Prelims of the Quark

1. Chennai Prelims
• A to Z
• B,I,T,S and G,O,A are star marked

2. • A was a Benedictine monk who is often
wrongly credited with discovering the
champagne method for making sparkling wine
• In 1981, A was chosen for the wedding of B

3. • Soon after B’s death in Paris in 1997, the car
manufacturer C, in an unprecedented move,
took down all its advertisements of one of its
models
• The Eureka-D project, a collaboration between
C’s parent company and a Munich university
gave rise to a driverless car which reached 175
km/h on a German highway

4. • D was a Titan known for his intelligence and is
also the name of a project by E to develop a
nuclear powered propulsion system. E had
several other projects named after Greek gods
• E owns a lab in Pasadena, California, which is
run by F. The protagonists of a popular TV
series work at F

5. • G, one of F’s most well known figures
popularised the field of H through his talk
“There’s plenty of room at the bottom”.
Though H died in 1988, his van is still kept in
storage near G
• Members of the I family form an important
research area falling under H and the family is
named after the most famous architect in
science circles

6. • I consists of just one element J, which is
important in metallurgy
• J K’s are cylindrical in shape and have unusual
properties. They are classified as single walled
and multi walled. They have been constructed
with length-to-diameter ratio of up to
132,000,000:1

7. • K’s are used in manufacturing L, which was
envisioned by Leon Chua in 1971
• In March 2012, a team of researchers from
HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories)
labs and University of Michigan announced
the first functioning L array built on a CMOS
chip

8. • L was first produced by M, a Fortune 500
company
• M’s first financially successful product was an
audio oscilloscope
• N was one of M’s first customer and was
responsible for creating Mortimer, who
remains N’s most popular character till date

9. • N first ventured into television in 1950 with O.
• O is a major beverage company
• O created a product for P, which is the largest
food company in the world in terms of
revenue

10. • P has been criticised for rapid deforestation in
Borneo, destroying the habitat for Orangutans
• Large parts of forests in Indonesia have been
cleared for Q monoculture
• P uses Q in its products. Q is naturally reddish
in colour due to a high carotene content

11. • Q is also used in Rs, which are mono alkyl
esters
• R is classified as B100, B20, B5 and B2
• S, a German inventor and mechanical inventor
claimed that R’s would become significant in
his invention over the course of time

12. • S’s death occurred under mysterious
circumstances. His biographers present a case
for suicide, and clearly consider it most
likely. Conspiracy theories suggest that various
people's business or military interests may
have provided motives for homicide, however.
Evidence is limited for all explanations.

13. • T, which effectively does the same thing as S’s
invention generally has a lower efficiency
• T uses something different to operate. Outside
the commonwealth nations, that something
different is referred to as U, despite the state
it exists in under normal conditions

14. • V studied U’s by conducting experiments using
a specially shaped glass bottle sealed at one
end with mercury added to the tube
• V wrote ‘The sceptical chymist’ and became
the director of W, spending large sums of
money to spread Christianity in the east
• W literally owned General Goddard, Lord
Nelson, Kent and Agamemnon

15. • W’s counterpart, X, based in Netherlands is
considered the first multinational company
and was the first company to issue stocks
• X had an interest in Y. Techies know Y as
something that is supposed to “WORA”
• Y has a mascot named Z

16. • James Buchanan Z, the founder of the
American Tobacco Company ordered 100
bottles of A
• Z is also a title given to a member of the
nobility and B was a female counterpart of a Z

17. • (A)Dom Perignon was a Benedictine monk
who is often wrongly credited with
discovering the champagne method for
making sparkling wine
• In 1981, (A)Dom Perignon was chosen for the
wedding of (B)Lady Diana

18. • Soon after (B’s) Diana’s death in Paris in 1997,
the car manufacturer (C) Mercedes, in an
unprecedented move, took down all its
advertisements of one of its models
• The Eureka-(D) Prometheus project, a
collaboration between (C)Mercedes’s parent
company and a Munich university gave rise to
a driverless car which reached 175 km/h on a
German highway

