Saturday, July 06, 2013

Indian Science and Technology Quiz

Q1. India's first satellite Aryabhata was launched from
(a) Soviet Union                 (b) America
(c) India                              (d) Israel

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Q2. First satellite to be placed in orbit by Indian made launch vehicle SLV-3
(a) Aryabhata                     (b) Rohini
(c) Bhskara-1                     (d) INSAT

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Q3. Total number of satellite launched by India till now
(a) 65                                 (b) 52
(c) 50                                 (d) 60

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Q4. India's first Satellite Aryabhatta launched by India in the year
(a) 1972                         (b) 1980
(c) 1978                         (d) 1975

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Q5. Who is known as the Father of Indian Space Program
(a) CV Raman                     (b) Vikrama Sarabhai
(c) APJ Kalam                     (d) Satish Dhawan

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Q6. First mobile phone conversion take place in India between
(a) Jyoti basu and Sukhram                         (b) Narasimbha Rao and Sukhram
(c) Ambika soni and Narasimbha Rao        (d) None of the above

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Q7. Internet in India was stated by VSNL in the year
(a) 15th August,1992                 (b) 15th August,2000
(c) 15th August,1995                  (d) 26th August,1997

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Q8. Most recent Indian citizen that won a nobel prize in 2009
(a) VS Naipaul                         (b) V Ramakrishnan
(c) Amartyan Sen                    (d) Mother Teresa

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Q9. First Nuclear Plants in India
(a) Tarapur, Maharashtra             (b) Rawatbhata, Rajasthan
(c) Narora, Uttar Pradesh             (d) Kakrapar, Gujrat

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Q10. First Nuclear Reactor made in India
(a) CIRUS                         (b) Dhruva
(c) KAMINI                      (d) Apsara

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Q11. First hydro electric power plant in India
(a) Shimsha                         (b) Karnataka
(c) Darjeeling                      (d) Satluj

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Q12. Which dam withhold the largest water reservoir in India
(a) Bhakra Dam                     (b) Indrisagar Dam
(c) Hirakud Dam                    (d) Tehri Dam
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Q13. ISRO headquarter is located in
(a) Delhi                     (b) Chennai
(c) Mumbai                (d) Bangalore

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Q14. India's first unmanned lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 was launch from
(a) Thiruvanathapuram                     (b) Wheeler Island
(c) Balasore                                         (d) Sriharikota

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Q15. India's first supercomputer is known as
(a) SAGA                       (b) PARAM 8000
(c) EKA                          (d) PARAM YUVA

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Q16. Who is known as the architect of PARAM series supercomputers
(a) Vijay P Bhatkar                    (b) S Ramani
(c) SP Mudur                              (d) None of the above

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Q17. Who is the creator of World's second and India's first test tube baby Durga
(a) Devi Prasad Shetty                            (b) Subhash Mukhopadhyay
(c) Pratap Reddy                                     (d) Naresh Trehan

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Q18. Where is the National Institute of Ocean Technology located
(a) Mumbai                            (b) Vishakhapatnam
(c) Kochin                              (d) Chennai

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Q19. Which one is the first IIT established in India
(a) IIT Kharagpur                  (b) IIT Mumbai
(c) IIT Chennai                       (d) IIT Kanpur

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Q20. Bhakra Dam is build on which river
(a) Krishna River                  (b) Bhagirathi River
(c) Sutlej River                       (d) Brahmaputra River

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Q21. Name the physician who created the world's second and indian's first test tube baby Durga
(a) Subhash Mukhopadhyay                (b) Deepak Chopra
(c) Devi Prasad Shetty                          (d) Pratap Reddy

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Q22. Which day is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India as a respect to S Ramanujan
(a) 17 January                (b) 13 March
(c) 30 August                  (d) 22 December

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Q23. S Ramanujan is the first indian to be elected as Fellow of which one College
(a) Presidency College              (b) Trinity College
(c) London College                    (d) Cambridge College

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Q24. Which number is famously known as Ramanujan-Hardy number
(a) 1004              (b) 1992
(c) 1309              (d) 1729

