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COSMOS 2010

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Rules and Regulations

1.Whether Direct or pass ,10 points

2.There will be a total of 8 rounds

3.Specific rules regarding Special Round If anywill announced prior to that round .

4.Quiz masters decision is final

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Round 1:Behind the Starry

Sky

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Whats This ?

1531

1607

1682

1759

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..

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Halleys Comet

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X Was born in 1910 in Lahore .X

Made a Significant Discovery at theage of 20 Which did take some 50

years to be Recognized as a Major

Milestone .Became a US citizen in1953 .

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Subramanian Chandrasekhar

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Identify the insignia

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MIR Space station

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Astronomical Advantages of an Extraterrestrial Observatory written by

Lyman Spitzer was the source of

inspiration for ?

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Hubble Space Telescope

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Fraction of light reflected by a body or

surface, commonly used in astronomyto describe the reflective properties of

planets, natural satellites, and

asteroids.

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Albedo

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Latin name for bull .This constellation

lies between Aries and Gemini

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Taurus

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She received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University

in 1977 and joined NASA the same year. In 1983 she

participated in the seventh space-shuttle mission,aboard the Challenger, as flight engineer, becoming the

first American woman and the third woman

internationally (after the Russians Valentina Tereshkova

[1963], and Svetlana Savitskaya [1982]) to fly into outer

space.

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Sally ride

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Comet that collided with the planetJupiter in July 1994, discovered by

Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and

David Levy 16 months earlier.

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Shoemaker levy 9

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Which planet is known as fossil

planet?

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Mercury

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Who Am I ?

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Identify the personality

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Vikram Sarabhai

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Name sake of this competition

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Carl Sagan

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Identify this Great Indian

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Sathish Dhawan

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The last part remaining !

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Sputnik 1

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A Star Tale !Identify this Great Indian

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Meghnad Saha

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Identify the film

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2001: A Space Odyssey

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Identify the structure

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MIR space station

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Identify the poster

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Solar System

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Giant of a Giant ! Identify the

satellite.

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Ganymede (satellite of Jupiter)

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Name the Malayalee professor after whom

NASA named an asteroid.

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Dr. Sinuddin Pattari

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The centre of the cyclone is known

as.

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Eye

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Name the disk-shaped collection of small, icy

objects in the outer solar system In which

Pluto is also a member

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Kuiper Belt

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The term_____ology is used to

denote the study of life beyond

Earth. This term is also used by a

group of scientists as a substitute for

the term astrobiology ,the study oforigin , evolution , distribution and

future of life in universe . Find the

term ?

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Exobiology

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The space shuttle launched by NASA

in 2001 to collect particles emitted

from sun, was cracked on 9

September 2004 on its way back to

the earth. Name this spacecraft.

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Genesis

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This constellation is known by

Southern Cross in Europe. By what

name do you call this.

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Thrisanku

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Dwarf planets including Pluto in orbit around

the sun farther away than Neptune are now

called

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Plutoids

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GIANT LEAP

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James A Lovell Jr , William AAnders ,

Fred W Haise Jr . Identify the

program for which they served as the

backup crew.

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Apollo 11 (moon landing mission)

h d f d f l

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Where do you find Sea of Tranquility .

What is its specialty ?

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Moon place where Apollo 11

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Moon , place where Apollo 11

landed

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Last manned moon mission was ?

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Appollo 17 (1972) by NASA

Name the first sucessful moon landing

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Name the first sucessful moon landing

mission ?

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Luna -9

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On Jan 2 ,1959 Ussr launched a moon mission

(Luna 1) .Although it failed to reach the

target ,it achieved another feat .What was

that achievement ?

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First artificial object to escape

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First artificial object to escape

earths orbit

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Ch E 1 Chi

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Chang E -1 - China

Chandrayan - ISRO

Lunar Reconnissance Orbiter NASA

Smart -1 - _________ ?

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European space agency

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Einstein Era

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Where is Einstein observ ?atory situated

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Space

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Absolute rest cannot be determined

from the position of bodies in our

regions. Whose words are these ?

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Newton

Thi f l i ti i t

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This powerful organization came into

much debate after its new definitionfor planet. It has got the authority to

name the natural satellites .Name

it?

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IAU (International Astronomical

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(

Union)

Th f d t l h th i

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The fundamental hypothesis on

which Einstein's theory of Relativitywas framed is the nonexistence of.

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Ab l t t i th i

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Absolute rest in the universe.

It gives the angle an object blocks

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It gives the angle an object blocks

out in the sky .Astronomers use it as

the unit to describe the size of

objects in the night sky

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arc second (a quarter held at arms

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arc second (a quarter held at arm s

length is approximately 7,000 arc

seconds).

Identify the planet and give reason

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for its peculiar colour ?

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NEPTUNE : Presence of Methane

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NEPTUNE : Presence of Methane

Find the famous space mission named after

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Find the famous space mission named after

the American scientist who found that

universe is still expanding . Name the Scientist

too .

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Hubble Space Telescope , Edwin

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Hubble

Who is the first woman space tourist ?

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Who is the first woman space tourist ?

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Anoushe Ansari

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Anoushe Ansari

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INDIAN SAGA

On Jan 22 2007 India became the fourth

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country to recover a satellite from its

orbit.The satellite was named SRE-1 .ExpandSRE ?

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Space Capsule Recovery

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Experiment

While going through Indian space history we

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While going through Indian space history we

encounters the word SROSS .Expand it..

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St t h d R hi i S t llit S i

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Stretched Rohini Satellite Series

Indias first Meteorological satelite __________

h

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was renamed to _________ on 6th Feb 2003,

five days after a tragic event .Fill the blanks.

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METSAT KALPANA 1

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METSAT ,KALPANA -1

BrahMos ,is a combined venture of India and

R i Th B hM i

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Russia . The name BrahMos is an acronym.

Expand it.

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Brahmaputra & Moscow River

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Brahmaputra & Moscow River

Expand TERLS ,the official name of Thumba

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center.

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Thumba Equatorial Rocket

L hi i

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Launching station

The launch of second rohini satellite was

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carried out by the first indegenous satellite

launch vehicle of India . Name the launchvehicle.

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SLV -3

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Who holds the world record for the longest

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g

stay in the space and the longest space walks

?

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Sunitha Williams

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Name the first rocket launched from VSSC in

T i d

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Trivandrum .

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Nike -Apache

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p