1) Which among the following was the first satellite launched by Indian Space Research Organisation?
1) Bhaskar
2) Aryabhatta
3) Rohini
4) INSAT I-A
Ans: 2) Aryabhatta
2) Where is INS Ashwini anchored off?
1) Goa
2) Kochi
3) Mumbai
4) Visakhapatnam
Ans: 3) Mumbai
3) Which is the long range missile that was tested by Pakistan in the wake of India testing Agni II?
1) Ghauri II
2) Shaheen I
3) Hatf I
4) Hatf II
Ans: 1) Ghauri II
4) The Indian Naval Ship being converted into a maritime museum is:
1) Sagar Samrat
2) Kanishka
3) Samrat Ashoka
4) Vikrant
Ans: 4) Vikrant
5) From where was India’s multi -purpose telecommunication satellite INSAT- 2E launched?
1) Baikonur
2) Thumba
3) Sriharikota
4) Kourou
Ans: 4) Kourou
6) What is ‘Barak’?
1) A barrage on river Brahmaputra
2) A peak in Kargil
3) A ship based Missile system
4) Residential complex of an army system
Ans: 3) A ship based Missile system
7)Which of the following is a stealth aircraft virtually undetectable even by radar?
1) B-2 Spirit
2) B1-B Lancer
3) B-52 Stratofortress
4) FA-18 Hornets
Ans: 3) B-52 Stratofortress
8) Who developed the Ballistic missile?
1) Wernher von Braun
2) J. Rober Oppenheimer
3) Edward Teller
4) Samuel Cohen
Ans: 1) Wernher von Braun
9) Geo-stationary satellites revolve at
1) any height
2) fixed height
3) height which depends upon its mass
4) height above pole
Ans: 2) fixed height
10) What is the name given to India’s lunar mission?
1) Vikram-I
2) Kalpana-II
3) Chandrayan-I
4) Insat-5
Ans: 3) Chandrayan-I
11) What is the name given to India’s Meteorological Research Satellite (Met Sat) Launched in 2003?
1) Arya Bhatta I
2) Kalpana I
3) Bhaskara I
4) Vikram I
Ans: 2) Kalpana I
12) Air Force Academy is located in
1) Hyderabad
2) Coimbatore
3) Kakinada
4) Mumbai
Ans: 1) Hyderabad
13) Saha Institute of nuclear physics is located in
1) Mumbai
2) Kolkata
3) Chennai
4) New Delhi
Ans: 2) Kolkata
14) Which of the following is not true for Geo-stationary satellites?
1) Its time period is 24 hours
2) Its angular speed is equal to that of Earth about its own axis
3) It is fixed in space.
4) It revolves from west to east over the equator.
Ans: 3) It is fixed in space.
15) Which of the following shipyards builds warships for the Indian Navy?
1) Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai
2) Cochin Shipyard
3) Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam
4) Garden Reach Workshop, Kolkata
Ans: 4) Garden Reach Workshop, Kolkata
16) What was the name of the space shuttle that landed man on the moon?
1) Eagle
2) Columbia
3) Challenger
4) Apollo
Ans: 4) Apollo
17) At what height, gep-synchronous satellite orbit is located?
1) 6 km
2) 1000 km
3) 3600 km
4) 36000 km
Ans: 4) 36000 km
18) Engineers of which of the following countries have developed the world’s fastest car Venom GT with a top speed of 435 kilometres per hour?
1) U.S.A.
2) South Korea
3) Japan
4) Germany
Ans: 1) U.S.A.
19) What is supernova?
1) a black hole
2) a dying star
3) a asteroid
4) a comet
Ans: 2) a dying star
20) Which of the following is the first missile which has been developed in India?