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Q25. Which scientist is known as the founder of India's first pharmaceutical company 'Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals'
(a) Shivram Bhoje                      (b) Arvind Bhatnagar
(c) Srikumar Banerjee               (d) Prafulla Chandra Ray

Q26. The headquarter of Indian Science Congress Association is located in the city
(a) Kolkata           (b) Mumbai
(c) Pune               (d) Chennai

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Q27. Who was the President of the first Indian Science Comgress meeting held in Kolkata in 1914
(a) Prafulla Chandra Roy              (b) J. C. Bose
(c) Ashutosh Mukherjee               (d) Leonard Rogers

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Q28. Which one is the biggest planetarium in India
(a) Birla Panetarium, Hyderabad             (b) Birla Planetarium, Kolkata
(c) Guwahati Planetarium                         (d) Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

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Q29. Who is known as the father of Indian Nuclear Programme
(a) APJ Abdul Kalam                   (b) Homi J Bhabha
(c) Vikram Sarabhai                    (d) Meghnad Saha

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Q30. Who is founder of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
(a) Sir A.G. Bourne                  (b) CV Raman
(c) Vikram Sarabhai                (d) Jamsetji Tata

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Q31. Who is the president of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(a) President of India                         (b) Vice-President of India
(c) Prime Minister of India                (d) Union Minister of Science and Technology

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Q32. Where is the Central Rice Reseach Institute located
(a) Bengaluru                (b) Kanpur
(c) Coimbator                (d) Cuttuck

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Q33. Who constructed the 'Jantar Mantar' in Jaipur
(a) Ram Singh                (b) Man Singh I
(c) Rana Sanga               (d) Jai Singh II

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Q34. Which one is India's first operational remote sensing satellite
(a) IRS-1A               (b) INSAT-1A
(c) GSAT-1              (d) PSLV-D3

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Q35. Which one is India's first satellite exclusively used for educational purpose
(a) SARAL                  (b) RISAT-1
(c) HAMSAT              (d) EDUSAT

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Q36. India's first mission to Moon Chandrayaan-1 was launched from the site
(a) Wheeler Island              (b) Balasore
(c) Sriharikota                     (d) None of the above

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Q37. Which one is India's First Indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle
(a) PSLV              (b) ASLV
(c) GSLV              (d) SLV-3

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Q38. Who was the first chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO)
(a) K kasturirangan             (b) Vikram Sarabhai
(c) Satish Dhawan                (d) Homi J Bhabha

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Q39. Who is known as the father of indian nuclear programme
(a) APJ Abdul Kalam              (b) Raja Ramanna
(c) Homi J Bhabha                  (d) Vikram Sarabhai

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Q40. The first nuclear test conducted in India under the code-name of Smiling Buddha in the year
(a) 1973              (b) 1974
(c) 1988              (d) 1996

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Q41. The National Academy of Sciences, India is founded in the year
(a) 1920              (b) 1930
(c) 1945              (d) 1956

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Q42. Where the Headquater of National Academy of Sciences, India is located
(a) Delhi              (b) Kolkata
(c) Pune              (d) Allahabad

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Q43. Where the headquter of Central Institute for Cotton Research is located
(a) Nagpur              (b) Coimbatore
(c) Chennai              (d) Sirsa

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Q44. Which one is a India's permanent research station in Antarctica
(a) Ganga            (b) Agni
(c) Maitri             (d) None of the above

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Q45. When the first expedition to Antarctica was started by India
(a) 1971             (b) 1975
(c) 1980             (d) 1981

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Q46. Who was the leader of  the first expedition to Antarctica started by India
(a) Sayed Z Qasim             (b) V K Raina
(c) Harsh K gupta             (d) Rasik Ravindra

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Q47. Which one is the first permanent base station of India in Antarctica
(a) Maitri                            (b) Bharat
(c) Dakshin Gangotri         (d) None of the Above

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Q48. Total number of indian research station in Antarctica
(a) 3        (b) 5
(c) 2        (d) 6

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Q49. Where the headquater of Indian Statistical Institute is located
(a) Delhi              (b) Kolkata
(c) Amritsar        (d) Bangalore

