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General Knowledge questions and answers from General science GK questions from Physics,Chemistry and Biology

General Knowledge questions and answers from General science
GK questions from Physics,Chemistry and Biology

1. The satellite of Ecuador which was damaged on collision with Russian debris in   space?
     Ans: Pegasus. This is the first and only satellite

2. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Navigation centre was set up at _______________
    Ans: Byalalu, about 40 km from Banglore

3. The acronym ________  means billion of operations per second
     Ans: GB
 
4. A technology to provide high speed internet access over telephone wiring:
       Ans: ADSL
5.Which device is used to study the way and object behaves when the air flows over it?
      Ans: Wind Tunnel

6. The part of a computer that shows visual information on a screen.
      Ans: Visual Display Unit (VDU)

7. What are the machines used to check the progress of unborn babies still in the mother’s womb?
      Ans: Ultra Sound Machines

8. A type glass that is highly resistant to heat.
      Ans: Borosilicate Glass

9. The process of killing diseases producing micro organism in food items by heat.
      Ans: Pasteurization

10. Tuberculosis is caused by it.
      Ans: Bacteria

11. Which country in the world has maximum number of robots working?
      Ans : Japan

12. What is the name of the instrument that measures wind speed?
      Ans : Anemometer

13. A device used to measure the strength of magnetic field.
      Ans: Magnetometer

14. A strip of flexible plastic with magnetic coating that is used to record sound and pictures.
      Ans: Magnetic Tape

15. A method of growing plants without soil.
      Ans: Hydroponics

16. Electricity produced from falling water.
      Ans: hydroelectricity

17. The fear of being out of mobile phone contact is known as?
      Ans: Nomophobia

18. In which year did IT Act came into force in India?
      Ans: 2000

19. A new technology which provides the ability to create an artificial world and have people interact with it is called ?


20.The device used for locating submerged object sunder sea is-
Sonar


1. How often, approximately, is Halley's Comet visible from Earth (in years)?
•     25
•     75
•     140
•     300
Halley's comet appears in the night sky approximately every 75 years. Its next appearance will be in 2061.
 

2. What astronomer placed Earth at the center of the universe?
•     Ptolemy
•     Galileo
•     Tycho Brahe
•     Aryabhata I

 
3. Which astronomer wrote the Aryabhatiya?
•     Brahmagupta
•     Bhaskara I
•     Aryabhata I
•     Galileo

 
4. What astronomer suggested that the Sun was at the center of the solar system?
•     Copernicus
•     Hypatia
•     Ptolemy
•     Theon of Alexandria
 
5. In On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orb, Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543) suggested that Earth revolved around the Sun.
•     Who was the first astronomer to use a telescope?
•     Leonardo da Vinci
•     Galileo
•     Ptolemy
•     Hypatia
 

6. Which of the following is not a scientific optical instrument?
•     telescope
•     periscope
•     endoscope
•     microscope
A periscope allows the viewer to view objects not in the line of sight, such as around corners or above the surface of the water from below. It is best known for its use in military submarines.
 

7. Which of these contain large quantities of ice?
•     asteroids
•     stars
•     comets
•     black holes
 

8. What do most asteroids orbit?
•     Earth
•     Mars
•     the Sun
•     Pluto
 

9. Which of these planets has an atmosphere made up of hydrogen, helium, and methane?
•     Pluto
•     Uranus -ans
•     Earth
•     Venus

10. Which of these American astronomers discovered Pluto in 1930?
?•     Galileo Galilei
•     Harlow Shapley
•     Clyde Tombaugh
•     Edwin Hubble
 

11. Which of these constellations is not in the zodiac?
 
•     Aries
•     Alpha Centauri
•     Leo
•     Capricornus
 
Twelve well-known groups of stars, called constellations, lie in the zodiac. Their names are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces.
 

12. In what constellation is Sirius found?
•     Canis Major
•     Ursa Major
•     Ursa Minor
•     Andromeda
 

13. About how many galaxies are there in the universe?
•     25 million
•     25 billion
•     25 quadrillion
•     25 gazillion
 

14. Which of these is a galaxy?
•     Pluto
•     Ceres
•     Large Magellanic Cloud
•     Jupiter
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a very distant galaxy beyond our own.
 

15. How many light-years across is the Milky Way?
•     1000
•     10000
•     100000
•     1000000
 

16. Which is the closest galaxy to Earth outside the Milky Way?
•     Sombrero
•     Andromeda
•     Antennae
•     NGC 2770

17. Space Application Centre (SAC) is located at

•     Mumbai
•     Ahmadabad
•     Trivandrum
•     None

18. The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite was launched into space on

•     1984
•     1989
•     1988
•     1990


19. The code name of the first vehicle driven by man on the moon's surface was

•     Luna 22
•     Rover
•     Eagle
•     Challenger

20. India's satellite launch-pad is located at
•     Thumba
•     Shri Hari Kota
•     Ahmedabad
•     Dehradun

 
Answer Key
1. 75  2. Ptolemy  3. Aryabhata I   4. Copernicus  5.  Galileo  6. periscope  7. comets  8. the Sun  9. Uranus  10. Clyde Tombaugh  11. Alpha Centauri  12. Canis Major  13. 25 billion  14. Large Magellanic Cloud  15. 100000   16. Andromeda  17. Ahmadabad  18. 1990  19. Rover  20. Shri Hari Kota
 


General knowledge Questions and Answers from General Science Biolog
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1. A baby blue whale drinks this many liters of milk per day:
10
50
190
500

2. For what is the Jurassic period named?
a mountain range in Switzerland 
a kind of dinosaur
a soccer hero
the French word for "day"

3. Which blood group is called the "universal donor"?
A
B
O -ans
AB

4. Which of these is not a kind of plant?
abacus
acanthus
acacia
aster
An abacus is an instrument for performing calculations by sliding counters along rods or in grooves.

