Practice Test: World Geography - 10 - UPSC MCQ

Which of the following planets has only one natural satellite (or moon) as the Earth has ?    

Which of the following statements in regard to the planets of the Solar System is not correct ?    

    In the sixteenth century, the king of Denmark built for the use of a famous scientist the finest oservatory in the world on an island near Copenhagen and called it the City of the Heavens. Who was this scientist ?    

When and by whom were the rings of Saturn discovered ?    

The radius of which of the following is 7 ´ 105 kilometers ?    

The visible part of the Sun is called    

What name is given to the path of the Sun amongst the stars in our galaxy ?    

Titan, the largst moon in the Solar System, is also the largest moon of    

How many hydrogen nuclei combine to form a nucleus of helium in the Sun, with an attendant release of a gamma-ray photon ?    

What quantity of hydrogen in the Sun is converted into helium every second ?    

Which among the following stars flare up to greatly increased brightness and fade away after a short time?    

Who was the first to speculate that Venus is completely covered with clouds ?    

A light year, as a unit of measurement of distances of heavenly bodies, is equal to    

The maximum possible angle between the direction of Sun and that of a planet (as viewed from the Earth) is called    

The three planets, farthest from the Sun in the as cending order of distance are    

The Sun shines vertically on the Equator    

The speed per minute at which the  Earth revolves round the Sun is    

The Earth's annual circuit round the Sun covers a distance of    

Even though Pluto is usually the farthest planet, its path is highly elliptical, crossing inside the path of some other planets. As a result, for a period of twenty years from 1979 the farthest planet is not Pluto, but    

Which of the following is the brightest star in our Solar System ?    

The distance between the Earth and the Sun is greatest during    

Which is the brightest planet as seen from the Earth ?