Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz 2012, Prelims Chennai

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1)What extinct animal is depicted in the illustrations given below? (2 Word answer )

2)Identify the scientist in the picture

3)What is this Japanese technique of gardening trees as dwarves called?

4)What is this

5)Which part of the human body is divided into the crown and root? 6)The Holy basil comes in two varieties, Krishna(dark) and Rama(light).What is the common name?

7)Which ailment gets its name due its close association with coal,i.e. the deformity resembles coal.

8)What term describes the EVA seen here.No need to expand EVA,just mention the common term.

10)With which 9 letter word would you associate paper napkin,fountain pen,nutrition of trees,blood circulation etc. 11)The picture show fields growing what plant?

12)With which 10 letter word will you associate the 2 pics?

13)They are heterokonts,come in varied sizes and are the food for most marine animals.

14) The name of this element in Ancient Greece was the name for the planet Venus and is derived from the greek words which roughly translates as light-bringer or light carrier The discovery of this element is credited to the German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669 who obtained this salt from experimenting with urine. 15)On Nov 2,1866 this patent was awarded to someone.Who?

16)This alloy has been made with the mixture of Tin,Copper and Antimony.The objects shown below have been made using this alloy.Whats the name of the alloy?

17)This is the tallest bird that can fly.Name it.

18)Identify the Ocean current.

19)On 16 June 1963 this textile mill worker and part-time parachutist created a record.What is this record(name of person not required)

20)This kingdom classification in Greek mean single or solitary.What is the kingdom. 21)Name the only type of ape to be found in India

22)Felix Hoffman developed this drug in 1899.It is a derivative of salicyclic acid and was extracted from the bark of the willow tree. 23)Extracts of what? I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot. 21)Identify this constellation which is referred to as the hunter.

. 25)This has been estimated to be a burial ground,observatory etc.The pic given below is a computerrendering of the place.Identify

26)What disaster is this photo about?

27)The illustration below is a depiction of which automobile part?

28)This person received the Nobel Prize in 1902 while working on the Indian Medical service for the isolation and transmission of a famous disease.Name him(Hint first name and surname start with the same letter). 29)The aircraft and the river formation have been named after this Greek alphabet.What is the alphabet?

30)Fill in the insect body part. Head,_______,Abdomen

31)Plumbum was the older name of which element? 32)This is a visual showing the mechanism of?

ANSWERS
1)Woolly Mammoth. No points for Mammoth, Giant Mammoth etc 2)Marie Curie 3)Bonsai 4)Recycle 5)Tooth 6)Tulasi/Tulsi 7)Anthrax(From Anthracite) 8)Spacewalk 9)Grizzly Bear 10)Capillary 11)Mustard 12)Greenhouse 13)Diatoms 14)Phosphorous 15)Karl Benz, for the first car. 16)Pewter 17)Sarus Crane 18)Labrador Current 19)First woman to go to space(Valentina Tereshkova) 20)Monera 21)Hoolock Gibbon 22)Aspirin 23)Hippocratic Oath 24)Orion 25)Stonehenge 26)Challenger Space Shuttle Crash 27)Airbag 28)Roland Ross 29)Delta 30)Thorax

31)Lead 32)Watch/Clock/Chronograph etc.