General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz -1
General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz -1
The Higgs boson, the missing link in the so-called standard model of physics
2. Quiz: A 10,000 sq. km reserve at the fringes of the Amazon basin considered to be the single most diverse spot on earth
Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
3. Quiz: Halley's Comet
will next be seen in the year
2061
4. Quiz: The IT hub of New
Delhi
Nehru
Place
5. Quiz: In heavy water,
hydrogen is replaced by
Deuterium
6. Quiz: Galvani used what
eccentric objects in his studies of electricity?
frog's
legs
7. Quiz: What do you call
elements with Atomic Number between 57 and 71?
'Rare
earth' (They are all metals.)
8. Quiz: What are the four
forces of nature?
Gravity,
electromagnetism, strong force and weak force
9. Quiz: Two scientists
independently discovered differential and integral calculus. Who were they?
Newton
and Leibniz
10. Quiz: What is a
'cosmic year'?
The
time taken for the earth and the solar system to complete one journey round the
Milky Way
11. Quiz: What is Pangea?
The
single continent that existed on the face of Earth about 200 million years ago
12. Quiz: What is 'escape
velocity'?
Velocity
required for an thing to escape from the gravitational field of any heavenly
body
13. Quiz: For what is
'lockjaw' another name?
Tetanus
14. Quiz: A catalogue of
what would you find in the AG catalogue?
Stars
and their position
15. Quiz: What is the name
of the device that will permit one to pass between regions of differing
atmospheric pressure?
An air
lock.
16. Quiz: Name the most
abundant metallic element in the Earth's crust.
Aluminium
17. Quiz: What is an
annual ring?
The
increment of wood add up by a year's growth; seen in the cross section of
trees.
18. Quiz: The world's No.1
manufacturer of business software
Germany's
SAP AG
19. Quiz: Where were dodos
found?
Madagaskar.
20. Quiz: Who invented the
aqualung?
Jacques
Cousteau
21. Quiz: Name the doctor
who invented the heart-lung machine.
Frank
Golan
22. Quiz: What does the
Geiger counter measure?
Radioactivity
23. Quiz: Jupiter has -----
confirmed moons (4,24,64,84)?
64
24. Quiz: The astronaut
associated with the orbital spacecraft 'Friendship 7'
John
Glenn
25. Quiz: The space
shuttle that burst out barely a minute after lift-off
Challenger
26. Quiz: What happened to
the three men who manned Salyut 1 for 23 days?
They
were killed on the return flight in Soyuz 11
27. Quiz: How long would
it take to reach the sun if it were possible to drive through space at a steady
55 m.p.h speed.
193
years
28. Quiz: The theory of
creationism holds that the world was created
by God
out of nothing
29. Quiz: The lining of
stomach contains about 35 mn. What?
tiny
glands
30. Quiz: Atherosclerotic
food items increases what in human body?
cholesterol
level
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