General Science

• The working principle of a rocket is:

Ans: Newton's 3rd law

• Chemical name of Alumina:

Ans: Aluminium oxide

• Which is the most ionic compound?

Ans: Caesium Fluoride

• Document established for documenting rare and endangered species of animals and plants:

Ans: Red Data Book

• Scientific name of common cold:

Ans: Nasopharyngitis

• World Haemophilia day:

Ans: April 17

• Who invented carbon dating?

Ans: Willard Libby

• Electric charge was first observed in a substance called:

Ans: Amber

• Halley's comet is seen in every ____ years

Ans: 76 years

• Which planet is also known as 'green planet'?

Ans: Uranus

• HI Ni virus is associated with:

Ans: Swine Flu

• The weakest force out of the four fundamental forces:

Ans: Gravitational force

• The vitamin which is destroyed by heat:

Ans: Vitamin C

• The minimum distance of reflecting surface from the source of sound for echo:

Ans: 17.2 metre

• Calcium oxide is commonly known as:

Ans: Quick lime

• When a body is in free fall under gravity; its apparent weight will be____.

Ans: Zero

• Hormone which also called as ADH:

Ans: Arginine  vasopressin

• International mole day:

Ans: October 23

• Pyranometre is used to measure ____. 

Ans: Solar irradiance

• The age of rocks from the moon has been estimated using the technique:

Ans: Uranium dating

• The Earth is closest to the Sun on:

Ans: 3rd January (Perihelion)

• Which planet takes more time to complete one rotation than revolution?

Ans: Venus

• The coldest and slowest revolving planet:

Ans: Neptune

• 'Unfinished Dream' is a book written by:

Ans: Verghese Kurien

• Father of white revolution in India:

Ans: Verghese Kurien

• Atoms of different elements having same mass number and different atomic number:

Ans: Isobars

• The new methods used in chemistry which aim to reduce pollution are called:

Ans: Green Chemistry

• Which instrument is used for measuring the heat of chemical reactions?

Ans: Calorimeter

• What is the unit of density?

Ans: kg/m^3

• Rays used in distant photography:

Ans: Infrared

• Deficiency of melanin causes:

Ans: Albinism

• Genes are located in the:

Ans: Chromosomes

• Vitamins obtained from fish oil is

Ans: Vitamin A and D

• What is known as 'rock oil'?

Ans: Petroleum

• The element with atomic number 100:

Ans: Fermium

• Acid rain is due to the presence of ____.

Ans: Sulphur dioxide

• The catalyst used for the manufacture of ammonia:

Ans: Iron

• The ISRO Chairman at the time of launching of 'Mangalyaan'

Ans: K. Radhakrishnan

• The substance which covers dentine:

Ans: Enamel

• Animals living at the bottom of water are called:

Ans: Benthic animals

• Theory of natural selection was put forward by:

Ans: Charles Darwin

• Sound waves used in SONAR is _____.

Ans: Ultrasonic sound

• The emf of a dry cell is ______.

Ans: 1.5 volts

• Light travels fastest in which medium?

Ans: Vacuum

• The flowerless or seedless plants are called:

Ans: Cryptogams

• Organisms that use sunlight to prepare their food are known as:

Ans: Photoautotrophs

• The acid which makes scratches on glass wares:

Ans: Hydrofluoric acid

• Rubber used to make hoses is:

Ans: Thiokol

• The gas used in advertising sign boards

Ans: Neon

• The value of 'g' is maximum on which planet?

Ans: Jupiter

• The property of a substance to absorb moisture from the air on exposure is called

Ans: Deliquescence

• Who formulated wave theory of light?

Ans: Christiaan Huygens

• The unit of electric charge is:

Ans: coulomb

• The common name for pottassium carbonate is:

Ans: Potash

• Which wax is obtained from the petroleum?

Ans: Paraffin wax

• Semi conductor used for making integrated circuits.

Ans: Germanium

• Which allotrope of carbon has lubricant property?

Ans: Graphite

• Lunar caustic is:

Ans: Ag NO3

• Unit of measuring the depth of the sea:

Ans: Fathom

• Why an athlete runs some distance before taking a long jump?

Ans: Because by running, the athlete gives himself larger inertia of motion

• Milk secreted by mother in first 475 days after giving birth is known as:

Ans: Colostrum

• 'Annapurna' is a variety of:

Ans: Rice

• Espundia is a disease caused by:

Ans: Protozoa

• Which is the first artificial Plastic?

Ans: Bakelite

• A person shed tears while cutting onion due to the presence of:

Ans: Sulphur in onion

• Which substance is known as 'Blue gold'?

Ans: Water

• Nitric acid was invented by:

Ans: Jabir Ibn Hayyan

• As temperature increases what happened to the viscosity of a liquid?

Ans: Viscosity decreases

• Name the layer of earth's atmosphere which absorb UV rays:

Ans: Ozone

• Who categorised elements according to atomic number?

Ans: Mosley

• The existence of isotopes was discovered by:

Ans: Frederic Soddy

• Sodium carbonate is commonly called:

Ans: Washing soda

• The study of pollen grains is called:

Ans: Palynology

• The particles with half integral spin values are called:

Ans: Fermions

• A force that acts outwards of a body revolving in a circle:

Ans: Centrifugal force

• Who discovered Magnesium?

Ans: Joseph Black

• Eye diseases that occurs due to the deficiency of vitamin A:

Ans: Night blindness, Xerophthalmia

• The part of brain on which pain killers affect:

Ans: Thalamus

• Name the first artificial organic compound:

Ans: Urea

• The acid used to test the purity of gold:

Ans: Nitric acid

• Who discovered that light has maximum speed in vacuum?

Ans: Leon Fukart

• The alkaloid present in tobacco:

Ans: Nicotine

• Major industrial process of smelting Aluminium:

Ans: Hall Heroult process

• Which flower is known as painters palette?

Ans: Anthurium