Here are the answers to the blanks in the passage:A's 1999 website advertisement "It was a bug, Dave" was made by meticulously recreating the appearance of HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Launched during the era of concerns over Y2K bugs, the ad implied that HAL's weird behavior was caused by a Y2K bug, before driving home the point that "only IBM was designed to function perfectly".A,B and C?A - Stanley Kubrick B - HAL 9000C - IBM

KRITI SCI-
TECH
Aditya Parashar

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2
A X Y is a decorative novelty item, invented in 1963 by British
accountant Edward Craven Walker. The Y consists of a bolus of a special
coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel the remainder of which contains
clear or translucent liquid; the vessel is then placed on a box containing
an incandescent light bulb whose heat causes temporary reductions in the
density and viscosity of the wax. The warmed wax rises through the
surrounding liquid, cools, loses its buoyancy, and falls back to the bottom of
the vessel in a cycle that is visually suggestive of pāhoehoe X, hence the name.
The Ys are designed in a variety of styles and colours.
X Y ? (alliterative)
Images follow.

3
An A occurs when an apparently larger body passes in front of an apparently
smaller one.
A B occurs when a smaller body passes in front of a larger one.
A C occurs when a body totally or partially disappears from view, either by an A
or by passing into the shadow of another body.
A, B, C(1+1+1)?

4. WHICH TERM?
The first use of the term is generally attributed to Signetics in 1972. Signetics
published some Z literature as the result of an inside practical joke, which is
frequently referenced within the electronics industry, a staple of software
engineering lexicons, and included in collections of the best hoaxes.
The concept is most often used as a joke or a euphemism for a failed memory
device.
The datasheet was created "as a lark" by Signetics engineer John G ‘Jack’
Curtis and was inspired by a fictitious and humorous vacuum tube
datasheet from the 1940s. It was seen as "an icebreaker" and was deliberately
included in the Signetics catalog.
Z?

5. WHAT HAS BEEN BLACKED?
James W. Black synthesised ___________(11), the
first beta blocker which became the world's best-
selling drug. ___________(11), is sold under the
brand name Inderal among others. It is used to
treat high blood pressure, a number of types
of irregular heart rate, performance anxiety and
migraine headaches.
In India it is marketed under brand names such as
Ciplar and Ciplar LA by Cipla.

6
Toru Iwatani originally named the game X as a reference to the main
character's hockey puck shape. Later in 1980, the game was picked up for
manufacture in the United States by Bally division Midway, which changed the
game's name from X to Y.
X, Y? What was the reason for the name change?

8
X from Ancient Greek τάξις , meaning 'arrangement', and -νομία , meaning
'method' is the science of defining and naming groups of
biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are
grouped together into ____ and these groups are given a rank; groups of a given
rank can be aggregated to form a super-group of higher rank, thus creating a Xic
hierarchy.
X?

9
Since 1972 when it was implemented 27 of these have been added, with the
latest addition done on December 31st 2016. What?

10.
Thought to be the first time the director gave permission for his work to be re-
used, A's 1999 website advertisement "It was a bug, Dave" was made by
meticulously recreating the appearance of B from the movie. Launched during
the era of concerns over Y2K bugs, the ad implied that B's weird behavior was
caused by a Y2K bug, before driving home the point that "only C was designed
to function perfectly".
A,B and C?

11.
Funda or what has been blanked out? ?(medal tally of a rowing event at Beijing
Olympics)

12.
A laser that produces light by itself is technically an optical oscillator rather
than an optical amplifier as suggested by the acronym. It has been humorously
noted that the acronym _____, for , would have been more correct. With the
widespread use of the original acronym as a common noun, optical amplifiers
have come to be referred to as "laser amplifiers", notwithstanding the apparent
redundancy in that designation.
Blank?

13.
X held the record for quite sometime, even after his death in 1931. In 2003 he
was surpassed by a Japanese Shunpei Yamazaki. On February 26, 2008
Yamazaki was passed by an Australian Kia Silverbrook. Yamazaki again passed
Silverbrook in 2017.
Who is X and what record is being talked about?(1+1)

14
What is this an early(1580 AD) description of?
"It is possible to make a _____ that may goe under the _____ unto the bottome,
and so to come up again at your pleasure. [If] Any magnitude of body that is in
the _____ . . . having alwaies but one weight, may be made bigger or lesser, then
it Shall swimme when you would, and sinke when you list . . . ."

