Date -- 4 December 2013 (Wednesday).
Place -- Bhavans Hall, Bashir Bagh.
Age limit -- Classes 8 to 10.
A. Dendrochronology.
2) What is the object in this video?
A. The fuel tank of a space shuttle.
3) What are these people doing and what is it known as?
A. Searching for WI-Fi signals. The practice is known as wardriving.
4) <A video of a man being immobilized by a gun-like device.> What is the immobilizer device known as?
A. Taser.
5) When this video was taken, there was one person who was neither on the Earth nor on the Moon. Who was it?
A. Michael Collins.
6) What is this plane doing?
Place -- Bhavans Hall, Bashir Bagh.
Age limit -- Classes 8 to 10.
Round 1
1. What do the elements with the atomic numbers 31, 32, 84, 87, and 95 have in common?
A. They are all named after countries.
2. In the context of sports, what does inducting a person into the Hall of Shame signify?
A. It means that they have been caught for drug abuse.
3. A thief enters a rich person's house at night, when no one is home. In the middle of the room, he stands still. He wants to move, he is completely capable of moving, but he can't move and doesn't move, and is caught by the police in this position six hours later. Why couldn't he move?
A. If he moves, he gets caught by the motion sensor's infrared rays.
4. A woman buys a bottle of Kissan jam and gives it to her daughter-in-law to open. The younger woman is unable to open, so she borrows a pin and opens it. How?
A. The bottle is sealed with a vacuum. When the pin is used to prick the lid of the bottle, air enters the bottle and the air pressure inside and outside equalises, making the bottle easier to open.
5. In rural India, Nathuram owns a shop. A bulb socket is kept inside the shop, which holds only one bulb at a time. However, he keeps two bulbs, and changes one bulb for the other at intervals. Explain.
A. [Due to it being rural India] there is an occasional fluctuation in voltage. So he changes the bulb according to the voltage available at the time.
6. ticketmaster.com is a website selling tickets to various events. It has recently developed an algorithm to reduce the number of bots, in order to ensure fair distribution of tickets. What are bots?
A. They are semi-automated computer programmes which perform a task in bulk.
7. Give the context -- "We come in peace for all mankind."
A. This was the message left by the Apollo 11 mission on the moon to extraterrestrial life, if it exists.
8. In a particular section of a hospital, a notice can be found, of which the last word is "illegal". What is the content of this notice, mandated by law?
A. Prenatal sex determination is illegal.
Round 2
1) Identify the study mentioned here.
A. Dendrochronology.
2) What is the object in this video?
A. The fuel tank of a space shuttle.
3) What are these people doing and what is it known as?
A. Searching for WI-Fi signals. The practice is known as wardriving.
4) <A video of a man being immobilized by a gun-like device.> What is the immobilizer device known as?
A. Taser.
5) When this video was taken, there was one person who was neither on the Earth nor on the Moon. Who was it?
A. Michael Collins.
6) What is this plane doing?
A. Fighting forest fires.
7) What are the full forms of these abbreviations?
A. International Unit, microgram and milligram.
8) What is the name of this arrangement? It is abbreviated as RP.
A. Rack and Pinion.
Round 3 - Rapid Fire
1. In what piece of naval equipment is light made to reflect 90° twice?
A. Periscope.
2. Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Dave Brubeck are only a few among those who are followers of this. Which scientific religious cult, created by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, proposes that human beings are immortal?
A. Scientology.
3. Which branch of science is used in English to say that two people have a good relationship with each other?
A. Chemistry.
4. Which 6-letter word is used to describe the process carried out when a 90° angle is divided into two?
A. Bisect.
5. Name the sportsperson who became the No. 1 in his sport just three months after he gave up eating bananas, because he was allergic to the gluten in them.
A. Novak Djokovic.
6. Give the four-letter nickname given by cricket commentators and broadcasters to a graphical comparison of the performance of two teams.
A. Worm chart.
7. Which SI unit of measurement shares its name with an informal English term for an insider spy system?
A. Mole.
8. Which is the 5-letter medical term given for a mentally abnormal state characterised by a flight of ideas and elevated mood?
A. Mania.
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