This document contains a quiz with 20 multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions related to science, history, and pop culture. Some of the questions test knowledge about topics like NASA, famous inventors, and scientific discoveries. Other questions provide clues or context to identify objects, people, or events like the International Space Station, the Bhopal gas tragedy memorial, and the hornbill bird of Nagaland, India. The quiz is intended to challenge readers with trivia covering a wide range of subjects.
7. 2. FITB
The poet Alexander Pope had written an
epitaph for _______ but this was not allowed
to be put on the monument in the
Westminster Abbey: “Nature and Nature's
laws lay hid in night: God said, Let _______
be! and all was light”
9. 3.
Which invention became important for
bullfighters who got infections due to wounds
caused by unclean horns of bulls?
A. Penicillin
B. Methamphetamine
C. Azithromycin
D. Paracetamol
21. 9
When charged particles from the sun strike
atoms in the Earth's atmosphere,
they cause electrons in the atoms to move to
a higher-energy state. When the electrons
drop back to a lower energy state, they
release a photon causing a natural
phenomenon. Put funda
27. *12- Give us the full name !!!
“ACME” is the name of the fictional company that appeared in
almost every Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon. This
company supplied Wile E. Coyote with a never-ending range of
ridiculous products that would inevitably fail, generally with
hilarious consequences.
Without a doubt, the company name is used ironically in the
Looney Tunes cartoons. “ACME” comes from the Greek,
meaning “peak” / “zenith” / “prime”, so in the case of the
company, essentially meaning “best”, when in fact the
products offered by the corporation in the show are invariably
prone to disaster, something which ACME even acknowledges
through its slogan – “Quality is our #1 dream”.
31. 14
Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he is
often credited with the creation of the first
industrial research laboratory. By what name
do we know him?
39. *18-Name The Object
Weighing 450 tons, it is roughly the same size
as a football field, has been in existence for 15
years and taken around $150 billion to build.
Today, it holds the Guinness World Record for
the most expensive man-made object ever.
Just identify this object, where Christmas is
usually celebrated more than once a year.
41. 19.
• The Bombay Natural History Society, founded on 15
September 1883, is one of the largest NGOs in
India engaged in conservation and biodiversity
research. The BNHS logo is a bird named William,
who lived on the premises of the Society from 1894
until 1920.
• This bird is more famous among the people of
North-East India for something that takes place in
Nagaland in the first week of December every year.
• Which bird?
43. 20.
• According to Google Calculator, “___ ___ ___"
is equal to 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz. The hertz
is a unit of frequency (one per second), and
thus if the mean length of time between ____
____ (2.7145 years according to Google) is
metricated and converted to a frequency (by
calculating the multiplicative inverse), it can
be expressed in terms of hertz. Explanation of
which English phrase?
