1. Round 1.
Fight!!!
Host: Shashank Pisupati

2. Infinite Bounce
Clockwise Passing
+10 for each correct answer

3. 1.
X and Werner Heisenberg enjoyed at first a strong
relationship. It began as one between a mentor and
his protégé. X had become aware of Heisenberg's
talent during a lecture Heisenberg gave in
Göttingen in 1922. Heisenberg, like most of X's
assistants, learned Danish. Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle was developed during this
period, as was X's complementarity principle

4. •Neils Bohr

5. 2.
•X’s Y is a thought experiment, usually described as a
paradox, devised by Austrian physicist X in 1935. It
illustrates what he saw as the problem of the
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
applied to everyday objects. Although the original
"experiment" was imaginary, similar principles have
been researched and used in practical applications. In
the course of developing this experiment, X coined the
term Verschränkung (entanglement).
•Identify the Experiment talked about ?

6. •Schrodinger’s Cat

7. 3. Identify X.
•King Hieron II commissioned X to design a
huge ship, the Syracusia, which could be used
for luxury travel, carrying supplies, and as a
naval warship. The Syracusia is said to have
been the largest ship built in classical antiquity.
Since a ship of this size would leak a
considerable amount of water through the hull,
the__________ was purportedly developed in
order to remove the bilge water. X's machine
could also be used to transfer water from a low-
lying body of water into irrigation canals.

8. •Archimedes

9. 4. What are these examples of ???
•Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics #1: If an object is in
motion, it will always be going in the wrong direction
•Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics #2: If an object is
stationary, it will always be in the wrong place.
•Everything takes longer than you think. Or, everything takes
twice as long as it should; excepting that which appears
easy, taking three times as long.
•The first 90% of the job takes the first 90% of the time. The
second 10% of the job takes the second 90% of the time.
•Just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, the roof
caves in.

10. •Murphy’s Law.
•It is used as guiding principle for safety-critical
systems.
•It was coined by Aerospace Engineer Eddy
Murphy.

11. 5. Name the scientist who proposed
the ingenious model shown below.

12. •Kepler.
•He related the fact that there are only 5 paltonic
solids (octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron,
tetrahedron, cube) with the fact that there were
only 5 planets (at the time) and came up with this
ingenious model.

13. 6.What is the importance of this reaction?

14. •This was the first time an organic compound(urea)
was synthesised from inorganic starting materials,
hence disproving the vital force theory in 1828. The
scientist responsible was Friedrich Wöhler.

15. Visual Round
Classical Format
(No Infinite Bounce)

16. •X & Y were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for
developing the semiconductor device D. Z used
this device to make the modern avatar of an
ubiquitous gadget. Which gadget are we talking
about here????
•Hint: Z is an employee of a recently bankrupt
company, which it might have avoided had it
capitalised on Z's invention in time.

17. X Y
Z

18. D(animation)

19. Answer
•Digital Camera
•D=Charged coupled device
•Z=Steven Sasson of Eastman Kodak
X&Y=Willard Boyle and George E. Smith of Bell
Labs who were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 2009

20. Whose travels are shown on this
map??

21. Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle. He made his
most seminal discoveries at Galapagos Islands
near South America

22. Whose work is being shown here?

23. Leonardo da Vinci’s study of human embryos.

24. 4.What is this google doodle
commemorating??

25. •Discovery of water on the moon by Chandrayaan.

26. 5.Identify the blanked out brand
name.

27. •Aspirin

28. 6.Whom does this Soviet Stamp
Commemorate??

29. •al-Khwārizmī
•His works in arabic introduced the western world
to Indian mathematics including the place value
and system systematic solution
of linear and quadratic equations. Because of this
he was considered the father of modern algebra.

30. Infinite Bounce
Counter-Clockwise Passing
+10 for each correct answer

31. 1.Identify X.
•X is a theoritical physicist and creator of the X
variables.
•X is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity
and its subfield loop quantum cosmology.
•In 1999, X and his colleagues were able to
calculate the entropy for a black hole, matching a
legendary 1974 prediction by Hawking.

