The department of Electrical Engg IIT(BHU) conducts Quizo an event related to Science and Tech Questions.

1. PRASTUTI QUIZZO 2019
QM: Shreyas Sarkar
Prabhakar Singh

2. FINALS

4. 1st ROUND
BOUNCE/POUNCE
+10/-5 on POUNCE

5. 1. Which Indian Innovator, earlier adhering to
Communism and Leftism, took a turn around and saw
Capitalism as the only way to India’s development,
after he was stranded and detained in Sofia,
Yugoslavia, without food for 3 days in 1974, when he
went there for hitch-hiking, travelling without proper
documents?

8. 2. Which place lends to the etymology of 4 elements
with symbols: Y (39), Tb (65), Er (68) , Yb (70); the
highest for any place and single largest source of
etymology for chemical elements.

11. 3. When round projectiles were fired from a firearm, the
ball would grip one side of the barrel, making it spin,
and instead of flying straight, it would curve right,
left, up or down. This was rather frustrating and there
are some estimates that old unrifled missiles managed
to hit their targets less than 5% of the trials. What
phenomenon does it depict?
This effect came into popular conscience and was
widely studied thereafter due to a certain individual’s
exploits in 1993

14.  4. What are these comapnies together called? The list
has 4-5 more members which I could not mention.
 Intel
 AMD
 National Semiconductor
 LSI Logic
 Altera
 Xilinx.

16. “Fairchildren”

17. 5. Identify this Scientist depicted on the TIME
Magazine.

19. R. Buckminster Fuller

20. 6. Who designed the instrument ( known to be the first
of its kind) in 1642, to calculate his father’s endless
tax receipts?

22. Blaise Pascal

23. 7. X is among the rarest of all predictable astronomical
phenomena and occurs in a pattern that generally
repeats every 243 years, with pairs of its occurrences
eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years
and 105.5 years. Its most recent occurrence was on June
5&6, 2012 and was the last of the 21st century. Prior to
that it took place on June 8, 2004. The original
scientific interest in observing X was that it could be
used to determine the distance from the Earth to the
Sun, and from this the size of the Solar System, by
employing the parallax method and Kepler’s third law.
What astronomical event is X?

25. Transit of Venus across the Sun

26. 8. In mid-2016, a contingent of South Koreans unveiled
the clothing that they were going to wear to the
location that they were to travel to. The clothing
featured long pants, long sleeved shirts and jackets
embedded with special chemicals in them, to be
worn by members of the contingent at all times. What
was the reason behind all this protection?

28. Anti- Zika Preparation for 2016 Rio Olympics

29. 9. Coat of Arms of which country?

31.  Mauritius

32. Written Round
5 questions
+10/0
+10 for a full house
Theme:

33. 1. French scientist Pierre Janssen made a discovery while
in Guntur, then Madras State, in 1868, observing an
astronomical phenomenon. This created speculation
that the elements on Earth might not be the same as
those that make up the rest of the Universe. What
element did he discover? (Hint: Many of us might
think that the Greeks discovered it way before!)

34. 2. Logo of which Organisation?

35. 3. The pliable parts of the Ficus elastica tree across a
stream or river, and then allowing the roots to grow
and strengthen over time until they can hold the
weight of a human being. The young roots are
sometimes tied or twisted together, and are often
encouraged to combine with one another via the
process of inosculation. As the Ficus elastica tree is
well suited to anchoring itself to steep slopes and
rocky surfaces, it is not difficult to encourage its parts
to take hold on the opposite sides of river banks.
Where would you find these examples of Ficus Elastica
exhibiting its mechanical strength, in India?

36. 4.Hunted extensively by the Nyishi tribesmen for the
making of their headgear, this species faces
considerably less danger now due to an artificial
variety made of fiber glass. What traditionally
constitutes the Nyishi tribesmen's headgear?

37. 5. Why a small village called Kapustin Yar in present day
Kazakhstan come into conscience of Indians exactly 34
years ago?

39. ANSWERS

40. 1. French scientist Pierre Janssen made a discovery while
in Guntur, then Madras State, in 1868, observing an
astronomical phenomenon. This created speculation
that the elements on Earth might not be the same as
those that make up the rest of the Universe. What
element did he discover? (Hint: Many of us might
think that the Greeks discovered it way before!)

41.  Helium

42. 2. Logo of which Organisation?

43.  Power Grid

44. 3. The pliable parts of the Ficus elastica tree across a
stream or river, and then allowing the roots to grow
and strengthen over time until they can hold the
weight of a human being. The young roots are
sometimes tied or twisted together, and are often
encouraged to combine with one another via the
process of inosculation. As the Ficus elastica tree is
well suited to anchoring itself to steep slopes and
rocky surfaces, it is not difficult to encourage its parts
to take hold on the opposite sides of river banks.
Where would you find these examples of Ficus Elastica
exhibiting its mechanical strength, in India?

45.  Living root bridges of Meghalaya

46.  4.Hunted extensively by the Nyishi tribesmen for the
making of their headgear, this species faces
considerably less danger now due to an artificial
variety made of fiber glass. What traditionally
constitutes the Nyishi tribesmen's headgear?

47. Hornbill Beaks

48.  5. Why a small village called Kapustin Yar in present
day Kazakhstan come into conscience of Indians
exactly 34 years ago?

