Question # 1

Blood grouping was discovered by:

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William Harvey

Landsteiner

Robert Koch

Chadwick

which scientist discovered electron?

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takamine

hall

j. thomson

long

The largest part of the human brain is:

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Cerebellum

Cerebrum

Mid-brain

Medulla

Which type of cells has no nucleus?

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Red Blood cells

Nerve cells

White blood cells

None of these

Which planet countains largest quantity of carbon dioxide with 95%?

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Earth

Jupiter

Venus

Mercury

The largest source of pollution in the world in:

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Industrial effluents

Sewage and garbage

Automobile exhausts

Herbicides and insecticides

The organs in the body which accumulates iodine is:

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Pituitary gland

Thyroid gland

Thymus

Parathyroid

What is the farthest planet that can be seen without a telescope?

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Uranus

Neptune

Saturn

Jupiter

Which of the following does not provide carbohydrates?

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Fish

Cheese

Butter

Spinach

Which is the hottest planet in our solar system?

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Venus

Neptune

Mars

Mercury

Which strait connects the South Atlantic with the South Pacific?

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Cook Strait

Makassar Strait

Strait of Magellan

Soya Strait

The asteroid belt is a zone between the orbits of Mars and:

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Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Junpiter

Mercurys year is how many Earth's days?

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59

88

365

28

Our Sun is located where in the galaxy?

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Not in any galaxy

In the center of the galaxy

30,000 light years from the center

At the very outer edge of the galaxy

Any foreign particle which stimulates the formation antibodies is called:

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Histone

Antigen

Receptor

Antibiotic

What is mixture farming?

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cultivating different crops in the same farm

cultivating crops and keeping livestock in the same form

Cultivating different varieties of same crop

None of these

The distance between the earth and the sun in million kms is:

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111

149

200

188

what is invented by Yale?

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parachute

tank

lamp

cylinder lock

The Strait of Hormuz joins which of the following water bodies-

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Red Sea and Mediterranean sea

Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman

Caspian sea and black sea

Gulf of Oman and Arabian sea

The position of the earth in its orbit,when it is at its greater distance from the sun causing summer in the Northern Hemisphere is:

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Perihelion

Aphelion

Perigee

Apogee

Heat received by earth from the sun is known as:

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Solar radiation

Insolation

Solar heat

Thermal radiation

In fireworks, the green flame is produced because of:

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Mercury

Barium

Sodium

Potassium

The altitudes of heavenly bodies appear to be greater than they actually are.This is due to:

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Atmospheric refraction

Motions of the earth

These are visible

vertical motions

In which country of Europe is located the active volcano of Vesuvius?

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Italy

Norway

France

Germany

Hover Dam was constructed in 1936 in USA on the river?

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Michigan River

Colorado River

Mississippi River

None of these

Petrology deals with:

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study of rocks in the earth's crust

study of formation of soils

study of petroleum products

none of these

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are called the:

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Asteroid planets

Blue planets

Rocky planets

Gaseous planets

who discovered that the earth was not the centre of the universe?

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Aristotle

Copernicus

Sir Lsaac Newton

Darwin

The transition zone between two Ecosystem is called:

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Biome

Biotope

Ecotone

Sere

Name the invented the gas burner?

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Einthoven

watt

braille

thomson

In February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at this town on the Black Sea. What was the town Called?

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Yalta

Sevastopol

Istanbul

Odessa

The study of the structure and organization of living things (study of human body) is called?

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Taxonomy

Hematology

Anatomy

Archaeology

The sun's energy production takes place where?

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The surface

The Core

The Corona

None of these

Iron is present in the blood in the form of a:

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Free salt

Compound

Complex

Mixture

What is the enzyme that is in stomach acid called?

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Amylase

Pepsin

Maltase

None of these

When ship crosses Date-line from west to east:

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It loses one day

It gains one day

It loses half day

It gains half day

The main important feature of neutron bomb is that when it is dropped on a city,it would damage:

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The living organisms but spare buildings

Both the living organisms and buildings

The building but not living organisms

None of these

What is the name of the waterfall world famous for its height?

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Angel Falls

Niagara Falls

Victoria Falls

Yosemite Falls

Amino acids are the building blocks of:

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Vitamins

Starch

Proteins

Lipids

Who was the first person to cross what is now known as the Antarctic Circle?

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Robert Amundsen

Fabien Bellingshausen

James cook

John Davis

How many furlongs make one mile?

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8

6

10

12

The biggest island in the world is?

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New Guinea

Borneo

Greenland

Sumatra

Plants receive their nutrients mainly from:

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Chlorophyll

Atmosphere

Light

Soil

Lungs are enclosed in:

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Pericardium

Peritoneum

Pleural Membrane

None of these

name the discoverer of chlorine.

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freud

dohl

fermi

scheele

Mycology is the study of

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Fungus and fungi dieseases

Secret writing

Wood Engraving

History of life