16.
He lived in Waldorf-Astoria before shifting to The New Yorker Hotel where he
spent the last decade of his life. Today, Room No 3327 and 3328, have been
marked as the “Room” and “Library” of this Yugoslavia born scientist. You can
also take a 3D tour of his room and library courtesy Matterport.
His study contained a safe where he used to keep his research papers, some of
them master plans which were stolen after his death.
Visuals of the plaque outside The New Yorker dedicated to this scientist on the
next slide.
Identify this man. (image follows)

17.
When the first product by X was launched in 1976, many people believed it was
Satanic and didn’t want to buy it. This superstition was based on the price-tag
of the product.
When the co-founder was asked about it he said he just liked repeating digits
and the markup was 1/3rd the actual cost. He insists that he didn’t know about
its religious implications.
The product was recently auctioned at $905,000/-.
What am I talking about?

18.
I came in with X in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with
it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with X. The
Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they
came in together, they must go out together.’
The speaker died in 1910, a day after X ‘arrived’ .
X and who is the speaker?(1+1)

AUDIENCE ROUND
Identify the scientists in their Valentine Day cards, in the following images.
Need complete names only first names/surnames won’t do.
+1 for each correct,+5 for full house.

2
A X Y is a decorative novelty item, invented in 1963 by British
accountant Edward Craven Walker. The ____ consists of a bolus of a special
coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel the remainder of which contains
clear or translucent liquid; the vessel is then placed on a box containing
an incandescent light bulb whose heat causes temporary reductions in the
density and viscosity of the wax. The warmed wax rises through the
surrounding liquid, cools, loses its buoyancy, and falls back to the bottom of
the vessel in a cycle that is visually suggestive of pāhoehoe X, hence the name.
The Ys are designed in a variety of styles and colours.
X Y ? (alliterative)
Images follow.

3. A, OCCULTATION; B, TRANSIT; C,
ECLIPSE

6. X, PUCK-MAN;Y,PAC-MAN;
FEARED P -> F

8.
X from Ancient Greek τάξις , meaning 'arrangement', and -νομία , meaning
'method' is the science of defining and naming groups of
biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are
grouped together into ____ and these groups are given a rank; groups of a given
rank can be aggregated to form a super-group of higher rank, thus creating a Xic
hierarchy.
X?

9.
Since 1972 when it was implemented 27 of these have been added, with the
latest addition done on December 31st 2016. What?

10. A,APPLE;B, HAL
9000;C,MACINTOSH

11.
Funda or what has been blanked out?(medal tally of a rowing event at Beijing
Olympics)

13. X, THOMAS EDISON;HIGHEST
NUMBER OF PATENTS

18. HALLEY’S COMET, MARK TWAIN

AUDIENCE ROUND
Identify the scientists in their Valentine Day cards, in the following images.
Need complete names only names/surnames won’t do.
+1 for each correct,+5 for full house.

THE FINALS
ROUND 1 : 8 Questions Dry Pounce Bounce
ROUND 2 : Audience Written Round 1
ROUND 4 : Written Round
ROUND 5 : Guest Round
ROUND 7 : Audience Written Round 2

1.
A Steadicam rig was employed during the filming of Return of the Jedi (1983), in
conjunction with two __________ for e___________tra stabilization, to film the
background plates for the speeder bike chase. Steadicam inventor Garrett
Brown operated the shot, walking through a redwood forest, running the
camera at one frame per second. The end result, when projected at 24 frames
per second, gave the impression of flying through the air at perilous speeds.
Name is this device used primarily for maintaining orientation and angular
velocity.

2.
The term X derives from the Greek language : ἦθος, meaning "character" and -
λογία, meaning "the study of". The term was first popularized by
American myrmecologist (a person who studies Ys) William Morton Wheeler in
1902.
An earlier, slightly different sense of the term was proposed by John Stuart
Mill in his 1843 System of Logic. He recommended the development of a new
science, “X", the purpose of which would be explanation of individual and
national differences in character, on the basis of associationistic psychology.
This use of the word was never adopted.
X now means the the scientific and objective study of animal behavior.
X and Y?

3.
Tinbergen's four questions, named
after Nikolaas Tinbergen, are complementary
categories of explanations for behaviour.
These are also commonly referred to as levels
of analysis. It suggests that an integrative
understanding of behaviour must include
both a proximate and ultimate (functional)
analysis of behaviour, as well as an
understanding of both
phylogenetic/developmental history and the
operation of current mechanisms.
Which ancient philosophical theory are
these based upon?

