PICT IET STUDENT CHAPTER organizes technical event Scientia every year during the month of August September.... It has a General Knowledge competition called ENCUESTA which is very famous throughout Pune. This is the semifinal of Scientia '15. The quiz master was Mohit Shah. for details or queries mail me at shubh.malu123@gmail.com

1. SCIENTIA ‘15
ENCUESTA
SEMIFINAL ROUND
QM-MOHIT SHAH

2. Question 0
Richard Daly, a proprietor of a Dublin theatre, in 1782, made a bet that
he could, within forty-eight hours, introduce a nonsense word into
language that the whole city would know about, and the people
themselves would supply a meaning for it. The original meaning,
supposedly supplied by the public, referred to a yo-yo like toy, which
was popular in those days. But by the 19th century, the meaning of this
word changed completely to what we know today.
Which word?

3. *Question 1: Put Funda

4. Question 2
The following are the main components of X.
• Plasticizers to yield non-brittle films.
• Dyes and pigments.
• Opalescent pigments for a glittery look.
• Adhesive polymers.
• Thickening agents to maintain the sparkling particles.
• Ultraviolet stabilizers to resist color changes.
ID X

5. Question 3
Sound technicians spent the early part of the year trying to
find the right sounds. Some, such as animal sounds like tigers'
and walruses', were bought. Human voices were also used.
Fran Walsh contributed to the Nazgûl scream and David
Farmer the Warg howls. Other sounds were unexpected: The
Fell Beast's screech is taken from that of a donkey, and the
mûmakil's bellow comes from the beginning and end of a
lion's roar. In addition, ADR was used for most of the dialogue.
The technicians worked with New Zealand locals to get many
of the sounds.

6. They re-recorded sounds in abandoned tunnels for an echo-
like effect in the Moria sequence. (PTO ) 20,000 New Zealand
cricket fans provided the sound of the Uruk-hai army, with
Jackson acting as conductor during the innings break of a one
day International cricket match between England and New
Zealand at Westpac Stadium. They spent time recording
sounds in a graveyard at night, and also had construction
workers drop stone blocks for the sounds of boulders firing
and landing. Mixing took place between August and
November at "The Film Mix", before Jackson commissioned
the building of a new studio in 2003. What am I talking about?

7. Question 4
The project was expected to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost
of 1,500 crores, has been cleared by the Ministry of Environment
(India) for construction in the Bodi West Hills Reserved Forest in the
Theni district of Tamil Nadu. When completed, it will house the world's
most massive magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet
in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Name it.

8. Question 5
X is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological
advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to
utilize. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and
III. A Type I civilization uses all available resources impinging on its
home planet, Type II harnesses all the energy of its star, and Type III of
its galaxy. The scale is only hypothetical, but it puts energy
consumption in a cosmic perspective. Identify X.

9. *Question 6
Put Funda
(8!)*(3^7)*(12!/2)*(2^11)

10. Question 7
X is a Swahili phrase that can be translated literally as "no worries." Its
meaning is similar to the English phrase "no problem" or Australian
English phrase "no worries" and also can be translated to "don't worry,
be happy. Identify X.

11. Question 8
Connect
• 1950 - President Sukarno (Indonesia)
• 1962 - Queen Elizabeth ll (United Kingdom)
• 1995 - Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• 1999 - King Birendra Bir Bikram Dev Singh
• 2007 - Vladimir Putin (Russia)
• 2011 - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo (Indonesia)

12. Question 9
X was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, to Fred and Deborah Sue
Davisson. He has two elder sisters, Whitney and Hilary. In his youth, he
was diagnosed with ADHD. Between 2004 and 2008, he studied sports
marketing and management. X has made an estimated $5 million per
year in endorsements, including a $1 million endorsement recently.
Identify X.

13. Question 10
What new malware hacked 45,000 Facebook accounts early in January
2012?

14. Question 11
As part of a broader deal between Samsung and Roc Nation –
estimated at $20m – a total of 1m copies of X's new album, were given
away on Thursday at one minute past midnight (US eastern time), a full
72 hours before it officially goes on sale. The Korean mobile company
has paid $5m so that the first million owners of Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4
and Galaxy Note II devices to claim the album though a free app from
the Google Play store get a three-day headstart on the rest of X's fans.
Identify X.

