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Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 3mins

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Class
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1.

India along with two other countries  celebrate National Engineer’s day to recognize and honor the achievements of the great engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on September 15 . Which are the other two countries ?

a)

Sri Lanka and Bhutan

b)

Sri Lanka and Tanzania

c)

Nepal and Bangladesh

d)

Bangladesh and China

2.

UNESCO's General Conference proclaimed 4th March as World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development during its 40th session in November 2019 , to raise awareness of the role of engineering in modern life. What was the Theme of World Engineering day 2022?

a)

Engineers for a Self-Reliant India

b)

Engineering for a healthy planet

c)

Build Back Wiser – Engineering the future

d)

Build Back stronger – Engineering the future

3.

Google paid tribute to whom , on his 88th birthday (on Nov 4, 2021) by this doodle?

a)

Bhupen Hazarika

b)

Charles K Kao

c)

Joseph Plateaus

d)

Oskar Sala

4.

It’s origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company odeo. Identify this social media networking service

a)

Facebook

b)

Instagram

c)

Twitter

d)

Quora

5.

What is the meaning of the latin word ingenium ?

a)

Cleverness

b)

Engineer

c)

Indegenius 

d)

Iciness

6.

Which company has partnered with the Indian government to roll out a vaccine finder tool on its mobile app in India to get vaccinated?

a)

Bharath Biotech

b)

Facebook

c)

Mastek

d)

Amazon

7.

Identify the personality in the picture

a)

N.R Narayana Murty

b)

Paul Buchheit

c)

M Visvesvaraya

d)

Shiva Ayyadurai

8.

Name the new mobile app launched by UIDAI  to perform face authentication

a)

Face Recognition 

b)

Aadhaar Face Recognition

c)

AadhaarFaceRd

d)

Face Scanner

9.

Which among the following is considered as the first web search engine?

a)

Google

b)

ALIWEB

c)

Altavista

d)

WAIS

10.

William Gilbert is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete(1600).He is credited as the originator of the single-word term which has become an essential part of modern times. What is the term?

a)

Energy

b)

Electricity

c)

Current

d)

Generator

11.

David Bradley says he has accomplished many difficult feats in technology over the years, but becoming best known for inventing the so-called "three-finger salute". What is its function?

a)

To Show me all my files

b)

To run this program

c)

To soft boot a computer

d)

To restart the system

12.

The Indian Space Research Organization is planning to send a Spacecraft to study the sun. This mission will be ISRO’s 2nd space-based astronomy mission after AstroSat.  What is the name given to the spacecraft?

a)

AstroSat 2

b)

Aditya-L1

c)

Solar Orbiter

d)

JNNSM

13.

A government hospital in Ernakulam in Kochi has deployed a robot to serve food and medicines to coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) patients with an aim to reduce risk of infections for doctors and health workers. What was the name given to the robot

a)

Ameca

b)

Mitra -Bot

c)

KARMI- Bot

d)

SAHAI- Bot

14.

It  is one of the most important automobile engineering innovations of all time. Identify the device.

a)

Muffler

b)

Rev counter

c)

Fuel gauge

d)

Catalytic converter

15.

Here is a poster of a  1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard. What modern technology is commonly associated with this film?

a)

cloud computing

b)

Artificial intelligence

c)

Virtual Reality

d)

wifi

16.

Identify the city.

a)

Kranj

b)

Ptuj

c)

Kamnik

d)

Koper