1) Akash
2)
Prithvi
3) Agni
4) Trishul
Ans: 2) Prithvi
21) INS Virat serves the Indian Navy. It is a
1) Submarine
2) Gunboat
3) Aircraft carrier
4) Freighter
Ans: 3) Aircraft carrier
22) To an astronaut in an spacecraft,the sky appears as
1) blue
2) white
3) dark
4) red
Ans: 3) dark
23)The first person to enter into space was
1) Valentina Tereshkova
2) Edward H.White
3) Yuri Gagarin
4) Alan Shepard
Ans: 3) Yuri Gagarin
24) Of the following Indian satellites, which one of the following is intended for long distance telecommunications for transmitting TV programmes?
1) INSAT-A
2) Arya Bhatta
3) Bhaskara
4) Rohini
Ans: 1) INSAT-A
25) What is the name of the Light Combat Aircraft developed by India indigenously?
1) BrahMos
2) Chetak
3) Astra
4) Tejas
Ans: 4) Tejas
26) What is the range of Agni III, the long range ballistic missile,test fired by India recently?
1) 2250 km
2) 3500 km
3) 5000 km
4) 1000 km
Ans: 2) 3500 km
27) The Department of Space proposed setting up of Indian
Institute of Space Technology on the line of the seven IITs.It will have its independent campus at
1) Chennai
2) Thumba
3) Thiruvananthapuram
4) Sriharikota
Ans: 3) Thiruvananthapuram
28)Nuclear explosive device were tested in India at
1) Sriharikota
2) Bangalore
3) Pokhran
4) Kanchipuram
Ans: 3) Pokhran
29)In which year was the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) founded?
1) 1967
2) 1969
3) 1970
4) 1974
Ans: 2) 1969
30) The first ever robot spacecraft to probe planet Venus was named as
1) Galileo
2) Magellan
3) Newton
4) Challenger
Ans: 2) Magellan
31) Comets revolve around the
1) Earth
2) Venus
3) Sun
4) Jupiter
Ans: 3) Sun
32) Who is known as the “Father of Indian Missile Technology”?
1) Dr. U.R. Rao
2) Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
3) Dr. Chidambaram
4) Dr. Homi Bhabha
Ans: 2) Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
33) Which one of the following correctly describes AGNI?
1) a fighter plane
2) a versatile tank
3) a long range missile
4) a long range gun
Ans: 3) a long range missile
34) The name of India’s research station at the North Pole is known as
1) Dakshin Gangotri
2) Maitri
3) Himadri
4) None of these
Ans: 3) Himadri
35) PSLV stands for
1) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
2) Polish Satellite Launch Vehicle
3) Perfect Satellite Launching Verifier
4) Preparatory Satellite Launching Vehicle
Ans: 1) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
36) The first astronaut to walk in outer space is
1) Aleksei Leonov
2) Yuri Gagarin
3) Neil Armstrong
4) Dave Scott
Ans: 2) Yuri Gagarin
37) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is situated in
1) Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Chennai
4) Hyderabad
Ans: 2) Mumbai
38) The messenger satellite launched by NASA is to study
1) Mercury
2) Venus
3) Saturn
4) Jupiter
Ans: 1) Mercury
39) Which of the following countries launched the world’s first satellite for monitoring Greenhouse Gases?
1) U.S.A.
2) Russia
3) Japan
4) China
Ans: 3) Japan
40) The device in communication satellites which receives signals from an earth station and transmits them to different directions
1) Transformers
2) Transistor
3) Transponder
4) Transducer
Ans: 3) Transponder
41) Which country launched the world’s first satellite dedicated to monitoring Greenhouse gas emission in 2009?
1) Japan
2) Brazil
3) India
4) U.S.A.
Ans: 1) Japan
42) Where is the satellite launching centre of India located?
1) Ahmedabad
2) Hassan
3) Sriharikota
4) Thumba
Ans: 3) Sriharikota
43) The headquarters of MCF(Master Control Facility) – the nerve centre of entire spacecraft operations in India is at
1) Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh
2) Thumba – Kerala
3) Sriharikota – Andhra Pradesh
4) Hassan – Karnataka
Ans: 4) Hassan – Karnataka
44) Which city receives the highest cosmic radiation amongst the following?
