nihilanth 2015 - sci tech quiz - finals
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modulo arithmetic/integer overflow
When subtracting 2 from 1, instead of ending up at -1, the numbers would “wrap around
modulo 256” and he’d end up at 255!
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rat guards
Meant to prevent rats from clambering onto or leaving ships at foreign ports, and therefore
disease control
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(i) The Great Circle between LA & Tokyo is the shortest possible distance between two points (ii) The return flight doesn’t follow the shortest path because the Jetstream provides tail winds which help in saving fuel
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Sunlight impacting on the solar panels provides enough force to balance the telescope
and act as a virtual third wheel
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the IceCube observatory, located at the South Pole
It only considers upward moving particles, caused by neutrinos traveling through the
entire mass of the earth, using the whole earth as a shield
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the aye-aye
There are no woodpeckers native to Madagascar or PNG, these 2 animals fill the
niche left by woodpeckers
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Estimating the number/production of German tanks. If the numbering is not random,
statistical estimates give a reasonably accurate picture of actual production.
Seal Team Six was actually the second team, but by giving it a random number, they were
trying to confuse opponents about how many actually existed.
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awaited in great anticipation
the match between a man
distinguishing trait: a knife between his
teeth
and the monster of a machine
distinguishing trait: Olympic calm
ended in the victory of the dragon
for nothing
poems ripened
in the gardens of Andalucía
the nouveau riche
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elbows his way across squares
sewn from a Harlequin’s cloak
a mocking ignoramus stuffed
with all the openings
attacks defences
and finally with a joyful
hallali above the corpse
of his opponent
and so
the royal game
passes into the hands
of automatons
it needs to be snatched by night
from the prison camp
when the mind slumbers
machines awaken
we must begin again
a journey to the imagination
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