Deck 1: Authors, Poems, and Science

Question 1

_________________is American author and professor of Biochemistry.

A)J.F Nash
B)Issac Newton
C)Charles Darwin
D)Issac Asimov

Answer 1

Issac Asimov

Question 2

Arthur Clarke, Issac Asimov and ______________ are called the "Big Three" science fiction writers of their period.

A)Robert Heinlein
B)Robert Green
C)Green Graves
D)Gerald Michel

Answer 2

Robert Heinlein

Question 3

Which quality of the mother gave the scientist's mother a serene look?

A)Sweet
B)Coloured hair
C)calm look
D)handsome face

Answer 3

calm look

Question 4

_________________ is the biggest satellite of solar system

A)Ganymede
B)Tollymede
C)Satranus
D)None of the above

Question 5

What does the mother offer the general to eat?

A)Apple
B)Grapes
C)Oranges
D)Peeches

Question 6

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

Question 7

W.H Auden, Cecil day Lewis, Louis Mac Neice Stephen Spendor are together termed as

A)Lake poet
B)Classical poets
C)Mac Spaunday poets
D)Beat writers

Question 8

The Pylons is a poem by

A)W.H Anden
B)Stephen Spender
C)Cecil day Lewis
D)Louis Mac Niece

Question 9

Mac Spaunday poets are otherwise called

A)Movement poet
B)Lake poets
C)The Pylons
D)None of the above

Question 10

Dover Beach is

A)An elegy
B)satire
C)comedy
D)tragedy

Question 11

______________is the listener in Dover Beach.

A)Mathew Arnold
B)The sea
C)Frances Lucy
D)Amelia

Question 12

Strangers and Brothers is a novel by

A)T.S Eliot
B)G.H Hardy
C)Charles Dickens
D)C.P Snow

Question 13

'The Two Cultures' is the title of an influential Rede lecture of

A)1959
B)1960
C)1957
D)1958

Question 14

________________is a student of student.

A)Oxfordian
B)Oxonian
C)Oxwardian
D)Oxforadion

Question 15

________________ discovered law of X-ray diffraction.

A)W.L Bragg
B)Rutherford
C)Eddington
D)Dirac

Question 16

_______________ famous mathematician who helped Ramanujan.

A)Ruther ford
B)W.L Bragg
C)G.H Hardy
D)Eddington

Question 17

_______________ is the father of nuclear Physics.

A)Faraday
B)W.L Bragg
C)Chadwick
D)Rutherford

Question 18

________________ authored the wasteland.

A)T.S Eliot
B)Shakespeare
C)Graham Greene
D)Thomas Kyd

Question 19

_______________ authored the Spanish Tragedy.

A)T.S Eliot
B)Shakespeare
C)Graham Greene
D)Thomas Kyd

Question 20

What is the problem of English school education that is the pointed out by Snow?

A)It is vocational
B)It is specialized
C)Only few are educated
D)Its moral education

Question 21

Is the author of Lucky Jim?

A)Kingsley Ami
B)John Osborne
C)C.P Snow
D)T.S Eliot

Question 22

___________________ is the first Prime Minister of Britain of twentieth century.

A)John Harold Plumb
B)Robert Arthur Gascoyne
C)Fitzgerald
D)Alan Louis Bullock

Question 23

Mendel worked on ____________ plant.

A)Ground nut
B)Cashew nut
C)Pea plant
D)Tea-plant

Question 24

__________________ is a tribe of Eastern U.S.

A)Mexican
B)Puritans
C)Chikus
D)Alleghenies

Question 25

The phenomenon of light to change its wavelength when it transverses a transparent material is called

A)Photo electric effect
B)Raman effect
C)Dispersion
D)Theory of relativity