1) Chennai
2) Mumbai
3) Kolkata
4) Delhi
Ans: 1) Chennai
45) A geostationary satellite revolves round the Earth from
1) East to West
2) West to East
3) North to South
4) South to North
Ans: 2) West to East
46) The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is located at
1) Sriharikota
2) Trivandrum
3) Trombay
4) Bangalore
Ans: 2) Trivandrum
47) From where was INSAT-2E launched?
1) Baikanour
2) Kourou
3) Sriharikota
4) Chandipur
Ans: 2) Kourou
48) Which of the following refers to the first nuclear reactor in India?
1) Rohini
2) Urvashi
3) Apsara
4) Kamini
Ans: 3) Apsara
49) Which of the following is India’s development IRBM?
1) Prithvi
2) Aakash
3) Agni II
4) Dhanush
Ans: 3) Agni II
50) Which country assisted India to establish the Koodan-kulam Nuclear Power Station in Tamil Nadu?
1) Russia
2) Canada
3) Germany
4) France
Ans: 1) Russia
51) Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research is situated in
1) Sriharikota
2) Mumbai
3) Thiruvananthapuram
4) Kalpakkam
Ans: 4) Kalpakkam
52) The intermediate range nuclear capable missile developed indigenously is named
1) Agni
2) Prithvi
3) Nag
4) Trishul
Ans: 1) Agni
53) Which of the following was India’s first interplanetary mission?
1) Chandrayaan Mission
2) Mangalyaan Mission
3) Aryabhatta Mission
4) Philae Mission
Ans: 2) Mangalyaan Mission
54) India’s first Naval Museum is being commissioned at this major sea port
1) Chennai
2) Mumbai
3) Visakhapatnam
4) Kochi
Ans: 3) Visakhapatnam
55) The process in which nitrogen is released into the atmosphere is
1) Ammonification
2) Denitrification
3) Biological nitrogen fixation
4) Nitrification
Ans: 3) Biological nitrogen fixation
56) Indian and Russian scientists successfully test-fired a supersonic cruise missile named
1) GSAT-1
2) GSLV
3) Brahmos
4) INSAT-3B
Ans: 3) Brahmos
57) Who is Paul A. Volcker?
1) Coauthor of the book Mitrokhin Archives II
2) Under-Secretary General of UN
3) Chairman of the Committee appointed by the UN to investigate the ‘oil for food programme’
4) US Administrator in Iraq
Ans: 3) Chairman of the Committee appointed by the UN to investigate the ‘oil for food programme’
58) Which one of the following is an ‘Air-to-Air’ missile?
1) Prithvi
2) Agni
3) Akash
4) Astra
Ans: 4) Astra
59) Which one of the following is a ‘Surface-to-Air’ missile?
1) Trishul
2) K-15 Sagarika
3) Brahmos
4) Agni
Ans: 1) Trishul
60) Chief of the Indian Navy has the rank of
1) General of Indian Navy
2) Chief of Indian Navy
3) Naval Chief
4) Admiral
Ans: 4) Admiral
61) Which one of the following is considered as nature’s radar?
1) Hippopotamus
2) Pigeon
3) Vulture
4) Owl
Ans: 2) Pigeon
62) On June 9, 2011 India successfully flight tested
1) Agni-I
2) Agni-II
3) Prithvi-II
4) Akash
Ans: 3) Prithvi-II
63) Where is the world’s first Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Project proposed to be set up?
1) Cuttack
2) &n
bsp; Jaipur
3) Patna
4) Jodhpur
Ans: 4) Jodhpur
64) Who regulates the slots where the geosynchronous satellites should be placed?
