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Round-1
 Rules
Team of at most two people
 There will be a total of 10 questions.
 Use of cell phone is strictly prohibited during the quiz
 The top 8 teams will move to 2nd round
 * Marked questions will be worth double the marks
 Whatever quiz master says is final
Q1-Alan Collins, an astronaut currently stationed at
ISS can work for days without any break. On 17th
January 6:30 am while starting his work he observes
a sunrise. During his work he observes 6 sunrises and
on the 7th sunrise his work is finished. How much time
did he take to finish his work(write the date and
time when he finished his work). Consider, ISS
completes 16 revolutions in the time in which
geostationary satellite completes one?
Q2- A star in the night sky(which appears white to
the naked eye), is given a radially outward
velocity of 89 km/s with respect to the Earth, what
change will we observe in the color of star?
*Q3-Richard and David are on an interstellar
voyage. Richard is controlling the space ship while
David is in hibernation. After 10 days, David comes
out of hibernation and finds out that their ship has
crashed on an unknown planet and Richard has
died because of it. He starts exploring the planet
and finds out that there is no living being; the planet
is a large desert and there is always sunlight on the
planet. What can you deduce from his observations
about the planet.
Q4-How many degrees does Earth rotate in 24 hours?
Round off to the nearest integer.

Q5:A star rises about 4 minutes earlier each evening.

If a star is on your zenith at 9:00 P.M. On September 1,
about what time will it be on your zenith on March 1?
Q6: In Summer Triangle, the brightest star in night sky
is Vega. Deneb is a blue-white supergiant, while
Vega and Altair are in their main sequence.
Suppose if distance from earth for all three stars
become equal, which of them would be brightest
in night sky?
Q7:Arguments are made that these are the flattest
natural structure known to mankind approximately
300,000 km from on end to the other but with a
vertical thickness of about 10 meters! Scientists still
argue about the origin of such structure as they
very common around another set astrological
system. But the ones I am talking about are not
very far from us, they in fact constitute the most
beautiful seeing objects in the night sky.
Q8:During an earthquake, an earthquake monitoring
center observed that transverse waves traveling with
speed 4.5 km/s arrived at the center 3 minutes after
the longitudinal waves traveling at 8.2km/s. Deduce
the approximate distance to the epicenter.
Q9:A clock is moving at 50% of speed of light, When
the clock is moving towards you, do you observe its
hands to be ticking slower, faster, or at the same rate
compared to the rate of ticks that you observe of a
stationary clock? (Consider only special relativity)
Q10:The neutrino was postulated first by Wolfgang
Pauli in 1930 to explain how beta decay could
conserve energy, momentum, and angular
momentum (spin).But later, the particle was named as
antineutrino rather than neutrino. Explain why this had
to be done.