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Science and Technology

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk?

a)

Yuri Gagarin

b)

Alexei Leonov

c)

Alan Shepard

d)

Ed White

2.

What is the name given to the intense fear of thunder and lightning?

a)

Ophidiophobia

b)

Cryophobia

c)

Astraphobia

d)

Aerophobia

3.

Who invented the safety razor in 1903 ?

a)

Edwin Jagger

b)

Marcel Bich

c)

King Gillete

d)

Robert Wade

4.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded for the discovery of,

a)

Hepatitis C

b)

Covid-19

c)

Ebola

d)

Norwalk

5.

What is the name given to the study of Sun?

a)

Heliology

b)

Orology

c)

Sunology

d)

Selenography

6.

What is the SI unit of Pressure?

a)

Becquerel

b)

Coulomb

c)

Ohm

d)

Pascal

7.

What is the only non - metal which is liquid at room temperature?

a)

Mercury

b)

Cadmium

c)

Bromine

d)

Xenon

8.

Who invented the World Wide Web( WWW) in 1989?

a)

Eric Yuan

b)

Tim Berners Lee

c)

Kevin Systrom

d)

Steve Chen

9.

Who is the youngest person to receive a Nobel Chemistry Prize?

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Adolf Butenandt

c)

Lawrence Bragg

d)

Frederick Joliot- Curie

10.

Sophia,a humanoid robot became the first robot ever to be given the citizenship of a country. What country is Sophia a citizen of?

a)

USA

b)

China

c)

Saudi Arabia

d)

North Korea

11.

Ravana 1, the first ever Sri Lankan satellite was sent in to the space through which spacecraft?

a)

Cygnus NG 11

b)

NepaliSat-1

c)

Falcon 9

d)

Dragon 2

12.

What is the scientific name of Vitamin D?

a)

Thiamine

b)

Tocopherol

c)

Calciferol

d)

Riblofavin

13.

What was used to kill people in Nazi camp during WW2?

a)

Sarin

b)

Zyklon B

c)

VX

d)

Soman

14.

Samuel Colt invented the,

a)

Rifle

b)

Machine Gun

c)

Hand Grenade

d)

Revolver

15.

Ratufa Macroura is the scientific name of which animal?

a)

Grizzled Giant Squirrel

b)

Ostrich

c)

Jungle Fowl

d)

Spotted deer

16.

What is the first element to be named after a living person?

a)

Samarium

b)

Curium

c)

Seaborgium

d)

Einsteinium

17.

Who is the father of Nuclear Chemistry?

a)

Robert Oppenheimer

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Fritz Strassmann

d)

Enrico Fermi

18.

Who is the founder of WikiLeaks?

a)

Jimmy Wales

b)

Julian Assange

c)

Larry Sanger

d)

Sergey Brin

19.

Claustrophobia is the fear of,

a)

Spiders

b)

Time

c)

Darkness

d)

Confined Places

20.

For founding what did Albert Einstein receive 1921 Nobel Physics Prize?

a)

PhotoElectric Effect

b)

General relativity

c)

Special Relativity

d)

E = mc2 Equation

21.

What does PDF stand for?

a)

Printed Document File

b)

Proffesional Document Format

c)

Prototype Document File

d)

Portable Document Format

22.

What is the largest constellation in the night sky?

a)

Virgo

b)

Scorpius

c)

Hydra

d)

Ursa Major

23.

Who founded PCR(Polymerase Chain Reaction)?

a)

Kary Mullis

b)

Peter Duesberg

c)

Paul Berg

d)

Walter Gilbert

24.

What is the space company owned by Jeff Bezos?

a)

Space X

b)

Blue Origin

c)

Boeing

d)

Northrop Grumman

25.

What is the largest muscle of the human body?

a)

Sartorius Muscle

b)

Soleus Muscle

c)

Masseter Muscle

d)

Gluteus Maximus