Round 1(Clockwise)

7 QuestionsPoints- +10,0(Direct)

Points- +5,0(Pass)

• On his 72nd birthday, UPI photographer Arthur Sasse was trying to persuade this famous scientist to smile for the camera, but having smiled for photographers many times that day, he did something else.

• What?

• (The scientist goes to the connect, not the complete answer.)

1.What resulted?

Einstein tongue out.

2.Id the event

End of the Mayan Calender in Dec 2012

40.

• Neil Armstrong– A single step for man and a giant leap for the mankind

• Rakesh Sharma-________________

• Sare Jahan se accha hindustan hamara

4.This symbol is known as Ourobus and is seen in several ancient

scriptures and texts. It inspired a person to a revolutionary scientifc

finding in 1850’s .What was that finding?and who is the person related

to this finding?

Kekule Benzene

• Following is a exhaustive list of something in order:

• 58.64, -243.02, 1, 1.03, 0.41, 0.43, -0.72, 0.67

• What is it that we are talking about?

Rotational Period of planets in the solar system

6.Polaris, the north star is a part of which constellation?

Ursa Minor

Q7.

• This 1965 USSR 10 kopek stamp of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov commemorates what first in the history of space exploration?

First Extra-Vehicular Activity or First Spacewalk

Round 2(Anti-Clockwise)

7 QuestionsPoints- +10,0(Direct)

Points- +5,0(Pass)

Q8.

• The kilogram is the only such remaining base SI unit.

• What differentiates it from other SI base units?

It is a only unit to be defined using an artefact. All other units are defined by physical constants

Magdeburg hemispheres.

They are a pair of large copper hemispheres with mating rims, used to demonstrate the power of atmospheric pressure. When the rims were sealed with grease and the air was pumped out, the sphere contained a vacuum and could not be pulled apart by teams of horses.

• Pic 1: The original Magdeburg hemispheres and Guericke's vacuum pump.

• Pic 2: Logo is inspired by this experiment.• Pic 3: Otto von Guericke.

Q10.

• Ammonium ferric citrate & potassium ferricyanide coated on paper/cloth was used to reproduce images. The result is a copy of the original image with the clear background area rendered dark and the image itself reproduced as a white line, making it difficult to alter or add new information to the document.

Which commonly used word is derived from this now-obsolete technology?

Blueprint

Q11

• What is happening here?

Peeing before going to space.

• Russian astronauts have the unique tradition of urinating on the bus tire before going to space. After getting into their sokol suits and before reaching the launch pad, the bus stops and the crew pees on the tire. This tradition is supposed to have started with Gagarin.

Q12.

• A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass. Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice, and it orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a period of 229 days.

• What was kepler-16 nicknamed, in reference to a fictional planet orbiting two suns, which resulted in one of the most iconic sunset scenes in the film industry?

Q13.• X during his time as an honours program undergraduate, worked in

the laboratory of the geneticist H. J. Muller and wrote a thesis on the origins of life with physical chemist H. C. Urey. He was an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science populariser and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

• He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). One of his famous quotes is: "The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying… it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity" His saga has been carved indelibly in the history of astronomy and astrophysics. Who?

Carl Sagan

Q.14

• 1. Alnitak is approximately 736 light years away from Earth and, taking into consideration ultraviolet radiation, which the human eye cannot see, it is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun.

• 2. Alnilam is is approximately 1340 light years away from Earth and shines with magnitude 1.70. Considering ultraviolet light it is 375,000 times more luminous than the Sun.

• 3. Mintaka is 915 light years away and shines with magnitude 2.21. It is 900,000 times more luminous than the Sun. It is a double star. Both stars orbit around each other every 5.73 days. What are they collecting known as?

Belt of Orion

Doodles Corner

Round 3- Infinite Bounce

Q15

AnswerNeil Bohr’s 127th birthday

Q16

AnswerMarie Curie’s 144th birthday

Q17

AnswerEdmund Hailey’s 355th Birthday

Q18

AnswerAlbert Einstein’s 144th birthday

Q19

AnswerEdmund Hailey’s 355th Birthday

Q20

AnswerHeinrich Hertz’s 155th birthday

Question 21

Hint – This doodle relates to an event

AnswerDiscovery of water on the moon

Round 4

• Infinite Bounce with Pounce• +10(direct/pass)• -5 for incorrect answer while Pounce

Q22. Identify this equation

What is the name of this dog?

Qn23

Identify the lady

Qn24

X and Y were the sons of Ares and Aphrodite. X is the Greek god of fear. The word phobia is derived from his name. Y is the Greek god of terror. Identify X and Y.

What is the relevance of this question in this quiz?

Q.25

Q26______________is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan.

The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a year-long celebration of astronomy that took place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations by whom?

Q27

Giotto di Bondone painting The Adoration of the Magi(1301) is believed to be also representing X. The painting is considered to be a milestone in the history of astronomical art because of this. What is X?

ROUND IV(One round to turn it all)THEME 50/-25 to 10/-0

+50/-25

+45/-20

+30/-15

+25/-10

+20/-5

+15/0

+10

+5

Golden Ratio