Trivia

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CAKE WALK

Rules CAKE WALKThis round consists of questions related to scientific trivia.Each team will get to choose from a set of 12 questions.This is a passable round.+20 points for correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.There is no negative marking .Each team will get 20 seconds to answer.

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Name the ore which is concentrated using Serpeks process.

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Bauxite

What is common between the elements, Cerium and Palladium with respect to their naming ? 0001020304050607080910111213141516171819202

Both the elements are named after asteroids.

Observe the following equations: MnO4- Mn2+ Cr2O72- Cr3+If change in Oxidation numbers of Mn and Cr are a & b respectivelyWhat is a + b equal to ?

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Aamir Khan has recently been in news for putting his health at risk for his upcoming film, Dangal. What is the health risk?0001020304050607080910111213141516171819204

He gained up to 90 kilos using steroids

She lived in an era where it was believed that women could never become scientists. But for her indispensable work the world would have never known about The Secret of Life. Years after her death due to ovarian cancer, did the propounders of Double Helix admit: We owe our discoveries to her work. Who was this woman scientist?0001020304050607080910111213141516171819205

Rosalind Franklin

According to Faradays Paradox of electrochemistry , steel reacts with dilute X but not concentrated X.Identify X.0001020304050607080910111213141516171819206

Nitric Acid (HNO3)

State the principle according to which a top does not fall when it is rotated on its axis.

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Gyroscopic effect

The largest muscle of our body is the one on which we sit.Name it .

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Gluteus maximus ( hip muscle )

Xis an additional entity of its kind that appears in a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full moons in a season or, a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.X" may occur in certain atmospheric conditions; e.g., when there are volcanic eruptions or when exceptionally large fires leave particles in the atmosphere. Identify X.

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Blue moon

Given below are the initial BLUEPRINTS of an important invention. Which invention is it?

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The first plane by the Wright Brothers.

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright on the Wright Flyer I in 1910

What is this Google Doodle commemorating ?

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Discovery of water on moon by Chandrayaan.

Death of a person is marked by loss in movement. Gradually stiffening sets in as cell membranes become more permeable to calcium ions. However, a sudden short and quick movement is often noticed in fingers, toes, eyelids etc. in the dead body!!What is this phenomenon technically known as?00010203040506070809101112131415161718192012

Rigor Mortis

What is created due to the collision between a positron and an electron?

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Gamma ray photons

KNOW IT RIGHT

Basic Principles

Rules KNOW IT RIGHTThe questions are based on basic principles.Each team gets to choose from a set of 7 questions.Questions are passable.+20 for each correct answer and +10 for bonus answer.There is no negative marking.Teams will get 20 seconds to answer.

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A pilot performs a 360 aerobatic maneuver in air. Simultaneously, the co-pilot pours water in a glass from a jar. The water falls only inside the glass and does not spill at all! The spilling of water is prevented because of a phenomenon involved. Which phenomenon is it?

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Centripetal Acceleration

Which type of interactions enable ice cream to adhere to its wooden stick?

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Hydrogen -bonding As wood has Cellulose (OH groups)

21 September, 1995 was the day that attracted the attention of masses and the media, particularly in India as Deities of Lord Ganesha allegedly drank milk offered by the devotees. ThisHindu milk miracleactually happened due to a simple scientific phenomenon. Name the phenomenon0001020304050607080910111213141516171819203

Capillary actionof the material of the statue.

Collisions between gaseous particles in the earth's atmosphere and the charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere result into an interesting phenomenon.Identify the phenomenon.0001020304050607080910111213141516171819204

Northern Lights/ Aurora Borealis (Known as such over north pole and aurora australis or southern lights over south pole of earth)

Rohan applied for the army. During his medical examination, the doctor heard peculiar sound while listening to his heart beat , which sounded like Lubshhh.Dubshhh, and rejected Rohan. Which abnormality could Rohan be possibly suffering from?

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Heart Murmur

Rahul was sleeping while sitting on chair. Suddenly his friend came and pushed him from the side. Rahul was about to fall but woke up. Which part of his sensory system helped him to balance?0001020304050607080910111213141516171819206

Vestibular Apparatus

When round projectiles were fired from a firearm, the ball would grip one side of the barrel, making it spin, and instead of flying straight would curve off right, left, up or down. This was rather frustrating and there are some estimates that old unrifled missiles managed to hit their intended target less than 5% of the trials. What effect does it depict?

