Each time is given up to 45/60(I do not remember exactly) seconds to answer a maximum of 11 questions.
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1Q. What was the name of the first ever space shuttle?
A. Enterprise.
Q2. Name the ocean zone with rapid temperature drops. They block
sonars.
A. Thermocline.
Q3. What gas causes Uranus' blue-green colour?
A. Methane.
Q4. Whats is the largest lizard species in the world?
A. Komodo dragon. (can go up to 3 metres)
Q5. A sodium and calcium hypochlorite solution which destroys bacteria
and organic colours by oxidation.
A. Bleach.
Q6. This type of amino acid inhibits the function of receptors of nerve
cells.
A. Domoic acid.
Q7. What is myrmecology the study of?
A. Ants.
Q8. What is the highest peak in the solar system?
A. Mount Olympus.
Q9. How many elements are present on earth?
A. 90-92. (Promethium and Technecium are not found on earth)
10. What has 4 layers - The emergent, the canopy, the understory and
the floor?
A. Rainforest
11. What was named Time man of the year in the year 1982?
A. The IBM PC
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Q1. What is the largest organ in the human body?
A. The skin.
Q2. What era are we living in?
A. Cenozoic.
Q3. What are up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom?
A. Quarks.
Q4. Collective name for elements 88-102 of the periodic table. They are
unstable and undergo radioactive decay.
A. Actinides.
Q5. What was spotted on July 23 1995 by two amateur astronomers and
appeared on March 28 1997?
A. Hale Bopp.
Q6. What scale measures the ratio between chronological age and mental
age?
A. Stanford-binet Scale which later became the IQ. (either is accepted)
Q7. Proteins or protein based molecules which speed up chemical
reactions in living things.
A. Enzymes.
Q8. What is the common name for otalgia?
A. Ear-ache.
Q9. What is the smallest breed of dog?
A. Chihuahu
A.
10. What was Ray Tomlinson, an American computer engineer, the first to give himself in 1971?
A. An email id
11. Which hitherto unsolved theorem did Andrew Wiles solve in 1993? Fermat's Last Theorem
12. What was Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen the first to receive in 1901?
A. The Nobel prize
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Q1. What insect injects fluid into its legs to retract them?
A. Trantul
A.
Q2. What is the common name of the limb Pollex?
A. Thumb
Q3. All the land on earth was initially one huge continent. Name it.
A. Pange
A.
Q4. What material is used for bullet proof vests?
A. Kevlar.
Q5. The minimum energy required to convert reactats into products.
A. Activation energy.
Q6. How many degrees does the earth turn in a day?
A. 360.
Q7. What are sharp, diffuse, principal and fundamental ?
A. Orbitals. spdf.
Q8. A biochemical reaction that usually involves the breakdown of
carbohydrates into water or alcohol which is catalysed by enzymes.
A. Fermentation.
Q9. What human defect does the Ishihara test check for?
A. Colourblindness.
10. How do you better know Chloroxylenol in Turpeonol?
A. Dettol
11. Which British computing brain died of Cyanide poisoning after being arrested and tried
for homosexuality?
A. Alan Turing
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Q1. What organism can change its gender to and fro?
A. Oyesters.
Q2. Name the asteroid which supposedly killed the dinosaurs.
A. Chixabulb
Q3. What term describes using more than one language in a sentence in
linguistic anthropology?
A. Code-switching.
Q4. The form of carbon with 60 atoms bound together to make a roughly
spherical ball.
A. Bucky ball.
Q5. Name the oath taken by a doctors before they begin practising.
A. Hippocratic oath.
Q6. What catalogue lists star clusters, nebulae and galaxies and has
110 elements?
A. Messier
Q7. What type of cell division produces eggs and sperms?
A. Meiosis.
Q8. Term for a gas that is liquefied by lowering its temperature,
usually below -100 degrees.
A. Cryogen.
Q9. What is the study of caves called?
A. Spelunking.
Q10. What prefix is added if a number is multiplied by 10 raised to
the 15th power?
A. Peta
Q11. What was Igor Sikorsky's lasting contribution to aviation?
A. The helicopter
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Q1. What body part does the cricket use to hear?
A. Leg.
Q2. This astronomical body was called "Little Green Men" because of
their high signal activity.
A. Pulsars.
Q3. Only person to win a Nobel in Peace and Chemistry.
A. Linus Pauling.
Q4. What species attacks an average of 3 million people a year?
A. Dogs.
Q5. Name the nausea and vommitting of pregnant women towards alcohol,
caffeine, vegetables and meat.
A. Morning sickness.
Q6. What are Trap door, spitting, crab, orb web and nursery web types of?
A. Spiders.
Q7. An amorphous form of carbon, made of atoms bound hexagonally in
sheets.
A. Graphite.
Q8. What is the only venomous mammal in the world?
A. Duck bill platypus.
9. Which device, invented by a frenchman, was used initially as a device in
farms to kill poultry?
A. The guillotine
10. What is the name given to a self reproducing program named after a Dutch logician?
A. Quine
11. What is the southern hemisphere's equivalent of the Aurora Borealis?
A. The Aurora Australis
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Q1. Name of a lake formed when a loop of a river is cut off from the main
stream.
A. Ox-bow lake.
Q2. Name the animal with the largest heart.
A. Giraffe.
Q3. What does clumping of melanocytes in the skin cause?
A. Freckles.
Q4. The state reached by a gas at high temperature where electrons are
detached from individual atoms.
A. Plasm
A.
Q5. What class of animals eat only fruits?
A. Fruitivore.
Q6. What colour is the black-box flight recorder in aircrafts?
A. Red/Yellow. It should be easily visible.
Q7. Name the temperature above which a ferro-magnetic material loses
magnetism?
A. Curie-point.
Q8. What was the First manmade object to move faster than sound?
A. A whip.
Q9. What do fuel cells which power spacecrafts produce as a by product?
A. Water.
10. Which jeweller's measure weighs 0.2 grams?
A. The carat
11. Which deadly concoction is made of Sodium Thiopenthal, Pavulon and Potassium
Chloride?
A. The lethal injection
12. What mathematical day is celebrated every year on March 14 (3/14)?
A. PI day