4.
In August 2011, in response to Apple Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit
against Samsung, the latter argued that Apple's iPad was effectively modeled on
the visual tablets that appear aboard spaceship _________ in the X film, which
constitute prior art.
"Siri", Apple's natural language voice control system for the iPhone 4S, features
a reference to the film: it responds "I'm sorry I can't do that" when asked to
"open the pod bay doors". When asked repeatedly, it may say, "Without your
space helmet, you're going to find this rather... breathtaking.
X and the blank?

X = 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY,
DISCOVERY

5.
_______ _______ _______ can also mean "dump," or "do away with".
It is well known and infamous for escaping from problems in pop culture. For
example, in the Billy Talent song "Perfect World", part of the lyrics include the
sequence and associate it with resetting their memory and escaping from a
situation: "_______ _______ _______. Reset my memory."
They were also used in a line in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song "It's All About the
Pentiums"
"Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you.
If I ever meet you I'll _______ _______ _______ you"

6.
There have been thirty Mars mission attempts over a period of forty years now.
In one such turn of events, the mission launched as X became the first to be
headed by a public university, University of Arizona, in NASA history. This
lander, used in 2008, is the modified Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander (cancelled in
2000) along with several instruments from both that and the previous
unsuccessful Mars Polar Lander mission (1999). Lockheed Martin which built
the 1999 lander, had kept the nearly complete lander in an environmentally
controlled clean room from 2001 until the 2008 mission was funded.
Owing to such history, what (mythical) name was given to the spacecraft due to
obvious reasons ?

7.
Reflecting the treaty between the British and French governments that led to
Xe's construction, the name Xe is from a French word Xe, , which has an English
equivalent, X. Both words mean agreement, harmony or union. The name was
officially changed to X by Harold Macmillan. At its French roll-out, in late
1967, the British Government Minister for Technology, Tony Benn, announced
that he would change the spelling back to Xe. This created a nationalist uproar
that died down when Benn stated that the suffixed "e" represented "Excellence,
England, Europe and Entente (Cordiale)".
X or Xe ?
Image on next slide.

8.
The phrase “________ ________" goes back to one of
the authors who helped shape science fiction, H.G.
Wells. In Wells' 1923 novel Men Like Gods, a man is
transported to Utopia, which exists in a ________
_________:
We accept your main proposition unreservedly; namely,
that we conceive ourselves to be living in a ________
________ to yours, on a planet the very brother of your
own, indeed quite amazingly like yours, having regard
to all the possible contrasts we might have found here.
Which phrase?

AUDIENCE WRITTEN ROUND 1
"The Elements" is a song by musical humorist and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which
recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of
writing(1959), up to number 102, nobelium.
Just use your rhyming and periodic table skills and fill in the blanks.
11 elements plus one non-element, +5 for each correct. +60 for full house.

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, A,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, B,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, C,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and D,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, E,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
There's strontium and silicon and silver and F,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and G,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, H,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, I,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, X,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, J,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and K,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to (L),
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium(A),
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium(B),
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium(C),
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium(D),
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium(E),
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium(F),
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium(G),
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium(H),
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium(I),
Palladium, promethium, potassium, X,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium(J),
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium(K),
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard(L),
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

9.
The 13th-century Catholic saint Albertus Magnus, who was supposed to have
built a mechanical head that could answer the questions posed to it. When
Ephraim Chambers wrote his 1728 Cyclopædia, he paired the Greek prefix for
"man" with the suffix for "having the form or likeness of" when describing
Albertus Magnus' mythical construct, dubbing it an “X." By the 19th century,
the word was well in vogue, used in patent applications. Lucasfilm holds the
trademark on the shortened form of the word , the first instance of that form of
the word may be in Mari Wolf's 1952 story Robots of the World! Arise!—but it
never got a toy line.
Which word?

10.
James H. Schmitz was the first person to dub a collective alien intelligence a
“____ ____" in his 1950 story Second Night of Summer, in which humans on
another planet are attacked by the Halpa, aliens who are believed to have "the
____ ____ class of intelligence." The humans are saved, unusually, by an elderly
woman, Granny Wannattel. In 1973, it would meander outside of science fiction
to describe bureaucracy in a March 1973 edition of the Daily Telegraph, "The
social and aesthetic attitudes have been passed through the homogeniser of the
bureaucratic ____ ____." Now we use it to describe all sorts of social groups that
seem to think and act with a single mind.
Which two word term?