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Magnus effect

Audio / Visual

Rules AUDIO / VISUALEach question consists of an Audio/Visual.+30 for each correct answer and -10 for each wrong answer.The questions wont be passed. Each team will get 30 seconds to answer the question.

The pictures given below depict people suffering from a common disorder. Identify the disorder.

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Downs Syndrome

The picture shows a statue of the dancing Nataraja unveiled at X. The statue symbolizes Nataraja's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to X by the Indian Government to celebrate its long association with India. Identify X.212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819202

CERN (Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nuclaire)

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MS Swaminathan

This patient is showing symptoms of which lethal disease ? 212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819204

Hydrophobia (due to Rabies)

This is the most dangerous piece of junk in the world. A week after just 30 seconds of exposure, a person becomes dizzy and fatigued. Two minutes of exposure and cells will soon begin to hemorrhage; four minutes: vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. Identify this lethal junk.

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Elephants Foot

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Theremin

This symbol is associated with a doctors prescription. What does it stand for?

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I give this treatment in the name of God.

Also known as the corpse flower, it heats up on flowering to produce the stench of rotting flesh which attracts carrion beetle pollinators over vast distances. It was recently in news for having flowered after a long time at the Botanic Garden, UK. Identify the plant.

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Titan arum / Amorphophallus

Hands OnRack Your brains

RULES HANDS ONThis round consists of workable questions.The questions are open to all.+ 30 for each correct answer.There is no negative marking.The allotted time for each question is 1 minute.

Using the calculator provided to you , display 100 on the screen using only 3 different buttons.:00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:601

Pedigree charts are pictorial documents used to record ancestry and in the study of human family lines. The given pedigree is for studying the pattern of inheritance of a particular disease in a family.Note that in the second generation, the third child (a male) has inherited the disease from his father. The inheritance of the disease by him RULES OUT what type of inheritance?.

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X-linked inheritance because he inherited the disease from his father, but his X chromosome from his mother.

Two aliphatic aldehydes P and Q react in presence of aq. KOH to give compound R which upon treatment with HCN provides compound S. On acidification and heating, S gives the product shown .The compounds P and Q are ?:00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:603

2-methyl propanalMethanal

Money Bag

Work Hard Earn Hard

RULES MONEY BAGQuestions in this round are open to all the teams.Teams will have to write down the answers and show it to the Quizmasters.Each Question is of 60 points.The points will be divided amongst teams who attempt to answer .If a team gives an incorrect answer , then the points divided will be subtracted from their total.Teams can choose not to answer the question. No points will be awarded or deducted in this case.Time limit for each question is 30 seconds.

I will use the ____X______s trick ; differentiate under the integral sign.This line was said by Howard Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory. Which scientist is being referred to as X?Hint: X assisted in the development of theatomic bombduringWorld War II and got Nobel prize in Physics in 1965.212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819201

Richard Feynman

This person is an Indian Nuclear Experimental physicist, presently working onnanocrystalline magnetic materials and alloy systems. He is also, however, interested in Earth Sciences like extinction boundaries and meteorites. He sometimes talks about Indias cultural values and ancient heritage . He is an avid Hindi poet. Identify the person.

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Harish Chandra Verma

Cologne spirit + Oil of vitriol P P QIdentify QHigh Temperature O3 + Zn dust212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819203

Formaldehyde (methanal)

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Retinol (Vitamin A)

If the following scientists expressed their love, it would be something like this.

I am so certain about you !!!

I so love your cat eyesIdentify the scientists..212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819205

Heisenberg & Schrodinger

This 90s scientific movie is used by NASA in their management program where participants are asked to point out mistakes in the movie even though it is considered a benchmark of sci-fi movies. Which movie is it ?212223242526272829300001020304050607080910111213141516171819206

Armageddon

Group 2 , Period 4 +

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Caltech

Which is the common component in both of these , which gives them one of the main medicinal properties ?

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Oil of winter green (Methyl salicylate)

He was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cells synthesis of proteins. He was born in Punjab (Present day Pakistan). Who is he?

