Enthiran Dr P Kumarasamy Memorial Open Science Quiz

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Dr. P. Kumarasamy

RULES20 questionsno negatives

11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 –starred questions

1. It is a wearable mobile machine that is powered by a system of motors, pneumatics, levers, or hydraulics that allow for limb movement, increased strength, and endurance. Proposed uses include rehabilitation of stroke or spinal cord injury patients and augmenting strength of soldiers in warfare.

What is the popular name used in media to describe these type of powered exoskeletons.

2.Many game reserves in South Africa started adopting an innovative technique to prevent poaching of this animal. The technique involves drilling a hole and injecting under pressure a compound made up of ectoparasiticides and indelible pink dye ( that is used to foil bank robbery). Anyone who consumes the body part risk suffering nausea, stomach ache and diarrhoea. The dye injected into the organ can be detected by airport scanners.

Identify the animal and the organ

3. Hiroaki Kitano is a Japanese scientist. He is well known for founding of the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup in 1997. He is also known for developing a iconic series of robots starting from 1999 until 2006 when the company stopped its production. In 2006, the robot was added into Carnegie Mellon University's "Robot Hall of Fame" with the description “ ---------- represents the most sophisticated product ever offered in the consumer robot marketplace.“

Identify the robot whose name sounds similar to a Japanese word that means "pal" or "partner" in.

4.The image on the right is a novel monument, built in premises of Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia which is dedicated to the memory of a scientist.

Identify the scientist who was neither born nor studied here.

5. Automobile maker Tata Motors has to rename its new hatchback X as Tiago, following a crowdsourcing hunt for a new name. Identify the old name X. Why

did TATA motors change the original name?

6. The gold medallists of Sochi winter Olympics were given an additional medal each to mark the anniversary of an event.

These additional medals were expected to be delivered to the winners during the Olympics but the International Olympic Committee said no other medals other than official medals could be handed out during the event. So the medals were sent to the respective Olympic Committees of the Olympic

winners after the Olympics was over. Identify the anniversary.

7.

Hortus Malabaricus (meaning "Garden of Malabar") is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal plant properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala. Originally written in Latin, it was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in Amsterdam during 1678–1693. The book was conceived by Hendrik van Rheede, who was the Governor of Dutch Malabar at the time.

Identify the person from Calicut, who had this monumental work translated into English and Malayalam. It took more than 40 years of his life to complete this work that involved learning Latin too. Queen Beatrix bestowed on him Netherland’s highest civilian order — Officer of the Order of Orange — Nassau on him in 2012.

8. On April 30th 2016, one of the world’s most complex and expensive scientific instruments, X, was shut down by a weasel that chewed

through the wiring. The weasel caused a short circuit by damaging a 66-kilovolt transformer.

It’s actually not the first time an animal briefly shut down X, since in 2009 a bird dropped a bread-piece on an external electrical power supply and the ensuing chain reaction shut down a part of the X’s

cooling system.

Identify X

9. Sriramamurthy Suri, in 1983 established National Institute of Amateur Radio with the initiative and support of X, whose call sign is VU2RG. X has

taken up the initiative to promote HAM radio in a very big way in India.It is said that, X’s love and affection for ham radio and radio hams was so

much that even on the very last day of his life, he made his last call on ham radio from the city of Visakhapatnam on board a flight.

Identify X

10. “In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman labouring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case the application of the hand was of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method of direct auscultation was rendered inadmissible by

the age and sex of the patient.........”. He often referred to X as "the cylinder," and as he neared death ,he bequeathed his own X to his nephew, referring to it as "the greatest

legacy of my life.“Identify X from the above information.

11.

Sajan Raj Kurup of creative land Asia created an two part advertisement for a brand that became a viral phenomenon. The second part (2015) was conceived as a prequel to the first advertisement (2014).

Identify this Television commercial that was launched during a India-Pakistan cricket match series .

12. X’s paper, The Chemical Basis for Morphogenesis was published in 1952 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, shortly after X was sentenced to chemical castration. (Morphogenesis is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape. It is one of three

fundamental aspects of developmental biology). Identify X

13. Mediastan is a 2013 documentary film, directed by Johannes Wahlström and produced by X, Rebecca O'Brien and Lauren Dark. Its release was timed to challenge that of a Hollywood movie of the same theme, the movie which X did

not agree to. Identify X and the central theme of both the Hollywood movie and the documentary.

14. A Indian celebrity was inspired to buy a bike and placed the order. On knowing about the order, the managing director of the company customised the bike before delivering the bike personally at the actor’s residence.

The bike has a customized embossing of the first letter of the Celebrity’s name on the fuel tank and one-off graphic design of “Chote Lal” affectionately inscribed on the rear seat cowl.

On receiving the bike the celebrity quipped “ It is a special bike and I wouldn’t compare it with anything else. It has a piece of history ingrained into it”.

