science & tech MCQ section 4 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

The international covenant — which provides a framework for channelling liability and providing speedy compensation in the event of a nuclear accident — was signed at the International Atomic Energy Agency offices in Vienna by Dinkar Khullar, India’s Ambassador to Austria. The IAEA is the “depository” of the CSC, which has so far been signed by 14 countries and ratified by four, including the U.S.

Answer: (d)

Facebook has joined GSM operators lobby group Cellular operators Association of India (COAI). This move will help it get a bigger and effective platform to raise various issues with the government.

Answer: (c)

Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.

Clarke has contributed to the popularity of the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays.

He described this concept in a paper titled Extra-Terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?, published in Wireless World in October 1945. The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honour.

Answer: (b)

C2D project is a quest towards conquest of tuberculosis, is launching a massive initiative to further the understanding of the biology of the causative organism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Answer: (a)

It is a Swiss long-range solar-powered aircraft project and claimed to be first aircraft to fly day and night without consuming conventional fuel.