32. With relercrice to the discovery oi colony of stromatelites in Northern Ireland in October 2011, whai makes it so interesting?
(a) Until now these structures have been found mainly in warm and often hyper sa- line waters which discourage predators.
(b) The strornatolites in the Giant's Causeway are in a tiny brackish pool, exposed to the violence of waves and easy prey to the animals that are already living amongst them.
Select the correct answer us-lug the codes given below:
(1) Both a and 1.)
(2) Neither a nor b
(3) Only a
(4) Only b
33. The oldest rodent fossils, currising the tiny teeth of mouse-sized and rat-sized animals that lived at least 41 million years ago yet found in South America was unearthed along the Ucayali River near Contamana in October 2011. The country in reference here is (1) Brazil (2) Chile
(3) Peru (4) Uruguay
34. Who became the first person to be mummified for 3,000 years in October 2011, thanks to British scientists who had spent two decades trying to work out how to replicate the secret techniques of the ancient Egyptian embalmers?
(1) Alan Billis
(2) James Crook
(3) Anthony Mozart
(4) Joseph Green
35. A lake hidden beneath three kilometres of ice in the western Antarctic was announced by a team of British scientists in October 2011 to reveal what life on Earth looked like up to a million years ago and narrow down the searth for extraterrestrial life. Which is this lake?
(1) Lake Pearl
(2) Lake Ellsworth
(3) Lake Montana
(4) Lake Enigma
36. The Defenso Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States claimed in October 2011 that satellites that reach the end of their useful lives are often boosted into a "graveyard" orbit in order to make way for replacements and it proposed a grave-robbing robot that could stitch together parts from these dead satellites to create new ones, avoiding the huge expense of launching components into space. This program of DARPA is known as
(1) Achilles Program
(2) Phoenix Program
(3) Albatross Program
(4) Zenith Program
37. Scientists at Wuhan University in China claimed on October 31, 2011 that they can use to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shocks and liver diseases.
(1) Wheat
(2) Soyabean
(3) Rice
(4) Gram
38. A team of 31 scientists from the Indian Institute of Agricultural Research, a bunch of state agricultural universities. and the Banaras Hindu University has sequenced the genome of which plant for the first time in October 2011 ?
(1) Arhar
(2) Gram
(3) Pea
(4) Soyabean
39. The asteroid named 2005YU55 darted between the Earth and moon on November 8, 2011 and its closest approach occurred when it passed within
miles of Earth.
(1) 212,000 (2) 208,000
(3) 204,000 (4) 202,000
40. A Japanese supercomputer, "K Computer" smashed its own record of just over 8 quadrillion calculations by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second during an experiment in October 2011. This computer has more than
central processing units.
(1) 92,000 (2) 88,000
(3) 94,000 (4) 96,000
41. Tevatron atom smasher, one of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, was shut down on September 28, 2011. Where was it located in the United States of America?
(1) Irving (2) Illinois
(3) Reno (4) Madison
42. In rare development in Octo ber 2011, a German sky photographer, shot first ever image of fourth-order rainbow. Who is he?
(1) Michael Theusner
(2) Arthur Lyon
(3) Charles Sherrod
(4) Frank Tobin
43. Scientists of which country announced in October 2011 to have developed a surprising use for ordinary salt that they said could help deal with the increasingly quantities of data that companies and individuals are creating and storing by boosting the capacity of computer hard disks by six times?
(1) Japan (2) Singapore
(3) China (4) Russia
44. Archaeopteryx is one of the world's most iconic prehistoric animals - a dinosaur caught in the midst of evolving into a bird,. some 155 million years ago. Its new fossil, complete except for its head, the elev enth Archaeopteryx skeleton ever discovered, was found in
(1) Britain (2) Germany
(3) Italy (4) Mexico
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