11.
A plane’s limits are calculated in a construct called its "flight ________." That is,
the particular combination of speed, height, stress and other aeronautical
factors that form the bounds of safe operation. Go beyond these limits, or “
____ ___ ________," and you'll be dancing into the danger zone where the
dancer becomes the dance, and the plane becomes a giant fireball.
Test pilots, of course, have to ____ ___ flight ________ all the time. By flying a
plane beyond its mathematical limits, they can check that it'll be safe when
flown within its limits and find out what parts might fail if the limits are
pushed, all while running the risk of having the plane burst into flames.
Which phrase has thus originated?

12.
X is a highly toxic, colorless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide. It’s
structure was first determined in 1946 by Sir Robert Robinson and in 1954 this
alkaloid was synthesized in a laboratory by Robert B. Woodward. Both chemists
won the Nobel prize.
X has been used as a plot device in the author Agatha Christie's murder
mysteries. It was popularly used as an athletic performance
enhancer and recreational stimulant in the late 19th century, due to
its convulsant effects. Its effects are well-described in Y‘s novella The Invisible
Man: the titular character states “X is a grand tonic ... to take the flabbiness out
of a man." The protagonist replies: "It's the devil, ... It's the palaeolithic in a
bottle.“ X is rumored to have killed many historic figures including Alexander
the Great and Blues musician Robert Johnson.
X, Y?

13.
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, X is the substance used to
build the massive station-ring around earth and the necessary surface supports
to maintain it.
In the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, X are common
materials, used in the construction of high-durability objects such as ship hulls
and body armor. In addition, in lieu of tractor beams ships use X cables to
ensnare and pull other ships.
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the X is one of the primary constituents of
the late 24th century communicators.
Which famous molecule is X?

14.
M is a federated social network, with similar
microblogging features to Twitter, but administered as a
decentralized federation of independently
operated servers running open source software. Users
post short messages, called toots for others to read,
subject to the completely adjustable privacy settings of
the user and their particular instance
M means nipple-tooth. The teeth of M are cusp-shaped
differentiating them from elephants. The professor
offered this observation: If you dig up an elephantine
skeleton and name it for a nipple like shape on its teeth,
you have probably been in the field too long.

15.
An O is the outer atmosphere of a star. The O program was a series
of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by
the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology with
substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force. The O satellites were used for
photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union (USSR), the People's Republic of
China, and other areas beginning in June 1959 and ending in May 1972. The
name of this program is sometimes seen as "O", but its actual name "O" was
a codeword, not an acronym.
O is also the name of a beer brand.

16.
X was discovered by Y in 1898,and was named after Y's native land
of ______.. ______ at the time was under Russian, German, and Austro-
Hungarian partition, and did not exist as an independent country. It was Y's
hope that naming the element after the native land would publicize its lack of
independence. X may be the first element named to highlight a political
controversy.
X & Y?

WRITTEN ROUND
6 unknowns
+5 for each, +50 for full house

A was an American writer famous for his science fiction work. His book B was
made into a movie with the name C, and a sequel D of C . D is directed by E,
who also directed Oscar winning movie F, for Best Sound Editing in 2017.
Another of A’s work was made into a TV series by Amazon, G.

A Philipp K Dick
B Do androids dream of electric sheep
C Blade Runner
D Blade Runner 2049
E Dennis Villenueve
F Arrival
G The Man in the High Castle

● Manan Bhutani ; IIT Guwahati - Class of
2015
● Graced the classrooms of the Mathematics
Departments; and on the odd occasions, those
of the Computer Science Department as well
● Ex-Dictator, IITG Quiz Club - 2013-2014. Those
were the Golden years of the Quiz Club :P
● Currently staying and working in Gurgaon as a
Corporate Stooge, and living the good life(the
only perk of being a Corporate Stooge)

● 11 questions
● +10 on the direct; +20/-10 on the pounce

1. LOOK AWAY
Q.) This is Edward Snowden. What is he doing? Bonus cookie points if you tell the exact
name of the exploit he is defending himself from

UNLOCKING HIS PHONE AND DOING IT
UNDER A BLANKET TO PROTECT HIMSELF
FROM SHOULDER SURFING ATTACKS.

