The document appears to be a quiz containing questions about science and history. It includes questions about Arthur C. Clarke and the concept of communication satellites in geostationary orbit being named after him. Another question asks about John Wheeler and his role in popularizing the term "black hole" to describe a completely gravitationally collapsed star. The document also seems to quiz people on scientific concepts like sonoluminescence, Darwin's theory of evolution, and gravitational lensing.

1. ROUND 1
CLOCKWISE

2. Fans speculate the directors of __________casted
X as a tribute to Y. The following are some of the
similar behaviors that Y had too:
• Y was 6ft 2in. tall and pale.
• He was meticulous in his grooming and
regimented in his daily activities.
• He had an Eidetic memory
• Y might have had OCD.
• Y became a proponent of an selective breeding
version of eugenics
Give me X and Y.

4. Benjamin Franklin, in a letter writes -
‘…I imagine it will be found pretty generally
true, that the same Convexity of Glass through
which a Man sees clearest and best at the
Distance proper for Reading, is not the best
for greater Distances. Therefore, I had
formerly two Pair of Spectacles, which I
shifted occasionally, as in travelling, I
sometimes read. This was a cause of trouble…’
What did Franklin invent to overcome the
‘trouble’?

5. BIFOCALS!

6. What is this?

7. It is the ‘Mirror Box’ invented by V S
Ramachandran to treat phantom limb pain.

8. While the initial price for this at its IPO is
an interesting stat in itself, there is more
to the story. The opening price was $85
per share. At the time of writing, the
price was $483 but has soared as high as
$600 in the past year. The company hope
to raise from the public $2,718,281,828.
Why does this feature on a science quiz?

9. The amount $2,718,281,828 offering contains
an inside joke for the math-minded.
2,718,281,828 is the value of ‘e’ (base of
natural logarithm)

10. Hyrax - the closest relative of which
animal (rather surprisingly!)?

11. !!!

12. X’s most important scientific contribution may
be his idea that geostationary satellites would
be ideal telecommunications relays. He
described this concept in a paper titled Extra-
Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give
Worldwide Radio Coverage?, published in
1945. The geostationary orbit is now
sometimes known as the X Orbit or the X Belt
in his honor. Who is X?

13. Arthur C Clarke. The orbit is called
Clarke’s orbit

14. ROUND 2
ANTI- CLOCKWISE

15. Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps
tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is
the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and
is sometimes referred to as a ‘_________ muscle’
in medical circles because the muscle is more
prominent than normal. FITB.
(Hint: You definitely saw this as a kid!)

16. Popeye Muscle

17. Whose tombstone?

18. Miss Baker

19. A myth about this brand’s name is
that it had a pH rating greater then 7,
making it alkaline. However, this was
proved to be false, as it has a pH
rating of about 3.79, similar to other
products in its class. Which brand?

21. It was often thought that X shed Y that slid
down into their mouths, moistening their food
and making it easier for them to swallow. Y
appears to be an expression of emotion but is
in fact a means to make food easier to
swallow (possibly the observer). This gave rise
to the common phrase XY. Give XY

23. At a 1967 conference, X was searching for
something to call a ‘gravitationally completely
collapsed star’. An unknown student at the
conference shouted out the term Y and X
often used it and made it stick. Identify X and
Y.

24. X – John Wheeler Y – Black Hole

25. What/Who do these Google doodles
to commemorate?

26. Vitamin C.
Discovery of water on Moon by
Chandrayaan.

27. ROUND 3

29. MACINTOSH

31. CALCULUS

33. DUODENUM

34. Non- exhaustive list of?

35. PARADOX

36. Non- exhaustive list of?
(Hint: They are all French)
Lavoisier Coulomb Cauchy
Gay Lussac Fourier

37. Scientists whose names are inscribed
on Eiffel Tower

39. Proposed structures of

40. ROUND 4

41. Japan’s Murata Manufacturing Company has
created a prototype remote, called the leaf
gripped remote controller which has no batteries
or buttons. It is made of a photo-voltaic layer,
sandwiched between two piezoelectric films. How
does it work?

42. Twisting and Bending!

43. A die is a polyhedron stable on all its faces.
Is it viable to construct a polyhedron which
is unstable on all its faces? Explain.

44. No. It would become a perpetual motion
machine!

45. Data shows that modern humans started
wearing clothes 70,000 years before migrating
into colder climates, which began a million
years ago. It is impossible to attain this data
from archaeological sites. How was this
figured out?

46. The DNA of clothing lice was sequenced.
Calculations were made as to when they
began to genetically diverge from head lice.
Clothing lice cannot survive away from
clothes.

47. Napoleon’s army was marching into Russia,
where the temperature was very cold. Though
they were wearing jackets, 3/4th of the army
men died due to pneumonia as time passed.
What is the cause?

48. The jackets had buttons made of Tin. Due to
low temperature, this tin was transformed
into another allotrope of tin which is very
brittle. The buttons therefore wore away and
the jackets became redundant.

49. What is being depicted?

50. The process of sonoluminescence

51. Till about 200 years ago, Al was the most
expensive metal though it was abundantly
found. Napoleon’s important guests were
given Al cutlery while others were dined with
‘mere’ silver. We know that nowadays Al is
fairly inexpensive. What was the reason for
the decline in price of Al?

52. Discovery of electricity

53. ROUND 5

54. What are they talking about?

55. Higgs theory

56. Give funda

57. Darwin’s theory of evolution

58. What phenomenon?

59. Gravitational lensing

61. Urey Miller experiment

62. Which process is being described?

63. Transcription

64. This thought by X led to the invention
of ________. FITB

65. Mendeleev’s periodic table

66. THANK YOU!