2. INTRODUCTION
• HELLO EVERYONE, FUTURISTIC MINDS BRINGS TO YOU
THE FIRST SCIENCE QUIZ OF 2021 FROM OUR SIDE.
• FUTURISTIC MINDS IS BASICALLY A GROUP OF STUDENTS
WHO ARE WORKING TOGETHER AIMING TO SPREAD AND
SEEK KNOWLEDGE FROM EVERY PART OF THIS WORLD.
WE SOUGHT TO DEVELOP THE FUTURE CITIZENS OF THE
COMING WORLD AS WELL AS DEVELOP AS GOOD
PERSONALITIES.
3. ABOUT NATIONAL
SCIENCE DAY
•NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY IS CELEBRATED ACROSS INDIA
ON 28TH FEBRUARY EACH YEAR TO MARK THE DISCOVERY
OF RAMAN EFFECT BY INDIAN PHYSICIST SIR C.V.RAMAN
ON 28TH FEBRUARY IN 1928.
•SIR C V RAMAN WAS AWARDDED NOBEL PRIZE IN
PHYSICS FOR HIS DISCOVERY IN 1930.IN 1986,THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNICATION(NCSTC) ASKED THE GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA TO DESIGNATE FEBRUARY 28 AS NATIONAL SCIENCE
DAY.HENCE ON THIS DAY NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY IS
CELEBRATED ACROSS INDIA EVERY YEAR.
4.
5. RULES
• THIS SET CONSISTS OF AROUND 10-12 QUESTIONS BASED
ON SCIENCE.
• YOU NEED TO FILL UP THE FORM ATTATCHED IN ORDER TO
ANSWER IT.
• NO ANSWERING WOULD BE ACCEPTED IF GIVEN IN THE
CHAT BOX OR COMMENTS BOX.
• ANSWERS VIDEO WOULD BE OUT IN A COUPLE OF
DAYS,TILL THEN PLEASE BE PATIENT.
• NO GOOGLING PLEASE AND IF ANYONE IS FOUND
DOING SO,HIS/HER ANSWER WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED.
6. 1ST QUESTION
• A CONTROVERSIAL MOVIE BASED ON THE LIFE OF A GREAT MATHEMATICAN AND
COMPUTER SCIENTIST.
• THE MOVIE WAS BASED STARRED BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS THE LEAD.
• TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH OF THIS GREAT MATHEMATICAN, HE WAS FOUND DEAD BY
HIS HOUSEKEEPER AND THE CAUSE WAS ESTABLISHED AS CYANIDE POISONING.SOME
SPECULATIONS SAID THAT X, THIS MATHEMATICIAN WAS TRYING TO RE-ENACT A SCENE
FROM WALT DISNEY FILM SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.
• ANOTHER PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR STATED THAT THE CAUSE OF X’S DEATH WAS DUE
TO ACCIDENTAL INHALATION OF THE CYANIDE FUMES FROM AN APPARATUS USED TO
ELECTROPLATE GOLD INTO SPOON WHERE POTTASSIUM CYANIDE WAS USED TO
DISSOLVE GOLD. THE DEATH OF THIS FELLOW IS STILL A MYSTERY, A CONTROVERSY.
• WHO IS X AND WHAT IS THE MOVIE? (5+5)
7. 2ND QUESTION
• IT WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN DECEMBER 1952 BY ALBERT
GHIORSO IN THE FALLOUT FROM IVY MIKENUCLEAR TEST.
• IT IS CURRENTLY IN NEWS BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT
HAPPENED A FEW WEEKS BACK. NOT MUCH EXPERIMENTS
WAS PERFORMED ON IT BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY IN
CREATING IT AND THE HIGH RADIOACTIVITY IT POSSESSES.
• ON WHOSE NAME IS THIS ELEMENT NAMED AFTER?
• WHAT IS ITS NAME? MORE OR LESS, BOTH ARE SAME.
