KIIT National Science Congress-Science Quiz-Junior

1. Good Morning Science Enthusiasts……

2. Welcome to Net Practice-The Prelims

3. 1.Which scientist saved his city in Sicily from Romans by practical application of pulleys and levers?

4. 2. Plasma, which makes up 55% of blood fluid, is basically 92% what?

5. 3*. Which is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?

6. 4*. When things need to be done fast, we have often heard the phrase “done in a jiffy”. But what does jiffy mean?

7. 5. The camel is known as the ship of the desert because of its reputed ability to survive without water. But which animal is known to be capable of surviving without water longer than a camel?

8. 6. "you are a citizen because you can't help it – you were born one, but I chose to be one”. This is what he quoted his wife about his change of citizenship. Who is this legendary scientist?

9. 7. This phenomenon is caused by movement of electrons from the f orbital to the d orbital. What am I talking about.

10. 8.What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?

11. 9.The short story "Runaround“ is the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics. Who devised these three laws?

12. 10. Dolphins do not drink water. True or False and why? (Just true or false will not give marks)

13. 11. What is the deepest part of the earth’s known as?

14. 12. What would you call the sleepiest animal in the world?

15. 13. What does the term SONAR stand for?

16. 14.Who devised the first scale devised to measure temperature?

17. 15. What is an animal which has both male and female reproductive organs in its body at the same time called?

18. 16. Who is the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize?

19. 17.* “Mr. Watson come here. I want to see you”. Who said these words and why?

26. 24.*When &Whose birthday is celebrated as National Science Day in India?

27. 25* Connect and explain the connection? Clue:-Watching movies can be a good hobby.

28. Let’s Evaluate our Efforts

29. 1.Which scientist saved his city in Sicily from Romans by practical application of pulleys and levers?

30. ARCHIMEDES

31. 2. Plasma, which makes up 55% of blood fluid, is basically 92% what?

32. Water

33. 3*. Which is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?

34. J

35. 4. When things need to be done fast, we have often heard the phrase “done in a jiffy”. But what does jiffy mean?

36. Jiffy is actually a unit of time which equals 1/100 th of a second.

37. 5. The camel is known as the ship of the desert because of its reputed ability to survive without water. But which animal is known to be capable of surviving without water longer than a camel?

38. RAT

39. 6. "you are a citizen because you can't help it – you were born one, but I chose to be one”. This is what he quoted his wife about his change of citizenship. Who is this legendary scientist?

41. 7. This phenomenon is caused by movement of electrons from the f orbital to the d orbital. What am I talking about.

42. LASER

43. 8.What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?

44. Water

45. 9.The short story "Runaround“ is the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics. Who devised these three laws?

46. Isaac Asimov

47. 10. Dolphins do not drink water. True or False and why? (Just true or false will not give marks)

48. True. Dolphins get all the water they need from the fish they eat.

49. 11. What is the deepest part of the earth’s known as?

50. It is called the Mariana Trench

51. 12. What would you call the sleepiest animal in the world?

52. Koala Bears are the sleepiest animals in the world sleeping up to 22 hours per day.

53. 13. What does the term SONAR stand for?

54. Sound Navigation and Ranging

55. 14.Who devised the first scale devised to measure temperature?

56. Isaac Newton. In order to measure temperature, he defined the temperature of melting snow as 0 degrees and the temperature of boiling water as 33 degrees. This was done somewhere around 1700.

57. 15. What is an animal which has both male and female reproductive organs in its body at the same time called?

59. 16. Who is the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize?

60. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize is Lawrence Bragg who won it for Physics in 1915.

61. 17.* “Mr. Watson come here. I want to see you”. Who said these words and why?

65. 19.Who made the world’s first wristwatch?

67. 20.At room temperature, which is the only metal which exists in liquid form?

68. Mercury

69. 21. Which is the largest known berry?

71. 22. What does the Torino scale measure?

