Materials & Energy Quiz Finals at The Quiz Fest 17

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ENERGY & MATERIALS QUIZ 
FINAL ROUND
By Krishna Moorthi & Prateek

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Get ready to Bolt
• This material was first produced by Ernest
Rutherford in 1934 and was first isolated by
Luis Alvarez and Robert Cornog in 1937.
• This material has been one of the leading
research interests in North Korea in recent
years to enable them to bypass the
restrictions by UN and NPT against Nuclear
weapons. Which Material?

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Tritium (Hydrogen - 3)

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Started from the bottom and now we are here
• “There's plenty of room at the bottom” was a lecture
given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American
Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29,
1959.
• Feynman concluded his talk with two challenges.
1) Construction of a tiny motor.
2) The entire Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a
pin.
• This lecture is considered as the starting point of an
entirely new branch in material science. Which branch?

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Nanotechnology

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Plato o plomo
• In 19th century Europe, Opium had become very
popular. It was addictive and soon the Britishers
introduced it in india.
• By chemical processing of opium - acetic anhydride,
activated charcoal, ethyl alcohol, ether and acetone, it
was converted to another drug. This drug taken in
small amounts was said to cure any disease you name
(at that time)
• So it was called super drug, doctor drug or hero of
drugs. But being a drug, people became addicted to it.
• Hence it was named X (which is the more common
name).
• Name the drug.

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Heroin

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You're a 10? On the pH scale maybe , 'coz you
basic
• A myth about this brand's name is that it had
a pH rating greater than 7, making it alkaline.
• Howeve, 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?

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7-UP

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Try acting dead

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I'm waking up to ash and dust
• The original detection principle of this device was
discovered in 1908, but it was not until the
development of the X tube in 1928 that the X
became a practical instrument.
• Since then it has been very popular due to its
robust sensing element and relatively low cost.
• However, there are limitations in measuring high
radiation rates and the energy of incident
radiation.
• Name the device

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Geiger counter

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
• X is officially known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge, is
a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime
that is much like a tunnel with two ends, each in
separate points in spacetime. Certain types of X
would allow travel in both directions from one part
of the universe to another part of that same
universe very quickly or would allow to travel from
one universe to another.
• The theory of general relativity predicts that if X
exists, they could allow time travel.
• Identify X.

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Wormhole

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Sun le pukaar 'Bull'eya
• Here a bull fighter is shown in a thankful
gesture to X whose invention became
important for bullfighters to fight infections
that developed in wounds due to unclean
horns of the bull.
• Due to this invention many lives of
bullfighters were saved. who is X?

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Alexander fleming

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Typical Russians
• X is the nickname for the AN602 Hydrogen bomb, the most
powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
• It was also referred to as Kuz'kina Mat'(Kuzka's mother),
potentially referring to Nikita Khrushchev's promise to
show the U.S. a “Kuz'kina Mat” at the 1960 UN General
Assembly. The famous Russian idiom, which roughly
means “ We'll show you”.
• Developed by the Soviet Union , the bomb was originally
designed to have a yield of about 150 megatons of TNT
(630 PJ), but the yield was reduced to 50 megatons in order
to reduce nuclear fallout. This attempt was successful, as it
was one of the cleanest (relative to its yield) nuclearbombs
ever detonated.
• only one bomb of this type was ever built and it was tested
on october 30,1961,in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

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Tsar bomba

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No babies were harmed in making of this
question.
• X is charecterized by multiple, symmetric, circular
skin creases or bandson the forearms, lower legs
and often the neck that are present at birth. The
creases disappear later in life.
• They're reminiscent of Bibendum, the mascot of
Y , hence the name of the syndrome is X.
• Associated abnormalities vary and may include
facial dysmorphism, upslanting palpebral fissures,
genital anomalies , mild developmental delay ,
ureterocele, smooth muscle hamartoma etc...
• (Picture on next slide)

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Michelin tyre baby syndrome

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Pro tip : Lead causes ban
• Modern X mainly uses Vermillion, which is an orange-
red pigment. Vermillion is the purified and powdered
form of cinnabar, which is the chief form in which
mercury sulfide naturally occurs.
• As with other compounds of mercury , X is toxic and
must be handled carefully. Sometimes, Red lead (Lead
tetra oxide) is added to X.
• In early 2008, allegations of high lead contentled the
U.S Food and Drug Administration to recall batches of
X from several manufactures.
• Unlike U.S., the use of X is a part of India's cultural
identity.

