCINATE WILD ANIMALS AGAINST
RABIES

63. Q21.
• The Epitaph on the Tomb of X originally read "First Muslim Nobel
Laureate", however because of an amendment by his country's parliament
, the word Muslim was scribbled out from his tomb, leaving only the
words "First Nobel Laureate".
• What was the amendment which led to the removal of the word Muslim
from his tombstone?

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65. PAKISTAN DECLARED THAT AHMADIS WERE NOT
MUSLIM

66. Q22.
• An asymptomatic carrier is a person or organism that has become afflicted
with a pathogen, but shows no signs or symptoms. These carriers can spread
the pathogen to others who fall ill with ease, but they themselves might never
fall ill with the same pathogen.
• X was the first person to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of
Salmonella bacteria in US and is estimated to have caused fifty fatalities.
• X worked as a cook, and as a result was able to spread the pathogen with ease.
She was put into quarantine from 1907-1910, and upon her release was
instructed to not work as a cook, however due to low paying jobs, she
restarted working as a cook and caused more outbreaks, which resulted in her
being quarantined till death.
• ID X.

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68. TYPHOID MARY

69. Q23.
• Rendez-vouz in Montreal is a French short film that premiered in 1987. It
marks the first time a now controversial practice was pulled off in a film.
What practice is this?

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71. DIGITALLY RECREATING DEAD ACTORS

72. Q24. ID THE CTF

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74. FIRST IMAGE TAKEN BY A CELL PHONE

75. Q25.
• X is an ad that premiered during the telecast of Super Bowl XVIII. It was
directed by Ridley Scott, and was created by the advertising
agency TBWAChiatDay.
• What was being advertised by this ad?

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77. MACINTOSH COMMERCIAL

78. Q26.
• X held several patents related to the use of nuclear power, and was
awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced
radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of trans
uranium elements.
• He left Italy in 1938 to escape Italian racial laws which affected his Jewish
wife, Laura Capon.
• He is also known by his nickname, 'The Pope Physicist'.
• Id X.

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80. ENRICO FERMI

81. THANK YOU!