Quizzar final draft

1. Quizzar 2.0

2. Acknowledgements:
■ Indrayani for graciously supplying with wifi hotspot
■ Aditya for his extra questions which are def not taken from
previous sets
■ Salil for sorting stuff with the SC regarding…. everything
■ Pratyaksha ji (happy retirement!) for being the guinea pig
■ SC for being generous with their deadlines and website and
posters etc.
■ Our own OC without whose help this wouldn't have been
possible!

3. Rules:
■ There are 2 main rounds of 10 ques each, and 2 themed rounds
■ Main round 1 will carry 10 Starbucks per question, so a total of 100
Starbucks can be earned, main round 2 will carry 20 Starbucks per
question, so a total of 200 Starbucks can be earned.
■ Each themed round will carry 50 Starbucks, so a grand total of 400
Starbucks can be earned.
■ Themed rounds will be used for tie breakers if any.
■ There are no negatives, so feel free to give your wildest guesses.
■ The amount of Starbucks you earn at the end of round 1 will be the
amount you will end up with for the Round 2 auction.
■ Please do not Google/bing/Yahoo!
■ Top 10 teams will qualify for the next round.

5. Round 1

6. Q1.
Derived from the Greek words for “Stars” and “law”, this is one of the oldest
sciences in history, whose early applications included navigation and
preparing calendars. Pursuers of this field will find themselves in conflict
when one confuses this field with another similar sounding “science” often
associated with the palm of a hand. What am I talking about?

7. Q2.
X literally means “Instrument for measuring the harmony of the heavens”. It
consists of 13 astronomical instruments, and its primary purpose was to
compile astronomical tables and predict the movements of the sun, moon,
planets and stars. It was built by maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, in 1724. There
are 4 main distinct instruments in X, namely the Samrat Yantra, the
Jayaprakash yantra, Rama Yantra and the Misra Yantra. What is X?

8. Q3. Connect?
■ Hermes
■ Aphrodite
■ Gaia
■ Ares
■ Zeus
■ Kronos
■ Quranos
■ Poseidon
What is the connection between these specific names, other than that
they are all Greek Gods?

9. Q4.
When the two actors explore X in the movie Y, we hear a very distinct
background score namely “Mountains” by Hans Zimmer with a prominent
ticking noise. Each tick is exactly 1.25 seconds apart. This is very significant
of a fact highlighted about X which is characterised by knee-deep water with
larger-than-tsunami waves.
ID X and Y
*add audio if can*

10. Q5. Who is this woman and what did she help achieve?

11. Q6.
Once a member of a group called “Computers who wore skirts”, this
personality was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital
mechanics led to the success of some of the first US crewed space flights.
She played a crucial role in trajectories, space plans, launch windows and
return paths for Project Mercury, including those for Alan Shepard, the first
American in space. She was also depicted in the 2016 Oscar winner, Hidden
Figures, by Taraji P. Henson. Who is she?
Image of Taraji P. Henson is shown in the next slide for reference.
(pic is optional)

13. Q7.
Powers and Abilities: Reality Warping, Size Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Time Travel,
Teleportation, Precognition (can produce images of space from the past, present and future),
Invisibility, Intangibility (unaffected by heat, radiation or physical force), Flight
Attack Potency: Large Star level (Caused the Sun to expand into a Red Giant by inducing nuclear
fusion at a rate exceeding the Sun's gravity)
Speed: Varies, depending on the traveller's desire, Immeasurable at maximum speed (Unbounded by
space and time)
Durability: Universe level+ (Withstood the Big Bang at the beginning of the Universe)
Range: Universal+
Weaknesses: Speed and power are limited by the _________ of the traveller. Requires someone at the
helm to be of any practical use.
Stats of what object? (the blank here is indicative)

14. Q8.
Here is an image captured a few weeks ago by the James Webb Space
Telescope. Simply tell me what is captured here.

