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- 2. Rules PRELIMS 24 questions,24 points Star (*) Q’s to resolve ties QM’s decisions are final No negative marking Top 8 teams in finals No googling
- 3. ID whose gravethis is. Q1
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- 5. In the 1980s,there was a long running battle between Apple Corps, the Beatles' recording company and Apple Inc. Steve Jobs won the fight, however in turn agreed that they'd not trademark works related to music. This was a problem for Jim Reekes who was in charge of making alert tones for MacOS. The alert "chime" was rejected by Apple's legal team as it directly indicated that it was a work related to music. Growing frustrated by the legal scrutiny, Jim renamed the tone to Sosumi. Put funda as to why he named it so. Q3
- 6. X is aproject by Draper laboratories, it is a cybernetics project that involves an insect. The insect has been chosen due to its massive acceleration sometimes reaching 9Gs and its capability to navigate through tight spots. The project is different from most cybernetics projects as it controls the insect by using optical electrodes to inject commands into its genetically modified nervous system. The insect’s name in Romanian folklore comes from a myth where St. George wounded and leashed a ______ while on his horse. The devil cursed his horse, and the horse became a giant flying insect. This is also why the name of this insect directly translates to to “Devil’s Horse” in Romanian. Which insect was used here? Q4 *
- 7. Imgur user JJSmooth44created an animal photo series with some images shown below. While the images of some species are of extremely high quality, others barely have any pixels to form a discernible image. Put funda Q5
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- 9. Geneticists from theGulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida and National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have proposed that life may have begun before the Earth was formed. They acknowledge that their ideas are more of a “thought experiment”, and that there could be other possibilities to explain what actually might have happened. They, on the basis of X, propose the above, and say that in this case, the doubling period of genetic complexity is 376 million years, and that working backwards, they have extrapolated the beginning of life to 10 billion years ago, whereas the age of the Earth is commonly agreed upon to be around 4.5 billion years. ID X. Q6
- 10. On 30 March1881, four X, described as typographical art, were published in American satirical magazine Puck. These might be earliest usage of these ever in history. What? Q7
- 11. Since 1959, whenthe St. Lawrence seaway was opened to the great lakes, at least 85 invasive marine species have been discovered in the great lakes. Among these, 54 are directly linked to being brought to the lakes from one particular source. In order to curb the transport of these invasive species, their ‘mode of transport’ has been asked to perform certain extra steps before entering the great lakes since 1993. These steps involves the emptying of ________ into the ocean before entering the great lakes. What is this ‘mode of transport’? Q8 *
- 12. This English phraserefers to an immediate reaction made without analysing the causes or facts pertaining to an event. The roots of this phrase is from a phenomenon first recorded by Sir Michael Foster in his Textbook of Physiology in 1877. The phenomenon involves the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lumbar Spinal Nerves. Name the phrase/phenomenon. Q9
- 13. The company thatbought X’s restaurants in Y reopened its first 15 restaurants under a new brand. The new logo released recently is meant to reflect what X is known for selling. The new owner stated, “We don’t have the right to use some colors, we don’t have the right to use the golden ______, we don’t have the right to use any mention of X”. ID X and Y Q10
- 14. Based in Minnesota,Josie Lewis started experimenting with adding different chemicals to uncured resin. "I used all sorts of paints and inks and solvents like a science lab to see what would happen," she says. "At some point I discovered that when I used certain inks with resin in a certain sequence, strange, colorful forms and growths would develop." The results are bunch of stunning, one of a kind, melange of textures, hues providing a stimulating visual experience. What is unique about this art/ What is it made in? Q11
- 15. Karen Nyberg, creatorof novel artistic project titled _____ Views, with Robert Kaufman Fabrics. This project marries Nyberg’s passion for both science and art. In addition to her robust mechanical engineering skill set, Nyberg is also an accomplished artist and crafter. She made headlines in 2013 when she brought quilting gear to the ___ and sewed a dinosaur toy for her then-three-year-old son, who was back home, using scraps and fabrics she found around her. What is the inspiration for Nyberg’s project? Q12 *
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- 17. X is nota renewable resource, at least not in a time comparable to the human timescale. After being extracted, it is ludicrously expensive to recover, due to its nature. There is a reserve to store X in Texas that pumps it into the ground and stores it 3500 feet under the ground in porous rocks, that do not let it escape. The monument on the right, also in Texas was constructed in 1968, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of X. ID X. (Image in next slide) Q13
