Science interview questions – page 3

The tiny Archicebus fossil of oldest primate discovered in

1. Magnolia
2. Germany
3. U.S.A.
4. China

UK scientists produced a disease resistant piglet called

1. Pig-24
2. Pig-25
3. Pig-26
4. Pig-27

Which of the following indigenously built payloads carried on board with Chandrayaan-I?

1. Radiation does monitor
2. Sus-Kev Atom
3. X-ray spectrometer
4. Hyper spectral Imager

Which one of the Indian submarines met with an accident and got sunk recently?

1. INS Vindhyagiri
2. INS Sindhurakshak
3. INS Trishul
4. INS prahar

Who announced to start production of world’s first flexible OLED panel for smartphones?

1. Apple
2. HTC
3. Samsung
4. LG

Chilika lagoon in Odisha has been renamed by UN on January 21, 2014 as

1. Destination flyways
2. Birds flyways
3. Chalk lake
4. Destination getways

Mangalore University and BARC signed MoU for collaborative research on

1. Magnetism
2. Gravity
3. Radioactivity
4. Elasticity

Recently British scientist has identified the enzyme that plays crucial role in clogging up of arteries?

1. Peroxidase
2. Succinic dehydragenase
3. Matrix metalloproteinase-8
4. Elastase-1

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO recovered two Apollo Rocket Engines from

1. Arabian sea
2. Atlantic ocean
3. South China sea
4. Pacific ocean

Scientists at the New Jersey engineered a sensor chip that can detect diseases from samples of

1. Hair
2. Sweat
3. Blood drop
4. Saliva

World’s first gun made from 3D printer technology test-fired successfully in

1. China
2. UK
3. U.S.A.
4. Japan

The company developed new device that helps Stephen hawking communicate faster is

1. Apple
2. Sony
3. Intel
4. Microsoft

New software for android phones named ‘Home’ has been released by

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. LinkedIn
4. Twitter

First unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant synchronized with the power grid was

1. Western power grid
2. Northern power grid
3. Southern power grid
4. None of these

In an isothermal change an ideal gas obey’s

1. Boyle’s law
2. Charles law
3. Gay Lussac’s law
4. None of these

Recently , scientists of MIT have developed a programme to help people enhance their social interaction skills called

1. DCAH
2. MACH
3. NACH
4. BACH

Which of the following crops has the highest cultivated area in the world?

1. Bajra
2. Wheat
3. Barley
4. Rice

The famous Kirti Stambha at Chittor was built by

1. Rana Hammir
2. Rana Sangram Singh
3. Rana Pratab
4. Rana Kumbha

Which is the India’s nuclear weapons, capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile successfully test-fired?

1. Agni-IV
2. Agni-V
3. Prithvi-I
4. Prithvi-II

Microsoft unveils the updated version of previous operating system of windows 8

1. Windows Vista
2. Windows 8.1
3. Windows 8.5
4. Windows 9

Nuclear capable Agni-II missile was successfully test-fired on

1. 1 April 2013
2. 7 April 2013
3. 8 April 2013
4. 9 April 2013

Who among the following is a social activist campaigning against child labour?

1. Swami Agnivesh
2. Shanana Azmi
3. Baba Amte
4. Mira Nair

Curiosity confirms that Mars is composed mostly of

1. Helium
2. Silicon
3. Carbon dioxide
4. Carbon monoxide

Scientists at the Berkley lab created world’s first digital Atlas of

1. Head
2. Eyes
3. Brain
4. Heart

German scientists developed a new App to find lost things called

1. Find lost goods
2. Find my things
3. Find my goods
4. Find my stuff

Which one among the following statements regarding heart sound is correct?

1. Heart sounds are caused by the external blood flow outside the heart
2. Normal sounds are called ‘murmurs’
3. Heart sounds are caused by opening and closing of heart valves
4. Heart sound are caused by the internal blood flow inside the heart

Space Telescope of NASA discovered magnetic Braids in the atmosphere of

1. Jupiter
2. Venus
3. Mars
4. Sun

NASA to lease historic launch pad of first moon mission to commercial operators in

1. San Francisco
2. Philadelphia
3. Florida
4. California

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is presently headed by

1. G. Vishwanathan
2. Lars Rasmussen
3. Adnan Z. Amin
4. Helene Pelosse

Which among the following types of bird flu virus vaccine developed by Chinese scientists?

1. H7N1
2. H7N5
3. H7N8
4. H7N9