Science Quiz

1. What is special about the number 1729?

1. It is Ramanujam number

2. It is Aryabhata number

3. It is Bhaskaracharya number

4. It is the number of prime numbers between 0 and 100000.

2. When a coin is tossed in a moving train, it still comes back to your hand. This is an illustration of?

1. Newton’s 2nd law

2. Conservation of angular momentum

3. Newton’s 3rd law

4. Newton’s 1st law.

3. Mach number is associated with the speed of?

1. light 2. airplane

3. cars 4. bikes

4. Which is the earliest treatise on Hindu medicine available?

1. Sushrutha Vaidya Shastra

2. Charaka Samhita

3. Dhanvantari Shastra

4. Patanjali Arogya Shastra

5. Planets revolve round the sun in elliptical orbits- this was first concluded by

1. Johans Kepler

2. Galileo Galili

3. Ptolemy

4. Leonardo Da Vinci

6. Quinine, an anti malarial drug, is obtained from

1. Mulberry 2. Cocoa

3. Cinchona 4. Eucalyptus

7. Bananas do not have seeds because

1. Their flowers have no ovules

2. They are usually undernourished plants

3. All Musaclae are seedless plants

4. Their fruits develop without fertilization

8. Ambulance approaching you seems to be increasing its frequency, while it seems to be decreasing its frequency when it is leaving you. This is because of

1. Doppler effect

2. Peltier effect

3. Balmer effect

4. Raman effect

9. Milk is an example of

1. Suspension 2. Emulsion

3. Gel 4. Solution

10. What is the main use of alkyl benzene sulphonate?

1. As medicine

2. As a monomer for plastic

3. As detergent

4. As deodorant

11. Which year did India conduct the nuclear tests Pokhran 2?

1. 1998 2. 1996

3. 1995 4. 2000

12. Name the renowned archeologist from Karnataka who discovered the city of Dwaraka in Gujarat

1. Dr. Raman

2. Dr. S. R. Rao

3. Dr. Das

4. Dr. Vikram Pai

13. When a high intensity light is bounced off a sample material, a fraction of the photons undergo a shift in color. What is this phenomena called?

1. Doppler effect

2. Peltier effect

3. Balmer effect

4. Raman effect

14. Apart from being a renowned painter, he has also written about laws of friction and airplane design- who is he?

1. Leonardo Da Vinci

2. Newton

3. Einstein

4. Dr. Bhabha

15. "If not instantaneous it is extremely rapid" – Which famous scientist made this comment about light?

1. Einstein 2. Marconi

3. Galileo 4. Newton

16. Which is the first indigenous civilian aircraft developed by NAL?

1. Vikrant 2. Agni

3. Trishul 4. Saras

17. Name the multinational company that was responsible for the Bhopal gas tragedy

1. Siemens 2. HCL

3. Union Carbide Corporation

4. Hindustan Lever

18. What are the nick names of the two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

1. Little Boy and Fat Man

2. The American & The Britain

3. Tall Lady & The British Boy

4. US Lady & British Boy

19. All elementary particles are either Bosons or Fermions. Bosons are named after?

1. Markinsons

2. Buddha

3. Satyendra Nath Bose

4. Dr. Peterson

20. Vinegar has the following acid in it

1. Sulphuric Acid

2. Acetic acid

3. Arsenic Acid

4. Benzoic Acid

Answers

1. 1

The specialty of this number is: This is the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of the cubes of 2 numbers in two different ways.

2. 4

3. 2

4. 2

5. 1

6. 3

7. 4

8. 1

9. 2

10. 3

11. 1

12. 2

13. 4

14. 1

15. 3

16. 4

17. 3

18. 1

19. 3

20. 2

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