15. Q9. Very simple, what's the context?

16. Q10.
On 28 November 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a radio signal while using
the Interplanetary Scintillation Array of the Mullard Radio Astronomy
observatory in Cambridge, UK. the signal had a 1.3-second period and each
signal lasted for 0.04 seconds. Seeing the regularity of the signal, she
believed it came from extraterrestrial life and named it LGM-1. It was soon
discarded because the signal came from a whole different area. It however
led to the discovery of what?

17. Themed Round
1

18. Theme: Constellations and myths
■ Given are 5 questions of 10 Starbucks each, relating to a myth
(or myths) surrounding each constellation.
■ Make a seperate column and jot down your answers.
■ Theme is also a shoutout to our podcast channel Astrobytes,
check us out on Spotify!

19. Also known as the Golden Eagle of Zeus, there are quite a few legends revolving
this constellation. According to some it was mortal king Periphas, who was
honoured like a god, but was converted into an eagle and set beside Zeus’s Throne
when he almost killed him with his thunderbolt. Some say the eagle fed off of
Prometheus’s liver, until Hercules killed the eagle and saved him. Some say the
eagle carried the Trojan hero Ganymedes to heaven to be the cupbearer of the
gods. Some say the eagle Also came to Zeus as a good omen in the war against
the Titans. In any case, the eagle was transformed into the stars, in the shape of
the constellation X.
X also shares its name with an episode of the Netflix animated series Love Death +
Robots.

20. 2.
Chiron was the eldest and wisest of the kentauri, or centaurs, or half-horse-half-
men. He was the immortal son of the Titan kronos, and a half-brother of Zeus. He
was a renowned teacher who mentored many of the greatest heroes of myth
including the Argonauts Jason and Peleus, the physician Asclepius, the demi-god
Aristaeus and Achilles of Troy. He was accidentally wounded by Hercules during
battle, when one of his poisoned arrows dropped on his foot. Suffering from
unbearable pain, Chiron voluntarily gave up his immortality. Zeus then placed him
amongst the stars as the constellation ____________.

21. 3.
Also known as the Crown of Theseus. Myths say Theseus gifted the crown first
gifted to him by Goddess Aphrodite, to the Cretan princess Ariadne as a reward for
her assistance in navigating the passages of the labyrinth. Upon her death, her
husband, God Dionysus set her crown among the stars as the constellation X.
We also know the name X for wholly different reasons.

22. 4.
The Teumessian Fox was a monstrous fox which ravaged the countryside of
Thebes as punishment for some crime. This beast was destined never to be
caught. The hero Cephalus set the magical dog Laelaps to hunt it down, under the
command of Creon of Thebes. But because the pair had conflicting fates - one was
destined never to be caught, and the other never to surrender the chase - Zeus
transferred the pair to the heavens to play out their contest unresolved for all
eternity.
What do we know the pair (of constellations) as?

23. 5.
The Hesperian Dragon was a hundred-headed serpent tasked with guarding the
golden apples of the Hesperides and tormenting the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas.
The creature was slain by Hercules when he was sent to recover the golden apples
as one of his twelve labours. It was afterwards placed amongst the stars by the
gods as the Constellation _____ encircling the north pole.
The constellation also shares its name with one of the characters of a very popular
(and sort of nostalgic) fantasy franchise.

24. Round 2

25. Q11.
Launched in 1997, spacecraft X was one of the most ambitious efforts made in
planetary exploration. Its main purpose was to study the planet Saturn and its
complicated system of rings, and also its moons. It kept sending data back to earth
on a regular basis for 13 years since it reached Saturn in 2004 until it crashed into
Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017. Its major milestones include discovering icy geysers
in the moon Enceladus, revealing the dynamic nature of Saturn’s rings, and
exploring the surface of Titan. It carried aboard the probe Y, which, descending
into Titan, became the first probe to land on an object in the outer solar system.
X was named after an Italian-born French astronomer who discovered 4 of Saturn’s
moons and the X gap between the rings
Y was named after the Dutch astronomer who discovered the rings themselves
and the moon, Titan. X and Y?

