GENERAL SCIENCE MCQS SET 33

GENERAL SCIENCE MCQS SET 33

1. What is the scientific name of Laughing Gas?
a) Nitrous Oxide
b) Phosphorous Pentoxide
c) Sodium Bicarbonate
d) Carbon Tetrachloride
ANSWER: a) Nitrous Oxide
2. What is a young horse called?
a) Colt
b) Filly
c) Foal
d) Hack
ANSWER: c) Foal
3. Who coined the word Dinosaur for 'terrible lizard'?
a) Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
b) Georges Cuvier
c) Gideon Mantell
d) Richard Owen
ANSWER: d) Richard Owen
4. What term is used to describe the cultivation of plants without soil?
a) Aeroponics
b) Aquaponics
c) Fogponics
d) Hydroponics
ANSWER: d) Hydroponics
5. What are the brighter areas on the sun's surface called?
a) Analemma
b) Corona
c) Faculae
d) Nanoflares
ANSWER: c) Faculae Solar
6. What did "x"• mean in "x-rays"•?
a) Cross
b) Mark
c) Star
d) Unknown
ANSWER: d) Unknown
7. In which year was Nobel Prizes awarded first?
a) 1901
b) 1912
c) 1923
d) 1924
ANSWER: a) 1901
8. Which of the following were the objectives of the Mission Chandrayaan-1?
(i) to design, develop, launch and orbit a spacecraft around the Moon using an Indian-made launch-vehicle
(ii) to conduct scientific experiments using instruments on the spacecraft (iii) to detect water-ice on the Moon
(a) Only (i)
(b) Only (ii)
(c) Only (iii)
(d) All the above
ANSWER: (d) All the above
9. When is World Forestry Day celebrated?
a) March 3
b) March 21
c) March 22
d) March 23
ANSWER: b) March 21
10. Which of the following is not a fertiliser product?
a) Di-ammonium Phosphate
b) Calcium Carbonate
c) Nitrogen phosphorous potassium complexes
d) Urea
ANSWER: b) Calcium Carbonate