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Class IX

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is a common cause of food borne illnesses?

a)

Virus

b)

Fungi

c)

Bacteria

d)

Protozoa

2.

Who made the first telescope?

a)

Nicholas Copernicus

b)

Hans Lippershey

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Johannes Kepler

3.

Who is the current Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation (WHO)?

a)

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

b)

Dr. Peter Salama

c)

Jane Ellison

d)

Jacinda Ardern

4.

The teenager who has become the face of the environment and Climate Change activists around the world

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Ridhima Pandey

c)

Greta Thunberg

d)

Martina Hingis

5.

The Persians gifted Indians the recipe of

a)

Rasgulla

b)

Jalebi

c)

Gulabjamun

d)

Laddoo

6.

Who is the first Indian American appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft?

a)

Ann Mukherjee

b)

Sundar Pichai

c)

Jyoti Bansal

d)

Satya Nadella

7.

Select the person who is not a Nobel Laureate

a)

Abhijit Banerjee

b)

E.C. George Sudarshan

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

8.

Who gave the name SARS-CoV-2 to the virus that causes COVID-19

a)

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

b)

International Committee on Taxonomy of Diseases (ICTD)

c)

World Health Organization (WHO)

d)

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

9.

When is World Population day celebrated?

a)

2 December

b)

22 April

c)

24 January

d)

11 July

10.

When was Telangana, the 29th state of India formed?

a)

20th June 2015

b)

30th June 2016

c)

2nd June 2014

d)

12th June 2013

11.

Elon Musk is the CEO of which of the following space company?

a)

Orbital

b)

Space X

c)

Blue Origin

d)

Boeing

12.

The Indian author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2008?

a)

Arundathi Roy

b)

Aravind Adiga

c)

Kiran Desai

d)

V.S. Naipaul

13.

In 2019, which metro city in India declared that Day Zero - the day when almost no water is left - was reached?

a)

Chennai

b)

Kolkata

c)

Mumbai

d)

Delhi

14.

Who holds the record for longest time spent in space over a series of missions by a woman?

a)

Christina Koch

b)

Peggy Whitson

c)

Samantha Cristoforetti

d)

Sunitha Williams

15.

Who was the last foreign power to leave India?

a)

British

b)

French

c)

Portuguese

d)

Dutch

16.

'Wuthering Heights' is a novel written by

a)

Emily Bronte

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Jane Austen

d)

Robert Frost

17.

Who is the author of the famous book ‘Silent Spring’ that sparked modern day environmental activism?

a)

Rachel Carson

b)

Richard Louv

c)

Steven Taylor

d)

Dorothy Crawford

18.

Yuval Noah Harari is the author of which book among the following

a)

1984

b)

The Hobbit

c)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

d)

‘SAPIENS’ A Brief History of Humankind

19.

The concept of “Republic” in Indian constitution was borrowed from which country?

a)

Russia

b)

France

c)

Australia

d)

Germany

20.

A biodegradable pollutant is

a)

Plastic

b)

Asbestos

c)

Sewage

d)

Mercury