25 GK Questions and Answers on Science
1. What is INQUILINE?
(a) The name of an insect
(b) An animal living in water
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(c) The name of a bird
(d) An animal living in the abode of another
2. What is Boyle’s Mariotte’s Law?
(a) For a gas at a given temperature, pressure varies inversely as volume
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(b) The law that makes aeroplanes fly
(c) The law that makes ships sail on sea
(d) Specific gravity of gold
3. What is logistic?
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(a) The art of calculation
(b) Sexagesimal arithmetic
(c) Art of movement and supply of troops
(d) All of the above
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4. What is MANGANESE?
(a) A hard brittle greyish-white metallic element
(b) A salt of manganic acid
(c) A metallic compound
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(d) All of the above
5. What is ORTHOGENESIS?
(a) The birth of life from matter
(,b) The evolution of organisms systematically in defence directions and not accidentally in many directions
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(c) Defence preparedness of animals
(d) All of the above
6. What is Oryctology?
(a) Mineralogy (b) Palaeontology
(c) Both (d) Neither
7. What is palaeomagnetism?
(a) Magnetism of buildings
(b) Magnetism of monuments
(c) A study of the magnetism of ancient rocks and fossils
(d) None of the above
8. What is MESENCE-PHALON?
(a) Front brain (b) Mid-brain
(c) Fear brain (d) None of the above
9. What is METALLOGRAPHY?
(a) The study of structure of metals
(b) The study of the constitution of metals
(c) Both (d) Neither
10. What is Hypophosphorus acid?
(a) An acid with less oxygen than phosphorus acid
(b) An acid with more oxygen than phosphorus acid
(c) An acid with equal oxygen and phosphorus acid
(d) None of the above
11. What is ISLAND UNIVERSE?
(a) A spiral nebula regarded as forming a separate stellar system
(b) Solar system
(c) Milky way
(d) Isolation of earth
12. What is PARAMNESIA?
(a) Great memory (b) Forgetfulness
(c) False memory (d) No memory at all
13. What is ISOMORPHISM?
(a) Similarity in unrelated forms
(,b) Close similarity in crystalline forms combined with similar
chemical constitution (c) Both (d) Neither
14. What is GALLIUM?
(a) A rare metallic element
(b) element with Atomic Number 31
(c) Both
(d) Neither
15. What is NARCOLEPSY?
(a) Sleeplessness (b) (c) Forgetfulness (d)
16. What is PANDERMITE?
(a) Hydrogen calcium borate (b) (c) Both (d)
17. What is Panophthalmitis?
(a) Inflammation of the whole eye
(b) Inflammation of half eye
(c) Inflammation of nose
(d) Inflammation of ear
18. What is Petaloania?
(a) Madness caused by petals
(b) Abnormal increase in the number of petals
(c) Desire to eat petals
(d) None of these
19. What is Regelation?
(a) Freezing together again, as of ice melted by pressure when the pressure is released
(ft) Defreezing, as of ice when cooling material is taken away
(c) Floating of ice in water
(d) Sinking of ice in alcohol
20. What is PANCHOMATIC?
(a) Equally sensitive to all colours
(b) Unequally sensitive to all colours
(c) Equally insensitive to all colours
(d) Unequally insensitive to all colours
21. What is MISCEGENERATION?
(a) Mixing of races
(b) Sexual intercourse between different races
(c) Intermarriage
(d) All of the above
22. What is FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION?
(a) A distillation process
(b) Separation of various constituents of liquid mixtures
(c) Separation of different liquids by means of their different boiling points
(d) All of the above
23. What is CYNOCEPHALUS?
(a) The flying lemur (b) The dog-faced baboon
(c) The dog-headed man (d) All of the above
24. What is DAGUERREOTYPE?
(a) A method of photography
(b) Photography by mercury vapour development
(c) Photography by silver iodide exposed on a copper plate
(d) All of the above
25. What is GALVANISM?
(a) Current electricity
(b) Medical treatment by electric currents
(c) Both (d) Neither
ANSWERS – KEY
1. (d) 8. (b) 15. (b) 22. (d)
2. (a) 9. (c) 16. (a) 23. (a)
3. (d) 10. (a) 17. (a) 24. (d)
4. (a) 11. (a) 18. (b) 25. (c)
5. (b) 12. (a) 19. (a)
6. (c) 13. (b) 20. (a)
7. (c) 14. (c) 21. (d)