2. JORDAN + BUGS BUNNY
Q.) Monument in honor of whom?

YURI GAGARIN, THE FIRST MAN IN
SPACE.

3. A GRAD STUDENT’S BEST FRIEND
Q.) This stud developed a software package for students in his lab, but it gained a lot of
traction leading to the commercialization of this extremely popular research tool. What tool
are we talking about?

CLEVE MOLER, CREATOR OF MATLAB.

4. PARADOX CORRECTING
Q.) On June 28, 2009, he threw a “party”, but no one showed up. Who was the party for?

FOR TIME TRAVELERS. HE ANNOUNCED
THE PARTY AFTER IT WAS OVER.

5. OPERATOR?
Q.) Made by then “hackers” who later become billionaires. What is this box and who used it?

BLUE BOX MADE BY JOBS AND WOZNIAK.

6. DID YOU PREPARE FOR IITJEE?
Q.) Who da man?

IGOR IRODOV, AUTHOR OF PROBLEMS IN
GENERAL PHYSICS

7. FIRST T SHIRTS, NOW THIS?
Q.) This is what happens when you let scientists do whatever they want. What is this?

8. EXCLUDE HIM, PLEASE
Q.) This man is one of the pioneers of Quantum Physics. But, you are better off conducting
your experiments and demonstrations while he is not around. Why? Who is he?

WOLFGANG PAULI. APPARENTLY,
SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT BROKE DOWN
MYSTERIOUSLY IN HIS PRESENCE,
KNOWN AS THE “PAULI EFFECT” IS
SOMEHOW AS POPULAR AS HIS LEGIT
“PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE”.

9. NOW YOU HAVE A KEY TO DO THIS..
Q.) What is he doing here?

10. WHERE IS MY TOWEL?
Q.) What is this?

HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY -
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

11. ALT
Q.) These jokes were just waiting to happen.. Some alternatives to X are named after these.
What is X?

X - BITCOIN.
DOGECOIN, COINYEWEST AND NORRIS
COIN ARE ALL BITCOIN ALTERNATIVES

17.
In some medieval encyclopedias, X’s Y is mentioned as
the actual Y of X or elephants who perished in mortal
combat.
In reality, X’s Yis actually a resin harvested from various
plant species such as Croton, Dracaena, Daemonorops,
Calamus rotang, and Pterocarpus. Its main feature is the
red pigment that lends it the name X’s Y.
In the 18th century, X’s Y was used as a varnish for Italian
violin makers. Moreover, there was a recipe for a
toothpaste containing X’s Y. In India, it has been used in
ceremonies for face painting or as a red varnish for
wooden furniture.
X’s Y?

18.
Chemist William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create a cure
for malaria in 1856. An unexpected residue caught his eye, which turned out to
be the first aniline dye – specifically, Perkin's M. Perkin was so successful in
marketing his discovery to the dye industry that his biography is simply
entitled M. However, as it faded easily, the success of M dye was short-lived and
it was replaced by other synthetic dyes by 1873.
The 1890s are sometimes referred to in retrospect as the "M Decade", because of
the characteristic popularity of the subtle color among progressive "artistic"
types, both in Europe and the US.
M?

19.
During World War II, Japan invaded rubber-producing countries as it expanded
its sphere of influence in the Pacific Rim. Rubber was vital for the production
of rafts, tires, vehicle and aircraft parts, gas masks, and boot. In the US, all
rubber products were rationed; citizens were encouraged to make their rubber
products last until the end of the war and to donate spare tires, boots, and
coats.
Earl Warrick and James Wright, both researchers independently discovered
that reacting boric acid with silicone oil would produce a unique material with
several unique properties. The non-toxic material had a very high melting
temperature. However, the substance did not have all the properties needed to
replace rubber.
What was thus invented?

20.
It it now widely thought that L originated when an early ancestor of eukaryotic
cells engulfed a Proteobacterial cell. Instead of digesting the bacterium
completely the cell derived energy from it and the proto-L was able to survive
and reproduce in this environment.
Eventually much of the the endosymbiont's (the bacteria's) genome became
incorporated into the host cell and became what we now would know as L.
They originated from an endosymbiotic process involving a bacterial cell. They
remain very similar to bacterial cells. At some point in the past having these
endosymbionts as part of a proto-eukaryotic cell probably conferred some
fitness advantage.
L? and what is being talked about here?

