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    Name the Scientist who launched rocket for the first time on experimental basis?
    Robert H Godard

    At which temperature does water have the maximum density?
    4 degree centigrade

    If blue light and yellow light are mixed on a screen what will be the resultant colour?
    Green

    Which alloy is used to bore rock?
    Manganese steel

    Which instrument is used to detect the presence of electric charge?
    Electroscope

    What is the use of Planimeter?
    For mechanically measuring the are of a plane figure

    What is the name of the sound having frequency more than 30000 hertz?
    Supersonic

    Who was the first to develop battery which produce electric charge?
    Alexandro Volta

    Which is the device used for testing the concentration of sugar in a solution?
    Saccharimeter

    Albert Einstein got Nobel prize in 1921for Physics on a treatise Which was the subject?
    Photoelectric effect

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    Which is the metal through which X-ray does not pass?
    Lead

    Which is the vtamin produced in our body by ultra violet rays in the sun?
    VitaminD

    Which is the unit for measuring the intensity of sound wave?
    Decibel

    Which scientific principle has been used in the brakes of vehicles?
    Friction

    What is the basic principle behind submarines?
    Principles of buoyancy of Archimedes

    Which device is used in atomic reactors to increase the velocity of ions?
    Cyclotron

    Who invented Cyclotron?
    E.O.Lawrence

    Sound is not heard in the moon. Why?
    There is no atmosphere in the moon

    In the German Silver (an alloy) how much silver is present?
    Zero percentage

    9What is the use “anemometer”?
    It is used for measuring the speed of airflow


    Why is there a loud explosion when electric bulb bursts?
    Because air rushes suddenly into the vacuum space of the bulb

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    Who constructed the first telescope?
    Galileo

    Who was the first to determine the size of the earth correctly?
    Eratosthenes

    Who treated “zero” as number and showed its mathematical operations first time?
    Brahmagupta

    Who first showed that anything divided by zero in infinity?
    Bhaskaracharya

    Who was the first scientist to use computer language for his computer?
    Konrad Zuse

    Which was the first recognized computer language?
    Plankalkuel

    Which is the first computer that appeared to have intelligence?
    Eliza

    Who was the first to use the term ‘bit’ in the reference of computers?
    John Turkey

    Who invented Logarithm?
    John Napier

    Which mathematician discovered the philosophy of infinity?
    Zero

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    Besides Sir Isaac Newton, who independently discovered calculus?
    G.W.Leibniz

    Who was known as the father of Computer Aided Design or CAD?
    I.E. Sutherland

    Who is known as father of modern mathematics?
    Rene Descartes

    Who is called father of modern computer?
    Charles Babbage

    Who is believed to be the father of Set Theory?
    George Cantor

    Who built the first Analogue Computer?
    Lord Kelvin

    What is known as ‘brain’ of computer?
    Central Processing Unit – CPU

    Who developed the first digital computer?
    H.H. Aiken

    Which is the latest material used for manufacturing a computer chip?
    Gallium Arsenide

    Who built the UNIVAC series of commercial application?
    John Mauchly and J.P . Eckert

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    Which is the temporary memory of the computer?
    RAM

    Who developed the computer language LOGO?
    Seymor Papert

    FORTRAN, a computer programme language is mainly used for
    Scientific research

    The element Fermium is named after?
    Enrico Fermi

    The most widely used commercial programming computer language?
    COBOL

    Who is believed to be the first computer programmer/
    Augusta Ada

    Who forwarded the concept of ‘stored programme’ in computer science?
    John Von Neumann

    Who invented ‘Punch cards’?
    Herman Hollerith

    In computers which is the minimum error code?
    Gray code

    A set of date is known as
    Field

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    Which was the first digital computer?
    Mark 1

    The electronic circuit consisting of a silicon chip is known as
    Flip Flop

    How many dots per inch are normally printed by a laser printer?
    300

    What is UNIX?
    Operating system

    A temporary memory for data is called
    Buffer

    Which ancient Indian astronomer-mathematician wrote a famous book, named after his daughter?
    Bhaskaracharya

    With who did Bertrand Russel co-author the famous book ‘Principia Mathematica’?
    Alfred North Whitehead

    Which famous astronomer helped Isaac Newton to publis his book ‘Principia’?
    Edmond Halley

    Which great mathematician of ancient India wrote the monumental work “Pancha sidhanthika’?
    Varahamihira

    In Roman number 100 is represented by ?
    C

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    The numerical ‘1729’ is mentioned with the name of an Indian mathematician. Who was he?
    Sreenivasa Ramanujan

    “Mathematics is the queen of science and the theory of numbers is the queen of mathematics”. Who made this statement?
    Karl Fredriech Gouse

    “Numbers reign world.” Who made this statement?
    Pythagoras

    Who used the symbols ‘+’ and ‘-‘ for the first time?
    G.H Hardy

    “Ramanujan Institute of Mathematical Science” is a famous mathematical research center of India. Where is it?
    Chennai

    Who found “Indian statistical Institute” of Kolkatta?
    P.C Mahalanobis

    Name the first Indian mathematician who was elected to the “Fellow of the Royal Society” in London”
    Sreenivasa Ramanijan

    Which is the system developed by ancient Egyptians to represent figures and words?
    Hieroglyphics

    Who opinioned that “no man can be a perfect poet unless he has no knowledge of mathematics.”
    John Dryden

    Who found the first electronic calculating machine?
    John V.Atnasof

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