QUIZ TIME!!!
SECTION A - INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
1. who invented sticky notes
2. who invented tv
3. who invented the radio
4.who invented exams
5. who invented the bulb
6. who invented cookies
7. who invented the computer
8. who invented hot air balloon
9. what did Eli Whitney invent
10. who invented the printing press
SECTION B- ASTRONOMY
1. first-ever spacecraft to be sent to space
2. biggest star known to humans
3. latest spacecraft sent to space
4. first female cosmonaut
5. light-years meaning
6. who is Kalpana Chawla
7. which spacecraft did Kalpana Chawla die on?
8. biggest moon of Jupiter
9.sister of the earth is?
10. the average temperature of Uranus
Answers
Answer:
section A
1. Arthur Fry
2.John Logie Baird
3.Guglielmo Marconi
4.Henry Fischel
5. Thomas Edison
6. magenca hossian
7.Charles Babbage
8.Montgolfier brothers
9.Interchangeable parts
10.Johannes Gutenberg
Section B
1.Sputnik
2.UY Scuti
3.CMS-01
4.Valentina Tereshkova
5.the distance that light travels in one year
6.Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut
7.Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-107
8.Ganymede
9.Venus
10.The temperature on Uranus is −197 °C (−322.6 °F; 76.1 K) near the top of its atmosphere, but its small solid core (about 55% the mass of Earth) is probably about 4,730 °C (8,540 °F; 5,000 K).
Answer:
Quiz -
Section A - Inventors and Inventions
1. Who invented sticky notes - Arthur Fry
2. Who invented tv - Philo Farnsworth
3. Who invented the radio - Guglielmo Marconi
4. Who invented exams - Henry Fischel
5. Who invented the bulb - Thomas Edison
6. Who invented cookies - Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th century AD Persia.
7. Who invented the computer - Charles Babbage
8. Who invented hot air balloon - The French brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier.
9. What did Eli Whitney invent - Cotton Gin
10. Who invented the printing press - Johannes Gutenberg
Section B - Astronomy
1. First-ever spacecraft to be sent to space - Sputnik 1
2. Biggest star known to humans - UY Scuti
3. Latest spacecraft sent to space - CMS-01
4. First female cosmonaut - Valentina Tereshkova
5. Light-years meaning - The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 trillion kilometres or 5.88 trillion miles.
6. Who is Kalpana Chawla?
Ans - Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut, engineer, and the first woman of Indian origin to go to space.
7. Which spacecraft did Kalpana Chawla die on?
Ans - STS-107
8. Biggest moon of Jupiter - Ganymede
9. Sister of Earth is - Venus
10. The average temperature of Uranus - -353 degrees F
External G.K Facts:
★ Ants never sleep!
★ When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
★ Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.
★ An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
★ “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
★ Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage
and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.
★ Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
★ Butterflies taste with their feet.
★ A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
★ It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
★ Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
★ Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.
★ Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”and “bump".
★ Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
★ Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
★ The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
★ The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
★ The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
★ The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
★ The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
★ Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
★ TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
★ Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
★ The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.