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IISc Quiz Number 8

IISc Quiz Number 8. Format. 30 questions (Modified) Infinite Bounce. Reverse after question 15 (or approx. midway). 3 Short Visual Connects (at the start, middle and end).

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IISc Quiz Number 8

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  1. IISc Quiz Number 8

  2. Format • 30 questions (Modified) Infinite Bounce. Reverse after question 15 (or approx. midway). • 3 Short Visual Connects (at the start, middle and end). • Scoring for SVCs will be shown when they arrive. For the rest of the quiz, it is +10 for a complete answer and +5 if the answer is satisfactorily incomplete.

  3. 1. +25 / -10

  4. 2. +25 / -10

  5. 3. +20 / -10

  6. 4. +20 / -10

  7. 5. +15 / -5

  8. 6. +15 / -5

  9. 7. +10/-5

  10. 8. +10/ -5 And finally back to 1….

  11. +5 / last guess

  12. Fogg’s Journey Around The World In 80 Days

  13. 1. Commissariat Road in Bangalore, which runs between Lifestyle and Garuda Mall is probably one of the only roads in India to have a particular distinction. What?

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  15. Right-Side Driving

  16. 2. Additional features of what? A = Auto-Jack B = Belt Tires C = Cutter Blades D = Deflector E = Evening (Illuminating) Eye F = Frogger Mode G = Go Homing Robot H = Homing Device

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  18. Mach Five Car

  19. 3. An actor and his son. This was the actor’s last lead role and his son’s first credited role. Id the movie. / Id the common surname.

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  21. 4. Id the ship

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  23. 5. X and Y were blood brothers. However, as time went by, X and Y began to view each other as rivals. When Y became the ruler of X’s tribe, X led a coup. Y was betrayed by his followers, whom X executed on the spot. When X offered to renew his brotherhood with Y, Y said that ‘just as there is room in the sky for one sun, there was room for only one ______ lord.’ Id X and Y.

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  25. X = TemujinY = Jamuqa

  26. 6. Armalcolite was a mineral discovered in July 1969. Since then it has been discovered in: Smoky Butte, Garfield County, Montana, USA in lamproite dikes and plugs Disko Island, (Greenland) in native iron Pripyat Swell (around the Pripyat River, Ukraine) in trachybasalt; and South African kimberlites. After whom is it named after and why?

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  28. Members of the Apollo 11 Mission • Neil Armstrong • Edwin Aldrin • Michael Collins

  29. 7. Connect AND id ALL the places shown on Google Earth.

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  31. Google Earth pictures of Bible events • The garden of Eden • Noah’s Ark in the flood • The parting of the Red Sea • The Crucifixion at Calvary

  32. All books would be part of a series. • To establish more quickly if a series was likely to be successful, the first several volumes would be published at once. • The books would be written under a pseudonym. • The books would look as much like contemporary adult books as possible, with similar bindings and type-faces. • The books would be of a predictable length. • Chapters and pages should end mid-situation, to increase the reader's desire to keep reading. • Each book would begin with a quick recap of all previous books in that series, in order to promote those books. • Books might also end with a preview of the next volume in the series. • The books would be priced at fifty cents, rather than the more common 75 cents, dollar, or dollar twenty-five. • Characters should not age or marry. Guidelines for which company?

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  34. Stratemeyer Syndicate • The company which publishes series like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Bobsey Twins, etc.

  35. 9. Marin X was a French mathematician, and musician, referred to as the “Father of Acoustics”. During his life he created a list of about 257 special numbers, that are now named after him. The numbers are defined as 2^n – 1. Y is a project to find the largest primed number of the series. As of today, the largest number found by Y is 12,978,189 digits long. Id X. / Y.

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  37. Mersenne (of Mersenne Primes fame) • Mersenne primes are Mersenne numbers that are also prime. • As of today, the largest known prime number is a Mersenne prime.

  38. 10. Aztec account of what: When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and _______ and turned to ______. The _____ and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the _____, and the ______ remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the _____ began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but ______ a great _______, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The ______ shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the _____ was tranquil.

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  40. The Great Deluge / The Great Flood When the Sun Age came, there had passed 400 years. Then came 200 years, then 76. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and turned to fishes. The water and the sky drew near each other. In a single day all was lost, and Four Flower consumed all that there was of our flesh. The very mountains were swallowed up in the flood, and the waters remained, lying tranquil during fifty and two springs. But before the flood began, Titlachahuan had warned the man Nota and his wife Nena, saying, 'Make no more pulque, but hollow a great cypress, into which you shall enter the month Tozoztli. The waters shall near the sky.' They entered, and when Titlacahuan had shut them in he said to the man, 'Thou shalt eat but a single ear of maize, and thy wife but one also'. And when they had each eaten one ear of maize, they prepared to go forth, for the water was tranquil.

  41. 11. Which country?

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  43. Mauritius

  44. 12. Id the subject of the biopic. / Id the movie.

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  46. 13. The X Project is an undertaking in South Africa to bring the X back from extinction and reintroduce it back into its habitat. The project began, when in 1955, Lutz Heck suggested that careful selected breeding, of a similar species, called the Plains Zebra could recreate the X. However, the project could get underway only in 1980, when it was proved that the X was a subspecies of the Plains Zebra. During March 1987, nine zebras were selected and captured at the Etosha National Park in Namibia. On 24 April1987 these zebras were brought to the specially constructed breeding camp complex at the Nature Conservation farm "Vrolijkheid", near Robertson, South Africa. This marked the start of the X re-breeding project. On 20 January 2005 the most X-like foal was born. Id X.

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