9. 4TH QUESTION
• DURING THE BRITISH RULE, EVEN SHIMLA WAS TOO WARM FOR SOME
OFFICERS’ LIKING.THEY WOULD MOVE TO THE NEARBY HAMLET OF
NARKANDA.SUCH WAS THE AFFECTION FOR THIS PLACE THAT THEY
NAMED ONE OF THEIR SHIPS AFTER IT IN THE EARLY 1900s.
• THE SS NARKUNDA WAS ONE OF THE FASTER AND MORE COMFORTABLE
SHIPS ON THE UK-AUSTRALIA RUN.IT USED TO TRAVEL FROM THE
LONDON DOCKS TO SYDNEY IN SIX WEEKS, VIA MARSHEILLES, PORT SAID,
ADEN, MUMBAI, COLOMBO,FERMANTLE,ADELAIDE AND MELBOURNE.
• IN 1921, THE SHIP HAD A PASSENGER ON ITS DECK WHOSE EXPERIENCE
ON THE SHIP WOULD BE FRUITFUL A FEW YEARS LATER.
• WHO WAS THE PASSENGER? AND HOW EXACTLY DID THE EXPERIENCE
HELP?
10. 5TH QUESTION
• IN AN ACIDIC SOLUTION, THE "LAWSONE" MOLECULE CAN
REACT VIA A PROCESS CALLED MICHAEL ADDITION WITH
KERATIN TO CREATE A STAIN. LAWSONE NON-SPECIFICALLY
TARGETS PRIMARY AMINO ACIDS, AND DISPLAYS
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE WITH FORENSIC LIGHT SOURCES.
• WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR INSTANCE OF THE USE OF
"LAWSONE" MOLECULE THAT ALL OF US HAVE SEEN? (PIC
FOLLOWS)
13. 7TH QUESTION
• SURYA V/S SURYA IS A 2015 INDIAN TELUGU LANGUAGE
ROMANTIC COMEDY FILM STARRING NIKHIL SIDDHART
AND TRIDHA CHAUDHARY IN LEAD ROLES.
• IN THIS MOVIE, THE MALE LEAD PLAYED BY NIKHIL
SIDDHART SUFFERS FROM A HEREDITARY DISORDER
CALLED PORPHYRIA.
• WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS DISORDER?
• WHAT BASICALLY HAPPENS TO PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM
THIS DISEASE?
14. 8TH QUESTION
• PAUL C. FISHER, A TECHNICAL PIONEER, SCIENTIST, AND PHILOSOPHER VOWED TO
DEVELOP THE WORLD’S MOST MOST DEPENDABLE WRITING INSTRUMENTS.IN
1965, AFTER COUNTLESS EXPERIMENTS AND A PERSONAL INVESTMENT OF OVER A
MILLION DOLLARS IN RESEARCH, FISHER CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA.
• TO DEVELOP THIS PEN, FISHER PERFECTED A REFILL USING THIXOTROPIC INK,
WHICH REMAINS SEMISOLID UNTIL THE SHEARING ACTION OF THE ROLLING BALL
INSIDE LIQUIFIES IT.THE CARTRIDGE WAS PRESSURISED WITH NITROGEN SO THAT
IT DOESN’T RELY ON GRAVITY TO MAKE IT WORK.
• WHAT IS THE SPECIALITY OF THIS PEN DEVELOPED BY FISHER?
• HOW DID THIS PEN CAME INTO NEWS QUITE A DECADE AGO BECAUSE OF BEING
FEATURED SOMEWHERE?
15. 9TH QUESTION
• ACCORDING TO GOOGLE CALCULATOR, "____" IS EQUAL TO
1.16699016 X 10-8 HERTZ. THE HERTZ IS A UNIT OF
FREQUENCY (ONE PER SECOND), AND THUS IF THE MEAN
LENGTH OF TIME BETWEEN _ __ (2.7145 YEARS ACCORDING
TO GOOGLE) IS METRICATED AND CONVERTED TO A
FREQUENCY (BY CALCULATING THE MULTIPLICATIVE INVERSE),
IT CAN BE EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF HERTZ.
• EXPLANATION OF WHICH ENGLISH PHRASE?
