Science Quiz 56

Science Quiz 56

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1. Who was the first to experimentally generate radio waves in the laboratory?

Mary Curie
Guglielmo Marconi
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell

2. Maria Skodowska–Curie Institute of Oncology was founded in 1932 as the Radium Institute by Maria Curie. Where is it located?

Warsaw
Lublin
Paris
Stockholm

3. Name the inventor of ball point pen

Waterman
Oscar
Wilson
Lazlo Biro

4. Who was the first recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics?

Marie Curie
Wilhem Rontgen
G Marconi
JJ Thomson

5. The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves around the sun?

Galileo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Aristarchus of Samos

6. Who is the only woman to have won Nobel Prize multiple times?

Marie Curie
Wangari Maathai
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Rosalyn Yalow

7. The element polonium which was discovered by Marie Curie was named so

to honour her husband
in the name of her best friend
after her country
homage to her parents

8. In 1903,The nobel prize for physics was jointly awarded to three scientists. Curie and her husband Pierre was two among them. Who was the third scientist?

Albert Einstein
Henri Becquerel
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Lord Rayleigh

9. Who was the first to hypotheses Nuclear Energy in the year of 1905?

Max Plank
Albert Einstein
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Madam Curie

10. Name the American biochemist or Indian origin who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1968

Subramanyan Chandrasekar
Harish Chandra
Har Gobind Khorana
E C George Sudarshan

General Knowledge Quiz 51: Personalities Quiz

General Knowledge Quiz 51: Personalities Quiz

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1. Who was awarded Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year 2018?

Michael Phelps
P V Sindhu
Roger Federer
Vishvanathan Anand

2. Who is called the "fathef of demography"?

John Dalton
John Graunt
Charles Darwin
Thomas malthus

3. With which one of the following field will you associate Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam?

Sports
Cinema
Politics
Dance

4. Who among the following was the first to give a biological definition of the term "species"?

Charles Darwin
John Ray
Carl Linnaues
Lamarck

5. With which one of the following e-commerce websites will you associate Pierre Omidyar?

Flipkart
Myntra
eBay
Infibeam

6. "Heart of the Lion" is the autobiography of a cricketer who was the first bowler to reach 500 wickets in Test cricket. Who is he?

Kapil Dev
Courtney Walsh
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralidharan

7. Which West Indies cricker is known by the nick names the "Big C" and "Super Cat"?

Courtney Walsh
Carl Hooper
Clive Lloyd
Curtly Ambrose

8. Who was the captain of the Kerala team that won Santosh Trophy in 2018?

Seesan Selvan
Ignatius Sylvester
Rahul KP
Rahul Raj

9. Which famous painting by Raja Ravi Varma sold in an auction for rupees 5.17 crores?

Thilothama
Shakuntala
Disappointed
Nair lady

10. Who holds the record of being the fastest Indian to reach 1000 runs in ODIs?

Satish Dhawan
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Virat Kohli
M S Dhoni

India Quiz 96

India Quiz 96

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1. Which of the following was established by Keshab Chandra Sen and K. Sridharalu Naidu in 1864?

Adi Brahmo Samaj
Ved Samaj
Arya Samaj
Tatva Bodhini Sabha

2. Who was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India"?

S. Subramania Iyer
Potti Sreeramulu
Veerapandiya Kattabomman
Chinnaswami Subramanya Bharathiyar.

3. What is the name of the seven-headed horse of Indra, according to Hindu mythology?

Tumburu
Haygriva
Airavata
Uchchaihshravas

4. Which Indian cricketer is known as "the turbanator"?

Harbhajan Singh
Yuvraj Singh
Lala Amarnath
Mohinder Amarnath

5. Which is the smallest district in India?

Malappuram
Chennai
Mahe
Yanam

6. Which Malayalam film actress was awarded the National Award for Best Film Actress in 2017?

Parvati
Manju Warrier
Surabhi Lakshmi
Mamta Mohandas

7. The Peruman train tragedy occurred in which year?

1988
1998
2008
1983

8. Who is known as the Iron Lady of Manipur?

Anjana Gupta
Irom Sharmila
Sanamach Chanu
Mary Kom

9. The statue depicting the Greek hero Herakles fighting the Nemean lion was discovered in India at the end of 19th century and is known by the name of the place where it was discovered. Name the place?

Kolkata
Nanduras
Shimla
Mathura

10. Where is the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden situated?

New Delhi
Kolkata
Lucknow
Guwahati

India Quiz 95

India Quiz 95

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1. Who founded the Chola dynasty of Thanjore?

Virarajendra
Rajendra I
Gandaraditya
Vijayalaya

2. Which one of the following is described as the "epic poem in red sandstone"?

Fatehpur Sikri
Red Fort
Charminar
India Gate

3. Who established "Chain of Justice" at Agra Fort for ordinary people to go to the palace and rattle the chain to get the emperor's attention?

Akbar
Aurangazeb
Jahangir
Shahjahan

4. Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru, was executed by

Jahangi
Akbar
Aurangazeb
Shahjahan

5. Name the Mughal emperor who used the pen name Sada Rangila?

Akbar
Muhammad Shah
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Alamgir II

6. Who is associated with the Black Hole of Calcutta?

Siraj ud-Daulah
Lord Curzon
Dara Shukoh
Mahmud Gazni

7. Name the Rani of Kittur, Karnataka, who led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824

Chellamma
Velu Nachiyar
Chennamma
Uda Devi

8. Who was the leader of the Paika Rebellion against the British East India Company in 1817?

Birsa Munda
Baji Rout
Ghansyam Panigraphi
Bakshi Jaganbandhu

9. Who established the Fort William College in Calcutta?

Warren Hastings
Lord Wellesley
Lord Cornwallis
William Bentick

10. Who appointed the Hunter Commission on elementary education?

William Bentick
Lord Dufferine
Lord Ripon
Lord Lytton

India Quiz 94: Personalities Quiz

India Quiz 94: Personalities Quiz

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1. In which sports Swami Vivekananda was said to have won first prize and a silver butterfly?

