Astro Quiz 2015 Amateur Astronomy Club, NITK Surathkal

1. Amateur Astronomy Club
Nischita Kaza
Prachi Shahi
Prabhanjan P M

2.  These are the lyrics of a song X, by Metallica
Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent
X...a star
 X please

3.  Astronomy

4.  Which famous American ended up with a
bee-like nickname because his sister couldn’t
pronounce ‘brother’ when she was little and
hence called him something that we now
know him by?

5.  Edwin “BUZZ” Aldrin
 Buzz was because his sister called him
“Buzzard” instead of brother (as told by
Aldrin in his RedditAMA).

6.  In 1999, the North American Numbering Plan
Administration decided to give the area code
321 to Brevard County, Florida after one local
resident Robert Osband suggested the
commission –”Look can we get 321 for Brevard
County?”
 So, although 321 was reserved for suburban
Chicago, they decided to overrule that and gave
it to Brevard instead.
 “Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest
ones”- the commission said.
 PUT FUNDA.

7.  The county is home to Cape Canaveral and
Kennedy Space Centre.
 3-2-1....take off xP

8.  What is Sheldon talking about ?

9.  Drake Equation

10.  ID

11.  USS Enterprise

12.  The following image shows the planetary
nebula Sharpless-2188. It is popularly known
as the ___________ Nebula due to its
resemblance to something from the tech
world. FITB.
 Pic in the next slide

14.  Firefox

15.  A ____________ planet is planet that cones
within a star’s habitable zone and is often
specifically used for planets close to the size
of the earth. A planet following the
__________ principle is neither too close nor
too far away from a star to rule out liquid
water on its surface.The best example is
Earth itself. FITB

16.  Goldilocks Zone

17.  It was May 1910, and the
world was living in fear of an
impending ‘calamity’. Con
artists took advantage of the
panic and took to selling pills
and umbrellas (as shown in
the pic) as protection against
the calamity. However as the
plot unraveled, people learnt
that there was nothing to fear,
and also that they had been
conned. What calamity was
everyone expecting in 1910?

18.  Halley’s Comet

19.  It is said that when X, founder of Y, was flying
over AP region along with the then PM Indira
Gandhi, he asked her to sanction all the land
he could see from the chopper for
establishing Z. She agreed without a
moments hesitation.
 ID X Y Z

20.  X-Vikram Sarabhai
 Y- ISRO
 Z- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

21.  X previously known previously known as Next
Generation SpaceTelescope(NGST), is a
planned space observatory scheduled to
launch in October 2018, by NASA. X will offer
unprecedented resolution and sensitivity
from long-wavelength visible to the mid-
infrared, and is a successor instrument to the
Y.
 Give X andY

22.  X - JamesWebb SpaceTelescope
 Y – Hubble SpaceTelescope

24.  Johannes Kepler’s 442nd birthday

25.  “Large BinocularTelescope
Near-Infrared Utility with
Camera and Integral Field Unit
for Extragalactic Research”, is a
chilled instrument attached to a
telescope in Arizona. Also known
as theVatican Advanced
TechnologyTelescope (VATT), it
is a Gregorian telescope
observing in the optical and
infrared, which achieved ‘first
light’ – the first starlight to pass
through the telescope onto a
detector, in 1933. What is it
popularly known as?

26.  LUCIFER
 Large BinocularTelescope Near-Infrared
Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for
Extragalactic Research

27.  ID the Indian astrophysicist

28.  Meghnad Saha

29.  ID the guys on the extremes

30.  Left- Bill Nye the ScienceGuy
 Right- Neil deGrasseTyson

31.  Richard HinckleyAllen lists many folk names
for the X.The English ones include Jacob’s
Rod or Staff, Peter’s Staff, the Ellwand, the
Magi, or theThree Kings.
 The passage –”Canst thou bind the sweet
influences of Pleiades, or lose the bands of
_____?” is found in the Book of Job
 Id

32.  Orion’s Belt

33.  Id the Google doodle

34.  Philae landing

35.  X are the most energetic and distant members of a
class of objects called active galactic nuclei (AGN).
 While the nature of these objects was controversial
until the early 1980s, there is now a scientific
consensus that a quasar is a compact region in the
centre of a massive galaxy surrounding a central
supermassive black hole Its size is 10–10,000 times
the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole.The energy
emitted by a X derives from mass falling onto the
accretion disc around the black hole.
 ID X

36.  Quasar

37.  X is an astrophysicist and faculty member inCaltech's
Physics Department.
 He was part of the team to launch the New
Horizons space probe to collect data about the Pluto
system and beyond. For his discovery of a planetary
object beyond the Kuiper belt, 2008 NQ17 (aka "Planet
Bollywood")
 He was featured in People magazine's "30 Under 30 to
Watch“ list
 He is also known for a publication on Kuiper belt
object size distribution, having run a simulation to
correct for the observational efficiency, and was
awarded the Newcomb Medal.

38.  Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali

39.  The X andY rovers were named through a student essay
competition.The winning entry was by Sofi Collis, a
third-grade Russian-American student from Arizona.
 I used to live in an orphanage. It was dark and cold and
lonely. At night, I looked up at the sparkly sky and felt
better. I dreamed I could fly there. In America, I can
make all my dreams come true.Thank you for the X and
theY.
— Sofi Collis, age 9
 Hers was selected from nearly 10,000 entries in the
contest sponsored by NASA and the Lego Co., a
Denmark-based toymaker, with collaboration from the
Planetary Society, Pasadena, Calif..

40.  X- Spirit
 Y- Opportunity

41.  Id the Danish astronomer

42.  Tycho Brahe.
 While studying in GermanyTycho lost part of
his nose in sword duel against fellow Danish
nobleman Manderup Parsberg.

43.  Connect –
 The Rape of the Lock- Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda
 A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Titania, Puck
 Hamlet- Ophelia
 AsYou Like It- Rosalind
 TheTaming of the Shrew- Bianca

44.  Moons of Uranus

45.  Whose statue?

46.  ValentinaTereshkova

47.  How do we better know an Einstein-Rosen
bridge?

48.  Wormhole

49.  Id the comic and the creator
 Pic in the next slide

51.  XKCD
 Randall Munroe

52.  A G dwarf star, also calledY is a main
sequence star of spectral class G. Such a star
has about 0.8-1.2 solar mass and surface
temperature of 5300-6000K.The sun is the
best known example of Y.
 GimmeY

53.  Yellow Dwarf

54.  The ______ is a circle of twelve 30 degree
divisions of celestial longitude that are
centered upon the ecliptic, the apparent path
of the sun across the celestial sphere over the
course of the year. FITB

55.  Zodiac