Science Quiz

The Texas Instruments Science Quiz has been announced for the year 2015.In the wake of this we are publishing a set of science quizzes in the coming few days.To register for the Quiz visit:

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Q1.The name of which element comes from the word Shulbari which literally translates to "The enemy of copper"?

Ans.Sulphur

Q2.This movie inspired three men to create which theory?

Ans.Steady State Model of the Universe

Q3.X was a fan of the game of football ,he was even a goalkeeper at the University of Copenhagen.But his brother went on to represent the Danish team and even won them the silver at the Olympics.Who is the scientist I am talking about?

Ans.Niels Bohr

Q4.X had originally set out to find a replacement for shellac, made from the excretion of lac bugs. Chemists had begun to recognize that many natural resins and fibres were polymers. He first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called "Novolak" that never became a market success, then turned to developing a binder for asbestos which, at that time, was molded with rubber.X is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from an elimination reaction of phenol with formaldehyde.It is the first synthetic plastic.

Ans.Bakelite

Q5.Google doodle based on?

Ans.Claude Bernard

Q6.Briefly, in May, 1985 Robert Sinsheimer organized a workshop to discuss sequencing the human genome,^[5] but for a number of reasons the NIH was uninterested in pursuing the proposal. The following March, the Santa Fe Workshop was organized by Charles DeLisi and David Smith of the Department of Energy's Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER).^[6] At the same time Renato Dulbecco proposed whole genome sequencing in an essay in Science,James Watson followed two months later with a workshop held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.This is the birth of which famous study?

Ans.Human Genome Project.

Q7.A 22 year old woman was the first to receive it.Dr. Bon Verweij of University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, whose team carried out the procedure, first had to familiarize himself with reconstructions identify.

Ans.3D printed cranium

Q8.Easy one-

X was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave. Its purpose was to track vehicles during manufacture; it was designed to allow high-speed component scanning.^[3]Although initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, X now are used in a much broader context, including both commercial tracking applications and convenience-oriented applications aimed at mobile-phone users (termed mobile tagging).

Ans.QR Code

Q9.plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and element 106

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Ans.Glenn Seaborg

Q10.Which scientific term comes from the word "little nut"?

Ans.Nucleus

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