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Dr. Hargobind Khorana

STAKE IT!

Dare to Win

Rules STAKE IT ! This round consists of a set of interlinked questions in which the answers of the question will be used to answer the Final Question.Each team has to bid points from their present score. You can buy the answers from the Quizmasters using your remaining points.The price of each answer will vary according to the demand and difficulty of the question, and will be decided by the Quizmasters.The bid score will double if you are able to answer the final question and if not, the bid points will be deducted.

In the 1960s, small amounts of this element were produced in laboratories in the formerSoviet Unionand inCalifornia. The priority of the discovery and therefore thenaming of the element was disputedbetween Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 thatInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry(IUPAC) established ____ as the official name for the element. The Soviets proposed the name Kurchatovium for this element. This is also the first Transactinide element.

Store the sum of the digits of its atomic number as p.

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OF Store the number of vowels in the answer as q:00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:602

At a distance of 400m from the traffic light brakes are applied to a car moving at a velocity of 15m/s.Determine the distance of the car from the traffic light 1 min after the application of brakes.Its retardation is 0.3m/s2.Store this distance as r

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A rod of length 6a and mass 8m is lying on a smooth horizontal table. 2 bodies of mass m and 2m move with Velocity 2v and v respectively and collide with the rod perpendicularly at the same instant. The bodies stick to the rod after collision . Find the angular velocity about COM of system in rad/s Take v as p * r and a as q (from the previous questions):00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:60:00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:60:00:01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20:21:22:23:24:25:26:27:28:29:30:31:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:40:41:42:43:44:45:46:47:48:49:50:51:52:53:54:55:56:57:58:59:60Store this answer as N4

This is your last round , so make it countCross your fingers and think beyond your expectations, cause the answer is

Hint: The first and last letters of the answer are the same and correspond to the Nth Letter of the English Alphabet

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In the 1960s, small amounts of this element were produced in laboratories in the formerSoviet Unionand inCalifornia. The priority of the discovery and therefore thenaming of the element was disputedbetween Soviet and American scientists, and it was not until 1997 thatInternational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry(IUPAC) established ____ as the official name for the element. The Soviets proposed the name Kurchatovium for this element. This is also the first Transactinide element.

Store the sum of the digits of its atomic number as p.

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As the answer was Rutherfordium (Rf)Atomic number 104P = 1 + 0 + 4 = 5

OF Store the number of vowels in the answer as q2

The answer to this question was MITOCHONDRIA (Power House Of Cell)Number of Vowels in it are 5So Q= 5

At a distance of 400m from the traffic light brakes are applied to a car moving at a velocity of 15m/s.Determine the distance of the car from the traffic light 1 min after the application of brakes.Its retardation is 0.3m/s2.Store this distance as r

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R=25Using the second equation of motion: S = ut + at2 The only logic in the question was that once the car stops, it wouldnt move back.

A rod of length 6a and mass 8m is lying on a smooth horizontal table. 2 bodies of mass m and 2m move with Velocity 2v and v respectively and collide with the rod perpendicularly at the same instant. The bodies stick to the rod after collision . Find the angular velocity about COM of system in rad/s Take v as p * r and a as q (from the previous questions)Store this answer as N4

The Concept used in this question is of conservation Of Angular Momentum

The expression comes out to be v/5aAnd so the Value of N equals 5

This is your last round , so make it countCross your fingers and Think beyond your expectations, cause the answer is

Hint: The first and last letters of the answer are the same and correspond to the Nth Letter of the English Alphabet; eg 1=a, 2=b .ENQUIRE

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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL - ROHINITUESDAY, 18 AUGUST 2015

Image of a red object(that emits and reflects only monochromatic light) placed in monochromatic blue light when obtained on a green screen will show the object in ________ colour.

Black

What in the world of physics is the Gnab Gib

The metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe collapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.

Which famous scientist is accredited for being the Father of old 2 kingdom classification , the Father of Zoology and the Father of Embryology ?

Aristotle

This disease figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Britain'sQueen Victoria, through two of her five daughters, passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families ofSpain,GermanyandRussia.It is also called the royal disease for this reason. Identify the disease

Haemophilia

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