science & tech MCQ section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (d)

Vincent, the world’s first womb transplant baby was born to a Swedish family.

Answer: (b)

Tejas is an indigenously-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) of the Indian Air Force. It s a single-seat, single-jet engine, multi-role light fighter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India’s ageing MiG-21 fighters. Later, the LCA was officially named “Tejas.”

Answer: (b)

The missile is a variant of Dongfeng-31 A with same range but improved capability in carrying warheads.