L, MITOCHONDRIA;WHY THEY HAVE
THEIR OWN DNA

21.
Apparently, P is really popular with scientists. Not only are wasps named after
her, there is also an entire genus of ferns that share her sobriquet. The ferns are
the most hilarious, especially given the reasons.
The lead researcher said that one of P’s song is incredibly empowering to
disenfranchised. Congress alone probably makes most scientists feel like small,
picked-on nerds. But it was also P’s performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards
that ensured she would finally be lionized as a plant. Apparently, L’s dress
looked like the bisexual reproductive stage of a fern, and her “paws up” salute
resembled the way a fern extends its leaves. The botanists even made it so that a
DNA sequence in the ferns actually spells out P(all letters capital).
P?(Image follows)

22.
First predicted to exist in the 1960s, the V had been long sought after by
scientists. And a detection was finally made in 2015, thanks to CERN's Large
Hadron Collider.
Made of ____(a number) quarks – the smallest subatomic particles we know to
exist – the V could help explain exactly how ordinary matter is made. It hints at
a new type of matter, with the particle existing beyond our current knowledge
of subatomic physics.
There is still much work to be done on the V. But there's little doubt that this
was one of the major scientific breakthroughs of 2015.
V?

23.
Engineers In Japan have come up with a novel new way to encourage safe
driving among citizens.
The design was refined by engineers at the institute in Sapporo, and the team
has previously worked on tech to detect dangerous road surfaces.
This new method also elimates the need for a particular car accessory if the
driver drives in accordance to lane and speed regulations. Optimal output of
design is achieved when the car windows are closed, so ambient ____ cannot
interfere.
What did these engineers devise?

24.
X is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting private or
identifiable information (especially personally identifiable information) about
an individual or organization. The methods employed to acquire this
information include searching publicly available databases and social
media websites (like Facebook), and social engineering. It is closely related
to internet vigilantism and hacktivism.
The term X derives from a slang which, according to Wired writer Mat Honan,
was "an old-school revenge tactic that emerged from hacker culture in 1990s."
Name this practice.

AUDIENCE ROUND 2
6 Fictional elements, found in various forms of entertainment.
+10 for each, +60 for full house.

1.
A is a well-known in-joke in scientific circles, and is a parody both on
the bureaucracy of scientific establishments and on descriptions of newly
discovered chemical elements.
In 1991, Thomas Kyle (the supposed discoverer of this element) was awarded an Ig
Nobel Prize for physics, making him one of only three fictional people to have won the
award.
Another variation on the same joke is B. A commonly heard description describes it as
"having a negative half-life", in other words the more time passes, the more massive B
becomes; it only grows larger and more sluggish. This refers to the ____________
system, which is generally perceived as a system in which ____________ procedures
accumulate and whatever needs to get done takes increasingly longer to get done.
A & B?

2.
Green ,Red, Anti, Jewel,Silver, Gold, Bizarro Red,Black , Orange, Periwinkle are
the forms of which fictional element?

3.
X can refer to any substance needed to build some device critical to the plot of
a science fiction story but which does not exist in the universe as we know it. A
hull material that gets stronger with pressure in the film The Core (2003) was
nicknamed X.
X can also refer to any rare but desirable material used to motivate a conflict
over its possession, making it a MacGuffin . X can be used in a disparaging
context (e.g., "That idea is silly; you'd need X wires to hold the planet up!") or a
hypothetical one ("If one were to build an X shell around a black hole's event
horizon, what would happen to the material piling up on it?").

4.
According to the comic books, the components of the alloy are kept in separate
batches - typically in blocks of resin - before molding. X is prepared by melting
the blocks together, mixing the components while the resin evaporates. The
alloy must then be cast within eight minutes.
The word is a pseudo-Latin neologism based on a English noun and
adjective (and the derived adjective ). The adjective has long been used to refer
to the property of impregnable, diamondlike hardness, or to describe a very
firm/resolute position. The noun has long been used to designate any
impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance.
The noun and the adjective occur in works such as Prometheus
Bound, the Aeneid, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Lord of the Rings, and the film Forbidden
Planet , all of which predate the use of X in Marvel's comics.

5.
This metal, which is found solely on Paradise Island, is the indestructible metal
out of which Wonder Woman's bracelets are made. Wonder Woman, and other
inhabitants of Paradise Island, use the bracelets to deflect bullets. The material
was featured in the Wonder Woman television series in its fifth episode, "The
________ Mystique Part 2", which aired on 8 November 1976.
Which metal?

