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This section includes 2265 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Current Affairs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1601. |
W.H Auden, Cecil day Lewis, Louis Mac Neice Stephen Spendor are togethertermed as |
| A. | Lake poet |
| B. | Classical poets |
| C. | Mac Spaunday poets |
| D. | Beat writers |
| Answer» D. Beat writers | |
| 1602. |
Who discovered that sudden mutations might appear in plants and could get transmitted to future generations? |
| A. | Hugo de Vries |
| B. | Gregor Mendel |
| C. | Darwin |
| D. | Linnaeus |
| Answer» B. Gregor Mendel | |
| 1603. |
Arthur Schopenhauer is a ………..philosopher |
| A. | German |
| B. | British |
| C. | American |
| D. | French |
| Answer» B. British | |
| 1604. |
Byzantium was later known as …………. |
| A. | Rome |
| B. | Venice |
| C. | Alexandria |
| D. | Constantinople |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1605. |
_________________ is the biggest satellite of solar system |
| A. | Ganymede |
| B. | Tollymede |
| C. | Satranus |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Tollymede | |
| 1606. |
The Yellow River Valley culture is named after……… |
| A. | YangTse |
| B. | Yangshao |
| C. | Yangshi |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Yangshi | |
| 1607. |
Accurate records of celestial events were associated with……. Civilization |
| A. | Chinese |
| B. | Egyptians |
| C. | Mesopotamian |
| D. | The Indus Valley |
| Answer» B. Egyptians | |
| 1608. |
………….is the study of reality. |
| A. | Axiology |
| B. | Epistemology |
| C. | Metaphysics |
| D. | Ontology |
| Answer» D. Ontology | |
| 1609. |
John Hunter, Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister had much in common: |
| A. | All of them were reputed surgeons. |
| B. | All of them tried to introduce the principles of ‘asepsis’ into surgical practices. |
| C. | All of them faced stiff opposition from their colleagues. |
| D. | And one of them was so persecuted that he died in a mental hospital. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1610. |
The world’s first commercial computer was …….. |
| A. | UNIVAC |
| B. | ENIAC |
| C. | EDVAC |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. ENIAC | |
| 1611. |
Average weight of man’s brain is ………………………….than woman’s. |
| A. | Greater |
| B. | Lesser |
| C. | Equal to |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Lesser | |
| 1612. |
Who said that there was no centre for the universe, since it is infinite? |
| A. | Galileo Galelei |
| B. | Bishop Oresme |
| C. | Giordano Bruno |
| D. | Cardinal Nicholas |
| Answer» D. Cardinal Nicholas | |
| 1613. |
The modern versions of inductivism owe much to …… |
| A. | Francis Bacon |
| B. | Newton |
| C. | John Stuart Mill |
| D. | Darwin |
| Answer» D. Darwin | |
| 1614. |
The documented history of China extends continuously to nearly ……..… BC. |
| A. | 1600 |
| B. | 1200 |
| C. | 2500 |
| D. | 1500 |
| Answer» B. 1200 | |
| 1615. |
The over‐reverential attitude towards science is called ……. |
| A. | Axiology |
| B. | Metaphysics |
| C. | Scientism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1616. |
Who is called the father of Microbiology? |
| A. | Joseph Lister |
| B. | Leeuwenhock |
| C. | Robert Hooke |
| D. | John Hunter |
| Answer» C. Robert Hooke | |
| 1617. |
The poem ‘The Pylons’ is about |
| A. | Evening |
| B. | A brook |
| C. | Loss of rural life in England |
| D. | Cities |
| Answer» D. Cities | |
| 1618. |
Anaximenes considered …………. As his Primordial substance and derived the other elements from it. |
| A. | Air |
| B. | Water |
| C. | Fire |
| D. | Soil |
| Answer» B. Water | |
| 1619. |
Inexorable means |
| A. | Unchanging |
| B. | Changing |
| C. | Relative |
| D. | Destructive |
| Answer» B. Changing | |
| 1620. |
Who wrote On The Origin of Species ? |
| A. | Charles Darwin |
| B. | Georges Buffon |
| C. | Alfred Russel |
| D. | Newton |
| Answer» B. Georges Buffon | |
| 1621. |
When Newton published the Principia, he was forced to acknowledge that one of the results obtained by this person. Who was this person? |
| A. | Kepler |
| B. | Leibniz |
| C. | Hooke |
| D. | Wren |
| Answer» C. Hooke | |
| 1622. |
Which is the oldest of the Vedas? |
| A. | Sama Veda |
| B. | Rig Veda |
| C. | Yajur Veda |
| D. | Atharva Veda |
| Answer» C. Yajur Veda | |
| 1623. |
The philosopher of the 20 th century , who objected to the foundation of inductive reasoning is …… |
| A. | John Stuart Mill |
| B. | Newton |
| C. | Karl Popper |
| D. | John Gray |
| Answer» D. John Gray | |
| 1624. |
What is the maximum speed possible for any wave in the solar system? |
| A. | Every wave can have its own speed |
| B. | Speed of light |
| C. | Speed of electron |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Speed of electron | |
| 1625. |