Identify the actor (.5 marks), name of the bike (.25 marks) and the historical significance (.25 marks).

15. ConnectLucy

Mrs ples Taung child

turkhana boy Java man

Hobbit

16. Despite once claiming to be a technological naiveté, X has expanded one’s social media presence by joining Instagram, launching the new account with a picture of oneself alongside the caption “pray for me”. X’s Instagram account has racked up thousands of followers since its first post, but the account has some way to go to catch up to the site’s most popular users – the pop stars Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift currently stand at about 70 million followers each.Identify X

17. Facebook has been offering this service for its employees in the US since 2014. The policy is designed to attract and keep top talent, by helping them balance and plan career & life. Apple had followed suit from January 2015.

Both companies are offering up to $20,000 for US employees covered by their insurance plans, to finance this procedure. Even though welcomed by some,

many have criticised the initiative as a short-cut approach towards human resource development or as a capitalist exploitation.

Identify the service offered by these companies for some of their employees.

18. American W. Douglas Burden set off to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia to capture some animals (X) for the American Museum of Natural History. His memoir of the expedition , gave the animals (X) their nickname and his tales of adventures and confrontations with the ‘hoary beast’ inspired the famous movie ‘Y’ produced in 1933.

Identify X and Y

19. When the declining of numbers and skills of students applying for Computer Science in United kingdom became a concern for a team at the University of Cambridge, it led to the idea of forming a foundation to "promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. The foundation developed a computer that has sold over 8 million since its inception in 2012, making it the best selling British computer ever.

Identify this credit card sized computer model whose name sounds like a dessert (picture on the right).

20. In 1948, in the wake of the Jim Corbett’s book Man-Eaters of Kumaon's success, a Hollywood film, titled X, was made, directed

by Byron Haskin and starring Sabu, Wendell Corey and Joe Page. The film did not follow any of Jim Corbett's stories; a new story was

invented. The film was a flop, although some interesting footage of the tiger was filmed. Corbett is known to have said that "the best actor was

the tiger".Identify the name of the movie.

ANSWERS

1. It is a wearable mobile machine that is powered by a system of motors, pneumatics, levers, or hydraulics that allow for limb movement, increased strength, and endurance. Proposed uses include rehabilitation of stroke or spinal cord injury patients and augmenting strength of soldiers in warfare.

What is the popular name used to describe these type of powered exoskeletons.

1. IRON-MAN SUIT

2.Many game reserves in South Africa started adopting an innovative technique to prevent poaching of this animal. The technique involves drilling a hole and injecting under pressure a compound made up of ectoparasiticides and indelible pink dye ( that is used to foil bank robbery). Anyone who consumes the body part risk suffering nausea, stomach ache and diarrhoea. The dye injected into the organ can be detected by airport scanners.

Identify the animal and the organ

2. Rhino Horn

3. Hiroaki Kitano is a Japanese scientist. He is well known for founding of the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup in 1997. He is also known for developing a iconic series of robots starting from 1999 until 2006 when the company stopped its production. In 2006, the robot was added into Carnegie Mellon University's "Robot Hall of Fame" with the description “ ---------- represents the most sophisticated product ever offered in the consumer robot marketplace.“

Identify the robot whose name sounds similar to a word that means "pal" or "partner" in Japanese.

3. Sony AIBO

4.The image on the right is a novel monument, built in premises of Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia which is dedicated to the memory of a scientist.

Identify the scientist who was neither born nor studied here.

4. Dmitrii Mendeleev

5. Automobile maker Tata Motors has to rename its new hatchback X as Tiago, following a crowdsourcing

hunt for a new name. Identify the original name X. Why did TATA motors change the original name?

5. The original name ZICA sounded similar to the global public health scare ZIKA virus

6. The gold medallists of Sochi winter Olympics were given an additional medal each to mark the anniversary of an event.

These additional medals were expected to be delivered to the winners during the Olympics but the International Olympic

Committee said no other medals could be handed out during the event. So the medals were sent to the respective Olympic

Committees of the Olympic winners after the Olympics was over. Identify the anniversary.

6. Anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteorite

7.

Hortus Malabaricus (meaning "Garden of Malabar") is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal plant properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala. Originally written in Latin, it was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published in Amsterdam during 1678–1693. The book was conceived by Hendrik van Rheede, who was the Governor of Dutch Malabar at the time.

Identify the person who had this monumental work translated into English and Malayalam. It took more than 40 years of his life to complete this work that involved learning Latin too. Queen Beatrix bestowed on him Netherland’s highest civilian order — Officer of the Order of Orange — Nassau on him in 2012.

7. K.S. Manilal - Professor Emeritus, Calicut University

8. On April 30th 2016, one of the world’s most complex and expensive scientific instruments, X, was shut down by a weasel that chewed through the wiring.

