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Download Jack Kilby Science Quiz Archives

I never got to participate in the Texas Instruments sponsored Jack Kilby Science Quiz, because I was too old to meet the age criteria. It’s a fun quiz though, I’ve heard, and I had an archive of the quiz compiled by Prateek Vijayavargia lying with me for quite some time; just hadn’t had time to go through it. I did get some time recently, and am putting up the archive now. Most of the stuff was done by Prateek, but I did add a bit, especially one question which I think was wrong. Standard of the quiz is quite okay, given that it is targetted at students of and below 10th standard. Obviously, tech does seem to be an important topic while preparing for this quiz/ Enjoy the archives.

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Hi Ankur:
Thanks to you and Prateek for putting that together. The questions do look interesting.

Would appreciate your help if you could provide some info on reading ,material/sites for Jack Kilby quiz. have looked into the 2006 downloads, any plans to put up the 2007 questions too before the ’08 quiz?

@Abhirath: Nope, don’t have the 2007 archive. For preparing for the quiz, I would suggest you to go through funtrivia.com quizzes on science and tech.

@S Vignesh: Glad that you found it useful. 🙂 In fact, the question has been lifted from the Wikipedia entry on arsenic, according to me. It says that the Greeks borrowed the word ‘arsenikon’ from the from the Persian word ‘zarnikh’. However, that’s Wikipedia. Oxford English Dictionary maintains that it was the Greeks. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/arsenic?view=uk

Given a toss between the two, I’d go with OED instead of Wiki.

ya,but anyways the indirect origin is from ‘Zarnikh’ itself.Thanks for the link to prepare for the quiz.Now atleast, I can prepare myself for it.

Can you please tell from where can I study for this quiz?
The questions seem to be very tough and I can’t find them in a single book

Please tell me from where do I need to study for this quiz. I don’t know a single word of science history and by mistake, I got selected for this.

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