TRIVIA QUESTIONS - EPISODE 10 (SCIENCE)

Warm it up

Science has a habit of naming units after discoverers. You have to give me a name that might be on this list of 19 eponymous unit titles (SI units, base and derived)

Ampere electric current
becquerel (Bq), radioactivity
degree Celsius (°C), temperature
coulomb (C), electric charge
farad (F), capacitance
gray (Gy), absorbed dose of radiation
henry (H), inductance
hertz (Hz), frequency
joule (J), energy, work, heat
kelvin (K), thermodynamic temperature
newton (N), force
ohm (Ω), electrical resistance
pascal (Pa), pressure
siemens (S), electrical conductance
sievert (Sv), radiation dose equivalent
tesla (T), magnetic flux density
volt (V), electric potential
watt (W), power
weber (Wb), magnetic flux

ROUND ONE

1.I was told there would be no math
The word contains three letters, but if one is taken away it has four left. What is the word?

IVY

2. Literature
Leon Mandrake, a real-life magician, had been performing for well over ten years before Mandrake was introduced as a comic strip character. Who created the comic strip ?

Lee Falk

3.(3 clues) Kinetic chemicals
a.I was created by Professor Philip Brainard
b.I am a green goo with enormous amounts of elasticity and kinetic energy
c.My speed increases as I bounce and I am difficult to control

"Flubber"

ROUND TWO

1. YOHAN MURDERS A HIT 

I tried to give you consolation, When your old man had let you down
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

Name the love story that inspired this song which originated in 7th-century Arabia and for two bonus points which band recorded it first?

Laila and Majnu

Derek and the Dominos

2. Hollywood walk of Fame

Whose star on the Hollywood walk of fame is the only one which you will NOT find on the walkway?

Muhammad Ali
He had two Grammy-nominated spoken word albums.

3. On July 11th

On July 11th 1924 an athlete won an Olympic medal in which discipline after refusing to take part in the 100m heats because they held it on a Sunday. His story would later go on to become part of a great Hollywood movie.

400m Eric Lidell
Chariots of Fire

ROUND THREE - MIDPOINT

Match the mobiles.
Name the car manufacturers of these iconic cars from films

Wet Nellie –  the spy who loved me - 
Lotus

Ecto 1 – ghostbusters - 
Cadillac

Bumble Bee – transformers - 
 Chevrolet 

General Lee – 
dukes of hazzard - Dodge 

Eleanor –
 gone in sixty seconds - Ford

ROUND FOUR
1.Read between the lines?
Identify the two band names that are hidden in the following sentence.

This prismatic array stays unaffected by electricity

Rainbow, ACDC

2.RING A BELL

The Rings of Power are magical artefacts in the book The Lord of the Rings by JRR TOLKIEN. How many Rings were forged? Bonus 2 points if you can guess to whom the rings were forged for

20
1 to rule them all - SAURON
3 for the elven kings
7 for the dwarves
9 for men

3.Talking Cars

Which Dark Knight lent his voice in the 2008 - 09 Knight Rider series as the voice of KITT

Val Kilmer

ROUND FIVE
1.Roe your boat
Where would you be rowing if you wanted the most expensive caviar ?

Caspian Sea, Beluga Sturgeon

According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, roe from any fish not belonging to the Acipenseriformes order (including Acipenseridae, or sturgeon sensu stricto, and Polyodontidae or paddlefish) are not caviar, but "substitutes of caviar.

2. Lewis knows it

What is the name of Prince Caspian’s ship from the Narnia books ?

Dawn Treader

3. It dawned upon me

In the Rigveda, the goddess of Dawn is called Ushas. What was the name given to her by the Romans, A name also used by Disney for the character, Briar Rose.

Aurora

ROUND SIX
1.A feudal rap

On July 11th they fought a duel, In Baltimore, to settle a feud
One died, Oooh that was cruel, The others career got screwed
He was the Vice President, named Aaron Burr
Name the other that got rapped years later?

Alexander Hamilton

2. A noble oddity

The Family Curie have won five Nobel prizes till date. They received awards in Physics, Chemistry and what other discipline ?

Pierre and Marie Physics and Chemistry
Irene and Frederic Physics and Physics
Henry Richardson husband of Eve Curie Peace
5 Nobel Prizes

3. Its elementary

Figure out the elements hidden in the following words

Erotic - Erbium, Oxygen, Titanium Carbon
Police - Polonium, Lithium, Cerium

GAUNTLET - Ghostly and Ghastly
1.What time is regarded by paranormal experts as a time when demons or entities from the spirit world make their presence felt?

3am time slot

2.A sample of the victim’s urine, mixed with rye-meal and ashes, baked into a cake then fed to a dog in the hope that the beast would fall under its spell and reveal the name of the guilty. What ghastly practice am I referring to?

Witch Cakes used in the Salem witch trials (Tituba)

3.Which language gives us the word Ghoul meaning a demon believed to rob graves and devour corpses?

Arabic

Teams


T3 (w)               68000      The Spanish Inquizition     Pew-Pew Berty

Siddharth        Siddique           Berty                                   Nandan

Ruqshad          Beela                 Zubin                                  Rohan

Sridhar             Ryan             Xan/Josh                               Anu/ Ollie









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