This event was significant because it marked the end of the space race between the United States and Soviet Union. By completing a joint space mission where an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, it symbolized cooperation between the two former rivals in space exploration and effectively ended the space race that had been ongoing since the late 1950s.

1. Shaastra Main Quiz
iitm quiz club
AMRITA / cONDUR

2. S1 is named so because it is computed as the parallax
of one arcsecond. It was defined to make calculations
of astronomical distances from only their raw
observational data quick and easy for astronomers.
The S2 is the scale at which classical ideas about
gravity and space-time cease to be valid, and quantum
effects dominate. This is the 'quantum of length', the
smallest measurement of length with any meaning.
1.

4. 2.
Parametrically described by the
given equations, what are these
types of knots called?

5. Lissajous knots

6. 3. Expand Vtol
This classification can include a variety of
aircrafts including fixed-wing aircraft as well
as helicopters and other aircrafts with
powered rotors, such as
cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors.
Most lighter-than-air aircrafts, electric,
hybrid-electric vehicles such as drones are
being developed in the quest for fully
autonomous passenger air vehicles (PAV).
These also qualify as VTOL aircrafts.

7. Vertical take off &
landing

8. 4. what was their home?
The Expanse is an American science fiction
television series based on The Expanse
novels by James S. A. Corey. The series is set
in a future where humanity has colonized the
Solar System. Earth and Mars are at war and
all of the inner ring planets depend on slaves
called the belters for resources such as
water and ice, which seemed to be in
abundance on the celestial body that they
initially called their home.

9. ceres

10. 5.
According to Tolkien’s mythos, one of the most prominent
constellations on a dark night - 'Swordsman of the Sky' is a
translation of the Elvish name for <->.
It was called Menelvagor in the Sindarin of Middle-earth and
was easily identified by ‘the sword of stars, the shining belt,
and the red star Borgil that sat on his shoulder’.
All of these are still familiar to us today, by what names do
we know Menelvagor and Borgil?

11. Orion
BETELGEUSE

12. 6. put funda
Computer Modern is an original family of typefaces
created by Donald Knuth with his Metafont program, and
was most recently updated in 1992.
In creating the ___ publishing system, Knuth was
influenced by the history of mathematics and a desire to
achieve the "classic style" of books printed in metal type.
Modern faces were used extensively for printing
mathematics, especially before Times New Roman became
popular for mathematics printing from the 1950s.

13. LaTex

14. 7.
It is actually "two enormous masses of ever-growing _______".
What has been referred to as the "Eastern _______ _____" lies
between Hawaii and California, while the "Western _______ _____"
extends eastward from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands.
An ocean current about 6,000 miles long, referred to as the
Subtropical Convergence Zone, connects the two, which extend
over an indeterminate area of widely varying range, depending on
the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected
area. The vortex is characterized by exceptionally high relative
pelagic concentrations of plastic, chemical sludge, wood pulp,
and other debris trapped by the currents of the Gyres.

15. great pacific
garbage patch

16. 8.Put funda
Inconsistent recordkeeping is thought to play a large role
in the 1.5 million deaths that occur due to the lack of and
wrongly given <-> in a given year.
A team led by MIT scientists has proposed a device that
can write a legible record by injecting patterns of
invisible nanoparticles under the skin and like QR codes,
these designs could be scanned and interpreted by
smartphones, and be of invaluable service, especially in
developing countries.

17. Vaccination history

18. 9.
<-> is an area of high tech companies centered
around southern Manhattan's Flatiron district in
New York City. The term was coined in the 1990s
during the dot-com boom, alluding to California's
Silicon Valley tech center. It was originally
centered in the vicinity of the Flatiron Building at
Fifth Avenue near Broadway and 23rd Street,
straddling Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The term
has grown somewhat obsolete since 2003 as New
York tech companies spread outside of Manhattan.
Columbia University and NYU's leaderships played
a similar role to Stanfords’ in Silicon Valley.

19. Silicon Alley

20. 10. Put x and funda
When a renaissance astronomer named Simon Marius claimed that he
had discovered that the planet Jupiter had 4 large moons -we’ve found
several more ever since- he took Johannes Kepler’s suggestion to name
them after the god’s 4 most famous ______ - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and
Callisto. He said the naming should be taken “as a joke”.
Galileo is given credit for the find because he was the first to publish
them but he just numbered them, so nothing really interesting.
NASA named their solar-powered mission to explore Jupiter and its
interactions - X, seemingly continuing Kepler’s joke.

21. JUNO
wife monitoring
mistresses

22. 11. Put funda
<-> is an internet slang term finding its origins in a
1968 paper titled "Exploratory experimental studies
comparing online and offline programming
performance" by Sackman, Erickson and Grant was
published in Communications of the ACM, which
presented data showing that the ratio of performance
between the worst and best programmers was _.
The software engineering blog Haacked then
published a post titled -
"_ Developers For the Price of One," which discussed
the idea that some software engineers are so much
more productive with their time that they are
essentially worth the same as _ other engineers.
.
.
.
.
.
.

23. 10x engineers

24. 12.
Tesla’s Cybertruck raised a lot of interesting engineering
questions. Among these was the question of aerodynamics. If
the rest of Tesla’s vehicles use nice smooth curves to gain an
aerodynamically efficient form, how does the Cybertruck move
with all those hard angles?
Aerospace Engineer Justin Martin built a model of the truck
from every angle he could see in photos and video of the event.
He declined to share a <-> because his assumptions with the
wheels and fenders could affect the result significantly, such
that his results were likely conservative.
<-> is taken to be the relevant parameter in these discussions
and has gotten more popular lately as a rough measure of how
efficient a car or any moving object is.