15. Question 12
"We have decided to continue with him as he is synonymous with the
brand and network of the company. He was more of an emotional
attachment and was also important from the creative perspective. The
child was not important though he would be introduced in the second
phase" said Harit Nagpal, the business director of the company. What is
being talked about here?

16. *Question 13
X is a collection of short stories published in 1943 by Indian Thought
Publications.The book was republished outside India in 1982. The book
includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town, located in South India.
Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in that town. The New York
Times described the virtue of the book as "everyone in the book seems
to have a capacity for responding to the quality of his particular hour.
It's an art we need to study and revive." Identify the book.

17. Question 14
X (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook
pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and
prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship
and Education". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations
of American children how to spell and read, secularizing their
education. According to Ellis (1979) he gave Americans "a secular
catechism to the nation-state". X helped found the Connecticut Society
for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791.
Identify X

18. Question 15
• IDENTIFY THE AUDIO

19. Question 16
It is a game popular in India and Pakistan. Sachin Tendulkar loved
playing it and its governing body is headquartered in Gorakhpur. This
game has a league called the 'Tennis Cricket League' in the U.S.A.
Which game?

20. Question 17
Dan Povenmire was an artistic prodigy who grew up in Alabama, and
was often found doing nothing. Once, his mother told him to "never
waste a day of summer". To occupy himself, he started taking up
projects like movie- making and digging. Jeff Marsh, another student in
his college, contacted Povenmire after seeing his comic strip, and soon
the two started working together. Once, while having dinner in
Pasadena, California, Povenmire drew a sketch of a "triangle boy" on
tissue paper.
What did this sketch lead to?

21. Question 18
• Who, referring to what?
“Everyone is praising the robes but the emperor is naked. True
ordinary, singing substandard, words an insult to sensibility”

22. Question 19
During the time of the British Raj, the children of British officers
studied in Indian schools build by the Englishmen. With the lack of
quality books available by Indian authors on the subject, X and Y wrote
this book and published it in 1935. This book was widely adapted by
Indian and Pakistani schools in the post-British era, and by missionary
schools in Burma, and still is the gold- standard for that subject.
Give me X and Y or name the book

23. Question 20
X is a term used to refer to South Asian Americans born in the United
States, in contrast to those who were born overseas and later settled in
the USA. X has become a polarizing factor in the South Asian diaspora
in the US, with first-generation immigrant parents and young South
Asians of second or latter generations. Though the term was originally
coined in reference to Indian-Americans, it has been adopted by the
South Asian community at large.
Identify X

24. *Question 21
Neeraj Arora is the vice president of business and development at X,
and almost entirely responsible for the explosive growth of X around
the world. His career started off with Google, but he left after some
time to join X, which was a startup at that time.
Identify X

25. Question 22
Asteroid 2004 BL86 was discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth
Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico. In
2015, the asteroid missed Earth quite closely as it passed within 3.1
times the distance between the Earth and the moon. What was the
unusual characteristic about this asteroid, that only 16% of asteroids
larger than 655 ft possess?

26. Question 23
Fairlife is a new milk brand advertises itself as "cold- filtered" milk with
less sugar and fat and more protein and calcium than its competitors. It
is also ‘lactose- free’, and claim to be an ultra-healthy variety of milk.
Fairlife has honed its pitch as a healthy, natural dairy product. Its
marketing sheet contains phrases like "We grow our own crops," "We
fill our own trucks," and it describes its cows as “spoiled.“
Fairlife is a brand by which company?

27. Question 24
At The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 AD, the French, who were
overwhelmingly favored to win the battle, threatened to do something
to all captured English soldiers so that they could never fight again. The
English won in a major upset and waved something at the French in
defiance.
This mostly urban legend is supposed to be the origin of what practice
and its associated verbal form?

28. THE END