1. If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of 1.Spiders 2.Empty Rooms 3.Beards 4.Water

2. How did Alfred Nobel make his money? 1.invented telegraph 2.Family business 3.Invented dynamite 4.Won a lottery

3. If you are celebrating your diamond anniversary, how many years have you been married ? 1.60 2.75 3.50 4.100

4. If you suffer from xenophobia, what are you afraid of ? 1.Spiders 2.Cars 3.Elevators 4.Foreigners

5. What is the largest man made structure on Earth ? 1. The Taj Mahal 2. The Great Wall of China 3. The Burj Khalifa 4. The Eiffel Tower

6. Q. 1. Woolen Clothes protect the body from cold because- (a) Cloth is a poor conductor of heat (b) Cloth is good conductor of heat (c) External heat rays enter into the body through woolen clothes (d) None of above

7. Q.2. The owl can see most clearly in total darkness because- (a)It has squint eyes (b) It has large eyes with orbs directed forward, giving it binocular sight (c) It has light bulbs in its eyes provided by nature

8. Q.3 Stainless steel contains- (a) Chromium,Nickel,Iron and Carbon (b) Nickel,Iron and Carbon (c) Iron and Carbon only (d) Chromium,Iron and Carbon

9. Q.4 The maximum limit of sound beyond which a person can become deaf is- (a) 55 db (a) 55 db (b) 75 db (c) 85 db (d) 120 db Too… Noisy

10. Q.5 Which gas often creates more air- pollution? (a) Nitrogen (b) Carbon dioxide (c) Carbon monoxide (d) Oxygen

11. Q.6 During cardiac failure, which of the following is advised as a first aid? (a)Mouth to Mouth resuscitation (b) Giving external cardiac Massage (c) Giving cool water to drink (d) Giving complete body Massage

12. Q.8 The small bats can fly in dark because- (a)They can see the objects in darkness (b) They have weak legs land are likely to be attacked by predators (c) They generate flashes of light (d) They generate ultrasonic sound waves

13. (a)Decreases (b) Increases (c) Remains the same (d) Is zero Q.9 The time period of a pendulum on moon-

14. In the American system of Mathematical progressions what denomination comes after million, billion and trillion 1.Septillion 2.Quintillion 3.Nonillion 4.Quadrillion

15. The _____ point of a point on the surface of a sphere is a point which is diametrically opposite to it 1.Diatropic 2.Antipodal 3.Diachord 4.Diatan

16. In any group of 23 people there is a ____ chance that two of them share a birthday 1.40 2.50 3.60 4.35

17. What British Physicist living from 1824-1907, proposed absolute temperature scale of essence to development of thermodynamics? 1.Claussius 2.W. Thompson aka Lord Kelvin 3.Joule 4.Newton

18. What travels at 331 m/s at 0 ° C at sea level? 1.Sound 2.Seismic Waves 3.Radio Waves 4.Light

19. Who was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize for physics for his work with slow neutrons? 1.Albert Einstein 2.Enrico Fermi 3.James Chadwick 4.J.J. Thompson

20. How many men have walked on the moon? 1.12 2.8 3.6 4.14

21. From which country does Nokia, the mobile phone company, originate? 1.Norway 2.China 3.Korea 4.Finland

22. If you rub an inflated balloon against your hair, the two materials attract each other, as shown in this figure. Fill in the blank: the amount of charge present in the system of the balloon and your hair after rubbing is _____ the amount of charge present before rubbing. (a) less than (b) the same as (c) more than

23. Rank the magnitude of the electric field at points A, B, and C shown in this figure (greatest magnitude first). (a) A, B, C (b) A, C, B (c) B, C, A (d) B, A, C (e) C, A, B

24. In which year was Sir C V Raman awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics? 1.1928 2.1929 3.1930 4.1931

25. Which term is used to describe the center of mass/gravity of an object? 1.Centroid 2.Geographical Center 3.Barycenter 4.Geometrical Center

26. Acceleration’s rate of change is known as what? 1.Velocity 2.Impulse 3.Displacement 4.Jerk

27. Who discovered how to generate electricity? 1.Michael Faraday 2.Max Planck 3.Albert Einstein 4.Andre-Marie Ampere

28. How many quarks are there in an electron? 1.4 2.3 3.2 4.0

29. Who is best known for his theory of Black Holes? 1.Alan Guth 2.Albert Einstein 3.Stephen Hawking 4.Briane Greene

30. What electrical device converts AC to DC? 1.Resistor 2.Inverter 3.Capacitor 4.Rectifier

31. What is the study of the motion of bodies as induced by external forces? 1.Torqueology 2.Analytical Dynamics 3.Vectorization 4.Mechanics

32. Due to thermal expansion how much taller is the Eiffel Tower in Summers as compared to Winters? 1.One yard(91cm) 2.6 inch(15cm) 3.No seasonal change 4.6 feet(1.83m)

33. Fermionic Condensates and Bose- Einstein Condensates are sometimes considered as _________ 1.Parts of the EM spectrum 2.Quantum State 3.States of Matter 4.Subatomic Particles

34. What is the more usual name for Rontgen Rays? 1.X-Rays 2.Gamma Rays 3.Microwave 4.UV Rays

35. What force opposes the motion of gravity in an elevator? 1.Acceleration 2.Tension 3.Friction 4.Drag

36. What can be used to increase the effect of a Force on an object? 1.Electricity 2.Lever 3.Pendulum 4.Power

37. Which Scottish Physicist living from 1736-1819, invented the modern condensing steam engine and centrifugal governor? 1.Sir David Brewster 2.James Watt 3.Thomas Young 4.James Clerk Maxwell

38. What is the name for a highly eccentric Earth orbit with periods of approximately 12 hours? 1.Longitudinal 2.Molniya 3.Geosynchronous 4.Polar

39. Which principle states that it is impossible to know both an objects exact position and momentum at the same time? 1.Einstein’s 2.Planck’s 3.Dawes 4.Uncertainty

40. Which 16 th Century scientist proposed that the Earth orbits the Sun? 1.Archimedes 2.Gamma 3.Copernicus 4.Euryon

41. If every atomic clock stopped immediately, what would stop working first? 1.Network and Cable TV 2.Cell phones 3.Global Positioning System 4.Computers

42. The first magnetic compasses were made using what? 1.Lodestone 2.Human Hair 3.Paramagnets 4.Granite

43. What is light according to Isaac Newton? 1.Electricity 2.A particle 3.Magnetic Resonance 4.A wave