75. 24*. When &Whose birthday is celebrated as National Science Day in India?

77. 25* Connect and explain the connection? Clue:-Watching movies can be a good hobby.

79. The Battle Ahead…Finals

81. Identify her? 1

83. ADA LOVELACE She is known as the "first programmer".

84. Identify the visuals. Explain the context. 2

87. Identify it? 3

89. PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL Photovoltaic cells produce electricity directly from sunlight

90. Identify this? 4

92. MORSE KEY/TELEGRAPH KEY

93. This is a mascot of JAVA Language. Name it. 5

95. DUKE

96. Which criminal fraudulent practice is explained here in the following example?(computer security) 6

98. AUDIENCE

99. Identify this and which company owns it?

100. Apple's single button mouse namely MIGHTY MOUSE which was seen as one of the things that set Apple computers apart from their competition.

101. Anti-Clockwise

104. A-Shiv Nadar B-HCL

105. Team Five Identify him and what is his contribution to India?

108. Team Four "Roti, kapda, makaan aur __________" was ___________'s war cry in the 90s as a prescription to India becoming an IT superpower. His interest in film making went back to 1977, when on a vacation in his village he was introduced to celebrated director of the “art cinema genre,” Shyam Benegal. For two months, he worked with Benegal as a spot boy, absorbing the finer nuances of film making and getting a feel of the action behind the camera.

110. Bandwidth, Dewang Mehta When he took over Nasscom's stewardship in 1990 the body had only 72 members, but when he passed away in 2001 it had more than 500 members.

111. Team Three “ X” was born in India in Titilagarh, Orissa. His parents hailed from Gujarat and migrated to Odisha. They were deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy. H e designed his own computer-themed card game called Compucards .Identify X. He went on to found a company “Y”. Identify X & Y.

113. X-SAM PITRODA/ Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda Y-WESCOM SWITCHING

114. Team Five Both of them received Nobel prize for their contribution in the field of physics have Indian origin. One of them is a nephew of the other person. Identify them?

116. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was nephew of CV Raman. CV Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him“ in 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , for his “ theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

117. Team Six A fter the end of the Second World War and before India got independence, Sir Ardeshir Dalal from the Viceroy's Executive Council foresaw that the future prosperity of India would depend not so much on capital as on technology. Thus he proposed and conceptualised something,but died before he could see them being born .What did he conceptualise?

119. IIT(Indian Institute of Technology)

121. Question-one:-Connect

124. Question-Two:-Connect

127. Question Three:-Connect? Explain the connection?

130. Question Four:-Connect and explain the connection.

135. ELEPHANT

137. CAMEL

141. CHAMELEON

143. SHARK

145. KANGAROO

147. The pineapple. It is actually a mass of berries fused to a stock. That is why the fruit has leaves on the top.

149. Team-One

150. Team-Two

151. Team-Three

152. Team-Four

153. Team-Five

154. Team-Six

160. TIE-BREAKER

161. 1.Identify the below given instrument:- Pic1 – is a home model of the instrument and Pic 2 – is a replica of the first working model of this instrument. Pic-1 Pic-2

163. Seismograph/seismometer

164. 2. ____ and ___ are the only two non-white metals.

166. Gold & Copper

167. 3.This is a Japanese domestic robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, primarily intended to provide companionship to elderly and disabled people. The robot is yellow, 1m tall, and weighs 30 kilograms. It has two arms and its flat, circular base has a diameter of 45 cm. The first hundred went on sale in September, 2005, for USD $14,000. Functions include reminding the user to take medicine on time, and calling for help if it suspects something is wrong. The name given to the robot is the childhood name of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. It was named after him. Name it?

169. Wakamaru

170. 4.What does the word “Dinosaur” mean?Explain.

173. 5. Expand the acronym: CHAT (used commonly over the Internet).

175. 6. What technology is used to separate heterogenous and liquid mixtures based on the differences in mass of their constituents?

176. Centrifuge