"T" in KBTU for a reason
Looking for a man in Finance
Deductive Dilemmas
Alma Mater Legends
Novel Approaches
100
What is the lightest metallic element that floats in water?
Lithium
100
What is the prime rate set by the National Bank of Kazakhstan at the moment?
The Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Kazakhstan has decided to maintain the base rate at 15.25% with a corridor of +/-1 percentage point.
100
Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?
They are born in different time zones.
100
How many SCHOOLS there are at KBTU?
SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY
SCHOOL OF ENERGY, OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
BUSINESS SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
KAZAKHSTAN MARITIME ACADEMY
SCHOOL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
SCHOOL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
100
Which English poet wrote the sonnet that begins with the words "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day"?
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.
In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.
200
An ambulance siren goes by and for THIS reason, you hear the tone of the siren change
The Doppler Effect
200
What is "EBITDA"?
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
200
DD!
Susan and Lisa decided to play tennis against each other. They bet $1 on each game they played. Susan won three bets and Lisa won $5. How many games did they play?
Eleven. Because Lisa lost three games to Susan, she lost $3 ($1 per game). So, she had to win back that $3 with three more games, then win another five games to win $5.
200
When and in honor of what did the place where you are sitting now get that name?
It received this name in 2019 by decision of the KBTU Academic Council in honor of the most important historical events that took place in this hall.
On October 25, 1990, the "Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR" was adopted here, and on December 16, 1991, the "Constitutional Law on State Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" was adopted.
200
Who is the author of the novella Menin Atim Koja
Berdibek Sokpakbayev
300
The Vice-Dean is looking through a telescope into space where the “KBTU Super Space Shuttle” is traveling at 250,000,000m/s. The shuttle fires a laser from its nose. What will be the velocity of the laser beam relative to the Vice-Dean through his telescope and relative to space shuttle?
Relative to your spacecraft: Approximately 300,000,000 m/s (the speed of light, c).
Relative to Earth: Also approximately 300,000,000 m/s (c).
According to Einstein’s special relativity, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant (about 299,792,458 m/s, often approximated as 300,000,000 m/s) in all inertial reference frames. (So reference doesn't matter)
300
In what year was the national currency of Kazakhstan, the tenge, officially put into circulation?
On November 15, 1993, tenge was put into circulation in the ratio of 1 tenge = 500 rubles, banknotes and coins in Russian and Soviet rubles were exchanged for tenge.
300
You have 2 pieces of rope, each of which burns from one end to the other in 30 minutes (no matter which end is lit). If the two pieces touch, the flame will transfer from one to the other. You cannot assume any properties of the rope that were not stated. Given only 1 match, can you use the ropes to time 45 minutes?
Take one rope (Rope A), place it down as a circle. Light match and start burning rope A at the tips that are touching. When the rope completely burns out, 15 minutes will have passed (since both ends are burning and being consumed at once). Hold the second rope (Rope B) straight and place one end so that it will immediately catch fire when the two burning points from (Rope A) finally touch and are just about to burn out. Thus 15 minutes on Rope A + 30 minutes on Rope B gives you 45 mins
OR just put them in T-Shape
300
KBTU ranking according to QS Central Asia 2025
10th
300
In B. Momyshuly’s work Ұшқан ұя, who gave a blessing to Baurzhan?
Imash - grandfather of Baurzhan
400
Upon the first use of THIS in 1884, the Baltimore Sun declared that space&time had been annihilated
Telegraph
400
You can see the USD/KZT exchange rate on the image. What is the main and direct reason for what happened on it?
The Government and the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan decided to start implementing a new monetary policy based on the inflation targeting regime and move to a freely floating exchange rate from August 20, 2015
400
The Dean of Kazakhstan Maritime Academy is in a yacht and throws out his suitcase. Will the water level rise? Justify your answer for points
Water is already being displaced, if you like, by the weight and density of the submerged part of the boat’s hull. So, by throwing the suitcase overboard, its weight/density will not alter the situation. If the suitcase is denser than water, it will sink and displace its total volume, and if it’s lighter, it will displace the portion of its volume dictated by its weight/density. In either case, there will be no change compared to its existing effect on the displacement of the boat before being unceremoniously evicted.
400
Kbtu became the first university in Central Asia to receive THIS technical accreditation
ABET ( Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology )
400
Which literary movement is associated with the idea of absurdity, with Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Samuel Beckett as its notable representatives?
Existentialism/Absurdist Literature
500
Without this particle, discovered more than 10 years ago, the standard model describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions - excluding gravity) would be incomplete. What is this particle?
Higgs Boson
500
What event does this image refer to? The answer requires:
- Specify the event
- State the reason for the event
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Internet, resulting in a dispensation of available venture capital and the rapid growth of valuations in new dot-com startups.
500
You and a perfectly logical friend are playing a game. A hat is placed on each of your heads, either red or blue, but you cannot see your own hat. You can, however, see your friend’s hat. The game master tells you that at least one of you is wearing a red hat. The first one to correctly guess their own hat color wins, but a wrong guess means losing immediately. After a long silence, your friend suddenly guesses correctly. What color was your hat? Justify your answer!
Answer: Your hat is red.
Explanation:
You’re told that at least one hat is red, so both hats cannot be blue. Now, consider the two possibilities:
Case 1: Your hat is blue.
If your hat were blue, then your friend, who can see your hat, would see blue on you. Since the game master said at least one hat is red, your friend would immediately conclude that his own hat must be red and would have guessed right away.Case 2: Your hat is red.
Since there was a long silence before your friend spoke, he couldn’t have seen blue on you (because that would have allowed him to answer immediately). Instead, he must have seen red on your head. Realizing this—and knowing that if his own hat were blue you would have guessed immediately—he eventually deduced that his hat was red as well.
Thus, the long silence indicates that your friend saw red on your head, which means your hat is red.
500
Tengiz Alimbayev, a 2008 graduate of KBTU, is actively developing his hometown of Zhitikara. What has he done for his small homeland?
In 2017, he founded Zhitikara Telecom, providing the city with high-speed internet. Based on its own fiber optic lines, he deployed a city video surveillance system to improve security, and in 2024 he financed the introduction of Kazakhstani artificial intelligence that recognizes faces and license plates. This helped reduce crime by 27%.
500
According to Aristotle’s classical rules of dramaturgy, the three unities of drama include three elements. What are they?
Unity of action, unity of time, unity of place