Updated December 20, 2022
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1. Rate of growth of the plant is measured by which instrument?
Answer: Auxanometer
2. ‘Energy of the Sun’ concept discovered by which scientist?
Answer: Hans Selye
3. What is the best source of Protein?
Answer: Soybean
4. A historical victory achieved by a Spacecraft which got Mars on its First try?
Answer: Mangalyaan (Developed by ISRO, launched on 5 November 2013, Reached – 24 September 2014)
5. What is the name of the tube which connects the middle ear with the throat?
Answer: Eustachian tube
6. By which Cotton fibers are made?
Answer: Cellulose
7. ‘Mechanical Clock’ made by whom?
Answer: Isaac Newton
8. Basically the heavy water is used by which type of industries?
Answer: Nuclear Power Generation plants
9. Splitting of light into its constituent colors is known as what?
Answer: Dispersion
10. To measure the Humidity in air, which instrument is used?
Answer: Hydrometer
11. In our solar system the MARS is fourth planet according to sequences but how many moons Planet ‘MARS’ has?
Answer: 2
12. What is the speed of Earth around sun?
Answer: 30 km/sec
13. What is the name of NASA Mars Rover and when it was landed on MARS?
Answer: Curiosity (Launched on November 26, 2011, Landed on MARS – 6th August 2012)
14. What is the purest form of Iron?
Answer: Wrought Iron
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15. Who achieved the discovery of ‘Vitamin C’?
Answer: Albert Szent
16. For the cultivation, name the crop required of water-logging?
Answer: Rice
17. The ‘Concept of Inertia’ was developed by?
Answer: Galileo
18. The BrahMos Missile was developed by which country?
Answer: Developed with Joint venture of India and Russia
19. Electromagnetic Field concept was observed and discovered by whom?
Answer: James Hargreaves
20. Which gas is most popular as laughing gas?
Answer: Nitrous oxide
21. One Horsepower (1 HP) is equivalent to approximately?
Answer: 746 Watts
22. Which was the first satellite of India, go into the orbit?
Answer: Aryabhata
23. In human body ‘Vitamin K’ is necessary for what?
Answer: Formation of Prothrombin
24. Who discovered the ‘Modern Anthropology’?
Answer: Frederick Sanger
25. ‘White Revolution’ is related to what?
Answer: Milk Production
26. A very successful invention ‘Liquid Oxygen’ discovered by whom?
Answer: Dewar
27. What is the radiant energy of the sun is transmitted?
Answer: Short waves
28. What is the chemical formula of ‘Sodium Hydroxide’?
Answer: NAOH
29. Planet ‘Uranus’ was discovered by whom?
Answer: Hideki Yukawa
30. The Folded Earth book was written by?
Answer: Anuradha Roy
31. Barometer was invented by?
Answer: F. Banting
32. Which rays is very helpful in Long distance photography?
Answer: Infra-Red rays
33. In India, who laid the foundation of Nuclear Science?
Answer: Homi J. Bhabha
34. In Computer, what is the full form of UPS?
Answer: UPS = Uninterruptable Power Supply
35. Which city is built on more than 100 islands?
Answer: Venice (capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region)
36. Name the scientist who’s discovered the ‘Fahrenheit Scale’?
Answer: Fahrenheit
37. Name of vegetable which is also known as a flower?
Answer: Broccoli
38. Until in 1930, what was the highest structure in the world?
Answer: Eiffel Tower
39. Highest electrical conductivity found in which element?
Answer: Silver
40. Thermometer made first by?
Answer: Gauss
41. When India Supercomputer ‘PARAM 10000’ was unveiled?
Answer: In 1998
42. ‘Foundations of Biology’ concept given by whom?
Answer: Jean Piaget
43. Planet Jupiter has how many moons?
Answer: Jupiter has at least 67 known moons
44. Soda water contains what?
Answer: Carbon dioxide
45. Stainless Steel invented by whom?
Answer: Harvey
46. Which planet is commonly known as Dwarf Planet?
Answer: Pluto
47. In 1911 ‘Georges Claude’ invented what?
Answer: B
48. As of November 2015, which country have most of supercomputers?
Answer: USA (199 Supercomputers)
49. Name the suitable material for purify the water?
Answer: Zeolites
50. Fraction of volume of ice seen outside when immersed in water?
Answer: 10.5%
51. IRADIAN is
Answer: 57.3 degree
52. Black hole is an object to be found
Answer: in the sky
53. Special Theory of Relative was proposed in
Answer: 1905
54. Hasdo Valley in Chhattisgarh is famous for
Answer: Coal mines
55. The pollutants which move downward with percolating groundwater are called
Answer: Leachates
56. The working of a rockets based on the principle of:
Answer: Conservation of momentum
57. Exchange particle in Quark-Quark Interaction
Answer: Gluon
58. Celsius and Fahrenheit show the same temperature at
Answer: 40
59. “Optical Phenomenon” in the fringe pattern of CD is
Answer: Interference
60. The invention of Electric Flat Iron was successfully by?
Answer: H. C. Urey
61. The disease ” bronchitis ” is associated with:
Answer: Lungs
62. Which colour indicate Highest Temperature?
Answer: Dull red
63. Persons sitting in an artificial satellite of the earth have:
Answer: Zero weight
64. Light Year is
Answer: the distance traveled by light in one year
65. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is mainly a mixture of
Answer: propane and butane
66. The Ozone layer lies in the
Answer: Stratosphere
67. Most of the light rays inside a tube -light is in the form of
Answer: ultra -violet light
68. Which is the alkalodid that contains in cola drinks?
Answer: Caffeine
69. The device used for detecting even feeble current:
Answer: Galvanoscope
70. Anemometer is an instrument used for measuring
Answer: Wind speed
71. Due to contraction of eyeball, a long-sighted eye can see only
Answer: farther objects which is corrected by using concave lens
72. Which one among the following is not correct about Down’s syndrome?
Answer: Effected individual has early ageing
73. Insects that can transmit diseases to human are referred to as
Answer: vectors
74. Which of the following diseases are transmitted from one person to another?
Answer: AIDS, Hepatitis B & Syphilis
75. One of the occupational health hazards commonly faced by the workers of ceramics, pottery and glass industry is
Answer: silicosis
76. The anti-malarial drug Quinine is made from a plant. The plant is
Answer: Cinchona
77. To suspect HIV/AIDS in a young individual, which one among the following symptoms is mostly associated with?
Answer: Severe persistent headache
78. Hypertension is the term used for
Answer: Increase in blood pressure
79. Acute lead poisoning is also known as
Answer: Plumbism
80. Which is the vertebrate that has two-chambered heart?
Answer: Fish
81. What is the life span of WBC?
Answer: 2-15 days
82. What is the life span of RBC?
Answer: 120 days
83. There are _____ number of muscles in human.
Answer: 639
84. What is the name of the cells in the body that engulf foreign particles like bacteria?
Answer: Phagocytes
85. _________________ is the longest cell.
Answer: Nerve Cell
86. Which is the largest human cell?
Answer: Ovum
87. The largest cell is ________________
Answer: The egg of an Ostrich
88. What is the physical phase of life called?
Answer: Protoplasm
89. Animal which never drinks water in its entire life?
Answer: Kangaroo rat
90. Oral Rehydration Therapy is recommended for
Answer: Cholera