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Senior Science Quiz 2011
Saturday 26th November
Fáilte romhaibh
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 8 Rounds
 6 questions
 Most questions are course related
 Some general knowledge in science
 Tie – breakers!
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No electronic devices
No calculators
No mobiles
No communication between teams
1st place: €200
2nd place: €150
3rd place: €100
4th place: €50
5th place: €50
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ISTA
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Annual Conference
April 20th – 22nd 2012
Trinity College
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SILENT mobiles NOW please!
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1. What do IUPAC stand for?
2. Where is your tarsus?
3. What does BER stand for?
4. Identify the element that sublimes to form a purple
vapour on heating.
5. The study of fungi is known as?
6. What is represented by 12 on the Beaufort scale?
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1. The yellow spot is a feature of which organ?
2. Which neural sub-atomic particle claims to travel faster
than light?
3. Name the intramolecular forces in water.
4. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by which type of
microbe? Bacterium, Fungus or Virus.
5. Who is the ‘father of modern chemistry’?
6. Identify three precious metals in catalytic convertors?
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Across:
1. non-metallic liquid in the periodic table
3. tree dwelling herbivore that survives on
eucalyptus leaves
4. function that describes simple form of a
vibration with constant frequency and
maximum deflection
5. he won the first Nobel prize in Physics in
1901 for the discovery of X-rays
Down:
1. seeking sustainable solutions from nature
2. oology the study of ………………
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1. Name the pioneer of the PC revolution who died in 2011?
2. Name the sedative drug was used to cure morning sickness
but led to birth defects.
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Which planet in the Solar System is closest in size to
Earth?
4. Identify state of this cell.
5. What is polychloroethene commonly known as?
6. Which animals are ovine?
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1. Prozac is used to treat which condition?
2. Newton’s cradle operates on which principle?
3. Common name for the neonatal genetic test of
newborn infants.
4. Allotropes of carbon.
5. Who was the ‘father of geometry’?
6. How many tetrahedral carbons in benzoic acid?
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1. What is vaccimulgence?
2. Who was the French chemist & microbiologist
created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax?
3. What does EDTA stand for?
4. What is an exoplanet?
5. What are your lacrimal glands?
6. Identify salt that gives a blue-green flame and a
white precipitate with barium chloride which is
insoluble in dilute HCl.
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work
energy
power
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1. The delivery of computing as a service rather than a
product is known as this.
2. Which anti-microbial transition metal is used for‘touch
surfaces’ in hospitals especially in the UK?
3. Name the Irish mathematician who discovered
quaternions.
4. In terms of inheritance what do chloroplasts and
mitochondria have in common?
5. The joule is the unit of which of the following? work,
energy or power?
6. Name an acid that is an isomer of ethyl methanoate.67
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1. How many hearts has an earthworm?
2. What was the first synthetic dye?
3. Which gland produces oxytocin?
4. What are strange and charmed two examples of?
5. Aside from the cardiac muscle, which of the body’s muscles
can work for the longest time before getting tired?
6. Name the female X-ray crystallographer whose work was
used to discover the structure of DNA.
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What next for Nano?
Poster Competition
Finalists work displayed in The Science
Gallery in Trinity College April 20th-22nd
Winners announced at ISTA 50th Annual
Conference in Trinity College on April 21st
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Míle Buíochas
ISTA Dublin Branch Committee
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Prof John Kelly – Trinity College
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Charlie Dolan Eli Lily – President of ISTA
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Yvonne Higgins – National Chairperson of ISTA
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Paddy Daly & Irene O’Suillivan – Admin & check in
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Brian Smyth - Scores
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Maria Sheehan– Technology
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Rory Geogehegan – Database
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Randal Henly – Question Adjudicator
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Ian McCullough – Head Judge
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All the ISTA teachers who helped out, collecting & correcting!
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Guest Éilis McGrath from CRANN
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Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin– Quizmaster
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YOU GUYS!
ISTA
Dublin Branch Committee
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Senior Science Quiz 2011
Saturday 26th November