26. Coefficient of drag

27. 13. Put funda
‘Discovery is indeed the most important word with 46(17) and 17(5)
appearances in <-> and <-> respectively. However, invention with 11
and 5 appearances, respectively, is surpassed by other words such
as contribution, development, method, and work, the latter being the
most frequent word in Y with 22 appearances, equal to the sum of
discovery and discoveries. In the case of adjectives, the most
frequent is fundamental, occurring essentially after 1950, with 10
and 7 appearances in <-> and <-> respectively.’

28. Nobel Prize
Nominations

29. 14.
Academic ______ is the practice in academia of a university's hiring its own
graduates to be professors. It is generally viewed as insular and unhealthy for
academia; it is thought to reduce the possibility of new ideas coming in from
outside sources. It is named after an informal term for a concept from Biology it is
very similar to.
According to the Commission on Graduate Education in Economics (COGEE), it is
"a trend for emulation rather than diversification." Academic ______ has also
been cited as a major problem in the major universities of the People's Republic
of China—such as Peking University and Tsinghua University, which have adopted
measures in recent years specifically to combat the practice—and South Korea.

30. Academic Incest

31. 15. Who
and on
what?
“It was like a
coloured image of
the sun.”

32. newton

33. 16.
Walmart's ______ ____: A Step Forward For Agriculture
Though many might feel apprehensive about the prospect of
______ ____, thanks to a certain Black Mirror episode, the potential
benefits of this technology are too good to pass up. With that in mind,
Walmart recently filed a patent for their <->.
The proposed design includes cameras that would allow the <-> to
identify crops, and this would then allow them to perform their main
purpose, the way real ____ do. With declining ____ populations
proving to be a worrying issue worldwide, <-> like these could be a
huge advantage to the agricultural industry.

35. 17.
In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known
today, was designed by Gerald Holtom as the
logo for the British Campaign for _______
___________, a group at the forefront of the
peace movement in the UK, and adopted by
anti-war and counterculture activists in the
US and elsewhere.
The symbol is a super-imposition of the
semaphore signals for the letters "_" and "_".

36. NUCLEAR
Disarmament

37. 18. Put funda
The idea that a thin film of melted water is required for
___ _______ has been accepted since the nineteenth
century. Most of the debate about this topic deals with
the origin of the layer instead — is it the result of
surface melting, heating associated with friction
generated, or pressure-induced melting? Pressure
melting has largely been discounted, because this
process is impossible for ice below about –20 °C,
whereas _______ is possible at such low temperatures.

39. 19. Put funda
When it was first proposed it was not to play
video games or watch sports, but to help
users analyze financial data. The 2000 patent
for a "<-> generator" awarded to inventor
Paul Marshall describes a world that the user
could navigate through "using control
devices, such as a trackball or spaceball, an
electronic data glove, a magnetic head
position tracker, a keyboard, a joystick or a
steering wheel." Patent for a ↔ generator for
displaying abstract information.

40. Virtual Reality

41. 20.
What is the function of the 3
big squares at the corners
and the 6 medium sized
squares on a QR code?
A QR code can store 4 types
of data - Numeric,
Alphanumeric, Binary and
_____.

42. Positioning
+
Alignment
KANJI

43. 21.
The Laser _____ is a proposed ground-based
laser beam-powered propulsion system that
would try to heat one side of an object in
space enough to change its orbit by reducing
its perigee distance thus making it hit the
earth’s atmosphere and potentially burning up
in re-entry.
Put blank and its purpose.

44. Laser BrooM
SPACE JUNK

46. 22.
In 1943 the US Army Air Force met with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to express
its need for a jet fighter. A rapidly growing German jet threat gave Lockheed an
opportunity to develop an airframe around the most powerful jet engine that the
allied forces had access to, the British Goblin.
One month after the ATSC and Lockheed meeting, the young engineer Clarence L.
“Kelly” Johnson and other associate engineers hand delivered the initial XP-80
proposal to the ATSC. Two days later the go-ahead was given to Lockheed to start
development and the __________ was born, with Kelly Johnson at the helm.
The formal contract for the XP-80 did not arrive at Lockheed until October 16,
1943; some four months after work had already begun.
This would prove to be a common practice within the __________. Many times a
customer would come to the __________ with a request and on a handshake the
project would begin, no contracts in place, no official submittal process. Kelly
Johnson and his __________ team designed and built the XP-80 in only 143
days, seven fewer than was required.

48. 23. What
company?
“I’ve designed my fair share of brand identities, and I’ve
always liked James’ original mark. It’s excellent in many
ways: It properly balanced friendly and tech, its dots evoked
the original product’s OLED display, and it had a clever arrow
in the diamond symbol that conjured up the idea of
movement.
I suppose one can characterize the increasing size of the dots
in the new logo as “more vibrant” and perhaps even
motion-oriented. But losing the arrow in the dots takes away
a glimmer of delight and cleverness from the old logo.”
The original logo was designed by the company’s co-founder
and CEO James Park.

50. 24. what quirk?
Flag emojis always have a moment amid World Cups. All that flag tweeting
exposed a quirk of these emoji, which are, of course Japanese pictographs
that rely on the Unicode standard of handling unusual text. The quirk might
seem insignificant but it matters to patriotic Twitter users who are limited in
a sense.
Flags are treated differently than other emoji because of their political
sensitivities. Rather than play United Nations and decide which flags to
recognize and which to shun, the Unicode Consortium left that diplomacy to
others. Unicode merely supports special letter characters called regional
indicator symbols, which are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters
(A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 country codes in a way
that allows optional special treatment.

51. they occupy 2
characters

52. 25* Why is the event in
this video significant?

54. Marked the end of
the space race
On July 17, 1975 two men shook hands on the Apollo–Soyuz
Test Project. One was American Brigadier General
Thomas Stafford. The other was Russian cosmonaut and
national hero, Alexey Leonov.