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Question : 11 [SSC CML (PRE) 1999]

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research is situated in

a) Mumbai

b) Kalpakkam

c) Thiruvananthapuram

d) Shriharikotta

Answer: (b)

The Reactor Research Centre was set up at Kalpakkam, 80 km south of Chennai, in 1971 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). It was renamed Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in 1985.

Question : 12

Andrea Colaco, a native of South Goa’s Velim developed accurate 3D gesture sensing technology on

a) Cinema screen

b) None of these

c) Mobile device

d) LCD TV

Answer: (c)

Question : 13 [SSC CHSL 2014]

The Indian National Grid Computing Initiative for Scientific Engineering and Academic Community is named

a) SAGA

b) PARAM

c) Garuda

d) Ganga

Answer: (c)

GARUDA (Global Access to Resource Using Distributed Architecture) is the other name of the Indian National Grid Computing Initiative. It is a collaboration of scientific and technological researchers on a nationwide grid comprising of computational nodes, mass storage and scientific instruments.

Question : 14

The Union Cabinet has established of a National Centre for Molecular Materials (NCMM) as an autonomous institute of the Government of India under the department of science and technology. In which of these States NCMM will be set up?

a) Karnataka

b) Kerala

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Andhra Pradesh

Answer: (b)

The Union Cabinet has established of a National Centre for Molecular Materials (NCMM) at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala as an autonomous institute of the Government of India (GOI) under the Department of Science & Technology (DST) at a total cost of ` 76.7 crore for five years with an outlay of ` 14.55 crore for the Eleventh Plan Period.

Question : 15

Dwarf planet Ceres is located between

a) Saturn and Uranus

b) Uranus and Neptune

c) Mars and Jupiter

d) Jupiter and Saturn

Answer: (c)

Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s Dawn probe has completed its orbit around Ceres and has become first spacecraft to reach there.

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