26. Q12.
When the author came up with ideas for a popular book on cosmology, he
approached the Editor-in-chief of Cambridge University Press, Simon Mitton.
Mitton was worried about all the equations in the first draft and convinced the
author to drop all but one equation. The author himself states in the
Acknowledgements that he was warned that for every equation in the book
its readership would be reduced by half. Thus, the book now contains only
one equation: e = mc2. The book does employ several complex models,
diagrams, and other illustrations to detail some of the concepts that it
explores. Which book? And who is the author?

27. Q13.
“I came in with __________ in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go
out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with
__________. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
Who said these words, in account of a celestial body appearing at his birth and
death in 1910?

28. Q14. What’s the connect? (inexhaustive list)
■ Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach
Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40
■ "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
■ Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro
Yamaguchi. 4:51
■ Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin,
performed by Arthur Grumiaux. 2:55
■ Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano.
Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55
■ "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05
■ Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto
Klemperer, conductor. 7:20
■ China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37
■ India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30
■ Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by
Budapest String Quartet. 6:37

29. Q15.
Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Ophelia, Titania, Oberon, Sycorax, Rosalind,
Cupid, Cressida, Desdemona:
This is an inexhaustive list of a specific set of names given to a group of
celestial bodies. What group? How is this set of names different from the
norm?

30. Q16.
What 2 nicknames are given to Saturn’s second discovered moon Mimas? One
corresponds to its appearance, the other to its heat signature.

31. Q17.
This object was designed by professor Cuthbert ________ (a fictional
character), aiming to send the first men to space in 1953. It is red and has a
red-white checkered pattern in the middle, with 5 decks. These decks include
a lab, control cabin, living deck, kitchen and dining hall, and a deck with
airlock cabins. Unlike its real-life counterparts, this object can be reused as a
whole.
The original creator of this object wanted it to look sleek and at cutting-edge
technology, and took heavy inspiration from the infamous V2 German flying
bombs (or missiles) used in World War 2, designed by German scientist
Wernher Von Braun. Image of V2 is in the next slide.
What object?

33. Q18.
In the movie X, the protagonist sets out to retrieve the probe Y, and uses its
radio to establish contact with NASA after a dust storm destroys his own
habitat’s antenna. The filmmakers consulted with engineers at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory before recreating the probe for the film. "They were
helpful with drawings and technical information about how that worked and
the components, which we had to replicate," described production designer
Arthur Max. "We have a fully practical working Y, which we use throughout
the movie." There were a few variations between the original Y and the model
made for the movie. For instance, Y from the movie had LED lights, there was
a working port through which power was transferred, but the camera was
accurate when pointing at the whole “Are you receiving me?” plaque in the
middle with “Yes” and “no” on either side.
X and Y?

34. Q19.
This is a series of clocks entitled “Earth in Flux” to commemorate the launch
of X, a joint venture since 2019 which is the first of its kind to systematically
map earth using 2 different frequencies, to measure changes in our planet’s
surface less than a centimetre across. What is X? (will explain each clock if
needed)
Image is in the next slide.

36. Q20.
The X effect is a cognitive effect caused from a change in perspective of
something. It is experienced by some astronauts, when they are free of
NASA’s tight schedule and they view the earth from space. Some common
aspects are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even
overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other
people and the Earth as a whole.
Born out of the X effect, an image entitled Y (shown in next slide) was
released in public in the 1970’s. It was adopted as the cover of a kids-
themed TV program about children around the world, and a pen pal club
that encouraged intercultural communication.
X and Y?
Bonus : Name the astronaut and the mission from which Y was taken.

38. Themed round
2

39. Theme: Visions of the Future
■ The following slides are of 10 posters (out of 19) designed by
NASA and JPL as retro-futuristic themed tourist/travel destinations
for different planets, moons and exoplanets.
■ Some posters have names blanked, some need a specific answer
related to them.
■ Each poster carries 5 Starbucks, there are no negatives.
■ Some posters will be explained by the QM, if necessary.

40. 1. 2.

41. 3. 4.

42. 5. 6.

43. 7. 8.

44. 9. 10.

