General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz - 2
1. Quiz: What is HyAlfa'?General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz - 2
2. Quiz: The world photography icon that invented the hand-held camera
Eastman Kodak
3. Quiz: What are the inferior planets?
Those whose orbits are smaller
than Earth's ie; Mercury and Venus.
4. Quiz: What is the fourth dimension?
Time
5. Quiz: If in a molecule of water one or
both the normal hydrogen atoms is replaced by deuterium what does one get?
A 'heavy water'.
6. Quiz: Incontinence refers to loss of --------
bladder control
7. Quiz: Inventor of cat flaps
Isaac Newton
8. Quiz: What is the word meaning 'the
search for animals whose existence has not been proved'?
cryptozoology
9. Quiz: Which organ beats 35 mn times a
year?
The human heart
10. Quiz: Calories in water
None
11. Quiz: What is cryonics?
The storage of dead bodies in
liquid nitrogen in the hope that they can be revived one day.
12. Quiz: What is calcium sulphate better known
as?
Chalk
13. Quiz: Decibel is a unit for measuring
how loud (a bell / the sound)
The sound
14. Quiz: India accounts for ----% of the
world's 2 mn. TB cases
21
15. Quiz: Hair grows ----- cm in two months
2.5
16.Quiz: The heaviest living species of
lizard
Komodo dragon
17. Quiz: Clowder is a group of
cats
18. Quiz: What is anosmia?
Whole or partial loss of the
sense of smell.
19. Quiz: Who performed the world's 1st
successful heart transplant?
Dr. Christian Barnard
20. Quiz: What is the term for the radioactive
fragments and isotopes that fall to Earth from the atmosphere after a nuclear
explosion?
Fallout
21. Quiz: What is the full form of 'laser'?
Light amplificati0n by stimulated
emission of radiation.
22. Quiz: What did Jethro Tull (1674-1741)
invent?
A drill for sowing seed
23. Quiz: Paul Broca was a pioneering French
surgeon, neurologist and anthropologist. Name the 20th century scientist who
wrote a book titled ‘’Broca's Brain’’.
Carl Sagan
24. Quiz: Which thinker-writer spoke of
'charisma' and 'the Protestant work ethic' as important in history?
Max Weber
25. Quiz: What is 'homeostasis'?
The tendency in mammals to
maintain constant composition of the blood in spite of changes in surroundings
26. Quiz: The 1st Indian woman to
head a missile project
Dr. Tessy Thomas
27. Quiz: This is almost entirely made of
tiny shells: raindrops / dew / graphite / chalk
chalk
28. Quiz: The man-like creature whose
fossils were discovered on the island of Java by Dutch physician Eugene Dubois
in 1892 was called
Java Man
29. Quiz: What is the Komodo dragon?
The largest extant lizard species
in the world; found on Komodo Island in Indonesia.
30. Quiz: Name the astronomer who discovered
that Earth and the planets travel about the Sun in elliptical orbits.
Johannes Kepler
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