INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PRESERVATION OF OZONE LAYER - 2018

SCIENCE QUIZ
Instructions:
All Questions carry equal marks.
(+5) marks for one correct answer and (–2) marks for one wrong answer.

Maximum Marks: 200 Mobile No………………………………. Maximum Time: 60 Minutes

1. Name:……………………………………..Course ……. Branch…………..Year……

2. Name:…………………….,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Course ……. Branch…………..Year……
1. Drug used for 3 years by US army before 11. It is common component of air pollution, but is
becoming available to general public in 1944 essential in upper atmosphere to protect life
A. Polio vaccine B. Aspirin A. Ozone B. NO2
C. Penicillin D. Morphine C. CO2 D. N2
2. Which sea is saltiest natural lake and also at 12. The Statue of Liberty is green because of
lowest elevation on earth surface A. Green stone
A. Dead sea B. Caribbean sea B. Oxidized brass
C. Baltic sea D. Timor sea C. Steel painted green
3. As you go down in a well, your weight D. Oxidized copper
A. Increases slightly 13. The word atom is from a Greek word meaning:
B. Decreases slightly A. Small B. Indivisible
C. Remains exactly same C. Unseen D. visible
D. Both A and B correct 14. Ozone in upper atmosphere is produced from:
4. What is the other name of Fern? A. Lightening B. Photochemical reaction
A. Riccia B. Horn wort C. Model fractals D. Electrical appliances
C. Nephrolepis D. Angiosperm 15. Name the area of science concerned with study
5. How many time zones are there on Earth? of customs and societies of mankind
A. Twelve B. Eighteen A. Pychology
C. Twenty four D. Twenty B. Anthropology
6. What is the rest mass of a phonon C. Sociology
A. Zero B. Depends on λ D. Cosmology
C. Very small D. Depends of energy 16. Which month is showing on the calendar when
7. What poisnous alkaloid is extracted from the Earth is nearest the sun?
tobacco leaves and used as insectiside A. January B. March
A. Nicotine B. Piperine C. June D. May
C. quinine D. dopamine 17. Which of the following is believed to be
8. The study of phenomena at very low responsible for the hole in ozone layer?
temperatures is called A. Carbon dioxide
A. Heat transfer B. Morphology B. Compounds containing sulfur
C. Crystallography D. Cryogenics C. Radioactivity
9. The ingredient that makes plastic D. Compounds containing chlorine
biodegradable is 18. A thermocouple is used to measure
A. Vegetable oil B. Petroleum A. Pressure B. Temperature
C. Cornstarch D. Leather C. Current D. Strain
10. In which country was a method for making 19. Which two gases are used to disinfect water in
rust-resistant iron discovered in 5th century sewage treatment facilities?
BC A. He & N2 B. Ozone & Cl2
A. Sumeria B. Egypt C. O2 and H2 D. N2 & Cl2
C. India D. Babylon 20. What percent of brain we use?
A. 10 B. 50
C. 55 D. 100
 SCIENCE QUIZ (INTERNATIONAL OZONE DAY – 2018)

35. Which of the following is not a major pollutant

21. Where has the ozone hole appeared? from automobiles?
A. Arctic ocean B. Antarctic ocean A. CO B. Unburned hydrocarbons
C. Antarctica D. Canada C. N2O D. Sulphur dioxide
22. As you go down into a well your weight 36. Biodiesel researchers have produced
A. Increases slightly B. Decreases slightly hydrocarbons in bacterium -
C. Remains same A. Escherichia coli Streptococcus pyogenes
23. What mammal lays egg? B. Vibrio cholerae C. Enteritis salmonella
A. Platypus B. Marsupials 37. Which of the following is regarded as main
C. Fish D. Placental cause of groundwater contamination?
24. Who separated medicine from magic? A. Landfills B. Agricultural products
A. Socrates B. Hygiea C. Septic tanks D. All of the above
C. Plato D. Hippocrates 38. DRDO has developed a drug named Lukosin
25. Where do permanently deleted files go in for the treatment of
computers? A. Leukemia B. Lucoderma
A. Deleted completely B. Recyle bin C. Lung cancer D. Brain tumor
C. It is still there D. All these 39. Galileo Galilei attaced a belief espoused by the
26. Which came first – the egg or the chicken? church. That belief was that
A. The egg B. both A. the earth was flat.
C. The chicken B. the sky was a large dome with holes through
27. Which element has the highest melting point? which heaven could be seen.
A. Tungsten B. Carbon C. the earth was at the center of the universe.
C. Osmium D. Lead D. there are no other planets.
28. Sardar Sarovar Dam Project, in controversy, is 40. Who is known as father of Atomic Bomb?
located at A. Albert Einstein
A. Bhaghirithi B. Kaveri B. J. Robert Oppenheimer
C. Narmada D. None C. General Leslie Groves
29. Sedimentation is a process in which D. Edward Teller
A. DO of water increases
B. BOD decreases *******
C. Particulate matter deposit at surface with time
D. None of the above
30. Water flows through a horizontal pipe at a
constant volumetric rate. At a location where
the cross sectional area decreases, the velocity
of the fluid
A. Increases B. Decreases
C. Stays the same
31. What is the technique by which lasers are
used to photograph objects and reproduce
them in three dimensions?
A. Holography B. Weight
C. Power to Weight ratio D. Engine size
32. Which radioactive element is most commonly
detected in humans?
A. Potassium – 40 B. Cobalt – 60
C. Iodine – 131 D. Plutonium – 238
33. On June 22, how many hours of daylight are
there in a day at the North Pole?
A. 24 B. 12 C. 20 D. 6
34. What range of frequencies is usually referred
to as audio frequencies for humans?
A. 0 to 20 Hz B. 20 to 20,000 Hz
C. 200 to 200, 000 Hz D. 10,000 to 30,000 Hz
By Prof. (Dr.) Rakesh Sohal, 9406978630, rakesh_sohal@yahoo.com