45. Papers, Please!
#GlorytoArtotzka

47. Round 1

48. Q1.
Derived from the Greek words for “Stars” and “law”, this is one of the oldest
sciences in history, whose early applications included navigation and
preparing calendars. Pursuers of this field will find themselves in conflict
when one confuses this field with another similar sounding “science” often
associated with the palm of a hand. What am I talking about?

49. Ans: Astronomy, NOT Astrology

50. Q2.
X literally means “Instrument for measuring the harmony of the heavens”. It
consists of 13 astronomical instruments, and its primary purpose was to
compile astronomical tables and predict the movements of the sun, moon,
planets and stars. It was built by maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, in 1724. There
are 4 main distinct instruments in X, namely the Samrat Yantra, the
Jayaprakash yantra, Rama Yantra and the Misra Yantra. What is X?

51. Ans: Jantar Mantar

52. Q3. Connect?
■ Hermes
■ Aphrodite
■ Gaia
■ Ares
■ Zeus
■ Kronos
■ Quranos
■ Poseidon
What is the connection between these specific names, other than that
they are all Greek Gods?

53. Ans: Greek names of the planets

54. Q4.
When the two actors explore X in the movie Y, we hear a very distinct
background score namely “Mountains” by Hans Zimmer with a prominent
ticking noise. Each tick is exactly 1.25 seconds apart. This is very significant
of a fact highlighted about X which is characterised by knee-deep water with
larger-than-tsunami waves .
ID X and Y
*add audio if can*

55. Ans: X = miller’s Planet, Y = Interstellar

56. Q5. Who is this woman and what did she help achieve?

57. Ans: Margaret Hamilton; Wrote the codes
for Apollo 11

58. Q6.
Once a member of a group called “Computers who wore skirts”, this
personality was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital
mechanics led to the success of some of the first US crewed space flights.
She played a crucial role in trajectories, space plans, launch windows and
return paths for Project Mercury, including those for Alan Shepard, the first
American in space. She was also depicted in the 2016 Oscar winner, Hidden
Figures, by Taraji P. Henson. Who is she?
Image of Taraji P. Henson is shown in the next slide for reference.
(pic is optional)

60. Ans: Catherine Johnson

61. Q7.
Powers and Abilities: Reality Warping, Size Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Time Travel,
Teleportation, Precognition (can produce images of space from the past, present and future),
Invisibility, Intangibility (unaffected by heat, radiation or physical force), Flight
Attack Potency: Large Star level (Caused the Sun to expand into a Red Giant by inducing nuclear
fusion at a rate exceeding the Sun's gravity)
Speed: Varies, depending on the traveller's desire, Immeasurable at maximum speed (Unbounded by
space and time)
Durability: Universe level+ (Withstood the Big Bang at the beginning of the Universe)
Range: Universal+
Weaknesses: Speed and power are limited by the _________ of the traveller. Requires someone at the
helm to be of any practical use.
Stats of what object?

62. Ans: Ship of Imagination from Cosmos

63. Q8.
Here is an image captured a few weeks ago by the James Webb Space
Telescope. Simply tell me what is captured here.

64. Ans: Neptune’s rings

65. Q9. Very simple, what's the context?

66. Ans: NASA’s DART mission successfully
hit the asteroid Dimorphous

67. Q10.
On 28 November 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a radio signal while using
the Interplanetary Scintillation Array of the Mullard Radio Astronomy
observatory in Cambridge, UK. the signal had a 1.3-second period and each
signal lasted for 0.04 seconds. Seeing the regularity of the signal, she
believed it came from extraterrestrial life and named it LGM-1. It was soon
discarded because the signal came from a whole different area. It however
led to the discovery of what?

68. Ans: The first pulsar

69. Themed Round
1

70. Also known as the Golden Eagle of Zeus, there are quite a few legends revolving
this constellation. According to some it was mortal king Periphas, who was
honoured like a god, but was converted into an eagle and set beside Zeus’s Throne
when he almost killed him with his thunderbolt. Some say the eagle fed off of
Prometheus’s liver, until Hercules killed the eagle and saved him. Some say the
eagle carried the Trojan hero Ganymedes to heaven to be the cupbearer of the
gods. Some say the eagle Also came to Zeus as a good omen in the war against
the Titans. In any case, the eagle was transformed into the stars, in the shape of
the constellation X.
X also shares its name with an episode of the Netflix animated series Love Death +
Robots.

