A SciTech Quiz conducted by MCQC, VIT Chennai's Quiz Club for the IEEE event Technophilia.

1. Finals
• Pounce I - 12 Questions
• MVC I
• Oral Round
• MVC II
• Pounce II - 6 Questions

2. Pounce I
• Clockwise - AntiClockwise
• 12 Questions in the Round
• +15/-10 on Pounce
• Half or incomplete answers on pounce will be
treated as wrong answers.
• +10/-0 on direct.

4. 1. The X can survive literally anywhere. They can
survive temperatures close to 0K till 373K, pressure 6
times greater than that found in ocean trenches, high
levels of ionizing radiation, even the vacuum of outer
space. It can survive for 10 years without food or water
only to rehydrate back to normal form. Yet it measure
only 0.5mm long.
What is this seemingly impossible creature ?

6. Tardigade/Waterbear/Moss Piglet

7. 2. The X was a spherical subcritical mass of Plutonium
with diameter 3.5 inch weighing 6.4kg. It went critical
in 2 accidents in the Los Alamos Laboratory killing a
scientist in each event due to radiation poisoning. It
was later used in the first testing of an atomic bomb
after the WWII.
What is X.

9. Demon Core

10. 3. X is a structural approach whereby the load is
supported by an external skin or shell of the
object. An Egg is a good example. The word
comes from French meaning “Single Shell”.
This approach is used in Aircrafts, automobiles
etc.

12. Monocoque

13. 4. ID the creature

15. Axolotl

16. 5. ID

18. Klein’s Bottle

19. 6.They were the actual creator of very popular
Game now published by reputed game
company.
Identify the Game

21. ANS:

22. 7. The X was a proposed “high concept” smartphone
announced by canonical Ltd. On 22 July 2013 which had
features like 4GB RAM,128 GB storage and sapphire crystal
display. Canonical was seeking to crowd fund a production run
of around 40000 units through indiegogo .
It had the highest target of any crowd fund project to
date,$32,000,000 over a one month campaign. It was not
intended to go into mass production after the initial run, but
rather to serve as a demonstration for new technologies for the
industry . It fell short of its funding goal, raising only
$12,809,906 and ultimately scrapped.
Name X.

25. 8. X is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in
Germany. Today it is one of worlds leading trade
shows for consumer electronics and home
appliances. In one of the event held from 31
August, to 5 September 2012 in Berlin where Dell
launched its Win8 machines, Sony launched its
flagship Xperia phones, and many more. What is X?

27. ANS: X is IFA berlin (berlin radio show)

28. 9. X was co founder of Y has named as the 70th
recipient of Z on October 25th 2012
X was recognized for establishing a foundation
that forges outstanding improvements in
healthcare ,social rehabilitation, rural uplift
and education.
Z is administered by a board comprising of the
American society of mechanical engineers, The
American institute of chemical engineers, and
institute of electrical and electronics engineers
ID the person X
What is Y and Z ?

30. • X is Narayan Murthy co founder of Infosys is the
70th recipient of hoover medal
• X- Narayan Murthy
• Y- Infosys
• Z-hoover medal

31. 10. Mozilla and X, a famous Korean telecom
giant is collaborating to produce Mozilla's next
generation web browser Y porting it to android
and ARM processors. Id X and Y ???

33. Ans: X is Samsung
Y is servo

34. 11. With what do you associate the
following sequence of numbers: 2.8,
4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22?

36. ANS) Photography (aperture
values or f-stops)

37. 12. This term made its first appearance in 1987
during the beta testing of IBM’s OS/2.
Developers at Lattice Inc., were porting their
tools to OS/2 and often came across error
screens due to bugs in the operating system.
As a result of the error screen, the system
became unusable.
While describing the situation to IBM, they
used a phrase to describe the error screen and
that term has become wildly popular since
then.
What phrase did the developers of Lattice use?

39. Blue screen of death(BSOD)

40. MVC - I
• 1 single specific connect.
• No pints for identifying slides
• Points for each stage are mentioned
• Write your answer.
• QM decision is final.

