ROUND 1CLOCKWISE

Fans speculate the directors of __________casted X as a tribute to Y. The following are some of the similar behaviors that Y had too:

• Y was 6ft 2in. tall and pale.

• He was meticulous in his grooming and regimented in his daily activities.

• He had an Eidetic memory

• Y might have had OCD.

• Y became a proponent of an selective breeding version of eugenics

Give me X and Y.

Benjamin Franklin, in a letter writes -

‘…I imagine it will be found pretty generally true, that the same Convexity of Glass through which a Man sees clearest and best at the Distance proper for Reading, is not the best for greater Distances. Therefore, I had formerly two Pair of Spectacles, which I shifted occasionally, as in travelling, I sometimes read. This was a cause of trouble…’

What did Franklin invent to overcome the ‘trouble’?

BIFOCALS!

What is this?

It is the ‘Mirror Box’ invented by V S Ramachandran to treat phantom limb pain.

While the initial price for this at its IPO is an interesting stat in itself, there is more to the story. The opening price was $85 per share. At the time of writing, the price was $483 but has soared as high as $600 in the past year. The company hope to raise from the public $2,718,281,828. Why does this feature on a science quiz?

The amount $2,718,281,828 offering contains an inside joke for the math-minded. 2,718,281,828 is the value of ‘e’ (base of natural logarithm)

Hyrax - the closest relative of which animal (rather surprisingly!)?

!!!

X’s most important scientific contribution may be his idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays. He described this concept in a paper titled Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?, published in 1945. The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the X Orbit or the X Belt in his honor. Who is X?

Arthur C Clarke. The orbit is called Clarke’s orbit

ROUND 2ANTI- CLOCKWISE

Patients suffering from a rupture of the biceps tendon may develop a bulge in their arm. This is the retracted muscle bunched up in the arm, and is sometimes referred to as a ‘_________ muscle’ in medical circles because the muscle is more prominent than normal. FITB.

(Hint: You definitely saw this as a kid!)

Popeye Muscle

Whose tombstone?

Miss Baker

A myth about this brand’s name is that it had a pH rating greater then 7, making it alkaline. However, this was proved to be false, as it has a pH rating of about 3.79, similar to other products in its class. Which brand?

It was often thought that X shed Y that slid down into their mouths, moistening their food and making it easier for them to swallow. Y appears to be an expression of emotion but is in fact a means to make food easier to swallow (possibly the observer). This gave rise to the common phrase XY. Give XY

At a 1967 conference, X was searching for something to call a ‘gravitationally completely collapsed star’. An unknown student at the conference shouted out the term Y and X often used it and made it stick. Identify X and Y.

X – John Wheeler Y – Black Hole

What/Who do these Google doodles to commemorate?

Vitamin C.Discovery of water on Moon by Chandrayaan.

ROUND 3

MACINTOSH

CALCULUS

DUODENUM

Non- exhaustive list of?

PARADOX

Non- exhaustive list of?(Hint: They are all French)

Lavoisier Coulomb Cauchy

Gay Lussac Fourier

Scientists whose names are inscribed on Eiffel Tower

Proposed structures of

ROUND 4

Japan’s Murata Manufacturing Company has created a prototype remote, called the leaf gripped remote controller which has no batteries or buttons. It is made of a photo-voltaic layer, sandwiched between two piezoelectric films. How does it work?

Twisting and Bending!

A die is a polyhedron stable on all its faces. Is it viable to construct a polyhedron which is unstable on all its faces? Explain.

No. It would become a perpetual motion machine!

Data shows that modern humans started wearing clothes 70,000 years before migrating into colder climates, which began a million years ago. It is impossible to attain this data from archaeological sites. How was this figured out?

The DNA of clothing lice was sequenced. Calculations were made as to when they began to genetically diverge from head lice. Clothing lice cannot survive away from clothes.

Napoleon’s army was marching into Russia, where the temperature was very cold. Though they were wearing jackets, 3/4th of the army men died due to pneumonia as time passed. What is the cause?

The jackets had buttons made of Tin. Due to low temperature, this tin was transformed into another allotrope of tin which is very brittle. The buttons therefore wore away and the jackets became redundant.

What is being depicted?

The process of sonoluminescence

Till about 200 years ago, Al was the most expensive metal though it was abundantly found. Napoleon’s important guests were given Al cutlery while others were dined with ‘mere’ silver. We know that nowadays Al is fairly inexpensive. What was the reason for the decline in price of Al?

Discovery of electricity

ROUND 5

What are they talking about?

Higgs theory

Give funda

Darwin’s theory of evolution

What phenomenon?

Gravitational lensing

Urey Miller experiment

Which process is being described?

Transcription

This thought by X led to the invention of ________. FITB

Mendeleev’s periodic table

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