Finals of the Space Quiz, Into the Tesseract, conducted at VIT Vellore by the quiz club, DBQC.

1. INTO THE TESSERACT
FINALS

2. 1.There will be 3 rounds.
2.The quiz will follow bounce/pounce
3.+10/-10 on the bounce. +10 on pounce.
4.QM’s decision is final(Unless the QM makes
retarded mistakes.)
5.Winners are welcome to gift the QM a sutta.

3. ROUND 1

4. The first picture is Sputnik 1.
The second is Sputnik 2.
Why the change in design?

5. Good Doggo
That extra compartment is for her.
ANSWER

6. Fill In the blanks or just give funda
The ____ primary mirror is composed of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of
gold-coated beryllium. These combine to create a 6.5-meter (21 ft 4 in) diameter
mirror that is much larger than the X's 2.4-meter (7 ft 10 in) mirror. Unlike the X,
which observes in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared (0.1 to 1 μm)
spectra, the ____ will observe in a lower frequency range from long-wavelength
visible light through mid-infrared (0.6 to 27 μm). This will allow the ____ to observe
high redshift objects that are too old and too distant for the X and other earlier
instruments to observe. It must be kept very cold to observe in the infrared without
interference, so a large sunshield made of five sheets of silicon- and aluminum-
coated Kapton will keep ____’s mirror and four science instruments below 50 K.

7. This is the description of The James Webb Space Telescope which is set to replace the
Hubble Space Telescope in 2022
ANSWER

8. X was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist,
astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science
communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
This is X talking here.
ID X

9. Carl Sagan

10. A particular creation of the cartoonic variety conceptualised
by Sandeep Adhwaryu was in the news in early 2017, for
featuring a "flip of situations" and received widespread public
praise for alleviating the angst that was felt nationwide in
response to a certain foreign creation, which was the situation
that was respectfully "flipped" by Adhwaryu.
What is the object of debate here?
Hint: This is a space quiz, it ain’t rocket science. Think of the
answer yourself!

11. ANSWER

12. “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast
and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against
us.”
X has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British
imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears, and prejudices. It has been both
popular and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record
album, various comic book adaptations, a television series, and sequels or parallel stories
by other authors. It was most memorably dramatized in a 1938 radio program that
allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the _______ ________
was fictional.
It has even influenced the work of scientists, notably Robert H. Goddard, who, inspired by
X , invented both the liquid fueled rocket and multistage rocket, which resulted in the
Apollo 11 Moon landing 71 years later.
Give X

13. War Of The Worlds – HG Wells
ANSWER

14. Two men were sent to Russia in 1982. One of the men fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak war as a fighter pilot
and escaped a close shave with death. However, this was not the only time life screwed him over. “We
both knew, in the beginning, that there were two of us. Only one is going to -----, and the other one is
going to stay back. Nevertheless, it was an experience no other Indian other than Ricky, and I had.”, said
he.
This is the pilot. What is his name?

15. ANSWER
Astronaut Rakesh Sharma’s backup,
Wing Commander Ravish Malhotra (Retd.)

16. ROUND 2

17. Connect

18. Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. It was started with the
efforts of APJ and Sarabhai. VSSC is now built around this.
The church shown, The St. Mary Magdalene church was selected for the
TERLS because of it’s ideal position on the magnetic equator.
ANSWER

19. 6) Connect the images, to an incident that ties in with the theme of the quiz.

20. Release of a digitally remastered version of Titanic with
correct star positions, after the mistake was caught by Neil
deGrasse Tyson
ANSWER

21. This is a scene from “The Newsroom”, what unfortunate event is being described here.

22. The Challenger Disaster
ANSWER

23. Initial reports by NASA said that a certain change was due to the
wobble in the Earth's axis that shifted the planet's position in relation
to the sun throughout the 3,000 years since X was conceived. The
astrology world (and Twitter) went bonkers, and many avid followers
of X thought NASA brought chaos into the X we all know and love.
NASA denied doing so, and according to their blog post on Tumblr,
they “just did the math.” If you want to blame someone, blame the
ancient Babylonians for not noticing that this change would be
catastrophic for zealous followers of the X.
What is X, and what massive (apparently) change caused all this
chaos?

24. Inclusion of the constellation Ophiuchus as the 13th sign of the ZODIAC (X)
ANSWER

25. The blanked out part is the name of a
scientific contradiction.
FITB.

26. The Fermi Paradox
ANSWER

27. This is an xkcd comic describing X’s
Law.
X’s law is used to calculate the
relative velocities at which galaxies
are moving with respect to each
other. But this law, essentially
derives itself from another scientific
concept. Give me this concept.

28. Doppler Effect and Hubble’s Law. The
Blank is Edwin Hubble.

29. ROUND 3

30. 10) X received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton
University in 1965 and retired as The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in
1991. X's research has focused on gravitational physics and astrophysics, with
emphasis on relativistic stars, black holes and gravitational waves.
In June 2009, worked towards ramping up a new career in writing, collaborations at
the interface between science and the arts (including Y), and continued scientific
research. X, with ten young physicist colleagues, has invented tools for visualizing
spacetime curvature. These include tidal tendex lines, which are gravitational analogs
of electric field lines and control the stretching and squeezing of space.
ID X & Y.

31. ANSWER
X – Kip Thorne
Y – Interstellar

32. When he created this, he was inspired by his memory of a speech synthesis demonstration
by physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr., who used an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech.
Kelly's voice recorder synthesizer vocoder recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical
accompaniment from Max Mathews.
It’s functions were made based on the speculation of respected scientists. Marvin Minsky,
director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and one
of the most influential researchers in the field, was an adviser. In the mid-1960s, many
computer scientists in the field of artificial intelligence were optimistic that machines with
capabilities on par with it would exist within a few decades.
What was created.

33. HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
ANSWER

34. X stated: "[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about
sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make
them on _______: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the
network. If you talked about purple people on a far off planet, they (the TV network)
never really caught on. They were more concerned about cleavage. They actually
would send a censor down to the set to measure a woman's cleavage to make sure too
much of her breast wasn't showing"
X intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging
counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the
networks about this. He wanted _______to show what humanity might develop into, if
it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence.

35. Star Trek. X being Gene Roddenberry
ANSWER

36. Osculum infame is the name of a witch's supposed ritual greeting upon
meeting with Satan. The name means The Shameful Kiss, or The Kiss of
Shame since it involved kissing the X, Satan’s other mouth. According to
folklore, it was this kiss that allowed him to seduce women.
In popular culture, a celestial object of the same name has been
described by a (somewhat bipolar) onscreen scientist as “a neutron star
collapsing inside an Einstein-Rosen Bridge”, creating a doorway to
multiple cosmic locations. What name do this ritual and celestial object
share?
Fine! If you must know, the celestial object is fictional. God, such prudes.

37. ANSWER

38. CONTENTS

41. The Voyager Golden Records