5. A banana plant fits into which of these groups?
grasses
trees
herbs
flowers

6. From what plant was paper originally made?
cattail
rosemary
papyrus
wheat
The ancient Egyptians made a parchmentlike paper, also called papyrus, from the pith, or inner portion, of the stalk of the papyrus plant.

7. Which of these is not a dehiscent plant?
pea
bean
magnolia
banana
The fruit of a dehiscent plant splits open when it is ripe to disperse seeds. Examples are peas, beans, peanuts, and magnolias. Technically, a banana is an herb.

8. How much blood is in the human body?
2.2 liters
5.7 liters
8.1 liters
9.3 liters
The average human carries about 192.7 ounces (5.7 liters) of blood. Altogether, this quantity of blood circulates through the body twice a minute.

9. How many facial muscles are involved in speaking?
70
140
210
280
About 70 muscles are involved in speaking. These are located in several parts of the head, neck, and mouth.

10. How many taste buds do young people have?
1000
10000
100000
1000000

11. How many basic tastes can humans sense?
1
4
5
6
Humans can sense five basic tastes: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami (representing chemicals known as amino acids).

12. What is the word for a person with very pale skin and eyes?
Albanian
albino
Albion
alabaster

13. What sensory function do the ears provide other than hearing?
smell
balance
temperature
radiation

14. Which of these joints is not found in the human body?
gliding
mortise and tenon
ball and socket
suture

15. How many sweat glands does the average person have?
260000
2.6 million
26 million
260 million

16. Which of these is not part of the endocrine system?
lungs
pituitary gland
adrenal gland
thyroid gland

17. What scientist has popularized the concept of biodiversity?
E.O. Wilson
Albert Einstein
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Hawking

18. The author of On the Origin of Species is:
Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Charles Baudelaire

19. Which group of animals is Charles Darwin best known for studying?
whales
birds
feral cats
lizards

20. Which of the following is a poisonous fish?
hammerhead shark
goldfish
lion fish
killer whale
Lion fish are noted for their venomous fin spines, which are capable of producing painful, though rarely fatal, puncture wounds.

21. Which of the following is a member of the whale family?
baraccuda
stingray
narwhal
pompano

22. What is the study of animal life called?
geology
astrology
zoology
epidemiology

23. In science, what is the name for the classification of plants and animals?
taxonomy
taxidermy
entropy
gentrification

24. How many sets of legs does a shrimp have?
2
4
5
8

25. Process of cell division can take place by
heterosis
fusion
mitosis
None of these



Space Related General Knowledge Questions Answers

1 The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ days in space endurance flight
* Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (June 1, 1970)

2 The first person in the world to land on the moon
* Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin. July 21, 1969.

3 The first man to enter space
* Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

4 The first woman cosmonaut of the world
* Velentina Tereshkova

5 The first American astronaut to float in space
* Edward White

6 The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth
* Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970

7 The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon
* Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named ‘Eagle’

8 The first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon
* Apollo-11

9 The first country to send man to the moon
* U.S.A.

10 The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon
* Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)

11 The first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon
* Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)

12 The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon
* Zond-5

13 First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships
* Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station

14 The first mission of a linking-up in space by manned spaceships of U.S.A. and Soviet Union
* Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP) (launched on July 15 and linked up in space on July 17, 1975)

15 India’s first scientific satellite
* Aryabhatta

16 The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the U.S.A.
* Vladimir

17 Russia’s first spaceship with international crew on board.
* Remek (Czechoslovakia)

18 The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter
* U.S.A.

19 The first Indian to go into space
* Rakesh Sharma

20 The first American astronaut to make two space flights
* Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)

21 The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon
* U.S.S.R.

22 The first space rocket to hit the moon
* Lunik II

23 The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust
* Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.)

24 The first space vehicle to soft land on moon
* Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.)

25 The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days)
* Apollo-7 (U.S.A.)

26 The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon
* Apollo-8 (U.S.A.)

27 The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space
* Apollo-9 (U.S.A.)

28 The first woman of Indian origin in space
* Kalpana Chawla

29 The first residents on the International Space Station
* Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)

30 The first space tourist in the world
* Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)

31 The first European woman to international Space Station
* Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)

32 The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world
* Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)

33 The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts
* Columbia (February 1, 2003)

34 China’s first man in space
* Yang Liwei

35 European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft
* SMART-I

36 America’s first Mission to Saturn
* Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004)

37 First private, manned spacecraft
* Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004)

38 First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan
* Huygens (January 15, 2005)

39 India’s first Mapping Satellite
* CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005)

40 The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet
* NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July 4, 2005)

41 The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there
* Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

42 The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto
* New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)

43 The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space
* Sunita Williams

44 The first lunar orbiter of China
* Chang’e-I (Lauched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province)

45 The first successful moon mission of India
* Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)

46 The US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist
* Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)


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