Noesis 2015 Quiz Chapter 2

THE PRELIMS

KILL THE OPPONENT TEAM WITH YOUR ANSWERS

RULES

• NO NEGATIVE MARKING

• QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE REPEATED

• USE OF INTERNET PROHIBITED

• DO NOT CHEAT

• TOP 6 TEAMS WILL BE IN THE FINALS

• QM’S DECISION IS FINAL

PRELIMS 1

A high gravity region in space where even light can’t escape is known as?

PRELIMS 2

‘The Imitation Game’ is a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch who depicts a famous personality. Who? (5 points). Name the machine he decodes, (5 points more), and what did he call his decoder?(The tie breaker).

PRELIMS 3

An apparent change in wavelength occurs if the source and the observer are moving apart.

This is known as?

PRELIMS 4

• Identify the website.

PRELIMS 5

• What do you call the mixture of Hydrochloric Acid and Nitric Acid in the ratio of 1:3?

PRELIMS 6

• Identify the company

PRELIMS 7

• Imagine you’re in a room with a bunch of golf balls on the floor and a thin beam or rail suspended between two walls. Now imagine for some reason you start lining up the golf balls on the rail. It would take you a lot of work to do that, right? The most “stable” place for the golf balls to be is back on the floor, and the slightest disturbance could send them careening downwards.

• Finally, with more than half of your golf balls sitting perfectly still on the rail, you decide to take break to admire your work. Foolishly, you sit down on the floor with a thud and look in horror as a few golf balls fall to the floor with an instantaneous clack. This clack sends a few more golf balls speeding towards the floor and soon your once-quiet room is a chorus of clacks. This is an Analogy of the working of a device.

• What (famously known by its abbreviation) am I talking about?

PRELIMS 8

• In relation to a famous start-up based out of Bangalore, if “Lemontee” and “Backbenchers” were discarded, what was eventually selected?

PRELIMS 9

• Name the only group of animals that make milk to feed their young?

PRELIMS 10

• He is an advisor to the Prime Minister. He heads the National Innovation Council, 2014. He spear headed the telecom revolution in India. You find STD booths everywhere due to him. Who is he ?

PRELIMS 11

• The principal ingredient in a brick wall and a plate glass window is same. What?

PRELIMS 12

• According to the ‘Top Google Searches of 2014’ released by Google, if ‘IRCTC’ topped the list and ‘SBI Online’ came third what search keywords were 2nd and 4th in the list, respectively? (5 points for each)

PRELIMS 13

• How long is guinea pig’s tail? (Tie Breaker)

PRELIMS 14

• Identify him and the Company he is associated with.

PRELIMS 15

• If a man can jump 1.5 meters on the Earth. How high can he jump on the Moon?

PRELIMS 16

• Expand HTTP!

PRELIMS 17

• O is the most common blood group in the World, except in Norway. What is the most common blood group there?

PRELIMS 18

• In Arabic, the literal translation of this corporate tycoon’s first name is Defender. His surname stands for Love. His company recruits a lot of students from our college. Who is this IT baron from India I am talking about?

PRELIMS 19

• It states that the universe emerged from a hot and dense state billions of years ago. The universe has been expanding over since this creation event. What?

PRELIMS 20

• What is Nomo-phobia?

1

Black Hole

2

• WHO? – Alan Turing

• THE MACHINE HE DECODED- Enigma

• THE NAME HE GAVE TO HIS DECODER (The Universal Machine)- Christopher

3

Doppler’s Effect

4

OLX

5

Aqua Ragia

6

SnapChat

7

Light Amplification by Simulated Emission of Radiation

8

www.almamaterstore.com

9

10

Sam Pitroda

(Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda)

11

Sand

12

• SECOND: flipkart.com,FOURTH: snapdeal.com

13

They do not have a tail!

14

Sunder PichaiGoogle Inc

15

9 meters

(1.5*6)

16

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

17

Blood Group: A

18

Azim Premji

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The Big Bang Theory

20

Nomophobia is the fear of being out of Mobile Phone Contact (No Mobile Phobia)

THE TOP SIX TEAMS

THE RESULTS