SEISMECH – QUIZFINALSADITYA PARASHARANGSHUMAN DAS

Rules• 24 questions, first 12 clockwise remaining anticlockwise.• Standard pounce, bounce.• +15/-10 on pounce, +10 on bounce.

Q1.

• What is being described in the video, and name the painting for full points.

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Shell drilling in the arcticChristina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

Q2.• In Euclidean geometry, the X flag theorem says that if a point P is

chosen inside rectangle ABCD then the sum of the squared Euclidean distances from P to two opposite corners of the rectangle equals the sum to the other two opposite corners. As an equation:

• This theorem takes its name from the fact that, when the line segments from P to the corners of the rectangle are drawn, together with the perpendicular lines used in the proof, the completed figure somewhat resembles a X Flag.

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British Flag Theorem

Q3. Removed piece?

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Comic Sans

Q4.X?• Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"; nicknamed X ) is an extinct

species widely thought to be in the genus Homo. The remains of an individual that would have stood about 3.5 feet (1.1 m) in height were discovered in 2003 at Liang Bua on the island of Flores in Indonesia. Partial skeletons of nine individuals have been recovered, including one complete skull, referred to as "LB1". These remains have been the subject of intense research to determine whether they represent a species distinct from modern humans.

• The most important and obvious identifying features of H. floresiensis are its small body and small cranial capacity. Brown and Morwood also identified a number of additional, less obvious features that might distinguish LB1 from modern H. sapiens.

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X = Hobbit

Q5.• In May 2014, a team of scientists in the Philippines discovered a new

species of plant, which was named the Rinorea niccolifera. This is a type of 'hyperaccumulator', which means it can flourish in soils with a high degree of metals and even absorb them. Which metal does this plant absorb?

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Nickel

Q6.X?• The IgNobel prize in 2001 for technology was presented jointly to

John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the X in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) for granting him Innovation Patent.

• While a standard patent must be drafted by a lawyer with engineering or science qualifications and must also demonstrate a significant advance, the innovation patent need only to show an advance.

• Keogh, who is a freelance patent lawyer himself, says that he applied for the patent in order to test this new class of new patents. He says that innovation patents are not examined in detail by the Australian patent office.

• “The patent office would be required to issue a patent for everything,” he told The Age newspaper. “All they’re doing is putting a rubber stamp on it.”

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Wheel

Q7.• The word Y was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer

Karel Čapek in his play R.U.Y1. (Rossum's Universal Ys), published in 1920. The play begins in a factory that uses a chemical substitute for protoplasm to manufacture living, simplified people called Ys. The play does not focus in detail on the technology behind the creation of these living creatures. At issue is whether the Ys are being exploited and the consequences of human dependence upon commodified labor.

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Y = Robot

Q8.• The design attracted criticism, with Red Bull Racing driver Mark

Webber labelling the cars "ugly" and Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali calling them "not that pretty". At the 2012 Australian Grand Prix, Charlie Whiting, the FIA technical delegate, announced that although the changes to the sporting regulations planned for the 2014 season would effectively remove the "______" effect, the sport's governing body is planning to phase the stepped nose out for 2013. The FIA later accepted a proposal that would allow teams to cover up the particular thing with a "modesty plate", a panel designed to obscure the step without fundamentally altering the aerodynamic profile of the car or offering any aerodynamic gain itself. Which particular change am I talking about?

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Platypus nose effect

Q9.• To simplify the engine and reduce costs, the V-twin ignition was

designed to operate with a single set of points and no distributor. This is known as a dual fire ignition system, causing both spark plugs to fire regardless of which cylinder was on its compression stroke, with the other spark plug firing on its cylinder's exhaust stroke, effectively wasting a spark. The exhaust note is basically a throaty growling sound with some popping. The 45° design of the engine thus creates a plug firing sequencing as such: The first cylinder fires, the second (rear) cylinder fires 315° later, then there is a 405° gap until the first cylinder fires again, giving the engine its unique sound.

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Potato potato sound made by Harley Davidson bikes

Q10.• “____ ___ _ _______ ____" is an English language nursery rhyme of

nineteenth-century American origin. The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as an original poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was inspired by an actual incident.

• The rhyme is also famous for being the first thing recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. It was the first instance of recorded verse. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. The earliest recording (1878) was retrieved by 3-D imaging equipment in 2012

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

Q11.• The Spirit of Ecstasy, was designed by English sculptor Charles

Robinson Sykes and carries with it a story about secret passion between John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, (second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu after 1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car Illustrated magazine from 1902) and the model for the emblem, Eleanor Velasco Thornton.

• Where would you find it?

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Mascot on the Rolls-Royce bonnet

Q12.

• In 1978, Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo wrote a short biography of Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre in the university’s ChemNews bulletin.

• •The detailed biography traced the story of Claude, born in Medoc, France in a family of wine bottle manufacturers, going on to become a master chemist, rubbing shoulders with Anders Celsius and Joseph Priestley.

• •While many fell for the joke, Woolner said the idea for the fictional Litre was born as a solution to problems faced by U.S. chemists, journal readers and typists.

• What specific rule(nowrelaxed) of the International System of Units was Woolner trying to take advantage of with this fictional biography?

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• Only units named after people can be represented in upper case (L)

• The lower case ‘l’ was indistinguishable from upper case ‘I’ or the digit ‘1’

Q13.• In 1896 the grading system in Aargau, a canton in Switzerland had its

grading system completely overhauled. A score of 6 which was previously the lowest score was made into the highest and 1,which was the lowest score became the bottom score. What legendary myth traces its origins to this harmless change?