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Q50. In which year, Indian Statistical Institute was eastablished
(a) 1919              (b) 1926
(c) 1931              (d) 1943
 Q51. Who is known as the father of electricity
(a) Alexander Graham Bell            (b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Michael faraday                         (d) None of the Above

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Q52. Which scientist formulated 'the theory of evolution'
(a) Charles Darwin            (b) Isaac Newton
(c) Aristotle                         (d) Alexander Fleming

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Q53. Who invented telescope
(a) Galileo Galilei            (b) Hans Lipperhey
(c) Copernicus                (d) None of the above

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Q54. When the nobel prizes were first awarded
(a) 1900            (b) 1901
(c) 1907            (d) 1896

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Q55. Who is the first woman to win a nobel prize
(a) Marie Curie                    (b) Irene Joliot-Curie
(c) Gertrude B. Elion           (d) Rosalyn Yalow

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Q56. Nobel Prize except the Peace Prize is awarded in
(a) Oslo                 (b) Stockholm
(c) London           (d) Zurich

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Q57. Who is known as the father of evolution
(a) Gregor Mendel             (b) Otto Hahn
(c) Charles Darwin            (d) Sigmund Freud

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Q58. Who has formulated the Periodic Table for chemical element
(a) Dmitri Mendeleev          (b) Georges Cuvier
(c) Pierre Curie                    (d) Alfred Wegener

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Q59. Albert Einstein received Nobel Prize in the year
(a) 1912          (b) 1915
(c) 1918          (d) 1921

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Q60. Who is known as the inventor of Hydrogen bomb
(a) Enrico Fermi            (b) George Gamow
(c) Edward Teller          (d) Hans Bethe

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Q61. What was the code name of the first nuclear test conducted by USA on 16th July, 1945
(a) Hurricane         (b) Trinity
(c) RDS-1                (d) None of the above

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Q62. How many US patents are in the name of  Thomas Alva Edison
(a) 176         (b) 435
(c) 822         (d) 1093

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Q63. Who first developed the polio vaccines
(a) Jonas Salk                 (b) Alexander Fleming
(c) Edward Jenner         (d) Howard Florey

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Q64. Edward Jenner is famous for the invention of
(a) Penicillin                     (b) Smallpox vaccine
(c) Measles vaccine         (d) None of the above

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Q65. Which gas is also known as laughing gas
(a) Nitrogen        (b) Nitrous Oxide
(c) Chlorine         (d) Methane

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Q66. Which gas contains in largest volume in our atmosphere
(a) Oxygen           (b) Carbon
(c) Nitrogen         (d) Argon

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Q67. Which one is the largest organ in a human body
(a) Skin              (b) Liver
(c) Kidney         (d) Lung

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Q68. Which blood goup is known as 'universal recipients' group
(a) AB Group            (b) A Group
(c) B Group               (d) O Group

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Q69. Which blood goup is known as 'universal donors' group
(a) AB Group            (b) A Group
(c) B Group               (d) O Group

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Q70. Who is known as the inventor of steam engine
(a) William Murdoch          (b) James Watt
(c) Graham Bell                   (d) Michael Faraday

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Q71. What is the SI unit of electric current
(a) Volt                 (b) Watt
(c) Ampere          (d) Ohm

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Q72. Which vitamin is produced by the sunlight
(a) Vitamin A                (b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C                (d) Vitamin D

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Q73. Total number of chambers in a human heart
(a) 1                (b) 3
(c) 4               (d) 2

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Q74. The hardest substance available in the world is
(a) Platinum               (b) Gold
(c) Diamond               (d) Iron

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Q75. Which type of instrument is used to measure moisture in the atmosphere
(a) Barometer               (b) Hydrometer
(c) Hygrometer             (d) None of the above
Q76. What is the SI unit for pressure
(a) Pascal          (b) Farad
(c) Ohm             (d) Joule

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Q77.  Who is known as the father of biology
(a) Archimedes          (b) Aristotle
(c) Vesalius                (d) Gustav Fechner

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Q78.  Who first distinguished the main blood groups in human body
(a) Simon Flexner            (b) Alexander S. Wiener
(c) Paul Ehrlich                (d) Karl Landsteiner