Aristotle had borrowed his idea of cosmogony from…………. |
| A. | Plato |
| B. | Ecphantus |
| C. | Eudoxus |
| D. | Leucippus |
| Answer» D. Leucippus | |
| 1626. |
Class distinctions is based on |
| A. | Money |
| B. | Force |
| C. | Power |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Force | |
| 1627. |
Byzantine Civilisation was studied by |
| A. | Laplace |
| B. | M.Berthelot |
| C. | Paul Tannery |
| D. | Jules Tannery |
| Answer» D. Jules Tannery | |
| 1628. |
Greeks are to thank…………………for their scientific tradition |
| A. | Babylonian |
| B. | Egyptians |
| C. | Indians |
| D. | Both (a) and (b) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1629. |
………. is the continuous medium which filled all space. |
| A. | Ether |
| B. | Sodium |
| C. | Methane |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Sodium | |
| 1630. |
Samurais are war lords of _________________________. |
| A. | China |
| B. | Japan |
| C. | Korea |
| D. | India |
| Answer» C. Korea | |
| 1631. |
………………….. is the father of genetics. |
| A. | Charles Darwin |
| B. | Gustavo Kernel |
| C. | Gregor Mendel |
| D. | Isaac Asimov |
| Answer» D. Isaac Asimov | |
| 1632. |
The controversy between Newton and Huygens was related to ……. |
| A. | Whether light consisted of waves or particles |
| B. | The authorship of the discovery of laws of diffraction |
| C. | Which of them had invented calculus |
| D. | Mere personal rivalry |
| Answer» B. The authorship of the discovery of laws of diffraction | |
| 1633. |
Primitive observer defined natural phenomenon as activity of |
| A. | Super natural force |
| B. | Humans |
| C. | Machines |
| D. | None of the above. |
| Answer» B. Humans | |
| 1634. |
Leonardo da Vinci’s ………. Anatomical drawings put him in the front rank of the anatomists of the world. |
| A. | 100 |
| B. | 260 |
| C. | 1000 |
| D. | 750 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1635. |
Who is the Vedic Sage who has enumerated various multiples of 10 in a systematic way? |
| A. | Caraka |
| B. | Susruta |
| C. | Patanjali |
| D. | Medhatithi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1636. |
Homeopathy had been founded by ………. |
| A. | Samuel Hahnemann |
| B. | Ronald Ross |
| C. | Robert Koch |
| D. | Louis Pasteur |
| Answer» B. Ronald Ross | |
| 1637. |
In the Neolithic period man achieved……….. |
| A. | Copper and bronze |
| B. | Harnessing of animal power |
| C. | Cooking technics |
| D. | A new equilibrium with nature |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1638. |
……………..is a book by Bertha Suttner |
| A. | Nemesi |
| B. | Dynamite |
| C. | Lay Dawn Arms |
| D. | Peace |
| Answer» D. Peace | |
| 1639. |
England is compared to |
| A. | Sapphire |
| B. | Ruby |
| C. | Emerald |
| D. | Diamond |
| Answer» D. Diamond | |
| 1640. |
The Academe des Sciences was founded by …….. |
| A. | Louis X |
| B. | James I |
| C. | Louis XIV |
| D. | Charles I |
| Answer» D. Charles I | |
| 1641. |
The first unfavourable condition for the underdevelopment of science and its historyis……… |
| A. | Few knows the entirety of science |
| B. | Few are capable of investigating by himself all scientific questions |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1642. |
Whose intervention saved Anaxagoras from death? |
| A. | Anaximenes |
| B. | Hippocrates |
| C. | Pythagoras |
| D. | Pericles |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1643. |
Einstein received Nobel Prize for Physics in |
| A. | 1919 |
| B. | 1920 |
| C. | 1921 |
| D. | 1922 |
| Answer» D. 1922 | |
| 1644. |
The Sexagesimal system was developed by………. |
| A. | Indians |
| B. | Chinese |
| C. | Greeks |
| D. | Babylonians |
| Answer» C. Greeks | |
| 1645. |
The Chinese were measuring earthquake intensities using ………… almost two thousand years ago. |
| A. | Seismographs |
| B. | Sthethascope |
| C. | Galvanometer |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Sthethascope | |
| 1646. |
The historic flight of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina took place in ……… AD |
| A. | 602 |
| B. | 538 |
| C. | 520 |
| D. | 622 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1647. |
________________is a student of student. |
| A. | Oxfordian |
| B. | Oxonian |
| C. | Oxwardian |
| D. | Oxforadion |
| Answer» C. Oxwardian | |
| 1648. |
………. was the first to show that light has a finite velocity. |
| A. | Ole Christian Romer |
| B. | Huygens |
| C. | Newton |
| D. | Boyle |
| Answer» B. Huygens | |
| 1649. |
Who suggested the idea of Continental drift? |
| A. | Aryabhata |
| B. | Alfred Wegner |
| C. | Abraham Ortelius |
| D. | Aristotle |
| Answer» D. Aristotle | |
| 1650. |
Philosophy of …… closely monitors the current work in cognitive neurosciences, evolutionary psychology, and artificial intelligence. |
| A. | Science |
| B. | Biology |
| C. | Physics |
| D. | Psychology |
| Answer» E. | |