Earth
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
Who made this famous quote?
(Pass allowed)
Bruce Lee
In a fire, what color of the flame signifies complete combustion, indicating efficient burning with maximum heat?
(No pass)
Blue flame
RADAR is an acronym for?
Radio Detection and Ranging
What does “NASA” stands for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Name the only South American country that has Fjords?
(No Pass)
Chile
Why is Antarctica a continent but not the Arctic? (No pass)
Antarctica is a Land surrounded by sea, while the Arctic is a Sea surrounded by land.
Which part of the human brain controls and regulates the body temperature?
(Pass allowed)
Hypothalamus
In aviation, what measure of speed represents the ratio of an aircraft's speed to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium?
(Pass allowed)
Mach
Which two planets in our solar system don't have any moons?
(No pass, 100 points each)
Mercury
Venus
Name the only two coastal deserts of the world?
(Coastal desert is a desert that stretches along the sea coast)
150 points each, pass allowed.
Namib Desert, Africa
Attacama Desert, South America
What are the three essential elements needed for fire?
(No pass, 100 points each)
Fuel, Heat, and Oxygen
What was the Departure and Arrival airports of the infamous Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight that disappeared?
(150 points each, No pass)
Departure: Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
Arrival: Beijing (PEK)
What is the term, that describes the minimum speed an object has to travel, inorder to break free from gravity?
Escape speed or Escape velocity.
Name the 8 countries that share territory within the Arctic circle? (The Arctic council)
50 points each, Pass allowed.
Canada
Denmark (Greenland)
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Russia
Sweden
United States (Alaska)
What is the longest lake in the world? (Pass allowed)
Lake Tanganyika, Africa (670 KMs in length)
In Technology, what does the following abbreviations stand for? (Pass allowed / 100 points each)
1. HDMI
2. URL
3. RAM
4. USB
1. High-Definition Multimedia Interface
2. Uniform Resource Locator
3. Random Access Memory
4. Universal Serial Bus
What was the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane that made the fastest transatlantic crossing in under 3 hours, flying from JFK to London?
Concorde, operated by British Airways.
From the Diary of Neils Bohr, Father of Atomic Physics.
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"Met an Indian holy woman today. She asked me to explain quantum superposition. I did the observer effect, wave particle duality, the measurement problem.
When I finished, she smiled and said, "So, your science has finally discovered what we've known for 5,000 years. Consciousness collapses possibility into actuality. The observer creates the observed. You are the universe observing itself." Then she laughed. I couldn't speak.
How did an uneducated village woman articulate in 30 seconds what took me 30 years to understand? "
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Who is the holy woman from India that Neil's Bohr is referring here?
Sri Anandamayi Ma
Which is the largest city (Population > 500K) in the world that cannot be reached by road AND is not on an island?
(Pass allowed)
Iquitos, Peru (Gateway to the Peruvian Amazon, it is only accessible by river and air)
Which is the largest river island in the world? (Pass allowed)
Majuli in Assam, India
Who made these famous quotes? (100 points each, Pass allowed)
1. "God does not play dice with the Universe"
2. “Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
3. "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
4. “Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.”
5. "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
1. Albert Einstein
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Neils Bohr
4. Oppenheimer
5. Neil DeGrasse Tyson