Astro Quiz 2015 Amateur Astronomy Club, NITK Surathkal

1. Amateur Astronomy Club

2.  7 questions
 Infinite Bounce
 +10 on direct and bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

3.  Lyrics to a song titled _______ X1 by Canadian progressive rock
band Rush.
Invisible to telescopic eye
Infinity, the star that would not die
All who dare to cross her course
Are swallowed by her fearsome force
Through the void
To be destroyed
Or is there something more?
Atomized...at the core?
Or through the Astral Door?
To soar...

4. I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the MilkyWay
On my ship, the 'Rocinante'
Wheeling through the galaxies
Headed for the heart of ________
Headlong into mystery
The x-ray is her siren song
My ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal
Until the black hole
Gains control...
Just FITB.

5.  Safety Slide

6.  Cygnus

7.  The site BadAstronomy, famed for bashing
sci-fi movies (such as Armageddon (1998))
about science blunders, praised the movie X
for being comedic yet surprisingly accurate
when it comes to astronomy facts.
 X is the title of the organisation which
“protects the earth from the scum of the
universe”

8.  Safety Slide

9.  Men In Black

11.  Safety Slide

12.  GalleCrater

13.  The Mercury capsule, flown by astronaut Gus Grissom for 15
minutes in space on July 21, 1961 [2nd manned space mission by
USA]. Following the splashdown of “X″, the hatch, which had
explosive bolts, blew off prematurely, letting water into the
capsule and into Grissom’s suit. Grissom nearly drowned but was
rescued by helicopter, while the spacecraft sank in deep water.
Grissom maintained he did nothing to set off the explosives to
blow the hatch, and NASA officials agreed.The craft was
recovered in 1999 but there was no evidence of how the hatch had
been opened.The sinking was a bit of a black eye on the career of
Grissom, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
 It was named after which iconic American symbol/structure?

15.  Safety Slide

16.  Liberty Bell

17.  Her surname originates from the Latin word for
“left” or “to the left”.The most probable
explanation for this is that most planets rotate
counter-clockwise (from right to left). It is also
the name of a star in the constellation
Ophiuchus.
 Her first name is probably derived from a
phenomenon which occurs when solar winds
interact with the Earth’s magnetic field. It was
initially supposed to be Aurelia, but was later
changed.
 Who are we talking about?

18.  Safety Slide

19.  MadamAurora Sinistra -TheAstronomy
Professor at Hogwarts

21.  Safety Slide

22.  The yeast to brew the beer is sent to space
for a momentary 4 minutes and is then
recovered.There is hardly any change in such
a short duration and it’s best a fad.

23.  The total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 was one of
the most awaited ones.The eclipse was the only
chance to “turn off” the light from the Sun in
order to observe the stars near it.
 The observation of light deflection was
performed by Arthur Eddington and his
collaborators by noting the change in position
of stars as they passed near the Sun on the
celestial sphere.
 What theory was being tested?

24.  Safety Slide

25.  GeneralTheory of Relativity

26.  The title is self explanatory xP
 +2 for each correct answer. +5 if u get all of
‘em

27.  ISRO Chairmen

28.  Vikram Sarabhai
 M G K Menon
 Satish Dhawan
 U R Rao
 Kasturirangan
 G Madhavan Nair
 K Radhakrishnan
 Shailesh Nayak
 A S Kiran Kumar (incumbent )

29.  Dwarf Planets recognised by IAU

30.  Ceres
 Pluto
 Haumea
 Eris
 Makemake

31.  6 questions
 Infinite Bounce
 +10 on direct and bounce
 +10/-5 on pounce

32.  The contents of X were selected for NASA by a committee
chaired byY ofCornell University. A message from US
President Jimmy Carter, printed on X reads, “This is a present
from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science,
our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are
attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”
 Y noted that "The spacecraft will be encountered and the X
played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in
interstellar space. But the launching of this 'bottle' into the
cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this
planet.”

33.  Safety Slide

34.  X-Voyager Golden Record
 Y- Carl Sagan

36.  Safety Slide

37.  Snoopy is the safety mascot for NASA’s
manned missions.
 Petting Snoopy’s nose for luck before launch.

39.  Safety Slide

40.  StarTrail Photography
 ISS

41.  Why were these words in the headlines used
in the USA during Dec 1957?
 Flopnik
 Kaputnik
 Oopsnik
 Stayputnik

42.  Safety Slide

43.  Failure of USA’s satelliteVanguardTV3 which
was launched two months after Russian
satellite Sputnik 1

44.  The cartoon
depicts a
technique or
concept that
can be used to
increase or
decrease the
speed of a
spacecraft
and/or redirect
its path.

45.  Safety Slide

46.  Gravity Slingshot

47.  ID this former NASA scientist and why was he
in the news in 2013?

49.  Safety Slide

50.  Donald Kessler
 Kessler Syndrome- A chain reaction of
collisions between orbital technology
 Gravity

53.  Zero gravity cocktail glass

54.  +30/-15 on the first clue
 +20/-10 on the second clue
 +10/0 on the third clue

55.  ID the movie. Plot is given below
 Homer "Sonny" Hickam, Jr. lived in a small coal mining
town inWestVirginia named Coalwood. Sonny, after
seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik, decides to join
the American team of rocket engineers called the
MissileAgency when he graduates from school
 His group called the “Rocket Boys” also won
a National Science Fair Gold medal for their rockets,
for their project titled "A Study of Amateur Rocketry
Techniques".
 Rocket Boys was made into a film in 1999, titled
__________ (an anagram of "Rocket Boys")

56.  October Sky

59.  X is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the
first Canadian to walk in space. X was
responsible for a crew of five astronauts and
helped to run dozens of scientific experiments
dealing with the impact of low gravity on human
biology. During the mission he also gained
popularity by chronicling life aboard the space
station and taking pictures of the earth and
posting them throughTwitter, Facebook,
Google+, andTumblr to a large following of
people around the world.

60.  Chris Hadfield

61.  X was a science writer, undersea explorer and inventor. Later in his
life, X migrated to Sri Lanka to pursue his interests in scuba diving
and discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram
temple inTrincomalee. X was knighted in 1998and was awarded
Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.
 X’s first sold short story was the "Rescue Party“, published
in Astounding Science Fiction in May 1946.
 X popularized space travel and several futuristic ideas including a
proposal for satellite communication in 1954 that won him the
Stuart Ballantines Medal. He was awarded UNESCO’s Kalinga
Prize, an award for popularizing science and earned the moniker
‘Prophet of the space age’ .

64.  SETI

66.  This occurs when accelerated charged
particles, mainly electrons, interact with
the plasma medium. Magnetic
reconnection (you don’t need to know exactly
what that is :P) is responsible for the
acceleration of the charged particles.
 A ______ ______ is a sudden flash of
brightness observed over a star’s surface
which is interpreted as a large energy
release (about 6x1025 joules of energy).

67.  Solar flare

68.  Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his
book The God Delusion to X and wrote on X’s
death, "Science has lost a friend, literature
has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and
the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.”
 Y is X’s most iconic literary work.

70.  Y is "trilogy" that sold more than 15 million
copies in X’s lifetime and generated
a television series, several stage plays,
comics, a computer game, and in 2005
a feature film.