Quaerentem 23 Junior Science and Technology

  Who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953?

• Alec Jeffreys and Paul Strathern

• Fredrick Banting and Charles Best

• Alexander Friedmann and Abbe Georges Lemaitre

• James Watson and Francis Crick

Which computer language was originally not interpreted?

• Pearl

• Python

• C

• Basic

What unit measures the speed of an object relative to the speed of sound?

• Eotvos Unit

• Mach number

• Parse

• Newton

Which instrument is used to detect radioactivity?

• Seismograph

• Geiger counter

• Barograph

• Tachygraphy

For what specific work was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel prize in 1921?

• Photoelectric Effect

• Brownian Motion

• General Relativity

• Unified Field Theory

Who is said to be the “Father of the Indian Space Programme”?

• Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

• Prof Satish Dhawan

• Dr. K Kasturirangan

• Dr. Vikram A Sarabhai

Only two English letters are not found in the Periodic table because they do not occur in any element symbols. One of them is, the letter 'Q'. What is the other one?

• E

• J

• A

• Z

2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to this Swedish geneticist "for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution".  Name him.

• Svante Pääbo

• Gertrude B. Elion

• Berry Sharpless

• Ardem Patapoutian

What is the virtual assistant of Amazon, which is available on hundreds of millions of devices from Amazon and third-party device manufacturers.

• Leon

• Alexa

• Gasby

• Lindy

Who owned the trademark CD (Compact Disc)?

• Sharp

• Philips

• Toshiba

• Microsoft