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Sindoor

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Beauty of the beast
• The name was given by then prime minister
of India, Jawaharlal Nehru after he liked the
blue radiation coming out of the experimental
set up.
• He related the beauty of the radiation to the
beauty of indra's court dancers.
• What was the name given by Nehru to that
experimental set up?

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Apsara

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• In 1938 , a gentleman named Roy Plunkett was
attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant. He
saw that the tetrafluoroethylene gas in the
bottle stopped flowing before the bottles weight
had dropped to the bottles weight had dropped
to the point signaling “empty” . He finally
resorted to cut the bottle apart and found waxy
white material which was oddly slippery.
• What was thus accidentally discovered?

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Teflon

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Why not Zoidberg?
Glenn T. Seaborg
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
Berkeley
California
America
• What is so special about this old mailing
address of Glenn Seaborg?

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• Jeffery Winters , writing in the January 1998 issue
of discover magazine, made the following
observation :
• “Not only is seaborg the first living scientist to
have an element named after him, he's also the
only person who could recieve mail addressed only
in elements: Seaborgium, Lawrencium (for the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he still
works), Berkelium, Californium, Americium.”

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Wood you believe it?
• A piece of wood, gifted by Royal Society, was
takento the International Space Station in
May 2010 and was returned safely; which
created headlines (might not be of many
newspapers, but of many science magazines).
• What was all this about?
(snapshot in the next slide)

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THIS IS YOUR DENSITY
• Osmium is the densest element found in
nature. Which is the densest element to ever
exist?

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Hassium

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FREE WIFI - LOADING……………..
• Radiations such as X-Rays and UV rays are
extremely dangerous to human beings and
will cause cancer after sufficient exposure.
So, why is Wi-Fi, which is also an
electromagnetic radiation, considered safe?

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Wi-fi is non-ionizing radiation

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• In flash photography the light of the flash occurs too
fast for the pupil to close so much of the very bright
light from the flash passes into the eye through pupil,
reflects off the interior surface of the eye at the back
of the eyeball and out through the pupil.
• The camera records this reflected light. The main cause
for this is the ample amount of blood in the choroid
which nourishes the back of the eye and is located
behind the retina.
• The eye contains several photo stable pigments that all
absorb in short wavelength region and hence
contribute to this phenomena.

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Red eye effect

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420 Blaze it
• In 1938 , a chemist of the Temmler company in Berlin
synthesized a drug manufactured under the name Pervitin
and publicaly sold as a stimulant and drug for psychiatry.
During WWII , it was used extensively by the axis forces
for its stimulant effects.
• From 1942 , Adolf Hitler too recieved daily injections of
this drug from his personal physician, Dr. theodor Morell.
• The production, distribution, sale, and possession of this
drug is now restricted or illegal in many jurisdictions. its
name became famous since 2008 for its relation to one of
the co-funders of a multi-billion dollar company named
Gray Matter Technologies.
• Which drug?

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Methamphetamine

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• In the last decade, a few coastal towns of
Kerala and Tamil Nadu have seen massive
protests as the livelihood of the people has
been threatened by extraction of a substance.
Which Substance?

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Mineral Beach Sand (Karimanal) rich in
minerals such as ilmenite, zircon etc.

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What a day…
• February 24, 2017 is now a historic date in the
natural gas market, especially in the west, due
to an event
• Even though it appears positive on first
glance, this event has been attributed to
global warming by most scientists

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For the first time ever, natural gas
storage levels rose during a winter
week

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Identify X & Y
• X is an African country that is rich in the ores
of the metal Y
• The first known use of Y was in early 1940s
during World War 2, though the reports of
this use surfaced only in 1966
• Another ore of Y exists in Antarctica where it
was deposited by a meteorite 10000 years
ago

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X – Vibranium 
Y - Wakanda

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• Chemist Stephanie Kwolek of DuPont created
a synthetic fibre as a replacement for steel in
racing tires. It is used today in cryogenics,
advanced sports equipment, stadiums etc. but
is mainly used for one particular purpose by
most nations in the world.
• Costa Rica and Vatican city are two nations
that do not use this fibre for this purpose

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KEVLAR (BULLETPROOF)

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THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
• Human skin has a measure of 20 units,
Stainless steels 700-900 units and Toray
T1000G Carbon Fibre, the strongest man-
made fibre 6370 units of this particular
property.
• Nanomaterials and nanotubes have a very
high value of this property with graphene
approaching 130000 units
• Identify the property in question

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Ultimate tensile strength

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