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- 19. In April 2020,NYC mandated the use of a certain type of aesthetics (some examples are pictured below) to be employed in a certain class of newly constructed buildings. Put funda. Q14
- 20. The new neuralnetwork by OpenAI titled ____-_, creates images from text captions from user input. What's the name given to it? It's play on the name of a famous Spanish artist combined with the name of 2008 Pixar movie. Q15
- 21. Xenobots were essentiallyfrog stem cells engineered to perform a specific function. The original demonstration included the functionality similar to sci-fi nano bots, where they could clump together. Since frog cells clump together into spheres anyway, there needed to be a design to get all these spheres together and form a group with them. An AI model was used to sculpt the shape which could get the cells together in one body. The model ended up choosing a shape close to the ______ character. The bot would thus move around and shove the other clump in it’s ‘mouth’, getting all the spheres together. What shape did the model choose? / FITB. Q16 *
- 22. Tobias Geffen wasan American Orthodox rabbi. He served as the leader of Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1910 to 1970. Geffen is more popularly remembered for his service to his community in another sphere. Geffen was provided with the formula required to make X (a popular product made by a very famous brand as well), a closely guarded trade secret, on the condition that he not disclose the formula. He convinced the company to change few of their ingredients and use substitutes such as vegetable based glycerin and other sources so that the product reached a wider population, which was finally successful in 1936. Explain Geffen's intentions behind modifying X. Q17
- 23. Most of thetime, when stuff doesn’t work, it’s due to components out of alignment, such as gears or other mechanical components. Due to heating and cooling of internal components, delicate items may fall out of place, and lead to the item not working well. A solution (also used by NASA during the Apollo 12 mission when one of its cameras stopped working) named X is applied to repair such devices, and is the most common answer to most household device issues. There are a couple of issues with this solution, though. Firstly, most modern devices are immune to this solution (unfortunately). And secondly, this is more of a lottery than anything, because it may also lead to more misalignment of components. The size of the device in question also matters, as the smaller the device, the less effective this method is. Put funda. Q18
- 24. Yannic Kilcher isa youtuber and ML researcher from ETH, he trained a NLP (natural language processing, basically an AI that understands Shakespeare) model from 3 million message board threads from a popular social media message board. He called this the rudest AI in existence. The name of this AI is derived from the fact that it's one iteration above the state of the art NLP and a tongue in cheek reference to the message board itself. Give me the name. Q19
- 25. London based fashionentrepreneur Saif Siddiqui's invention ISHU is a boon for those in the limelight, but hinders the work of a certain community of people. ISHU is made of a special fabric that contains thousands of nano spherical crystals that reflect light. Put funda as to what its purpose is. Q20 *
- 26. During the developmentof everyone’s favourite game in 2014, the game project was given a codename as “Project Bolan”, as a reference to Marc Bolan, the lead singer of a famous 70s glam rock band having the same name as a playable in-game character. The game is neverending, though it reaches a maximum total of 99,999 points after which it gets reset to 0 again, but the developers said we’d need 17 Million Years to actually hit 99,999 points. Which popular game and character are we talking about? Q21
- 27. In the 1870s,J Hagemann, a German immigrant from Australia first manufactured a well known insecticidal powder and named it after the combination of two words, the first being the French word for Dead, and the second being “One” in German, together translating to “The Dead One”. Which popular brand are we talking about? Q22
- 28. Owens and otherfluid dynamics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think they finally have an answer to a nearly impossible question. The results of this experiment were surprising, as Owens and her colleagues fully expected to be able to split this into two equal halves with some experimental techniques in the lab. To understand the scientific underpinnings of the iconic product, they used an instrument known as a rheometer, which twisted the product between two plates. It turns out there’s not really a trick to it,” Owens tells Popular Science, “Everything you try to do will get mostly a clean break. It’s a bit disappointing that there’s not some secret twist.” What was the team experimenting on? Q23
- 29. The earliest knownEaster Egg in software was placed in PDP-6/10 computers where to create a file you had to execute the command make file_name. One could find the Easter Egg by naming the file X, which on execution of the command (which forms the first half of the slogan) would give the second half of a popular 1960’s American counter-culture slogan and been in popular conscience and use since. ID X and the slogan. Q24