32. •Prof. Abhay Asthekar

33. 2. What is being talked about ?
Alternatively give X & Y
•It is a Machian theory of gravity proposed by X
and Y that fits into the quasi steady state model of
the universe.
•Y is known for his work in championing models
alternative to the popular Big Bang model.
•It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a
function of the masses of all other particles,
multiplied by a coupling constant, which is a
function of cosmic epoch.
•In cosmologies based on it, the gravitational
constant G decreases strongly with time.

34. •Hoyle-Narlikar theory
•Fred Hoyle and Jayant Narlikar

35. 3.
Which famous physicist's achievements include the
discovery of benzene, investigation of the
clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invention of an
early form of the Bunsen burner and the system
of oxidation numbers, and popularisation of
terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode,
and ion???

36. Michael Faraday

37. 4.Identify ‘us’ .
•If we assume that the X-ray scattering of the 'unmodified' type
observed by Prof. Compton corresponds to the normal or average
state of the atoms and molecules, …….
•The new type of light scattering discovered by “us” naturally
requires very powerful illumination for its observation. In our
experiments, a beam of sunlight was converged successively by a
telescope objective of 18 cm. aperture and 230 cm focal length, and
by a second lens was placed the scattering material, which is either
a liquid or its dust-free vapour……… A blue-violet filter, when
coupled with a yellow-green filter and placed in the incident light,
completely extinguished the track of the light through the liquid or
vapour. The reappearance of the track when the yellow filter is
transferred to a place between it and the observer's eye is proof of
the existence of a modified scattered radiation. Spectroscopic
confirmation is also available.....

38. C.V. Raman and a research associate describing the
Raman Effect.

39. 5.
•The microorganism must be isolated from a
diseased organism and grown in pure culture.
•The cultured microorganism should cause disease
when introduced into a healthy organism.
•The microorganism must be reisolated from the
inoculated, diseased experimental host and
identified as being identical to the original specific
causative agent.
•The microorganism must be found in abundance
in all organisms suffering from the disease, but
should not be found in healthy organisms.
•What are we talking about?

40. •Koch's postulates. These are four criteria
designed to establish a causal relationship
between a causative microbe and a disease.

41. 6.
The X theory holds that all combustible resources
contain X, a substance without colour, odor, taste
or mass, and is liberated in burning. Once
burned, the "deXed" substance was held to be in
its "true" form, the calx.

42. Phlogiston.

43. Mega Connect
(Written Round)

44. 1. Connect

Kurt Wüthrich

Richard R. Ernst

Karl Alexander Müller

Heinrich Rohrer

Vladimir Prelog

Felix Bloch

Leopold Ružicka

Paul Karrer

Albert Einstein

Charles Édouard Guillaume

Alfred Werner

45. 2. Identify.

46. 3.Identify X.
Physics journals refused to publish X's paper. Various editors ignored his
findings, contending that he had presented them with a simple mistake.
Discouraged, he wrote to Y, who immediately agreed with him. His
theory finally achieved respect when X sent his own paper in support of
Y’s to Zeitschrift für
The reason X's "mistake" produced accurate results was that since photons
are indistinguishable from each other, one cannot treat any two photons
having equal energy as being two distinct identifiable photons. By
analogy, if in an alternate universe coins were to behave like photons,
the probability of producing two heads would indeed be one-third (tail-
head = head-tail).

47. 4. What is 'X'?
It is suggested that all particles had no mass just
after the Big Bang. As the Universe cooled and the
temperature fell below a critical value, an invisible
force field called the ‘X’ was formed together with
the associated ‘Y’. The field prevails throughout the
cosmos: any particles that interact with it are given
a mass via the Y. The more they interact, the
heavier they become, whereas particles that never
interact are left with no mass at all.

48. 5. Identify X.
•The term X was introduced by Lev B. Okun in
a plenary talk at the 1962 International
Conference on High Energy Physics.
•X is a composite particle made of quarks held
together by the strong force. Xs are categorized
into two families: baryons (made of three
quarks) and mesons (made of one quark and
one antiquark).

49. Answer for Mega Connect
•LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
•Swiss Nobel Laureates in Science. (LHC is
located in Switzerland)
•Tim Berners-Lee Started WWW at CERN
•Satyendranath Bose->Boson->Higgs Boson
•Higgs Boson
•Hadron