Boxing
Cycling
Wrestling
Football

2. Who suggested the name Vivekananda?

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Rabindranath Tagore
Maharaja of Khetri
Sister Nivedita

3. In which district of Kerala the Arippa Forest is situated?

Kollam
Thiruvananthapuram
Pathanamthitta
Idukki

4. Who built the Moti Masjid inside the Lahore Fort?

Shah Jahan
Jahangir
Akbar
Bahadur Shah

5. Who among the following personality of Indian descent is the Chief Executive Offifcer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation?

Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Rajeev Suri
Ajaypal Singh Banga

6. The summer retreat of the Indian President "Rashtrapathi Ashiana" is located at

Shimla
Darjeeling
Dehradun
Kashmir

7. Who built the Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri?

Shahjahan
Jahangir
Akbar
Aurangazeb

8. Which river is known as Dakshina Ganga?

Krishna
Mahanadi
Godavari
Narmada

9. Who was the founder of Rashtrakuta Kingdom?

Dhruva Dharavarsha
Dantidurga
Amoghavarsha
Khottiga

10. Who defeated Prithviraj Chauhan in the second battle of Tarain?

Muhammad Ghori
Mahmud Ghazni
Sher Shah Suri
British East India Company

Environment Quiz 79 - Green Olympiad

Environment Quiz 79 - Green Olympiad

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1. Where is Simlipal National Park is a national park and a tiger reserve located?

Madhya Pradesh
Odisha
West Bengal
Assam

2. When was tiger declared as the national animals of India?

1947
1950
1982
1972

3. Which state is called tiger state of India?

Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat
Karnataka
Assam

4. When is World Elephant Day?

October 12
August 12
September 22
April 13

5. Which country is on the top in the production of eggs in the world?

Japan
USA
China
India

6. Where was the world's first zoo established?

Egypt
Germany
Switzerland
Iran

7. Where is Nandankanan Zoological Park located?

Chennai
Bhubaneswar
Kolkatta
Kanpur

8. From which language is the word monsoon derived?

Arabic
Hindi
Gujarati
Marathi

9. Where are the Diomede Islands, also known as Yesterday Isle and Tomorrow Isle, located?

Bering Strait
Gibralter Strait
Palk Strait
Malacca Strait

10. When is the World Habitat Day observed?

First Monday in October
First Monday in November
Third Monday in October
Third Monday in December

Environment Quiz 78 - Green Olympiad

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Environment Quiz 78 - Green Olympiad 

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1. What is the branch of ecology dealing with the relations between natural communities and their environments called?

Autecology
Synecology
Palaeoecology
Ethology

2. Who introduced the concept of ecosystem into biology?

Arthur Tansley
Eugene Odum
Ernst Haeckel
Eugenius Warming

3. The association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm is called

Commensalism
Mutualism
Parabiosis
Parasitism

4. Name the device for measuring the growth in plants

Anemometer
Nephoscope
Crescograph
Hygrograph

5. The intensity of earthquake is measured with

Barometer
Hydrometer
Polygraph
Seismograph

6. The Lake Nyos disater caused suffocation of 1746 people and 3500 livestock in 1986 due to the emission of a large cloud of CO2. Where is Lake Nyos located?

Cameroon
Congo
Brazil
Nigeria

7. Which one of the following quadrupeds us knuckle-walking style of locomotion?

Chimpanzees
Zebras
Tigers
Horses

8. Which one of the following is the smallest breeds of horse?

Appaloosa
Percheron
Mustang
Falabella

9. The International Centre for Birds of Prey (ICBP) which houses a large collection of birds of prey is situated at

USA
France
United Kingdom
Egypt

10. Which one of the following livestock is affected by the Ranikhet disease or Newcastle disease?

Cattle
Chicken
Goat
Rabbit

General Knowledge Quiz 50

General Knowledge Quiz 50

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1. Which country hosted the 2018 Asian Games?

Pakistan
Japan
Indonesia
Myanmar

2. Who is the chief executive officer of Niti Aayog?

Rajeev Kumar
Amitabh Kant
Piyush Goyal
Hasmukh Adhia

3. Which country won the 2018 FIFA Football World Cup?

Argentina
Croatia
France
England

4. Which country will host 2020 T20 Cricket World Cup?

West Indies
India
Australia
England

5. Who is the present Chief Justice of Kerala High Court?

Mohan Shantanagoudar
Ashok Bhushan
Ramachandra Menon
Hrishikesh Roy

6. Where did the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX) 2018 commence recently?

Chennai
Vishakapatanam
Kochi
Mumbai

7. In which state was India's first "Methanol Cooking Fuel Program" launched?

Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Assam
Madhya Pradesh

8. Which city has launched India’s first Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (FFEWS)?

Thiruvananthapuram
Chennai
Kolkata
Mumbai

9. SAFER initiative by the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to control which one of the following?

Road accidents
Alcohol use
Drug abuse
Sexual harassment

10. Which famous personality has been named as the brand ambassador of Tribes India?

Amitabh Bachan
Mary Kom
Saina Nehwal
Deepika Padukone