1. IET Presents
TECHXTREME ‘09

2. Rules
• The quiz will consist of two parts- an elimination round and
a final round to which 6 teams will qualify.
• The elims will consist of 15 questions out of which few will
be starred (*). The teams answering these questions
correctly will be given higher priority in case of a tie.
• There is no negative marking and answers are expected to
be precise.
• The questions will be displayed again after we run through
all the questions.
• In any case of discrepancy the decision of Team IET will be
final.

3. ALL THE BEST !!

4. Question 1
I am a professional organization working for science
, engineering and technology.
I ‘m based in UK and am the 2nd largest engineering
institution in the world.
With over 153,000 members world wide, I make a
perfect representation of engineering profession in
public concern and assist governments to make
public aware of technological issues.
NAME ME???

5. Question 2(*)
What is the device that allows a cars driving
wheels to turn at different speeds when
cornering?

6. Question 3
What can be Truck mounted, sidelift, rail-road
or bulk handling?

7. Question 4(*)
Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer
named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail
message. "I sent a number of test messages to
myself from one machine to the other," he
recalls now. "The test messages were entirely
forgettable... Most likely the first message was
___________ or something similar.“
Fill the blank space.

8. Question 5
_________ was developed at Stanford University
by Larry Page and later Sergey Brin as part of a
research project about a new kind of search
engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a
functional prototype, named Google, in 1998.
Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google
Inc., the company behind the Google search
engine. While just one of many factors which
determine the ranking of Google search
results, _________ continues to provide the basis
for all of Google's web search tools

9. Question 6 (*)
TOPIO the bipedal humanoid robot is designed
to play which sport ?
(HINT- He can give the Chinese a run for their
money in this sport )

10. Question 7
Relate the three pictures

11. Question 8(*)
• _________is the nickname for the RDS-220
hydrogen bomb (codenamed "Ivan” by its
developers)—the largest, most powerful
nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed
by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally
designed to have a yield of about
100 megatons. However, the bomb yield was
reduced by half in order to limit the amount of
nuclear fallout that would result.

12. Question 9
In 1993, Dr Karlheinz Brandenburg, in
collaboration with scientists at the Fraunhofer
Society in Germany , used Suzanne Vega’s song
Tom’s Diner to assess and refine an algorithm
which would go on to become a revolutionary
audio encoding format. What nickname did this
earn Suzanne Vega?

13. Question 10
• Name the first genetically modified organism
to be sold .(shown in the pic)

14. Question 11
Douglas Engelbart had invented a number of
interactive, user-friendly information access
systems that we take for granted today. Engelbart
has earned nearly two dozen patents, the most
memorable being perhaps for his "X-Y Position
Indicator for a Display System“.
How do we know it now?

15. Question 12
“I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure
the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to
Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.”
This is the epitaph on the grave of which
famous astronomer?

16. Question 13
What is used to indicate that the exchange is
working, has recognized an off-hook, and is
ready to accept a call?

17. Question 14
One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. X is penned up in
a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must
be secured against direct interference by X): in a Geiger
counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small
that perhaps in the course of the hour, one of the atoms
decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it
happens, the counter tube discharges, and through a relay
releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic
acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an
hour, one would say that X still lives if meanwhile no atom
has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would
express this by having in it the living and dead X (pardon the
expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

18. Question 15
RISAT is a series of Indian reconnaissance satellites built
by ISRO. They provide all-weather surveillance using
Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR).
The RISAT series are the first all-weather earth
observation satellites from ISRO. Previous Indian
observation satellites relied primarily on optical and
spectral sensors which were hampered by cloud cover.
After the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, the
launch plan was modified to launch RISAT-2 before
RISAT-1, since the indigenous SAR to be used for RISAT-1
was not ready.
What does the acronym RISAT stand for?

19. Question 16(*)
What is this?

21. Question 17
What was the patent-ship war between the
Council of Scientific and Industrial
research(CSIR) and the US over medicinal and
healing uses of turmeric called ?

22. Question 18
The BAE Systems Land and Armaments XM1203 ________
is a 155 mm cannon intended to provide improved
responsiveness and lethality to the "Unit of Action" (UA)
commander as part of the US Army's Future Combat Systems
project. This mobile armored artillery piece provides
networked, extended-range targeting, and precision attack
of point and area targets in support of other combat units
with a suite of munitions that include special purpose
capabilities. The _ provides sustained fire for close
support and destructive fire for tactical standoff
engagement. The __ uses technology from the
canceled XM2001 Crusader.
Give the name of the latest technology cannon.

23. Question 19
Chemical refrigeration in its earliest stages
consisted of adding two salts in water, which
cooled the water and created a refrigeration
bath for cooling.
What are the two salts?

24. Question 20(*)
This photograph confirmed Einstein’s theory of
bending of light. Who was the scientist behind
this photo?