4. 1.Which scientist saved his city in Sicily from Romans by practical application of pulleys and levers?
5. 2. Plasma, which makes up 55% of blood fluid, is basically 92% what?
6. 3*. Which is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?
7. 4*. When things need to be done fast, we have often heard the phrase “done in a jiffy”. But what does jiffy mean?
8. 5. The camel is known as the ship of the desert because of its reputed ability to survive without water. But which animal is known to be capable of surviving without water longer than a camel?
9. 6. "you are a citizen because you can't help it – you were born one, but I chose to be one”. This is what he quoted his wife about his change of citizenship. Who is this legendary scientist?
10. 7. This phenomenon is caused by movement of electrons from the f orbital to the d orbital. What am I talking about.
39. 5. The camel is known as the ship of the desert because of its reputed ability to survive without water. But which animal is known to be capable of surviving without water longer than a camel?
41. 6. "you are a citizen because you can't help it – you were born one, but I chose to be one”. This is what he quoted his wife about his change of citizenship. Who is this legendary scientist?
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43. 7. This phenomenon is caused by movement of electrons from the f orbital to the d orbital. What am I talking about.
58. Isaac Newton. In order to measure temperature, he defined the temperature of melting snow as 0 degrees and the temperature of boiling water as 33 degrees. This was done somewhere around 1700.
59. 15. What is an animal which has both male and female reproductive organs in its body at the same time called?
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61. 16. Who is the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize?
62. The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize is Lawrence Bragg who won it for Physics in 1915.
63. 17.* “Mr. Watson come here. I want to see you”. Who said these words and why?
110. Team Four "Roti, kapda, makaan aur __________" was ___________'s war cry in the 90s as a prescription to India becoming an IT superpower. His interest in film making went back to 1977, when on a vacation in his village he was introduced to celebrated director of the “art cinema genre,” Shyam Benegal. For two months, he worked with Benegal as a spot boy, absorbing the finer nuances of film making and getting a feel of the action behind the camera.
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112. Bandwidth, Dewang Mehta When he took over Nasscom's stewardship in 1990 the body had only 72 members, but when he passed away in 2001 it had more than 500 members.
113. Team Three “ X” was born in India in Titilagarh, Orissa. His parents hailed from Gujarat and migrated to Odisha. They were deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy. H e designed his own computer-themed card game called Compucards .Identify X. He went on to found a company “Y”. Identify X & Y.
116. Team Five Both of them received Nobel prize for their contribution in the field of physics have Indian origin. One of them is a nephew of the other person. Identify them?
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118. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was nephew of CV Raman. CV Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him“ in 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , for his “ theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
119. Team Six A fter the end of the Second World War and before India got independence, Sir Ardeshir Dalal from the Viceroy's Executive Council foresaw that the future prosperity of India would depend not so much on capital as on technology. Thus he proposed and conceptualised something, but died before he could see them being born .What did he conceptualise?
163. 1.Identify the below given instrument:- Pic1 – is a home model of the instrument and Pic 2 – is a replica of the first working model of this instrument. Pic-1 Pic-2
169. 3.This is a Japanese domestic robot made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, primarily intended to provide companionship to elderly and disabled people. The robot is yellow, 1m tall, and weighs 30 kilograms. It has two arms and its flat, circular base has a diameter of 45 cm. The first hundred went on sale in September, 2005, for USD $14,000. Functions include reminding the user to take medicine on time, and calling for help if it suspects something is wrong. The name given to the robot is the childhood name of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. It was named after him. Name it?