IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 1

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Angioplasty

2. Kuiper Belt

3. Bjarne Stroustrup

4. Meiosis

5. Osteoporosis

6. Monty Hall Problem

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 2

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Botox

2. Cassini Division

3. Mitochondria

4. Vinod Khosla

5. Total Internal Reflection

6. Erectile Dysfunction

IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 3

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Gregory Perelman

2. EEG

3. Reverse Osmosis

4. Buckminster Fullerene

5. Pavlov’s Experiments

6. Chandrashekhar Limit

IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 4

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Gravitational Sling Shot

2. Kapil Sibal

3. Andromeda Galaxy

4. Sickle Cell Anemia

5. Barometer

6. Formic Acid

IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 5

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Singularity

2. Schrödinger’s Cat

3. Tim Cook

4. Welding

5. Rickets

6. Over The Counter (Drugs/Medicine)

IITB Open SciTech Quiz—8th January 2013 Auto Rapid Fire

Team 6

Rules:

One member of the team is shown the list and he has 30 seconds to describe each of the items to his teammate(s).

They face away from each other so that the communication is purely verbal.

They can’t play charades:

• No splitting

• No conveying of the number of words/letters or any letters

• No use of intonation or any other similar mechanism

The explanation has to be a SciTech explanation.

If the teams use any trickery, whether listed here or otherwise, they won’t get points for that particular item.

Quizmaster: Antariksh Bothale

1. Chandrayaan

2. Isaac Asimov

3. Molotov Cocktail

4. Hemorrhoids

5. Young’s Double Slit Experiment

6. Suez Canal