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Einstein was not a maggu (myth)• The myth that Einstein failed in school. It was the opposite. He was

among the better students.

Q14.Also called Gauss’ formula or the surveyor’s formula, it is a mathematical algorithm to determine the area of a simple polygon whose vertices are described by ordered pairs x,y) in the plane by cross-multiplying these pairs..• •When you list the coordinates in columns and cross-multiply the

pairs, the resulting image looks like a daily use object, that involves similar crossing on a repeated basis.

• As a result, the algorithm is known by what popular name?

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Shoe-Lace Formula

Q15.• Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist born at Bologna. His scientific work

was chiefly concerned with galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, with the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and with experiments for preserving human life and material objects from destruction by fire. Aldini's most famous public demonstration of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George Forster. Many critics believe that Aldini was an inspiration for a fictional character due to many public experiments of bio-electric galvanism. Identify the character?

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Frankenstein

Q16.• In medicine, a A (Latin for "I shall harm") is an inert substance or form

of therapy that creates harmful effects in a patient. The A effect is the adverse reaction experienced by a patient who receives such a therapy. Conversely, a B is an inert substance or form of therapy that creates a beneficial response in a patient. The phenomenon by which a B creates a beneficial response is called the B effect. In contrast to the B effect, the A effect is relatively obscure.

• The term A ("I shall harm") was coined by Walter Kennedy in 1961 to denote the counterpart of one of the more recent applications of the term B ("I please"); a B being a substance that produced a beneficial, healthful, pleasant, or desirable effect as a result of the subject's beliefs and expectations, in spite of not containing any active ingredients that could explain these effects.

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A = Nocebo effectB = Placebo effect

Q17.• It has been sponsoring sport competitions since 1907 and is the

exclusive tyre supplier for the Formula One Championship for 2011-2016 and for the FIM World Superbike Championship. the company has also launched fashion project PZero, a high-tech sportswear brand, and operates in renewable energy and sustainable mobility .

• __________ is well known for its long term primary sponsorship of the Italian football team Internazionale. _________ previously appeared as a sponsor on the shirts of the Maltese football club Valletta for a short time. ________ is currently the event title sponsor of the Spanish and Hungarian Grand Prix.

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Pirelli tyres

Q18.• License plates issued in Nevada for autonomous cars will have a red

background and feature an infinity symbol, on the left side because, according to the DMV Director, "...using the infinity symbol was the best way to represent the 'car of the future'.

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Google Driverless Car

Q19.• In 1504, __X__ was stranded in north coast of Jamaica, due to worm-

eaten leaking ship. The native inhabitants were no longer awed by the newcomers. Annoyed by their voracious appetites and angry at the depredations of crew members, who had plundered several villages, the population was hostile and would no longer supply food. __X__ came up with a clever plan and warned the islanders that his god was upset with their refusal of food and that the moon would “rise inflamed with wrath” as an expression of divine displeasure. He successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a __Y__, using the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus. On the appointed night, the moon darkened and turned red, and the terrified islanders offered provisions and beseeched __X__ to ask his god for mercy.

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X = Christopher ColumbusY = Lunar eclipse

Q20.• X is often called the father of medicine in Western culture. The original

form was written in Ionic Greek, in the late Fifth Century BC. It is usually included in the X Corpus.

• Scholars widely believe that X or one of his students wrote it between the 5th and 3rd century BC. Alternatively, classical scholar Ludwig Edelstein proposed that it was written by the Pythagoreans, an idea that others questioned for lack of evidence for a school of Pythagorean medicine.

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Hippocratic Oath

Q21.Connect and give me X or Y• 1. Hamsa Padmanabhan – “Hamsa”• 2. Sainudeen Pattazhy – “Sainudeen”• 3. Vishnu Jayaprakash – “Jayaprakash”• 4. Anish Mukherjee – “Mukherjee”• 5. Debarghya Sarkar – “Sarkar”• 6. Hetal Vaishnav – “Vaishnav”• 7. Akshat Singhal – “Singhal”• 8. Madhav Pathak – “Pathak”• 9. X – “Y”

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People with planets named after them• X = Vishwanathan Anand• Y = Vishyanand

Q22.• Claude Goodman Johnson (24 October 1864 – 12 April 1926), motor

vehicle manufacturer, was the British businessman who built Rolls-Royce Limited.

• Johnson described himself as the _________ in the Rolls-Royce name but, without Royce who was ill and took his design staff home from 1908, and losing Rolls in July 1910 it was Johnson the founding entrepreneur who kept the business alive until his own death in April 1926.

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Hyphen(Rolls-Royce)

Q23.• Greg North, Commercial Director at Barnshaws, comments: “We

became involved with the project back in 2007 and in all, we delivered 66 sections for the roof structure, all precision curved. These were then assembled by Bolton-based Watson Steel Structures that was responsible for the steel construction on the project. ”The project also involved changes to the fixed roof structure so that it would provide sufficient support for the retractable section as well as increasing the seating capacity by 1,200.Because of this project now, a huge change come and issues related to weather protection have been solved. What project am I talking about? Where we see this ?

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Retractable roof on centre court of Wimbeldon

Q24.• The most common type of Z was first invented in 1997 by Mark D.

Lillibridge, Martin Abadi, Krishna Bharat, and Andrei Z. Broder. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human. It may be described as a fully automated public Turing test to tell non-humans and humans apart. A Z is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. This term is ambiguous because it could also mean a Turing test in which the participants are both attempting to prove they are the computer.

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