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Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz 2012, Prelims

ChennaiArchive compiled by: S.Abhinav

1)What extinct animal is depicted in the illustrations given below?

(2 Word answer )

2)Identify the scientist in the picture

3)What is this Japanese technique of gardening trees as dwarvescalled?


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4)What is this

5)Which part of the human body is divided into the crown and root?

6)The Holy basil comes in two varieties, Krishna(dark) and

Rama(light).What is the common name?


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7)Which ailment gets its name due its close association with coal,i.e.

the deformity resembles coal.

8)What term describes the EVA seen here.No need to expand EVA,just

mention the common term.

10)With which 9 letter word would you associate paper napkin,fountain

pen,nutrition of trees,blood circulation etc.

11)The picture show fields growing what plant?


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12)With which 10 letter word will you associate the 2 pics?


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13)They are heterokonts,come in varied sizes and are the food for most

marine animals.

14)The name of this element in Ancient Greece was the name for theplanet Venus and is derived from the greek words which roughlytranslates as light-bringer or light carrier

The discovery of this element is credited to the German

alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669 who obtained this salt from

experimenting with urine.

15)On Nov 2,1866 this patent was awarded to someone.Who?


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16)This alloy has been made with the mixture of Tin,Copper and

Antimony.The objects shown below have been made using this

alloy.Whats the name of the alloy?


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17)This is the tallest bird that can fly.Name it.

18)Identify the Ocean current.


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19)On 16 June 1963 this textile mill worker and part-time parachutist

created a record.What is this record(name of person not required)

20)This kingdom classification in Greek mean single or solitary.Whatis the kingdom.

21)Name the only type of ape to be found in India


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22)Felix Hoffman developed this drug in 1899.It is a derivative of

salicyclic acid and was extracted from the bark of the willow tree.

23)Extracts of what?

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia

and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will

fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant

If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to

enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time

to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this

be my lot.

21)Identify this constellation which is referred to as the hunter.

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25)This has been estimated to be a burial ground,observatory etc.The

pic given below is a computerrendering of the place.Identify

26)What disaster is this photo about?


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27)The illustration below is a depiction of which automobile part?

28)This person received the Nobel Prize in 1902 while working on the

Indian Medical service for the isolation and transmission of a famous

disease.Name him(Hint first name and surname start with the same

letter).

29)The aircraft and the river formation have been named after this

Greek alphabet.What is the alphabet?


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30)Fill in the insect body part. Head,_______,Abdomen

31)Plumbum was the older name of which element?

32)This is a visual showing the mechanism of?


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ANSWERS

1)Woolly Mammoth. No points for Mammoth, Giant Mammoth etc

2)Marie Curie3)Bonsai

4)Recycle

5)Tooth

6)Tulasi/Tulsi

7)Anthrax(From Anthracite)

8)Spacewalk

9)Grizzly Bear

10)Capillary11)Mustard

12)Greenhouse

13)Diatoms

14)Phosphorous

15)Karl Benz, for the first car.

16)Pewter

17)Sarus Crane

18)Labrador Current19)First woman to go to space(Valentina Tereshkova)

20)Monera

21)Hoolock Gibbon

22)Aspirin

23)Hippocratic Oath

24)Orion

25)Stonehenge

26)Challenger Space Shuttle Crash

27)Airbag

28)Roland Ross

29)Delta

30)Thorax


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31)Lead

32)Watch/Clock/Chronograph etc.

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