Sci-Tech quiz for IEEE day held at IIT-Jodhpur. Test your knowledge of space, science , technology and famous personalities in te field of Science and Technology.

1. TECH - TASER
An Intra College
Science & Technology Quiz
Quiz Club in Association with
IEEE (IIT-J) presents-
FINALS

2. The FINALS
Ready to launch :P

3. Rules
 There are 3 rounds
 Instructions will be provided at the
beginning of each round
 Copying can lead to disqualification.
 We Request the Audience to remain
quiet.

4. Path to the Pyramid Top
Gamble
1
Pounce It 2
Google
Doodles
3

5. Google Doodle
Scoring Lazy Caterer’s Sequence :
It describes the maximum number of pieces of a circle that
can be made with a given number of straight cuts. For
example, three cuts across a pancake will produce six
pieces if the cuts all meet at a common point inside the
circle, but up to seven if they do not. Let the n term in the
sequence be X . X = ( n2 + n +2)/2 for n>=0. In a section,
if you solve n questions correctly and m questions
incorrect , then marks you get = X2n – Xm.
(-2) per unattempted Question
Write answers in the sheet provided.

6. SAFETYSLIDE

7. 1
Identify this Cryptaanalyst-

8. 2
Whose birthday?

9. 3
Invention of what?

10. 4
Id the event associated.

11. 5
ID the event

12. 6
Who’s google doodle?

13. SAFETYSLIDE

14. Answer
1.Alan Turing
2. Alexander Graham Bell's 161st Birthday
3. Petri dish
4. Launching of the first hot air balloon
5. Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype and the
world's first photographer known for having taken a person's
picture.
6.Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th birthday

15. POUNCE IT
Scoring:
Direct : +10/0
Pounce: +10/-10
Write answers in the sheet provided for
pounce

16. SAFETYSLIDE

17. 1
 It is believed that X and Y weren’t given the Nobel Prize
because of their animosity to each other. There is
circumstantial evidence that each sought to minimize the
other’s achievements and right to win the award, that both
refused to ever accept the award if the other received it
first, and that both rejected any possibility of sharing it.
 Identify both.

18. SAFETYSLIDE

19. EDISON &TESLA

20. 2
Name the industrialist and inventor who
said this in the mid-1950s:
“People of this world are never satisfied
with each other and my are the best
peacemakers.

21. SAFETYSLIDE

22. Samuel Colt

23. 3
Which form of art is shown in the
following images?

24. SAFETYSLIDE

25. Glitch art

26. 4
 The voice for Samantha was provided by Susan
Bennett in July 2005, the same person that voiced
Tillie the All-Time Teller.
 The voice for Daniel, was voiced by Jon Briggs, a
former technology journalist. The voice was recorded
for Scansoft, which had merged with Nuance
Communications in October 2005.
 The voice for Karen, was voiced by Karen Jacobsen,
an Australian-born and New Yorkbased entertainer,
singer, voiceover artist, and songwriter.
 Who/what are Samantha, Daniel and Karen?

27. SAFETYSLIDE

28. SIRI VOICES

29. 5
What do these parameters decide?
 Did the user instantly move to the exact coordinates of the
or did they traverse through the page to get it?
 Did they scroll into it or did they remotely execute a javascript to
trigger a scroll into the
 How long after the page had loaded did the user find the ?
 These are some basic considerations that are taken into account
on determining something seen in a commonplace internet
feature.

30. SAFETYSLIDE

31. Why bots can’t clear
captchas

32. 6
 Weighing 450 tons, it is roughly the same size
as a football field, has been in existence for
almost 19 years and taken around $150 billion
to build. Today it holds the Guinness World
record for the most expensive man-made object
ever.
 Just identify this object, where Christmas is
usually celebrated more than once a year.

33. SAFETYSLIDE

34. International Space Station
The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Julian
calendar, whilst the Catholic Church uses the
Gregorian calendar

35. GAMBLE
All Question are open to all.
Gambling X points means
+X if answer is correct and –X if it is incorrect.
Maximum gambling limit : 20 points
You can gamble upto 20 points even if you are
having shortage of points
Clearly first mention your gambled points & answer
on paper.

36. SAFETYSLIDE

37. 1
 Mr. Graff was smart enough to obtain a
patent back in 1801 for his idea.
 Ironically, this product’s patent was
destroyed in a fire in 1836 at the U.S.
patent office.
 What was Mr. Graff’s idea or
product?

38. SAFETYSLIDE

39. Fire Hydrant

40. 2
What debate/what verdict?
 Mr. Wilhite created the file format in 1987, when he was
working as a programmer for the CompuServe, America’s
first major online service. The company wanted to display
color weather maps, but existing video technologies took
up too much bandwidth for slow dial-up connections.
 The first file of this format he created was of an airplane.
Today, this format is commonly used for short animations
on the internet.
 In 2013, he gave his verdict on something the internet has
been debating about since the inception of the format.

41. SAFETYSLIDE

42. Gifs are pronounced
‘jifs’

43. 3
 The underground railroad was a network of
secret routes and safe houses used by 19th
century black slaves in the US to escape to the
free states in Canada with an aid of people who
were sympathetic to their cause. These slaves
routinely utilized a folk song called FOLLOW
THE DRINKING GOURD, so they would never
get lost.
 What was the ‘Drinking Gourd’?

44. SAFETYSLIDE

45. The Big Dipper

46. 4
 This is a song titled “Daddy’s Car”
which was released in September
2016. The lyrics of this song was
written by the French composer Benoît
Carré.
 What unique distinction did this song
achieve?

47. SAFETYSLIDE

48. First song to be composed
by an A.I.

49. 5
• Respect national symbols of India
• To cherish its heritage
• Preserve its composite culture
• Assist in defence
• To promote spirit of common brotherhood
• Protect environment and public property
• Develop
• Abjure violence
• Strive towards excellence in all spheres of life
• Every parent/guardian to ensure that their child was
provided opportunities for education
• FITB
Fundamental Duties of Indian Citizens are:

50. SAFETYSLIDE

51. Scientific Temper

52. 6
 In mathematics, M is a prime number that is one
less than a power of two.
 That is, it is a prime number that can be written
in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n.
 GIMPS is a project in which one can donate
one’s computer in the search of the largest M.
 M is ?

53. SAFETYSLIDE

54. Mersenne Prime