General Science - MCQs with answers - Part I
1. What is the scientific name of Laughing Gas?a) Nitrous Oxide
b) Phosphorous Pentoxide
c) Sodium Bicarbonate
d) Carbon Tetrachloride
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) Nitrous Oxide
It is a colorless gas with a sweet odor and taste. Its inhalation leads to disorientation, euphoria, numbness, loss of motor coordination, dizziness, and ultimately a loss of consciousness. The gas is used as an anesthetic, as a propellant in whipped cream cans, and as an oxidizing agent in racing cars.
a) Colt
b) Filly
c) Foal
d) Hack
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Foal
Foal is a horse of either sex less than one year of age.
a) Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
b) Georges Cuvier
c) Gideon Mantell
d) Richard Owen
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
a) Aeroponics
b) Aquaponics
c) Fogponics
d) Hydroponics
View Answer / Hide Answer5. What are the brighter areas on the sun's surface called?a) Analemma
b) Corona
c) Faculae
d) Nanoflares
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Faculae
Solar faculae are bright spots that form in the canyons between solar granules. Faculae are produced by concentrations of magnetic field lines.
a) Cross
b) Mark
c) Star
d) Unknown
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Unknown
On 11 January 1896, John Hall-Edwards was the first person to use X-rays under clinical conditions in Birmingham, England.
a) 1901
b) 1912
c) 1923
d) 1924
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1901
The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901.
(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
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (d) All the above
The mission had the scientific objectives such as to design, develop, launch and orbit a spacecraft around the Moon using an Indian-made launch-vehicle, to conduct scientific experiments using instruments on the spacecraft which would yield data for the preparation of a three-dimensional atlas, for chemical and mineralogical mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial resolution, to increase scientific knowledge, to detect water-ice on the Moon.
a) March 3
b) March 21
c) March 22
d) March 23
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) March 21
On each International Day of Forests, countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and international efforts to organize activities involving forests and trees, such as tree planting campaigns.
a) Di-ammonium Phosphate
b) Calcium Carbonate
c) Nitrogen phosphorous potassium complexes
d) Urea
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Calcium Carbonate
Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium are key agro-nutrients for crops.
