SPRING FALL HUB QUIZAEC quiz club

SET-2 NAVADEEP

KALITA

#1ITS IUPAC NAME IS 2-OXO-L-THREO-HEXONO-1,4-LACTONE-2,3-ENEDIOL. IT IS ALSO KNOWN AS ASCORBIC ACID. IN 1747 JAMES LIND, A BRITISH ROYAL NAVY FOUND A UNIQUE WAY OF PREVENTING A DISEASE IF THIS WAS TAKEN. WHAT ARE WE REFERRING TO?

Vitamin C

#2

WHAT HAS BEEN BLACKED OUT?

Higgs Boson

#3A PERSON X, RUSHED INTO THE EAGLE PUB ON AN UNEVENTFUL DAY IN FEBRUARY 1953 AND REMARKED, “WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF LIFE”. WHAT WAS X REFERRING TO AND IDENTIFY HIM.

The person is Francis Crick and he was referring to the discovery of the structure of DNA.

#4THIS IS THE LOGO OF WHICH ORGANIZATION?

ISRO

#5THIS FIRST APPEARED IN 1946, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. AT THE TIME, IT WAS RENDERED AS MAGENTA, AND WAS SET ON A BLUE BACKGROUND. THE MODERN VERSION USED IN THE U.S. IS MAGENTA AGAINST A YELLOW BACKGROUND, AND IT IS DRAWN WITH A CENTRAL CIRCLE OF RADIUS R, AN INTERNAL RADIUS OF 1.5R AND AN EXTERNAL RADIUS OF 5R FOR THE BLADES, WHICH ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER BY 60°. WHAT IS BEING REFERRED HERE?

The international hazard symbol (trefoil).

#6

CONNECT

CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research)

The first photo is that of the member states of CERN.The second one is it’s logo.The third is that of Rolf Dieter Heur, the current director-general of CERN

#7

EVENT?

Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday

#8THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL APPARATUS USED FOR A HISTORIC EXPERIMENT IN 1654 PERFORMED BY OTTO VON GUERICKE. IT  WAS USED TO DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. 

WHICH LOGO WAS INSPIRED BY THIS EXPERIMENT?

Magdeberg hemisphere experiment & Levi strauss

#9This symbol is known as Ourobus and is seen in several ancient scriptures and texts. It inspired a person to a revolutionary scientific finding in 1850’s .What was that finding? And who is the person related to this finding?

Kekule Benzene

#10

The branding of _____ was created by Timothy Hanley to distinguish items that integrate consumer audio and video with conventional computing products. The ____ logo also represents the integration of analog and digital technology.Which logo/Brand?