Sunday, December 30, 2007

SCIENCE QUIZ @ VIDYODAYA SCHOOL, KOCHI

the prelims questions..

1. Who is credited with the discovery of neutron –

2. ‘He lies somewhere else’ is the epitaph of which Nobel laureate physicist-

3. Expand SCUBA-

4. The name of the missile ‘BrahMos’ is derived from 2 rivers. Name them-

5. Which Indian city hosts the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology-

6. In 1960, TIROS-1 was put in orbit. What was its mission. (the first of its kind)-

7. What does the Beaufort scale measure-

8. Name the Indian astronaut who was the backup of Rakesh Sharma for the Soyuz T-11 mission-

9. Name the first Indian station at Antartica-

10. Name the former director of BARC who was also a minister of state for defence in 1990 under V.P.Singh-

11. A ‘pride of lanka’, he first conceptualised that geostationary satellites can be used for telecommunication purposes. Name him-

12. Where would you find the P, Q, R, S and T waves-

13. Name the German astronomer credited for discovering the planet Uranus. He is also known as the ‘Columbus of the skies’-

14. ‘Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth’. Whose famous words-

15. What is the term coined by Eric Drexler in his book ‘Engines of creation’-

16. Schools around the world commemorate Mole day on (month and date)-

17. Selenology is the study of-

18. Name the chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission-

19. World AIDS day is commemorated on –

20. Antrix corporation is the commercial arm of which governmental department- Mar 9 delete Arun George
21. To which country does the man credited to have devised the first ‘periodic table of chemical elements’ in 1869 belong –

22. Name the Scottish mathematician who invented Logarithms –

23. Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused due to poisoning with –

24. Name the highest award given in India by CSIR for scientific contributions –

25. Oryza sativa is the scientific name of –

26. Name the smallest and lightest bone in the human body -

27. Name the now extinct flightless bird related to the pigeons that lived on the island of Mauritius –

28. Frederick Hopkins and Christiaan Eijkman were awarded the Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of –

29. Name the pesticide in the news recently which was incriminated for causing diseases in North Kerala –

30. Willard Libby is credited for inventing a method which has much application in Forensic science and other allied sciences. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. Name the technique -


ANSWERS

1. James Chadwick
2. Werner Heisenberg
3. Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
4. River Brahmaputra and Moscow
5. Ernakulam
6. Weather satellite
7. Wind speed / Intensity
8. Ravish Malhotra
9. Dakshin Gangotri
10. Raja Ramanna
11. Arthur C Clarke
12. ECG
13. William Herschel
14. Archimedes of Syracuse
15. Nanotechnology
16. October 23
17. Moon
18. Anil Kakodkar
19. December 1st
20. ISRO/ Department of Space
21. Russian
22. John Napier
23. Mercury
24. S.S.Bhatnagar award
25. Rice
26. Stapes/ Stirrups
27. Dodo
28. Vitamins
29. Endosulphan
30. Carbon 14 dating

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