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Q79.  Which one is the biggest planet in our solar system
(a) Earth           (b) Jupiter
(c) Saturn         (d) Mercury

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Q80.  Which one is the largest natural moon in our solar system
(a) Callisto             (b) Europa
(c) Ganymede        (d) Amalthea

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Q81.  Which one is the hottest planet in our solar system
(a) Mercury            (b) Venus
(c) Mars                  (d) Saturn

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Q82.  Which one is the smallest planet in our solar system
(a) Mercury            (b) Uranus
(c) Neptune            (d) Saturn

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Q83.  Which one is the first living creature sent to earth orbit
(a) Abert 1, a monkey            (b) Laika, a dog
(c) Ham, a chimpanzee           (d) Felix, a cat

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Q84.  Which one is the closest start to our solar system
(a) Barnard's Star               (b) Ross 154
(c) Proxima Centauri          (d) Sirius A and B

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Q85. Halley's Comet was last appeared on the year
(a) 1972            (b) 1975
(c) 1982            (d) 1986

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Q86. What is the name of the spaceflight that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon
(a) Apollo-5              (b) Apollo-10
(c) Apollo-11            (d) Apollo-203

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Q87. In which year Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon
(a) 1965             (b) 1967
(c) 1968            (d) 1969

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Q88. Who is the first woman in space
(a) Valentina Tereshkova            (b) Sally Ride
(c) Kathryn C. Thornton              (d) Judith Resnik

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Q89. Who is the first female commander of a space shuttle
(a) Kalpana Chawla             (b) Eileen Collins
(c) Sunita Williams              (d) Barbara Morgan

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Q90. Who is the first space tourist
(a) Dennis Tito            (b) Richard Garriot
(c) Jake Garn               (d) None of the above

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Q91. Small pox is caused by
(a) Virus            (b) Bacteria
(c) Fungus        (d) None of the above

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Q92. The smallest and functional unit of kidney is known as
(a) Granulocyte         (b) Nephron
(c) Neuron                 (d) Granule

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Q93. Which one is a water soluble vitamin
(a) Vitamin A             (b) Vitamin C
(c) Vitamin D             (d) None of the above

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Q94. Where the headquater of NASA is located
(a) Los Angeles           (b) NewYork
(c) Washington           (d) Dallas

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Q95. Which gas is used for flying balloons
(a) Nitrogen        (b) Oxygen
(c) Helium           (d) None of the above

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Q96. Which one is the nearest planet to the earth
(a) Saturn        (b) Venus
(c) Mars           (d) Jupiter

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Q97. Deficiency disease Scurvy is caused by the lack of
(a) Vitamin A         (b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C          (d) Vitamin K

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Q98. Which one is first surface to surface missile in India
(a) Akash         (b) Trishul
(c) Nag             (d) Prithvi

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Q99. Total number of chromosome per cell in human body
(a) 46          (b) 22
(c) 20          (d) 36

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Q100. The vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood is
(a) Vitamin A               (b) Vitamin B
(c) Vitamin C                (d) Vitamin K
Q101. Who discovered cells (building blocks of life)
(a) Christopher Wren          (b) Matthias Jakob Schleiden
(c) Robert Hooke                 (d) Theodor Schwann

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Q102. Which instrument is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes
(a) Oscilloscope          (b) Seismograph
(c) Inclinometer         (d) Interferometer

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Q103. The density of milk is measured by
(a) Lactometer               (b) Hydrometer
(c) Saccharometer         (d) None of the above

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Q104. Total how many SI units are define by 'International System of Units (SI)'
(a) 5         (b) 6
(c) 7         (d) 11

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Q105. Total number of bones in a human rib cage
(a) 22         (b) 16
(c) 12         (d) 24

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Q106. Total number of bones in a human spine
(a) 33         (b) 26
(c) 52         (d) 21

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Q107. India's first dedicated navigation satellite IRNSS-1A was launched from
(a) Sriharikota                          (b) Ahmedabad
(c) Thiruvananthapuram         (d) Balasore

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