19. • (D)Prometheus was a Titan known for his
intelligence and is also the name of a project
by (E)NASA to develop a nuclear powered
propulsion system. (E)NASA had several other
projects named after Greek gods
• (E)NASA owns a lab in Pasadena, California,
which is run by (F)Caltech. The protagonists of
a popular TV series work at (F)Caltech

20. • (G)Feynman, one of (F)Caltech’s most well known
figures popularised the field of
(H)nanotechnology through his talk “There’s
plenty of room at the bottom”. Though
(G)Feynman died in 1988, his van is still kept in
storage near (F)Caltech
• Members of the (I) Buckminsterfullerene family
form an important research area falling under
(H)nanotechnology and the family is named after
the most famous architect in science circles

21. • (I)Buckminsterfullerene consists of just one
element (J)Carbon, which is important in
metallurgy
• (J)Carbon (Ks)Nanotubes are cylindrical in
shape and have unusual properties. They are
classified as single walled and multi walled.
They have been constructed with length-to-
diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1

22. • (K’s)Nanotubes are used in manufacturing
(L)Memristor, which was envisioned by Leon
Chua in 1971
• In March 2012, a team of researchers from HRL
(formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) labs and
University of Michigan announced the first
functioning (L)Memristor array built on a CMOS
chip

23. • (L)Memristor was first produced by (M)HP, a
Fortune 500 company
• (M’s) HP’s first financially successful product
was an audio oscilloscope
• (N)Disney was one of (M’s)HP’s first customer
and was responsible for creating Mortimer,
who remains (N’s)Disney’s most popular
character till date

24. • (N)Disney first ventured into television in 1950
with (O)Coca-cola.
• (O)Coca-cola is a major beverage company
• (O)Coca-cola created a product for (P)Nestle,
which is the largest food company in the
world in terms of revenue

25. • (P)Nestle has been criticised for rapid
deforestation in Borneo, destroying the
habitat for Orangutans
• Large parts of forests in Indonesia have been
cleared for (Q)Palm oil monoculture
• (P)Nestle uses (Q)Palm oil in its products.
(Q)Palm oil is naturally reddish in colour due
to a high carotene content

26. • (Q)Palm oil is also used in (R’s)Biofuels, which
are mono alkyl esters
• (R)Biofuel is classified as B100, B20, B5 and
B2
• (S)Rudolph Diesel, a German inventor and
mechanical inventor claimed that (R’s)Biofuels
would become significant in his invention over
the course of time

27. • (S)Rudolph Diesel's death occurred under
mysterious circumstances. His
biographers present a case for suicide, and clearly
consider it most likely. Conspiracy
theories suggest that various people's business or
military interests may have provided motives for
homicide, however. Evidence is limited for all
explanations.

28. • (T)Petrol Engine, which effectively does the
same thing as (S)Rudolph Diesel's invention
generally has a lower efficiency
• (T)Petrol Engine uses something different to
operate. Outside the commonwealth nations,
that something different is referred to as
(U)gas, despite the state it exists in under
normal conditions

29. • (V)Boyle studied (U's)gases by conducting experiments
using a specially shaped glass bottle sealed at one end
with mercury added to the tube
• (V)Boyle wrote ‘The sceptical chymist’ and became the
director of (W)British East India Company, spending
large sums of money to spread Christianity in the east
• (W)British East India Company literally owned General
Goddard, Lord Nelson, Kent and Agamemnon

30. • (W’s)British East India Company's counterpart,
(X)Dutch East India Company, based in Netherlands is
considered the first multinational company and was
the first company to issue stocks
• (X)Dutch East India Company had an interest in (Y)Java.
Techies know (Y)Java as something that is supposed to
“WORA”
• (Y)Java has a mascot named (Z)Duke

31. • James Buchanan (Z)Duke, the founder of the
American Tobacco Company ordered 100
bottles of (A) Dom Perignon
• (Z)Duke is also a title given to a member of the
nobility and (B)Duchess was a female
counterpart of a (Z)Duke