CODEX ASTRONOMICA

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Prelims! 20 Questions No negatives. Intelligent guesswork will be key! Questions marked * are tie breakers.

1.

Lyrics of the song "X Domine”, by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, “Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.

Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.Lime and limpid green, a second scene

A fight between the blue you once knew.”

ID X ?

Ans: ASTRONOMY DOMINE (:p)

2.After the Apollo 1 fire, NASA needed to rebuild its devastated Apollo program. They approached Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, for permission to use X as their mascot for safety, and he agreed. The Silver X award is now a special honor awarded to NASA employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success.

Ans: SNOOPY

3. Put Funda

Ans: Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

4. On what occasion was this doodle released?

Ans: NASA’s Juno in Jupiter’s Orbit

5.Mythological stories help us understand many things, for eg, the constellations A and B ; having peculiar red gaints Betelguese and Antares in them. Greeks say B killed A , thus A hides from B. Chinese say the two red giants are rival brothers who don’t even see each others face. This leads to the conclusion that A and B are never in the sky together since they’re diametrically opposite to each other. ID A and B.

Ans: A – OrionB - Scorpio

*6.

So if you see him you might be in for a big surprise,He'll turn into an X before your very eyesHe's slimy, freaky, fast and strong, he's every shape and sizeHe's Y. Id X and Y.

Ans:X – AlienY - Ben 10

7.

X received powers from seven gurus who trained and blessed him with "yogic shakti which was natural power.” He was the chosen warrior against evil by siddha gurus of a cult named Suryavanshi. They are followers of the star Sun. As part of training, he trained with Kundalini Yoga to awake the 7 chakras of body and gain 'supernatural' powers from them. To gain complete control over his powers he performed the ritual of death. However, this did not cause death but made him more alive than when he was a normal man. Who?

Shaktimaan

8. Put Funda

From Star Wars : Vader, Skywalker and Leia Organa.From Star Trek: Spock, Kirk, Sulu and Uhura.From Doctor Who: Tardis and Gallifrey.From Alien: Ripley and Nostromo.From Firefly: SerenityFrom Lord of The Rings: Mordor

Ans:Features of Pluto named after characters/references from movies and tv shows

9.The Planetary Nebula X, approximately 5000 light years away from the Earth is the coolest place in the known universe, having a temperature of 1K. It was discovered by Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott in 1980 after observing it with a large ground-based telescope in Australia. Unable to see the detail that only Hubble can reveal, the astronomers saw merely a slight asymmetry in the nebula's lobes suggesting a curved shape like an X,and hence the name. However, The high-resolution Hubble images indicate that 'the Bow tie Nebula' would perhaps have been a better name.(If you don't get the answer don't fret, it will come back to you eventually :P)

Ans: Boomerang Nebula

10.Sheldon to Penny: "Just like X's Y, your potential relationship with Leonard right now can be thought of as both good and bad. It is only by opening the box that you’ll find out which it is."

Ans: Schrodinger’s Cat

*11. Connect .The Rape of the Lock- Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Titania, Puck Hamlet - Ophelia As You Like It - Rosalind The Taming of the Shrew – Bianca

Ans: Moons of Uranus named after literary characters

12.‘What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?’ This simple idea led to a movie that ranks first in TIME’s “Best Movies of the decade”.

Which Movie?

Ans: Wall - E

*13.

Ans: Pluto

14. Rocks that rain, spend energy in vain Air is our hero, that protects you again. Moon is the traitor, hides them so well Oh Leo , oh Perseus just why did they fell This poem depicts a phenomenon easily observable during certain fixed periods. What ?

Ans: Meteor Showers

15.This 1965 USSR 10 kopek stamp commemorates what first in the history of space exploration

Ans: First Spacewalk by Alexei Lienov

16.

X is a 2011 sci-fi novel written by Andy Weir. It’s about an American astronaut stranded on another planet in the year 2035. Ridley Scott adapted it into a movie having the same title. ID X.

Ans: The Martian

*17. ID

Ans: S Chandrashekaran(The Chandrashekaran limit in white dwarfs is named after him)

*18. Which enigmatic personality narrated these two documentaries?

Benedict Cumberbatch

19.Doug Bower and Dave Charley, known as “Doug and Dave” are famous for hoaxes of X.In 1991, the duo came out and announced that they had made hundreds of X since 1978. To prove that they were responsible, they filmed themselves for the BBC making one with a rope-and-plank contraption.Colin Andrews, cereologist and author of the book, Circular Evidence, admits that about 80% of X are probably man made, but says that the other 20% are probably the work of some “higher force”.

Ans: Crop Circles

*20.X is defined as the action of passing through or across a place.In internet terminology, X is one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between Internet service providers.In astronomy, X is the apparent motion of one celestial body across the face of another celestial body or meridian.What is X ?

Ans: Transit