Sunday, September 16, 2012

Model Questions for Postal/Sorting Assistant Exam 2012 - Questions related with SPACE



Q1 Which is the biggest planet

Jupiter

Q2 Who found Pluto’s moon

Jim Christy from USA in 1978

Q3 The minor planets are called as ----------------

Asteroids

Q4 What is the full form of INSAT

Indian National Satellite

Q5 Name the first ever robot spacecraft to probe planet Venus

Magellan

Q6 When did the first liquid –fuel rocket fly

In 1926

Q7 Who was the first man in space

Yuri Gagarin

Q8 Who first drove on the moon

David Scott and James Irwin (They drove the battery powered buggy )

Q9 Who first set foot on the moon

Neil Armstrong in 1969

Q10 Which was the first space station

The first manned space station was Salyut 1 launched in 1971

Q11 Which was the first satellite in space

Sputnik 1 was the first satellite to orbit the Earth

Q12 What are stars made of

Stars are mostly made of two gases Hydrogen and helium

Q13 who made the first telescope

Hans Lippershey made the first telescope in 1608

Q14 Who said the planets go round the Sun ?

Nicolaus Copernicus

Q15 Who made the first radio telescope

Grote Reber made the first radio telescope in 1930

Q16 ------------ is one of the basic forces in the universe

Gravity

Q17 ` When did Indian space research begin

1961

Q18 What is meant by ISRO

Indian Space Research Organisation

Q19 Name India’s first satellite

Aryabhatta

Q20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin launched in 1969 ib which part of the moon

Sea of Tranquillity

Q21 Which planet is known as the red planet

Mars

Q22 At what speed does the moon circle the earth?

3680 KM per hour

Q23 Name the planet that has only one satellite

Earth

Q24 Which planet takes almost 30 earth years to orbit the sun

Saturn

Q25 When did Luna -9 land on the moon

1966

Q26 Name the planet which has the largest number of satellites

Jupiter


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