49.  Launch site of Aryabhatta

50. 3rd ROUND
BOUNCE/POUNCE
+10/-5 on POUNCE

51. 1. Chaim Weizmann was a biochemist who developed
the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process,
which produces acetone through
bacterial fermentation. His acetone production
method was of great importance in the manufacture
of cordite explosive propellants for the British war
industry during World War I. He founded
the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
But Weizmann altogether later attained fame
through his leadership in a different field and thus
became the 1st person to hold this position,
although being an outsider, having British
Citizenship. Which position was he the 1st person to
hold?

54. 1st President of Israel

55. 2. Liquidators were the civil and military personnel who
were called upon the aftermath of the ________
disaster. They consisted of firefighters, police, military,
pilots, doctors, nurses, etc. Later by their Government,
they were honoured and given these medals. FITB.

58.  1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

59. 3. The name of the compound X is derived from the
acronym vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays .
X is composed of a forest of vertical tubes "grown" on
a substrate using a modified chemical vapor
deposition process (CVD). When light strikes X,
instead of bouncing off from it, it becomes trapped
and is continually deflected amongst the tubes,
eventually becoming absorbed and dissipating into
heat.

61. Vantablack

62. 4.Explanation which common household phenomenon?
Enzymes called allinases break down amino acid
sulphoxides and generate sulphenic acids. A specific
sulfenic acid, 1-propenesulfenic acid is formed and is
rapidly rearranged by a second enzyme, called the LFS,
giving syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a volatile gas known
as LF. The LF gas diffuses through the air and activates
sensory neurons in the lacrimal glands, creating a
certain sensation.

65. 5. Which two individuals were awarded with the Ig
Nobel Pecae Prize 1998, for their “peaceful” exhibition
of their respective countries’ Scientific Advancement ,
later facing widespread criticism for their Scientific
Progress worldwide?

68. 6. What uniquely connects the following seven ?
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
Hodge conjecture
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
P versus NP problem
Poincaré conjecture
Riemann hypothesis
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap
Also, what’s special with the Poincare Conjecture?
.

70.  These are the Millennium Prize Problems , stated
by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
 A correct solution to any of the problems results in
a US$1 million prize being awarded by the institute to
the discoverer(s).
 Poincare is the only problem solved out of these

71. 7. In the given movie, the child’s mother, being a
Mathematician, but ends up her life after failing to
solve the Navier-Stokes Problem. Name the 2017
movie.

72.  Gifted

73. 8. Identify the song sung by this lone Canadian Astronaut in ISS.

75.  Space Oddity

76. 9. An ________ formation is a (usually military)
formation in which its units are arranged diagonally.
Each unit is stationed behind and to the right (a "right
echelon"), or behind and to the left ("left echelon"), of
the unit ahead. The name of the formation comes from
the French word ______, meaning a rung of a ladder,
which describes the shape that this formation has
when viewed from above or below. It shares its name
with a matrix arrangement used in Mathematics

78.  Echelon Formation

79. WRITTEN ROUND
5 Questions
+10/0
+10 for full house

80. 1. Recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for
crystallography by means of X-ray, they remain the
only father son-duo to win Nobel Prize till date.

81. 2. Invented by John Bardeen and William Shockley in
1947, this model is the protytype of something that
they created for the first time then, subsequently
winning a Nobel for Physics.

82. 3. Earlier the grave of Abdus Salam, read as : “The first X
to win the Nobel Prize”. But later it was desecrated by
Pakistan Govt. Thus rendering the earlier statement :
“The first Nobel Laureate” meaningless. Give X and
why was his grave desecrated?

84. 4. Antonio Egas Moniz won the prize for Medicine in
1949, for procedural ________. This became an instant
phenomenon, in the following few years in US itself,
more than 60,000 of it was conducted. But it had a
very low success ratio, and most of the patients were
left crippled. FITB

85. 5. Whose work on ribonucleotides fetched him with the
following results: RNAs with four repeating units
including UAG, UAA, or UGA, produced
only dipeptides and tripeptides thus revealing that
UAG, UAA and UGA are stop codons.
This fetched the person the Prize for Medicine in 1968.

86. ANSWERS

87. 1. Recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for
crystallography by means of X-ray, they remain the
only father son-duo to win Nobel Prize till date.

88.  Bragg ( William and Lawrence)

89. 2. Invented by John Bardeen and William Shockley in
1947, this model is the protytype of something that
they created for the first time then, subsequently
winning a Nobel for Physics.

90.  Transistor

91. 3. Earlier the grave of Abdus Salam, read as : “The first X
to win the Nobel Prize”. But later it was desecrated by
Pakistan Govt. Thus rendering the earlier statement :
“The first Nobel Laureate” meaningless. Give X and
why was his grave desecrated?

92.  “Muslim”
 He was an Ahmadi, considered to be non-Muslims by
Pakistan.

93. 4. Antonio Egas Moniz won the prize for Medicine in
1949, for procedural ________. This became an instant
phenomenon, in the following few years in US itself,
more than 60,000 of it was conducted. But it had a
very low success ratio, and most of the patients were
left crippled. FITB

94.  Lobotomy/ lobectomy

95. 5. Whose work on ribonucleotides fetched him with the
following results: RNAs with four repeating units
including UAG, UAA, or UGA, produced
only dipeptides and tripeptides thus revealing that
UAG, UAA and UGA are stop codons.
This fetched the person the Prize for Medicine in 1968.

96.  Hargovind Khurana