41. +100/-50

42. +70/-35

43. +50/-25

44. +40/-20

45. +30/-15

46. +10/0

47. And the Answer is ….

49. ANTHRAX
• Robert Kosch - First Discovered Anthrax
• Louis Pasture - Developed Vaccine for Anthrax
• Anthrax - The Trash Metal Band
• Letters from the 2001 Anthrax Letters in USA
• Anthrax Spreading
• Biohazard

50. Direct Round
• +20 direct, +10 on Pass.
• NO Negatives
• Answer to the question in as many sentences
as you want.
• Points will be awarded to the satisfaction of
the QM

51. 1. Why is this equation of interest ? What is it
Called ?

52. Tupper’s Equation. It Graphs itself for a
particular value of x, y and k

53. 2. Who’s Seal is this ?
Why shouldn’t you take nobody’s word ?

54. The Royal Society, Because everything
was based on proof.

55. 3. Where was this picture taken?
Why does the sign say “ Talk Softly Please” ?

56. Rutherford’s experiment lab. His
voice was loud and other scientists
joked that it would cause
disturbances in the experiment.

57. 4. Who is he ? What is he doing ?

58. Henry Cavendish, Weighing of the
earth.

59. 5. This Image is 3 days old. What’s it’s
significance here in this quiz ?

60. Japan’s Maglev Train broke it’s speed
record at 603 kmph

61. 6. Explain the force or effect shown
here.

62. Coriolli’s Force.

63. MVC II
• 6 slides in total
• Same rules as MVC I

64. +70/-35

65. +50/-25

66. +40/-20

67. +30/-15

68. +20/-10

69. +10/0

70. And the answer is …

72. Manhattan Project
• Manhattan, NYC
• Trinity - Trinity Test
• Little Boy and Fat Man
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Enola Gay - The Bombing Flight
• Flight Path of Enola Gay

73. Pounce II
• Clockwise
• Same rules as Pounce I

74. 1. For many years, X used to clean the stage during the Y Awards.
However, he missed doing so in 2005. Why? Also, id X and Y.

76. •Ans : X is Roy J. Glauber Y : Ig Noble Prize
•Roy J. Glauber got the Nobel Prize in Physics in
2005, for quantum optics, hence had to miss the
Ig Noble.

77. 2. The first usage of this phrase (in computer literature) was observed
in Kernighan's 1972 paper A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B.
This was used again in a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal
memorandum Programming in C: A Tutorial and a little later in an
example program in the beginning of the seminal book The C
Programming Language.
What famous phrase, which all newbie programmers quickly become
familiar with, are we talking about?

79. Ans) Hello world

80. 3. Who is he and what did he do?

82. •Ans: ROBERT ADLER
• He is is best known for the wireless remote
control for televisions

83. 4) ID this person

85. Ans: Rajeev Suri - CEO of Nokia Solutions and
Networks

86. 5) In mid-1980s, Fried helm Hillebrand the chairman of the
Special Mobile Group at the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI) sat alone in his room in Germany and
started typing random sentences.
He did this for a long time and later analyzed the average
length of sentences.
What did Hillebrand find as the average length of sentences
and how did he use this number?

88. Ans: Friedhelm Hillebrand found that the average
length of a sentence was 160 characters. This
became the default length of a single SMS.

89. 6) X was an Indian American entrepreneuer.A sound engineer, he was
a professor at the MIT. He was also founder and chairman of Y
corporation known for its loud speaker, noise-cancelling headsets,
and automotive sound systems. X donated a majority of the company
to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT’s
education and research mission
Id X and Y.

91. Ans: X is Amar Bose
Y is Bose Corporation

92. Tie Questions

93. Physically, X resemble the "jump" experienced by a
person when startled, often accompanied by a
falling sensation. Xs are associated with a rapid
heartbeat, quickened breathing, sweat, and
sometimes "a peculiar sensory feeling of 'shock' or
'falling into the void.'“
What is X ?

94. Hypnic Jerk

95. Who is she ?

96. Jane Godall

97. It’s always in the ratio of 1:√2 and
when folded in half gives the next in
the series. The series runs from 0 to 8
and the most commonly used one is 4.
What is it ?

98. A series Paper

99. Connect

100. Cloning

101. It had 5 questions and based on your
answer gave a result.
Results included Mantis Shrimp, Wolly
mammoth, Cuttlefish, Coral, Honey
Bee etc…

102. Google’s Earth Day Quiz