Who is believed to be the ‘Father of Virology’?
He was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. He was the first to determine the speed of light using a laboratory apparatus? Who is he?
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Who among the following holds a world record for the most spacewalks, 16 and spend more than 82 hours outside in space?
The ‘Meteor Crater’ is a huge hole in the middle of the desert outside Flagstaff, Arizona. Who among the following first suggested that it was produced by a metorite impact?
The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space launched into orbit by space shuttle on April 24, 1990. What is the name of the space shuttle?
The equipment needed to allow home computers to connect to the internet is called
WWW stands for
Match Column-I with Column –II and select the correct answer from the given options.
He was a naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He wrote the book ‘The Origin of Species’. Who is he?
Sir Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. Newton is a unit of measurement for ________.
The solid core structure of a comet is known as the nucleus. The nucleus of a comet is composed of an amalgamation of rock, dust, water, ice and many frozen gases. Which of the following gases is the nucleus of a comet composed of?
In 1774, a British clergyman named Joseph Priestley conducted an experiment in which he focussed sunrays on a tube containing mercuric oxide. This produced a gas which he noticed made candles burn brighter, thus discovering a gas which is the very essence of life. What gas was it?
In 2012, NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting
Google launched the latest version of the Android operating system. It is names as
Which devise is used to measure the intensity of the earthquake?
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