General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz - 4
1. Quiz: Mercury is too closer to the
Sun but Venus is hotter because Mercury has no
atmosphere
2. Quiz: The Moon is less than Imore than one third the size of Earth
less than
3. Quiz: Name the Mars Exploration Rovers that landed in Mars in 2004
atmosphere
2. Quiz: The Moon is less than Imore than one third the size of Earth
less than
3. Quiz: Name the Mars Exploration Rovers that landed in Mars in 2004
Spirit & Opportunity
4. Quiz: Jupiter has no solid surface: Is
it true?
True
5. Quiz: Saturn's largest Moon
Titan
6. Quiz: Expand MSK System
Metre Kilogram-second system
7. Quiz: Candela is the unit of luminance,
...... the unit of resistance
Ohm
8. Quiz: Roman number LXXX is ------ in
Arabic number
80
9. Quiz: What is the meaning of the word
'sputnik'
fellow traveller
10. Quiz: 'Luna' is ------ for Moon
Russian
11. Quiz: Vostok is Russian for ------
and Soyuz for -----.
East, Union
12. Quiz: Who launched Chandra X-ray
observatory in 1999: Russia / USA / India
USA
13. Quiz: The 1st privately
funded human space flight
Space Ship One
14. Quiz: What were in the balloon sent
aloft in 1783 by the Montgolfiers?
a rooster, a duck & a sheep
15. Quiz: The 1st chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission
Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha
16. Quiz: In Physics what is GUT?
Grand Unified Theory
17. Quiz: What is a parsec?
A unit of distance in astronomy.
1 parsec = 3.26 light years
18. Quiz: How many eyes do most spiders
have?
Eight
19. Quiz: What does the insect species
Bombyxmori produce?
Silk
20. Quiz: What is tidal air?
The amount of air inhaled and
exhaled when a person is at rest and breathing quietly
21. Quiz: What is 'Guano'?
Excrement of sea birds often used
as a fertilizing agent
22. Quiz: What is the length of a sun
spot cycle?
11 years
23. Quiz: Which body has the following
arms the Perseus Arm, the Orion Arm, Sagittarius Arm and one called The
Expanding Cloud?
The Milky Way (The Earth is in
the Orion Arm, one of the spirals of the galaxy.)
24. Quiz: In quantum mechanics they
speak of the Bose-Einstein statistics. Who is this Bose?
Satyendra Nath Bose,
mathematician and physicist
25. Quiz: The limiting mass of the
helium core believed to exist in some stars, above which the core cannot resist
ultimate gravitational collapse is called the ------ limit
Chandrasekhar limit
26. Quiz: Name the three most common constituent
elements of cells.
Hydrogen, oxygen and carbon
27. Quiz: Which disease was also known
as Variola?
Small pox
28. Quiz: What is the process of
separating a metal from its ore by heating called?
Smelting
29. Quiz: In the aircraft industry what
is STOL?
Short Take Off and Landing
30. Quiz: What in Biology is
stratification?
Natural vertical layering of
habitats in an environment (so floor communities and tree top communities are
distinct)
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