astroblaze 2016 finals (with answers)

ASTROBLAZE FINALS

By:Kaushik S KalmadyDhruv WarriorHarshith Kumar

ROUND 1

INFINITE BOUNCE AND POUNCE CLOCKWISE

+10/-10 on pounce +10/0 on direct/pass Pounce is open for 10 seconds after QM finishes reading the

question.

1.

X consists of 108 verses divided into four chapters. 1 - Giticapada - large units of time 2 - Ganitapada - AP, GP and other mathematical equations 3 - Kalakriyapada - different units of time and astronomy 4 - Golapada - astronomy. ID X

‘Aryabhatiya’

2.

Chinese astronomers of the Tenth and eleventh centuries stars that temporarily appeared in the sky "guest stars", quite possibly because they had no better explanation than divine hospitality :). Most passed barely noticed, but then, in 1054 ad., during the Song dynasty, astronomers in China found a guest star of the scale they hadn't seen before. Four times as bright as Venus, it enthralled them, and clear records of this discovery remain to this day. What had they seen?

Supernova that created Crab Nebula

3.

X is an astronaut who has to his record 382 days in space. The first part of his name means Gaelic speaker while the last means war in Irish. During his return from one of his space missions he said that returning to the earth is like going over the Niagara falls in a barrel on fire. X is also the name of an American musician who is one of the founders of the metal band Neurosis. Identify X.

Scott Kelly

4.

Douglas Adams explaining what topics. In X the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, X has nothing to do with Y. It's just to do with people thinking about people.

X- AstrologyY-Astronomy

5.

The name _____ was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter. After he saw a prototype, he thought of a phrase from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It refers to the fictional spacecraft used for extravehicular activity in the movie. The Jupiter Spacecraft Discovery One had three of these small one man maintenance vehicles. Which popular product was thus named ?

iPod “Open the pod bay doors, HAL”

6.

Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane, Major Tom, Jared the goblin king and X.Who is this legendary Starman who in his own way was an advocate of intelligent Life On the surface of Mars ? Identify X as well.

David BowieX- Ziggy Stardust

7. ID

Professor Shonku

8.A painting of 1780 Anglo Mysore War fought between British and Hyder Ali. Displayed at NASA’s headquarters, this painting depicts a first that the ruler of Mysore achieved. What?

First ruler to use rocketry in warfare.

ROUND 2Put Funda.

5 Questions Teams will write down the answers. Differential scoring. +2 * No. of teams that didn’t answer the

question right. Extra +10 if you crack all Be specific even if you’re guessing.

1.

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

2. What was so special about this album?

3.James Cameron, being a perfectionist, was toppled off balance when Neil DeGrasse Tyson pointed out a major flaw in the movie Titanic, in the scene where the ship sinks. This forced Cameron to make changes to this particular scene when he released Titanic 3D.

What was the flaw?

4. Python module Ephem which can create objects of planets and compute data. Who and funda?

5.

Put Funda Answers. 1. Popular characters and references from movies and TV

Shows that were used to name the features of Pluto. The New Horizons team actually asked for submissions from the public.

2. All the songs in the album were made using electromagnetic radiation from outer space.

3.The pattern of stars in the night sky when the titanic sinks in the movie was not the same as it was on the actual night. Cameron consulted Astronomers and put up the right pattern in Titanic 3D.

4 . Galileo Galilie. He was busy watching the Jovian moons he had discovered two years earlier and, though Neptune had moved overnight, he dismissed it as a background star and left its discovery to wait another two hundred years when it was only 14’ away in his field of view.

5. Neil DeGrasse Tyson discovering a Krypton-like planet.

Round 3Pounce and Bounce. Anticlockwise. +10/-10 on pounce +10/0 on direct/pass

9.

The X company and its corporate logo are highly inspired by the Pleiades, the widely known star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The Pleiades is prevailed by hot blue stars that were formed together about 100 million years ago. The cluster is known as “X” in Japanese language, meaning “to govern” or “combine” in English. 

The huge star in the X logo symbolizes Fuji Heavy Industries, whereas the five smaller stars exemplify the five companies that merged under the FHI Group. ID X

Subaru

10.

X is a work famous celebrity chef. Recently he was in the news for creating "multi sensory, gravity defying food". He worked with the the UK Space Agency and NASA to make a dinner meal for Tim Peake, the seventh UK born astronaut. X along with Matt Preston, George and Gary was one of the judges of the cooking game show based in Australia. Identify X.

Heston Blumenthal

11.

Project X was the first human spaceflight program of the United States led by its newly created space agency NASA. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the earth.The XY were a group of Y astronauts selected by NASA on April 9,1959 which included Alan Shepard.The Right Stuff is a 1983 American drama film that was adapted from Tom Wolfe’s best-selling book of the same name about the pilots engaged in US postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project X astronauts selected for the NASA space program. ID X & Y

Mercury 7

12.

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”.

Crop Circles

13.

Where would you find these audios(Non-exhaustive list)? Hindi : “Greetings from the inhabitants of this world” Telugu : “Greetings, Best wishes from Telugu-speaking

people” Urdu : “Peace on you. We the inhabitants of this earth send

greetings to you” Kannada : “Greetings. On behalf of Kannada-speaking

people. Good Wishes” Punjabi : “Welcome home. It is a pleasure to receive you”

The Golden Record

14.

Where would you have come across these? Chuck Yeager jetting of in the Bell X-1 to break the sound

barrier. Alan Shepard becoming the first American to fly in space on

board his Mercury capsule. Neil Armstrong, together with his Apollo 11 crewmates,

preparing to board the Saturn V rocket that will launch them on the first moon landing mission.

Footage of the orbiter Atlantis launching and then landing on the final flight of the space shuttle program.

Interstellar (Teaser Trailer)

15. Which enigmatic personality narrated these two documentaries?

Benedict Cumberbatch

16.The language X found itself the subject of a massive debate online, where certain proponents of the language argued that so called “natural language programming” could be attained by it. In the movie Interstellar, when Cooper is examining the surveillance drone which he has just brought down the computer screen is shown to have code written in X.

ID X.

Sanskrit ( Devanagari script)

LONG VISUAL CONNECT(LVC) Pounce. Overall Answer is what we’re looking for. Answers to be written down. Be extremely specific. One attempt per visual per team.

LVC +50/-30

LVC +40/-25

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LVC +20/-15

LVC +10/-10

Space Shuttles by NASA Columbia Atlantis Enterprise (USS Enterprise) Endeavour (Ford Endeavour) Discovery (Challenger – Not included)