Astronomy
- Each team will be represented by two participants.
- All teams will write a preliminary qualifying written round to be conducted before the quiz. Marks of this round will not be added to the final tally. Teams which qualify will participate in the final round.
- The final quiz will consist of oral questions and visual displays. Correct answers will fetch marks for the team. No marks will be deducted for incorrect answers or no responses. The questions will not be passed to the next team. At the end of each round, the marks and positions will be announced. Teams will be eliminated after the oral and visual rounds.
- The buzzer round will be the last round. Here, each question will be open to every team that qualifies. The team that presses the buzzer first will have the privilege to answer the question. A correct answer will fetch marks; marks will be deducted for an incorrect answer.
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Famous quotes containing the word astronomy:
“It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference to death.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)