Science Sparks
Who proposed the three laws of motion?
Sir Isaac Newton
Which country is known as the “Land of the Rising Sun”?
Japan
Who was the first President of India?
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
If a triangle has angles of 50° and 60°, what is the third angle?
70°
What is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament played on clay courts?
French Open (Roland Garros)
Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
William Shakespeare
What is the name of the process where a solid changes directly into a gas?
Sublimation
Which is the only country in the world to have a non-rectangular flag?
Nepal
Who was the founder of the Maurya Empire in India?
Chandragupta Maurya
What name is given to a sequence that increases by the same difference each step?
Arithmetic progression (AP)
How long is a marathon?
42.195 kilometers
Who is the author of “The Alchemist”?
Paulo Coelho
Which law states that current is directly proportional to voltage, provided temperature is constant?
Ohm’s Law
Which is the deepest known ocean trench in the world?
Mariana Trench
Who was known as the “Iron Lady of India”?
Indira Gandhi
The sum of the first 10 natural numbers is…?
55
What is the highest possible break in snooker?
147
Repetition of the same initial sound in multiple words is called ?
Alliteration
What is the heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth?
Uranium
Which 2 Indian states shares its borders with only one other indian state?
Sikkim and Meghalaya
The Battle of Plassey in 1757 was fought between the British East India Company and which ruler?
Siraj-ud-Daulah, Nawab of Bengal
A number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers (its decimal expansion is non-repeating and non-terminating) is called ?
Irrational number
What is the distance of a standard Olympic swimming pool?
50 meters
Figure of speech where contradictory words are combined
Oxymoron
Which scientist is credited with developing the planetary model of the atom?
Niels Bohr
Which country has the largest number of active volcanoes?
Indonesia
Which Mughal emperor was defeated by Sher Shah Suri at the Battle of Chausa?
Humayun
Which kind of function maps each element of its domain to exactly one element of its codomain and is reversible (has an inverse)?
A bijection (one-to-one and onto)
What is the only country to have played in every FIFA World Cup since its inception?
Brazil
A word spelled the same but pronounced differently with different meanings (e.g., “lead” the metal vs. “lead” to guide) is called ?
Heteronym