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The Hindu
30-04-2025
- Science
- The Hindu
The Science Quiz: Don't go to these places for summer break
The Science Quiz: Don't go to these places for summer break Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /6 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | Visual: The red dot here shows the location of the world's third-deepest trench, off the Philippines. It shares its name with a ship that bombed Chennai (then Madras) during World War I. Name it. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Emden SHOW ANSWER 2 / 6 | Mount ____, named for a famous Nordic god, in Canada features the world's largest vertical drop. While it's 1.6 km tall, it features a cliff at 1.2 km that juts out from the base by about 5 degrees, making it a destination for extreme climbers. Fill in the blank. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Thor SHOW ANSWER 3 / 6 | The Shina people of Pakistan call this mountain the 'king of mountains'. The mountain has three faces: Diamir, Rakhiot, and Rupal. Of them, Rakhiot has one of the world's steepest mountain slopes while Rupal is the world's highest mountain face. Name the mountain. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Nanga Parbat SHOW ANSWER 4 / 6 | The name of this place in Greece has the same root as the English word 'meteor'. It features towering columns of rock up to 400 metres high. Geologists don't exactly know how they took shape. Name the place. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Meteora SHOW ANSWER 5 / 6 | The _______ __________ is Africa's third lowest-lying area because three tectonic plates are moving away from each other here, including those bearing Africa and Asia. Many palaeontologists believe the earth's first humans evolved here. Fill in the blanks. DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO Answer : Danakil Depression SHOW ANSWER
The Hindu
26-04-2025
- Science
- The Hindu
The Science Quiz: Entities that lie at the edge of physics
The Science Quiz: Entities that lie at the edge of physics 1 / 6 | Name the man in the picture. The mass of a subatomic particle named for him is very close to a figure that, if that had been the actual mass, could have destroyed the universe as we know it. Credit: Bengt Nyman 2 / 6 | The _____________ ___________ is the name for the condition in which spacetime suffers a catastrophic breakdown. Scientists have said they can be understood only by a theory of quantum gravity, but no such complete theory currently exists. Fill in the blanks. 3 / 6 | The first observational evidence that _______ _____ exist in nature was provided by a monumental discovery in 1967. A matchbox-sized piece of this object is expected to weigh around three billion tonnes. The Milky Way alone is expected to have a billion of them. Fill in the blanks. 4 / 6 | The QGP is a state of matter that cosmologists expect filled our universe in the first hundred microseconds of its life at a temperature of around 1 trillion K. In these conditions, the subatomic particles that make up matter are forced to break up into their smallest constituents. What does QGP stand for? 5 / 6 | A ______ ___________ is the result of a short-lived and random change in the energy of a point in empty space. They cause pairs of subatomic particles to be created and annihilated almost instantaneously — a process Stephen Hawking used to prove black holes can evaporate. Fill in the blanks. 6 / 6 | A _____ ____ is so named because it's a hypothetical region of spacetime from which energy can escape but cannot enter. While the concept appears in certain theories of quantum gravity, they haven't actually been found. Fill in the blanks.
