General Knowledge Questions - Science Quiz -8
1. Quiz: What is "Blue Skies"
research?
Research without any immediate
application.
2. Quiz: Buzz Aldrin is the second. Who
is the first?
Neil Armstrong
3. Quiz: Early submarines used internal
combustion engines. The Submarines that surfaced too often to take in air or
expel smoke could easily be spotted. How did German U boats solve this problem?
By staying under the surface and
using a snorkel to take in air and let out fumes.
4. Quiz: What does the Mitochondrial Eve
hypothesis postulate?
That modern humans evolved in
Africa around 150,000 years ago (based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA).
5. Quiz: Why is CERN's laboratory
commonly referred to as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics?
CERN's main area of research is
particle physics
6. Quiz: These creatures have more than
one cell, and their cells have nuclei (fungi /protista / plantae /animalia)
Fungi
7. Quiz: The first Indian American who
lived and worked aboard the International Space Station for 6 months in 2006
Sunita Williams
8. Quiz: The world's warmest
sea
Red Sea
9. Quiz: The acid used in an automobile
battery
Sulphuric acid
10. Quiz: The smallest aperture on a
camera
f22
11. Quiz: The fifth largest planet
the earth
12. Quiz: Give the full form of SETI
Search f0r Extra Terrestrial
Intelligence
13. Quiz: The technology to connect and
exchange information between mobile phones, computers etc. is named after a 10th
century king of Norway and Denmark. Who?
Harald Bluetooth Gormsson
14. Quiz: The first pair of bifocal
glasses was created by Benjamin Franklin / Thomas Alva Edison / Joseph Priestly
Benjamin Franklin
15. Quiz: Melting of a chocolate bar in
somebody's pocket led to which invention?
Microwave Oven
16. Quiz: The sharpness of a digital
image is measured in
pixels
17. Quiz: Many astronomers believe that
90% of the universe is made up of "cold, dark matter." Why is it
called 'cold' and 'dark'?
It is 'dark' because it is too
dark to be seen. It is 'cold' because these exotic elementary particles are
said to move slowly compared to the speed of light.
18. Quiz: One of the most important
papers of a famous Russian/Soviet scientist was titled Reversal of the Arrow of
Time. Name its author.
Andre Sakharov
19. Quiz: What is the circadian rhythm?
A biological rhythm with a 24
h0ur cycle.
20. Quiz: What is Dr Yellapragada
Subbrow's claim to fame?
He was the Harvard biochemist who
was head of a team of group of researchers who discovered and developed the
first tetracycline.
21. Quiz: Aristotle calculated that the
distance around the Earth was 400,000 stadia. How did he arrive at this figure?
From the difference in the
apparent location of the North Star in Egypt and Greece
22. Quiz: Name the first scientist to be
knighted.
Isaac Newton
23. Quiz: What substance did Charles
Goodyear find he had to mix with pure rubber to make it fit to be made into
tyres and other useful products?
Sulphur
24. Quiz: Of which word is quasar an
abbreviation?
Quasi-stellar.
25. Quiz: Which famous magazine did Sri
Joseph Norman Lockyer found in 1869?
Nature
26. Quiz: What does the sphygm0manometer
measure?
Blood pressure
27. Quiz: In which field is the
Lilienthal Medal awarded?
Gliding or Soaring, after Otto
Lilienthal, the first man to achieve predictable and controlled glider flight.
28. Quiz: Who coined the word
'biodiversity'?
E 0 Wilson, zoologist.
29. Quiz: The National Physical Research
Laboratory is at
Ahmedabad
30. Quiz: Where is the National Rem0te
Sensing Agency - NRSA?
Hyderabad
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