71. Ans: Aquila the eagle

72. 2.
Chiron was the eldest and wisest of the kentauri, or centaurs, or half-horse-half-
men. He was the immortal son of the Titan kronos, and a half-brother of Zeus. He
was a renowned teacher who mentored many of the greatest heroes of myth
including the Argonauts Jason and Peleus, the physician Asclepius, the demi-god
Aristaeus and Achilles of Troy. He was accidentally wounded by Hercules during
battle, when one of his poisoned arrows dropped on his foot. Suffering from
unbearable pain, Chiron voluntarily gave up his immortality. Zeus then placed him
amongst the stars as the constellation ____________.

73. Ans: Sagittarius the archer

74. 3.
Also known as the Crown of Theseus. Myths say Theseus gifted the crown gifted
to him by Goddess Aphrodite to the Cretan princess Ariadne, as a reward for her
assistance in navigating the passages of the labyrinth. Upon her death, her
husband, God Dionysus set her crown among the stars as the constellation X.
We also know the name X for wholly different reasons.

75. Ans: Corona the crown (not the
virus)

76. 4.
The Teumessian Fox was a monstrous fox which ravaged the countryside of
Thebes as punishment for some crime. This beast was destined never to be
caught. The hero Cephalus set the magical dog Laelaps to hunt it down, under the
command of Creon of Thebes. But because the pair had conflicting fates - one was
destined never to be caught, and the other never to surrender the chase - Zeus
transferred the pair to the heavens to play out their contest unresolved for all
eternity.
What do we know the pair (of constellations) as?

77. Ans: Canis major and minor

78. 5.
The Hesperian Dragon was a hundred-headed serpent named Ladon tasked with
guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides and tormenting the heavens-bearing
Titan Atlas. The creature was slain by Hercules when he was sent to recover the
golden apples as one of his twelve labours. It was afterwards placed amongst the
stars by the gods as the Constellation _____ encircling the north pole.
The constellation also shares its name with one of the characters of a very popular
(controversial?) fantasy franchise.

79. Ans: Draco the Dragon

80. Round 2

81. Q11.
Launched in 1997, spacecraft X was one of the most ambitious efforts made in
planetary exploration. Its main purpose was to study the planet Saturn and its
complicated system of rings, and also its moons. It kept sending data back to earth
on a regular basis for 13 years since it reached Saturn in 2004 until it crashed into
Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017. Its major milestones include discovering icy geysers
in the moon Enceladus, revealing the dynamic nature of Saturn’s rings, and
exploring the surface of Titan. It carried aboard the probe Y, which, descending
into Titan, became the first probe to land on an object in the outer solar system.
X was named after an Italian-born French astronomer who discovered 4 of Saturn’s
moons and the X gap between the rings
Y was named after the Dutch astronomer who discovered the rings themselves
and the moon, Titan. X and Y?

82. Ans: X - Cassini, Y - Huygens

83. Q12.
When the author came up with ideas for a popular book on cosmology, he
approached the Editor-in-chief of Cambridge University Press, Simon Mitton.
Mitton was worried about all the equations in the first draft and convinced the
author to drop all but one equation. The author himself states in the
Acknowledgements that he was warned that for every equation in the book
its readership would be reduced by half. Thus, the book now contains only
one equation: e = mc2. The book does employ several complex models,
diagrams, and other illustrations to detail some of the concepts that it
explores. Which book? And who is the author?

84. Ans: A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

85. Q13.
“I came in with __________ in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go
out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with
__________. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
Who said these words, in account of a celestial body appearing at his birth and
death in 1910?

