SCIENCE
Questions:
1. What is the scientific name for measurement of time?
2. Who invented automobiles using gasoline?
3. What is the scientific name for the study of human beauty?
4. Which element has the highest boiling point?
5. Which are the three basic colours?
6. Who will possibly learn swimming faster - a fat person or a thin person?
7. Which is the most powerful adhesive?
8. How many muscles are there in the human body?
9. Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
10. Who invented dynamite?
11. What is the most expensive substance?
12. If someone told you he studies herpetology, what would he mean?
13. What percentage of blood does a normal person have in his body?
14. Carbon is one of the elements in carbohydrates, what are the other two?
15. How many ribs are there in the human body?
16. What kind of creature is a marmoset?
17. Name the eminent scientist who received the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in 1972?
18. Under what conditions do a feather and a piece of iron fall at the same rate?
19. Who discovered the electron?
20. Who discovered that malaria is carried by mosquitos?
21. Which Indian scientists was awarded the noble prize for physics?
22. Who invented the ball point pen?
23. Why do water pipes burst in severe cold weather?
24. Who designed the famous steam locomotive, 'Rocket' in 1829?
25. Which bird has no wings at all?
26. Which food is the richest in calcium?
27. Why do you feel hot when you run?
28. How long does light take to travel from the sun to the earth?
29. Why is the Elbow often called 'Funny Bone'?
30. What is solidified carbon dioxide usually known as?
31. What substance in our blood is named after a kind of monkey?
32. What is a cat's eye?
33. What does a tachometer measure?
34. Who was the professor of mathematics who, in the 16th century, dropped two weights from a leaning tower, and what was he setting out to prove?
35. Oxygen is the most abundant element on earth. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
36. Which water insect is known as a "nymph" when it is young and the "devil's darning needles" when it matures?
37. Flying fish are fish, but flying foxes are not foxes. What kind of creatures are they?
38. Which bird is referred to as the "laughing jack-ass"?
39. Besides being the air sac in the lungs, what is an alveolus?
40. Who was the French physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with the Curies in 1903?
8. How many muscles are there in the human body?
9. Which is the smallest bone in the human body?
10. Who invented dynamite?
11. What is the most expensive substance?
12. If someone told you he studies herpetology, what would he mean?
13. What percentage of blood does a normal person have in his body?
14. Carbon is one of the elements in carbohydrates, what are the other two?
15. How many ribs are there in the human body?
16. What kind of creature is a marmoset?
17. Name the eminent scientist who received the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in 1972?
18. Under what conditions do a feather and a piece of iron fall at the same rate?
19. Who discovered the electron?
20. Who discovered that malaria is carried by mosquitos?
21. Which Indian scientists was awarded the noble prize for physics?
22. Who invented the ball point pen?
23. Why do water pipes burst in severe cold weather?
24. Who designed the famous steam locomotive, 'Rocket' in 1829?
25. Which bird has no wings at all?
26. Which food is the richest in calcium?
27. Why do you feel hot when you run?
28. How long does light take to travel from the sun to the earth?
29. Why is the Elbow often called 'Funny Bone'?
30. What is solidified carbon dioxide usually known as?
31. What substance in our blood is named after a kind of monkey?
32. What is a cat's eye?
33. What does a tachometer measure?
34. Who was the professor of mathematics who, in the 16th century, dropped two weights from a leaning tower, and what was he setting out to prove?
35. Oxygen is the most abundant element on earth. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
36. Which water insect is known as a "nymph" when it is young and the "devil's darning needles" when it matures?
37. Flying fish are fish, but flying foxes are not foxes. What kind of creatures are they?
38. Which bird is referred to as the "laughing jack-ass"?
39. Besides being the air sac in the lungs, what is an alveolus?
40. Who was the French physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with the Curies in 1903?
Answers:
1. Horology.
2. Karl Benz.
3. Kalolgy.
4. Tungsten, 5730 degree centigrade.
5. Red, Blue and Yellow.
6. A fat person displays more water, which will help him float more easily than a thin person.
7. Epoxy resin.
8. 639, accounting for 40% of the body weight.
9. Stapes or Sitrrup bone, one of the three bones in the middle ear.
10. Alfred B. Noble.
11. Californium a radioactive, metallic element.
12. He would be studying the natural history of reptiles.
13. About 8% ( or 1/12 th ) of the body's weight.
14. Hydrogen and Oxygen.
15. There are twenty four (24) ribs in the human body, 12 on each side.
16. A Monkey.
17. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. He was Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commision.
18. In a vaccum.
19. Sir. J.J. Thompson (1856-1940 )
20. Ronald Ross, a British physician born in India.
21. Dr. C.V. Raman, in 1930.
22. John. J. Loud, in 1888.
23. When water freezes into ice, it expands in volume, making the pipes burst.
24. George Stevenson.
25. The Kiwi is a wingless, flightless bird of New Zealand.
26. Milk.
27. Due to faster blood circulation.
28. Eight minutes, 19 seconds.
29. Because of the nerve which passes through, causing a tingling sensation when struck.
30. Dry ice.
31. Rhesus factor or Rh-factor.
32. A kind of quartz, much valued as a gem, opalescent and of various shades.
33. Revolutions per minute, as of an engine.
34. Galileo Galilei. He wanted to prove that gravity pulls all bodies to earth with the same acceleration.
35. Hydrogen.
36. The Dragon fly.
37. Bats.
38. Kookaburra, an australian kingfisher.
39. The socket in the jaw in which the teeth are held.
40. Antoine H. Becquerel, renowned for his discovery of the Becquerel Rays, in 1896.
11. Californium a radioactive, metallic element.
12. He would be studying the natural history of reptiles.
13. About 8% ( or 1/12 th ) of the body's weight.
14. Hydrogen and Oxygen.
15. There are twenty four (24) ribs in the human body, 12 on each side.
16. A Monkey.
17. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. He was Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commision.
18. In a vaccum.
19. Sir. J.J. Thompson (1856-1940 )
20. Ronald Ross, a British physician born in India.
21. Dr. C.V. Raman, in 1930.
22. John. J. Loud, in 1888.
23. When water freezes into ice, it expands in volume, making the pipes burst.
24. George Stevenson.
25. The Kiwi is a wingless, flightless bird of New Zealand.
26. Milk.
27. Due to faster blood circulation.
28. Eight minutes, 19 seconds.
29. Because of the nerve which passes through, causing a tingling sensation when struck.
30. Dry ice.
31. Rhesus factor or Rh-factor.
32. A kind of quartz, much valued as a gem, opalescent and of various shades.
33. Revolutions per minute, as of an engine.
34. Galileo Galilei. He wanted to prove that gravity pulls all bodies to earth with the same acceleration.
35. Hydrogen.
36. The Dragon fly.
37. Bats.
38. Kookaburra, an australian kingfisher.
39. The socket in the jaw in which the teeth are held.
40. Antoine H. Becquerel, renowned for his discovery of the Becquerel Rays, in 1896.
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