A = ADMINISTRATIUM, B =
BUREAUCRATIUM

5.
This metal, which is found solely on Paradise Island, is the indestructible metal
out of which Wonder Woman's bracelets are made. Wonder Woman, and other
inhabitants of Paradise Island, use the bracelets to deflect bullets. The material
was featured in the Wonder Woman television series in its fifth episode, "The
_________ Mystique Part 2", which aired on 8 November 1976.
Which metal?

25.
_ _ _ _ was originally named _ _a _ _. Larry Wall, the creator of _ _ _ _, wanted
to give the language a short name with positive connotations and claims to have
looked at (and rejected) every three- and four-letter word in the dictionary. He
even thought of naming it after his wife Gloria. Before the language's official
release Wall discovered that there was already a programming language
named _ _a _ _, and changed the spelling of the name.
Which language?

26.
It’s named from the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's _________s", originally
used as a metaphor for any self-initiating or self-sustaining process. Used in
computing due to the apparent paradox that a computer must run code to load
anything into memory, but code cannot be run until it is loaded.
What?

27.
“H” is a Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970 and written by Terry
Jones and Michael Palin. In the sketch, two customers are lowered by wires into
a greasy spoon café and try to order a breakfast from a menu that includes H in
almost every dish, much to the consternation of one of the customers.
The televised sketch and several subsequent performances feature Terry
Jones as the Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun,
who does not like H.
What is H?

28.
Z was produced first in 1879, by Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist working on coal
tar derivatives in Ira Remsen's laboratory at the Johns Hopkins
University. Fahlberg noticed a sweet taste on his hand one evening, and
connected this with the compound benzoic sulfimide on which he had been
working that day. Fahlberg and Remsen published articles on benzoic sulfimide
in 1879 and 1880. In 1884, then working on his own in New York City, Fahlberg
applied for patents in several countries, describing methods of producing this
substance that he named Z.
Z?

29.
At first, scientists believed this strange phenomenon to be a direct result of tiny red
algae that might be present in the water.
Still, with expeditions being rather rare due the location being situated in one of the
most remote and geologically exotic places in the world, nothing conclusive was reliably
proved. That is until, in 2003, one study proved that the redness is due to the high
amount of iron oxides, sulfates and salt present in the water.
Furthermore, the saltiness of the water led scientists to a conclusion that there must be
free flowing salt water trapped somewhere beneath. And as it turns out, there was.
Hidden 400 meters deep beneath, a lake of unknown size containing extremely salty
water was discovered. Located several kilometers from the outflow, the lake had
been completely isolated from the outside world for almost two million years.
What is being talked about here?

30.
In 1955, Walter designed an electrically amplified instrument. The hollow body
style of it made it very light and easy to play, unlike other variants. It also
imbued it with richer tones, similar to that of a traditional ___.
It was first unveiled to the public at the Frankfurt Music Fair in 1956. A major
boost for the brand came in 1961, when it caught the eye of young Q.
Q, who is left handed, was drawn to this particular make because he felt its
symmetrical shape would mean that playing it left handed would not look as
awkward as using a ____ designed for a right handed person.
Identify Q and his iconic, signature instrument.

PAUL MCCARTNEY’S VIOLIN BASS

31.
JANE is a recently released documentary based
on the life of legendary scientist Jane _____.
It is directed by Brett Morgen, and scored by
Philip Glass.
It has material taken from a short film called
‘Ms Jane and the Chimpanzees’, which was shot
in 1962, and features narration and voice-over by
a genre-defining Director and Actor.
Who is Jane, what did she do, and Who narrated
the short film?

31. JANE GODALL
FIRST PERSON TO CO-EXIST WITH
CHIMPANZEES IN WILD
ORSON WELLES

32. WHAT IN THE WORLD OF TECH
GET’S ITS NAME FROM THIS
INCIDENT
The Great Fire of ____ was an urban fire in
the year AD 64. It caused widespread
devastation, before being brought under
control after six days. Differing accounts
either blame Emperor ____ for initiating
the fire or credit him with organizing
measures to contain it and provide relief for
refugees. According to Tacitus and later
Christians, ____ blamed the devastation on
the Christian community in the city,
initiating the empire's first persecution
against the Christians.
The blanks or the funda would do.

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