Science-Technology Quiz (School Quiz 2024)

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1. For several years, Leon Bellan, assistant professor at Vanderbilt
University, has been tinkering with ______ _____ machines, getting
them to spin out networks of tiny threads comparable in size, density
and complexity to the patterns formed by capillaries.
His goal has been to make fiber networks that can be used as
templates to produce the capillary systems required to create full-
scale artificial organs.
FITB with a sweet treat.

2. When asked about the structure, Wang Qing- the main architect
of the building said, “The client wanted to promote Buddhism by
building a contemporary Buddhist temple near Shanghai, so we
read some sutras and extracted one of it’s basic concepts-
reincarnation.”
“We decided that the best way to represent it was by making the
shape of the building stand out and created this one of a kind
building.”
What shape is this building based off?

3. X is a mechanically-interlocked molecule composed of five
interlocking macrocycles that resembles the _______ rings.
The molecule is a linear pentacatenane or a [5]catenane. It
was synthesized and named by Fraser Stoddart and co-
workers in 1994.
Give the inspiration for the X’s name, that was in the
news around June 2020.

Answer
X- Olympiadane
or Olympics

4. When this iconic vehicle was first made, the Metropolitan Police
was skeptical about the stability of the vehicle due to its height and
thought it would present a tipping hazard.
The manufacturer disproved this using a tilt test showing that the
vehicles were "capable of leaning , fully laden on top, at an angle
of 28 degrees without toppling over”.
What Iconic Vehicle are we talking about here ?

Answer
London Double-Decker
Buses

5.
On X's 72nd birthday, a UPI photographer was trying to persuade
X to smile for the camera, but having smiled for photographers
many times that day, X did something different.
This photograph became one of the most popular photographs
of X, often used in merchandise depicting him in a lighthearted
sense.
X liked this photo and requested UPI to give him nine copies for
personal use, one of which he signed for a reporter.
Which famous photograph am I talking about?

Answer
X- Albert Einstein
Photograph---->

6. The _____ Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Centre with South in
the Marina Bay area in Singapore.
The structure symbolises life and continuity,everlasting abundance and
growth. Each night, pairs of green and red buttons labeled “c” and “g”
or “a” and “t” and generate creative illumination from the ground,
collaborating even more for a sensational experience of those who
pass by the bridge.
What is the inspiration behind the design of the bridge?
FITB.

7. The fact that there was a component of air that does not
support combustion was clear to Rutherford, although he was
not aware that it was an element.It is referred to as burnt air
_____ was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as
"mephitic air" or azote, from the Greek word for “no life". In an
atmosphere of pure ____ animals died and flames were
extinguished.
ID the element.

8 This asteroid was discovered by James B. Gibson on 16
August 1971. He decided to name this particular asteroid
after his dog ‘Mr.X’.
Though the asteroid was named after a dog, we know the
name X for a different reason today as it is the name of a
particular half-vulcan character of a famed and acclaimed
sci-fi television series that premiered in 1966 with a pilot
titled “The Man Trap”.
Identify the TV series and the character X.

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1
What is the common
name of the foamy
substance in the video?

2
Identify the
liquid shown in
the video

3
What experiment is
being done in the
following video ?
(Specific Name)

4
What
scientific
principle is
demonstrated
in this video?

Answer
Elephant’s Toothpaste

1
Who did Sehwag unwilling
pay tribute to?

2
Who does this stamp
celebrate?

Answer
Laika
The first dog in space

3.
What is this Comic Strip about?

Answer
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

Answer
Dolly The Sheep
The First Mammal to be
Successfully cloned

9. The following picture shows the natural phenomenon X. This
phenomenon occurs due to sunlight being scattered by
interplanetary dust. It shares its name with a popular system of
categorizing birth years with symbols.
After his long stint as lead guitarist in the band Queen, Y
decided to finish his astrophysics degree and subsequently
wrote a paper about the phenomenon X.
Identify X and Y.

Answer
X - Zodiacal lights / Zodiac Lights
Y - Brian May

10.
“Cadaeic Cadenza” is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an
example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on
how it can be written. It is also one of the most famous literary
work written in "pilish".
In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to
mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces
of literature in story, structure, and rhyme.
What is special about it?

Answer
Each word tells the right digits of pi
Cadae=3.1415

11. The team of the Baby _____ Project sent collection forms to
schools in the St. Louis, Missouri area, hoping to gather 50,000
_____ each year. Ultimately, the project collected over 3,00,000
_____ from children of various ages before the project was ended in
1970.
The focus was on detecting the presence of strontium-90 that is
absorbed from water and dairy products into the bones and _____
given its chemical similarity to Calcium.
FITB

12. X is believed to derive its name from the Countess of ________,
wife of a Spanish Viceroy of Peru. After contracting “an attack of
fever” whilst visiting Peru in 1630, the Countess is alleged to have
been cured by the bark of this tree. The bark of X was later used
by Jesuit missionaries to treat various fevers.
After the compound Y was extracted from X, Y was used instead
to treat malaria. Y is also found in Tonic water and a modified
version of it , Hydroxychloroquine is used against COVID-19 in
severe cases.
Identify X and Y

Answer
X - Cinchona
Y - Quinine

13. The last years of X’s life were embittered by a long controversy
with John Keill and Y over whether X had discovered _______
independently of Y, or whether he had merely invented another
notation for ideas that were fundamentally Y’s.
The most remarkable aspect of this struggle was that no
participant doubted for a moment that Y had already developed
his method of fluxions when X began working on_____________.
ID X and Y. Also FITB

Answer
X and Y- Leibniz and Newton
Calculus

14 In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland was trying to find a
replacement for shellac—that's an expensive resin secreted by a
South Asian beetle—when instead he produced the world's first
_______.
By combining formaldehyde with phenol, which is a waste
product of coal tar, and mixing in other materials, he accidentally
created a non-conductive and heat-resistant polymer that is
used in pretty much everything you see right now.
FITB and the name he gave to this invention

15.
Swami Vivekananda, late in the year l895 wrote in a letter to
an English friend, "Mr. X thinks he can demonstrate
mathematically that force and matter are reducible to
potential energy. I am to go and see him next week to get this
new mathematical demonstration. In that case the Vedantic
cosmology will be placed on the surest of foundations."
Picture Follows
ID X.

16.
Cosmos Redshift 7 is a high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitter
galaxy. The galaxy is observed as it was about 800 million
years after the Big Bang, during the epoch of reionization.
With a light travel time of 12.9 billion years, it is one of the
oldest, most distant galaxies known.
After Whom is this galaxy named? (not a scientist)

Answer
Cristiano Ronaldo(CR7)
Cosmos Redshift 7

1.
Who is the
author of
these books?

Answer
Places that have elements named after them
● Poland-Polonium
● France - Francium
● Germany - Germanium
● Cyprus - Copper
● Europe-Europium

3.
X is the Latin name for cuttlefish which produces a rich, reddish-
brown pigment that comes in handy when a larger sea creature
threatens it.
X tone not only adds a more natural look to monochrome photos but
it also turns the metallic silver in photographs to Silver Sulphide which
doesn’t fade over time hence preserving the photo from
environmental pollutants.
It is now famous as a filter on used various social media sites under
the name of X or ‘Vintage’.
Identify X

4. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia , is a form of brief cranial pain or
headache commonly associated with consumption of certain
foods quickly.
It is caused by having something ____ touch the roof of the
mouth and is believed to result from a nerve response causing
rapid constriction and swelling of blood vessels or a "referring" of
pain from the roof of the mouth to the head.
What is this commonly known as?

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