JackKilbyScienceandTechnologyQuiz2009,Prelims

Date:6 November,2009 Venue:AirForceAuditorium,SubrotoPark,NewDelhi

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1) Whoisgettingideas? JamesWatt 2) Identifythisnotoriousfish. Piranha 3) Whowrotethisbook? IsaacNewton

4) In1902,whatdidCecilBoothusetogivetheWestminsterAbbeyacleanlookonthe coronationofKingEdwardVII? VacuumCleaner 5) Identifythebreedofdog. Pug 6) Whattermdescribeswhatyouseehere? Barcode/UniversalProductCode 7) Intermsofwhattheyarenamedafter,whatiscommoninCeriumandPalladium? TheyarenamedafterAsteroids 8) Nametheorgan. Gallbladder 9) In1905,whosubmittedthese4paperstothejournalAnnalsderPhysik?(Different extractsfromthepaperswereusedinthequiz) i) Energy,duringthepropagationofarayoflight,isnotcontinuouslydistributed oversteadilyincreasingspaces,butitconsistsofafinitenumberofenergy quantalocalisedatpointsinspace,movingwithoutdividingandcapableofbeing absorbedorgeneratedonlyasentities.

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Accordingtothemolecularkinetictheoryofheat,bodiesofamicroscopically visiblesizesuspendedinliquidsmust,asaresultofthermalmolecularmotions, performmotionsofsuchmagnitudesthattheycanbeeasilyobservedwitha microscope. iii) Thelawsbywhichthestatesofphysicalsystemsundergochangearenot affected,whetherthesechangesofstatebereferredtotheoneortheotherof twosystemsofcoordinatesinuniformtranslatorymotion. iv) Anyrayoflightmovesinthe"stationary"systemofcoordinateswiththe determinedvelocityc,whethertheraybeemittedbyastationaryorbyamoving body. AlbertEinstein

10) Nametheflower. WaterLily 11) Thisbridgealsodoublesupaswhichinstrument? Sundial,thebridgeistheSundialbridgeatTurtleBay,California 12) Identifythisanimal.(Avideowasplayed)

Beaver 13) OnwhichdaythisyeardidtheGooglelogolooklikethis?(Theexactdate) July20,2009(40thAnniversaryoftheMoonLanding) 14) WhichgenusofextincthominidshasthenamewhichmeansSouthernApe? Australopithecusafarensis 15) Whatdoyoucallsuchamechanicalrepresentationofthesolarsystem? Orrery 16) A2006bookabouthimistitledTheManWhoFedtheWorld.NametheNobelPeace prizewinnerwhopassedawayrecently. NormanErnestBorlaug

 17) ArthurCompton:TheItaliannavigatorhaslandedintheNewWorld. JamesConant:Howwerethenatives? ArthurCompton:Veryfriendly. WhowastheItalianNavigator? EnricoFermi.AfterFermi'steamhadsuccessfullyachievedhistory'sfirstcontrolled nuclearchainreaction,ArthurComptonplacedabriefphonecalltoJamesConant, chairmanoftheNationalDefenseResearchCommittee.Thisconversationwasin impromptucodeandItalianNavigatorreferredtotheItalianphysicistFermi. 18) AnAmericanscientisthadcarriedoutexperimentsrelatedtoelectromagnetismaround thesametimeasMichaelFaradayseparately.WhatistheS.I.Unitofinductancenamed afterhim? Henry(symbol:H),namedafterJosephHenry 19) Whowithhisinvention? EliasHowe,withthesewingmachine 20) Whatissuchadeformitycalled? CleftLip 21) Thegaswhichconsistsof1.29%ofearthsatmosphere.Itisthethirdmostabundant elementintheworld. Argon 22) IfyouaregivenanM.M.Rvaccine.YouwillbeprotectedagainstMeasles,Mumpsand what?

Rubella 23) ThisdepictsthefunctioningoftheMaglevtrain.WhatisMaglev? MAGneticLEVitation 24) Identifytheoceancurrent. GulfStream 25) ThetwowordsmeanSailorsofStarsandSailorsofUniverse.Whatarethosewords? SailorofstarsAstronaut,SailorofuniverseCosmonaut 26) Thefinchbirdhelpedintheformulationofwhichtheory?

Darwinstheoryofevolution 27) Identify. VenkatramanRamakrishnan,recipientofthe2009NobelPrizeinChemistry 28) Whichdiseasesvaccinewasobtainedfrommilkmaids? Cowpox/Smallpox 29) WilliamThomson,ascientisthadanSIunitnamedafterhim.Whatistheunit? Kelvin,afterWilliamThomson,1stBaronKelvin(or)LordKelvin 30) Whoisthismanwhoknewinfinity? Ramanujam 31) Whatisthe12letterwordwhichisGreekforsolidandsound? Stereophonic 32) Identifytheauthor.

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