Swasraya science quiz , Finals
•
17 likes•2,543 views
The document summarizes 12 trivia questions and their answers. The questions cover topics like an Indian father and daughter where the daughter was widowed due to a faulty horoscope, a man who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, the cricketer who invented the "googly" bowling technique, Rabindranath Tagore, genetically engineered bacteria, the Hourglass Nebula, the town of Alang in India known for ship breaking, components of the International Space Station, and lines used in fractions.
More Related Content
Viewers also liked
Viewers also liked (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Swasraya science quiz , Finals
- 1. FINALS
- 2. 1. He studied his daughter’s horoscope and predicted that her husband would die soon after the marriage if the marriage did not take place at a particular time. To alert his daughter at the correct time, he placed a cup with a small hole at the bottom of a vessel filled with water, arranged so that the cup would sink at the beginning of the propitious hour. He put the device in a room with a warning to her to not go near it. In her curiosity though, she went to look at the device and a pearl from her nose ring accidentally dropped into it, thus upsetting it. The marriage took place at the wrong time and she was soon widowed. Identify the father and daughter.
- 4. Bhaskara II / Bhaskara Achārya, Lilavati
- 5. 2. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, nicknamed ‘Lucky’ Yamaguchi died in January 2010 at the age of 93 from stomach cancer. Why was he considered lucky?
- 7. He is the only person to have been officially recognised by the government of Japan as surviving both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions.
- 8. 3. Bernard Bosanquet was an amateur cricketer who played for Middlesex and appeared in seven Test matches for England as an all-rounder. He played first-class cricket between 1898 and 1919 and was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1905. His Times obituary stated, “no man probably has in his time had so important and lasting an influence on the game of cricket”. What was his major contribution to cricket?
- 10. Googly
- 11. 4.
- 12. The answer is…
- 14. 5.
- 15. The answer is…
- 17. 6.
- 18. The answer is…
- 20. 7. Prof. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, an Indian-American microbiologist, genetically engineereda new species of Pseudomonas bacteria in 1971 while working for the Research & Development Center at General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. In a highly controversial decision taken by the United States Supreme Court, Chakrabarty's discovery was granted a patent even though it was a living species. The court ruling decreed that Chakrabarty's discovery was “not nature's handiwork, but his own...” What is this bacteria commonly known as / what is it commonly used for?
- 21. The answer is…
- 22. Oil – eating bacteria
- 23. 8.
- 24. The answer is…
- 25. Hourglass Nebula
- 26. 9. The town called Alang is located on the Gulf of Khambat, in Bhavnagar District of Gujarat. In the past three decades, its beaches have become a major worldwide centre for a particular business, making it the largest of its kind in the world. What business?
- 27. The answer is…
- 29. 10. Zarya, Unity, Zvezda, Destiny, Quest, Pirs, Harmony, Columbus, Kibō, Poisk, Tranquility, Cupola and Rassvet are the different components/modules of what?
- 30. The answer is…
- 31. The International Space Station
- 32. 11.
- 33. The answer is…
- 35. 12. What is called a solidus if written as a diagonal line or a vinculum if written as a horizontal line?
- 36. The answer is…
- 37. The line between the numerator and denominator in a fraction
- 38. *
- 39. The answer is…
- 40. Crescograph
- 41. Visit: www.greycells-kerala.blogspot.com And our Orkut community: Kerala Quizzers