The weasel caused a short circuit by damaging a 66-kilovolt transformer. It’s actually not the first time an animal briefly defeated the X, since in 2009 a bird dropped a

bread-piece on an external electrical power supply and the ensuing chain reaction shut down a part of the X’s cooling system.

Identify X

8. LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC)

9. Sriramamurthy Suri, in 1983 established National Institute of Amateur Radio with the initiative and support of X, whose call sign is VU2RG. X has taken up the initiative to promote HAM radio in a very big way in

India. X’s love and affection for ham radio and radio hams was so much that even on the very last day of his life, he made his last call on ham radio

from the city of Visakhapatnam on board a flight. Identify X

9. Rajiv Gandhi

10. “In 1816, I was consulted by a young woman labouring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case the application of the hand was of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method of direct auscultation was rendered inadmissible by

the age and sex of the patient.........”. He often referred to X as "the cylinder," and as he neared death ,he bequeathed his own X to his

nephew, referring to it as "the greatest legacy of my life.“Identify X from the above information.

10. STETHOSCOPE

11.

Sajan Raj Kurup of creative land Asia created an two part advertisement for a brand that became a viral phenomenon. The second part (2015) was conceived as a prequel to the first advertisement (2014).

Identify this Television commercial that was launched during a India-Pakistan cricket match series .

11. MTS Internet Baby

12. X’s paper, The Chemical Basis for Morphogenesis was published in 1952 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, shortly

after X was sentenced to chemical castration. Morphogenesis is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape. It is

one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology. Identify X

12. ALAN TURING

13. Mediastan is a 2013 documentary film, directed by Johannes Wahlström and produced by X, Rebecca O'Brien and

Lauren Dark. Its release was timed to challenge that of a Hollywood movie of the same theme, the movie which X did not agree to. Identify X and the central theme of both the Hollywood

movie and the documentary.

13. JULIAN ASSANGE & WIKILEAKS

14. A Indian celebrity was inspired to buy a bike and placed the order. On knowing about the order, the managing director of the company customised the bike before delivering the bike personally at the actor’s residence.

The bike has a customized embossing of the first letter of the Celebrity’s name on the fuel tank and one-off graphic design of “Chote Lal” affectionately inscribed on the rear seat cowl.

On receiving the bike the celebrity quipped “ It is a special bike and I wouldn’t compare it with anything else. It has a piece of history ingrained into it”.

Identify the actor (.5 marks), name of the bike (.25 marks) and the historical significance (.25 marks).

14. AMIR KHAN, BAJAJ V15 & bike contains metal from India's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which played a

decisive heroic role in the 1971 India Pakistan war.

15. ConnectLucy

Mrs ples Taung child

turkhana boy Java man

Hobbit

15. Prominent Hominid Fossils (fossils of human ancestors)

16. Despite once claiming to be a technological naiveté, X has expanded one’s social media presence by joining Instagram, launching the new account with a picture of oneself alongside the caption “pray for me”. X’s Instagram account has racked up thousands of followers since its first post, but the account has some way to go to catch up to the site’s most popular users – the pop stars Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift currently stand at about 70 million followers each.Identify X

16.Pope Francis Instagram account - Franciscus

17. Facebook has been offering this service for its employees in the US since 2014. The policy is designed to attract and keep top talent, by helping them balance and plan the career & life. Apple had followed suit from January 2015. Both companies are offering up to $20,000 (£12,500) for US employees covered by their insurance plans, to finance a particular procedure. Even though welcomed by some, many

have criticised the initiative as a short-cut approach towards human resource development or as a capitalist exploitation of employees.

Identify the service offered by these companies for some of their employees.

17.Pay for female employees to freeze their eggs

18.

American W. Douglas Burden set off to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia to capture some animals (X) for the American Museum of Natural History. His memoir of the expedition , gave the animals (X) their nickname and his tales of adventures and confrontations with the ‘hoary beast’ inspired the famous movie ‘Y’ produced in 1933.

Identify X and Y

18.KOMODO DRAGON; KINGKONG

19. When the declining of numbers and skills of students applying for Computer Science in United kingdom became a concern for a team at the University of Cambridge , it led to the idea of forming a foundation to "promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. The foundation developed a computer that has sold over 8 million since its inception in 2012, making it the best selling British computer ever.

Identify this credit card sized computer model whose name sounds like a dessert (picture on the right).

19. RASPBERRY PI

20. In 1948, in the wake of the Jim Corbett's book Man-Eaters of Kumaon's success, a Hollywood film, titled X, was made, directed

by Byron Haskin and starring Sabu, Wendell Corey and Joe Page. The film did not follow any of Jim Corbett's stories; a new story was

invented. The film was a flop, although some interesting footage of the tiger was filmed. Corbett is known to have said that "the best actor was

the tiger".

Identify the name of the movie.

20. MAN EATERS OF KUMAON

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