1) UN Secretary General
2) International Telecommunication Union
3) NASA
4) Glaukosmos
Ans: 2) International Telecommunication Union
65) Plimsoll line is a reference line in a
1) Plane
2) Train
3) Ship
4) Submarine
Ans: 3) Ship
66) The US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York did an attempt to understand cosmic history using a giant atom smasher and has generated temperature of
1) 52 billion degrees celsius
2) 85 billion degrees celsius
3) 2.5 trillion degrees celsius
4) 4 trillion degrees celsius
Ans: 4) 4 trillion degrees celsius
67) MIRV stands for
1) Multi-directional Independently Reoriented Vehicle
2) Multipurpose Integrally-targeted Revolutionary Vehicle
3) Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle
4) Multidimensional Independent Re-entry Vehicle
Ans: 3) Multiple Independently-targetable Re-entry Vehicle
68) OTEC stands for
1) Ocean Thermal Energy Conservation
2) Oil and Thermal Energy Conservation
3) Oil and Thermal Energy Convention
4) Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Ans: 4) Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
69) The rear side of the moon was photographed by
1) Viking I
2) Viking II
3) Luna III
4) Mariner IX
Ans: 3) Luna III
70) ISRO launched the world’s first satellite dedicated to education, the EDUSAT in the month of
1) 2) July 2004
3) August 2004
4) September 2004
Ans: 4) September 2004
71) India’s first microwave remote sensing satellite recently launched is:
1)GSAT 12
2)Megha Tropiquies
3)RISAT-I
4)Rohini
Ans: 3) RISAT-I
72) The first Indian satellite Arya Bhatta was launched in
1)1972
2)1975
3)1977
4)1979
Ans: 2) 1975
73) Name the country which launched the first satellite Sputnik into the space
1)USA
2)Soviet Union
3)Japan
4)England
Ans: 2) Soviet Union
74) Which one of the following is not a Galilean satellite of Jupiter?
1)Europa
2)Ganymede
3)Callisto
4)Deimos
Ans: 4) Deimos
75) Dactylogram is related with
1)teleprinter
2)perambulator
3)cereals
4)finger print
Ans: 4) finger print
76) Radar is used to
1)locate submerged submarines
2)receive signal from radio receivers
3)detect and locate distant objects
4)locate geostationary satellites
Ans: 3) detect and locate distant objects
77) ISRO’s Master Control Facility is in
1)Andhra Pradesh
2)Orissa
3)Gujarat
4)Karnataka
Ans: 4) Karnataka
78) The Indian National Grid Computing Initiative for Scientific Engineering and Academic Community is named
1)Ganga
2)SAGA
3)Garuda
4)PARAM
Ans: 3) Garuda
79) Heavy water is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors.Heavy water is
1)water rich in minerals
2)ionised water
3)water containing minerals of heavy metal
4)water containing heavy isotope of hydrogen
Ans: 4) water containing heavy isotope of hydrogen
80) Microbial Type Culture Collection Centre is situated in
1)Bangalore
2)Chandigarh
3)New Delhi
4)Hyderabad
Ans: 2) Chandigarh
81) For a missile launched with a velocity less than the earth’s escape velocity,the total energy is
1)either positive or negative
2)negative
3)zero
4)positive
Ans: 2) negative
82)What is the name of the research centre/ station established by Indian Government for conducting research in Antarctica?
1)Dakshin Gangotri
2)Yamunotri
3)Uttari Gangotri
4)None of these
Ans: 1) Dakshin Gangotri
83) Cryogenics is:
1) A scientific study of dust
2) Study of heat
3) Scientific study of very low temperatures
4) Study of genesis
Ans: 3) Scientific study of very low temperatures
84) The space shuttle which took Sunita Williams beyond earth was
1) Challenger
2) Galileo
3) Discovery
4) 1) Khadakvasala
2) Dehradun
3) Deolali
4) Roorkee
Ans: 3) Deolali
86) Name the two research stations maintained by India in Antarctica
1) Gangotri and Himadri
2) Sagar Nidhi and Yamunotri
3) Maitri and Bharati
4) None of these
Ans: 3) Maitri and Bharati
87) The first Commercial Civilian Aircraft developed by India is:
1) Pawan Hans
2) Tejas
3) Gajraj
4) Saras
Ans: 4) Saras
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