86. Ans: Mark Twain and Halley’s Comet

87. Q14. What’s the connect? (inexhaustive list)
■ Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach
Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40
■ "Johnny B. Goode," written and performed by Chuck Berry. 2:38
■ Japan, shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,") performed by Goro
Yamaguchi. 4:51
■ Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin,
performed by Arthur Grumiaux. 2:55
■ Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14. Edda Moser, soprano.
Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor. 2:55
■ "Melancholy Blues," performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven. 3:05
■ Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto
Klemperer, conductor. 7:20
■ China, ch'in, "Flowing Streams," performed by Kuan P'ing-hu. 7:37
■ India, raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho," sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar. 3:30
■ Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina, performed by
Budapest String Quartet. 6:37

88. Ans: Songs on the Voyager’s Golden Record

89. Q15.
Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Ophelia, Titania, Oberon, Sycorax, Rosalind,
Cupid, Cressida, Desdemona:
This is an inexhaustive list of a specific set of names given to a group of
celestial bodies. What group? How is this set of names different from the
norm?

90. Ans: Moons of Uranus; Shakespearean
names, while other moons are greek/roman

91. Q16.
What 2 nicknames are given to Saturn’s second discovered moon Mimas? One
corresponds to its appearance, the other to its heat signature.

92. Ans: Death Star and Pac-man

93. Q17.
This object was designed by professor Cuthbert ________ (a fictional
character), aiming to send the first men to space in 1953. It is red and has a
red-white checkered pattern in the middle, with 5 decks. These decks include
a lab, control cabin, living deck, kitchen and dining hall, and a deck with
airlock cabins. Unlike its real-life counterparts, this object can be reused.
The original creator of this object wanted this object to look sleek and at
cutting-edge technology, and took heavy inspiration from the infamous V2
German flying bombs (or missiles) used in World War 2, designed by German
scientist Wernher Von Braun.
What object?

94. (This is the V2 flying bomb in question)

95. Ans: Tintin’s moon rocket from Destination
Moon/Explorers on the Moon

96. Q18.
In the movie X, the protagonist sets out to retrieve the probe Y, and uses its
radio to establish contact with NASA after a dust storm destroys his own
habitat’s antenna. The filmmakers consulted with engineers at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory before recreating the probe for the film. "They were
helpful with drawings and technical information about how that worked and
the components, which we had to replicate," described production designer
Arthur Max. "We have a fully practical working Y, which we use throughout
the movie." There were a few variations between the original Y and the model
made for the movie. For instance, Y from the movie had LED lights, there was
a working port through which power was transferred, but the camera was
accurate when pointing at the whole “Are you receiving me?” plaque in the
middle with “Yes” and “no” on either side.
X and Y?

97. Ans: X - The Martian, Y - Pathfinder

98. Q19.
This is a series of clocks entitled “Earth in Flux” to commemorate the launch
of X, a joint venture since 2019 which is the first of its kind to systematically
map earth using 2 different frequencies, to measure changes in our planet’s
surface less than a centimetre across. What is X? (will explain each clock if
needed)
Image is in the next slide.

100. Ans: NISAR

101. Q20.
The X effect is a cognitive effect caused from a change in perspective of
something. It is experienced by some astronauts, when they are free of
NASA’s tight schedule and they view the earth from space. Some common
aspects are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even
overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other
people and the Earth as a whole.
Born out of the X effect, an image entitled Y (shown in next slide) was
released in public in the 1970’s. It was adopted as the cover of a kids-
themed TV program about children around the world, and a pen pal club
that encouraged intercultural communication.
X and Y?
Bonus : Name the astronaut and the mission from which Y was taken.

103. Ans: X = Overview effect, Y = Big
Blue Marble
(Bonus: Harrison Schmidt from Apollo 17)

104. Themed round
2

105. 1. 2.

106. 1. The nickname is Tattooine from Star
Wars
2.

107. 3. 4.

108. 3. 4.

109. 5. 6.

110. 5. 6.

111. 7. 8.

112. 7. 8.

113. 9. 10.

114. 9. Commemorating Voyager 2
10.

115. See you all in
round 2!