General Knowledge of the world (THE UNIVERSE)
General Knowledge of the world (THE UNIVERSE)
Quiz
The Nearest planet to the sun is:
- Venus
- Earth
- Mercury
- Saturn
The planet Mercury is difficult to be observed most of the time because:
- It gets hidden behind venus
- It goes too far away from the earth
- It being too close to the sun, get hidden by the glare of the sun
- It cannot be seen at night as at that time no sunlight fall on it
Comets revolve around
- Sun
- Earth
- Venus
- No single heavenly body
Which two plantes of the solar system have no satellites?
- Mercury and Venus
- Venus and, Venus Mars
- Murcury and
- venus and pluto neputne
The planet having 13 moons is
- Venus
- Mars
- Uranus
- Neptune
The length of its day and the tilt of its axis are almost identical to those of the Earth. 'This is true of:
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Saturn
- Mars
The hottest planet is:
- Mercury
- Venus
- Jupiter
- Saturn
Which of the following is the rightest planet?
- Mercury
- Venus
- Mars
- Jupiter
Which of hte planets is nearest to the earth?
- Jupiter
- Venus
- Mercury
- Mars
Which planet is known as the earth's Twin?
- Venus
- Mars
- Uranus
- Neptune
Which one of hte following planets takes the same number of days for rotation and revolution?
- Mars
- Venus
- Mercury
- Jupiter
On which of the following planets of the solar system does the sun rise in the west and set in the east?
- Venus
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
Which of the following planets of the solar system has the longest day?
- Mercury
- Jupiter
- Venus
- Earth
Which of the following planets is known as "Morning Star"?
- Mercury
- Venus
- Mars
- Jupiter
Which planet of the solar system spins on its axis at the fasters rate?
- Mercury
- Earth
- Jupiter
- Saturn
which planet is known as the "Watery Planet"?
- Mercury
- Earth
- Mars
- Jupiter
Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
- Mercury
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
The correct sequance of planets in the descending order of thier equatorial diameter is:
- Mars, Pluto, Uranus, Earth
- Earth, Mars, Pluto, Uranus
- Pluto, Uranus, Mars, Earch
- Uranus, Earth, Mars, Pluto
Which of the following is the largest of hte inner planets?
- Venus
- Mercury
- Mars
- Earth
Jupiter is larger than the earth by about:
- 5 times
- 10 times
- 20 times
- 50 times
The exact time taken by the earth for single rotation on its own axis is:
- 24 horus
- 24 hours 35 second
- 23 hours 50 minutes 7.2 seconds
- 23 hours 56 minutes 4.09 second
A blackhole is a:
- contracted star with intense gravitational pull
- Star with very low surface temperature
- Star with no atmosphere
- Pulsating star
Ursa minor is:
- The name of
- A group of an island stars
- The name of
- The name of a satellite a star
Aestroids have their orbits between the planets
- Mercury and
- Earth and venus mars
- Mars and
- Jupiter and Jupiter Saturn
Halley's Comet appears once in a period of:
- 24 years
- 32 years
- 76 years
- 84 years
The orbits of planet around the sun, or of satellites around the earth, can be:
- Circular and
- Circular and elliptic hyperbolic
- Elliptic and
- Parabolic parabolic and hyperbolic
To a space traveler on moon, they lunar sky during day time appears:
- White
- Blue
- Black
- Red
The distance between the earth and the sun (in million kms.) is:
- 111
- 149
- 168
- 193
Stars which appear single to the naked eye, but, are double stars when observed by a telescope, are known is:
- Cosmic Stars
- Quasars
- Binaries
- Novae and supernovae
What are the sun spots?
- Regions on earth without winter climate
- Desert areas on the sun
- Dark patches on the surface of the sun, which are cooler areas
- Dar patches on the surface of the sun resulting from a localized fall in the temperature to about 4000 K
The brightest star in the sky is:
- Alfa Centauri
- Poxima centauri
- Sirius
- Sun
Pole star is always seen at one point in the sky whereas other stars are not: that is because:
- Pole star rotates with the same period as the earth
- Pole star is a star of our own galaxy
- Sun and ple star are in two opposite directions relatives to earth
- Pole star lies in the axis of spin of the earth
The outermost layer of sun is called:
- Convection
- Photosphere Zone
- Chromosphere
- Corona
A star which appears blue is:
- Cooler than
- Hotter than the moon the sun
- As hot as the
- Cooler than sun the sun
Lunar sea refers to:
- A small sea on the moon
- A sea on earth which experiences high tides due to gravitational attractoin of the moon
- A dark plain on the moon
- A light water body illuminated by the moon light
Parsec is the unit of measurement of:
- Density of
- Astronomical stars distance
- brightness of heavenly bodies
- Orbital velocity of gian stars
The sun spots cause:
- Aurora borealies and aurora austral is
- Magnetic storms on the surface of the sun
- Plar auroras
- All of these
The light coming from stars gives the idea of thier:
- Size
- Rotational speed
- Mass
- Temperature
The milky way extends through a distance of:
- 1 light year
- 8 light years
- 10 light years
The period of one revolution of sun aground the centre of galaxy is called:
- parsec
- Asronomical year
- Cosmic year
- Light year