Science and TechQuiz

Manjil P. Saikia

Department of Mathematical SciencesTezpur University

manjil@gonitsora.com

Slides available for download at http://gonitsora.com

29-03-2012

Rules:

1. There will be 30 questions and one theme2. There will be 7 ** questions which will clear any ties

3. The ** question has a theme, which if identified equals 2 points

4. Each correct answer except the theme will fetch 1 point5. There are no negatives throughout the quiz

6. The Quiz Masters decision is the final decision

Warm UpWhat will this equation give when plotted in a graph?

**1.What is their most famous product?

Angry Birds

**2. Connect

CalculusPic 1: Godfrey Leibniz (one of the founders of calculus)

Pic 2: Prof. Calculus (a fictional character)Pic 3: Calculus in teeth

Pic 4: Calculus as in kidney stone etc.

**3. Connect

Pic 1: Logo of CarlsbergPic 2: Neils Bohr

Carlsberg Group sponsored the Neils Bohr Institute at Copenhagen in the 1920s and 1930s.

4. Who are they?

Frank Duckworth

Tony Lewis

**5. Which philosophy? A traveller through a country would stop at a village and

he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of ______, but it will have various aspects. ________ does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you

to be able to improve?

-Nelson Mandela

6. Connect with a person.

Joseph Fourier

7. Identify this mathematician.

Charlie Epps

**8. Connect.

ISIPic 1: Inter-State Intelligence, Pakistan's coat of arms

Pic 2: P. C. Mahalanobis, founder of Indian Statistical InstitutePic 3: Tezpur University, where the latest ISI centre is situated

9. Connect.

ViagraPic 1: Pfizer who sells the brand Viagra

Pic 2 and 3: Chemical composition of Viagra (Sildenafil)

10. On whose life is this based?

Subhash Mukhopadhyay

11.Whose homepage starts like this:

___________ ((高德纳 )), Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, welcomes you

to his home page.

Donald E. Knuth

12. What is the name of this mathematical figure/curve?

**13. Whose blackboard?

14. What is missing?

The word “muslim”. The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel

Laureate" but, because of Salam's adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, the word "Muslim" was later erased on the orders of a local magistrate, leaving the nonsensical "First Nobel Laureate". Under Ordinance XX, Ahmadis are

considered non-Muslims.

15. What?

Aryabhatta Satelite

16. Founder of what?

17. New avatar?

18.

19. Connect

ApplePic 1: Alan Turing (commited suicide by eating a poisoned apple)

Pic 2: Doctor (the famous saying)Pic 3: Newton (the famous story)

Pic 4: Infinite Loop in C (Apple Inc HQ is at 1, Infinite Loop)

20. First what?

Electronic ComputerENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and calculator

**21. Connect.

Servers at TUAgnigarh (Webmail)

Agnee (Students Webmail)Usha (General)

Brahmagupta (Mathematical Sciences)Manas (CSE)

22. Why is he unfortunate?

He is Elisha Gray, who missed out on a patent of the telephone!

23. Which technology?

DTSiDigital Twin Spark Ignition

24. Whose death did Franklin and Gosling announce on 18th July 1952?

25. Name of the record.

26. What is this?

Google Earth's recreation of ancient Rome

27. He is Endre Szemeredi. What did he win recently?

Abel Prize

28.How is the 125th birth anniversary year of S. Ramanujan

celebrated in India right now?

National Mathematics Year

29. The awards?

Ig Nobel Prizes

30. Connect.

JAVAThe language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside one of the founder’s office (that’s the pic of an

Oak tree); it went by the name Green (Suggested by the pic of Green Day) later, and was later renamed Java, from a list of

random words.

Theme!!

Fibonacci Numbers123581321

Thank You!!