NATIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

SAMPLE PAPER (Online Test)

PHYSICS
1. Number of accurately known digits in 14.5 cm are?
a) 3
b) 2
c) 4
d) 6
2. Length of vernier scales is?
a) 7mm
b) 9mm
c) 11mm
d) 5mm
3. Vernier calliper can measure the length up to parts of millimeter accurately?
a) 5th part
b) 6th part
c) 10th part
d) 1th part
4. Least count of digital vernier caliper is equal to
a) Measuring Tape
b) Mechanical Vernier Calliper
c) Screw Guage
d) Meter Rod
5. Which of the following is not a quantity vector?
a) Energy
b) Displacement
c) Torque
d) Accelration
6. The velocity and acceleration of a body moving with uniform speed in a circular path will be?
a) In the same direction
b) In the opposite direction
c) Mutually perpendicular
d) Equal to each other
7. A straight line parallel to the time axis on distance time graph tells that body is:
a) In motion
b) Moving with variable speed
c) At rest
d) Moving with constant speed
8. Mass of a body is a measure of its :
a) Velocity
b) Acceleration
c) Inertia
d) Momentum
9. The co-efficient of friction between iron and iron material is :
a) 0.9
b) 0.62
c) 1.0
d) 1.2
10.Which of the following material lowers friction when pushed between metal plates?
a) Water
b) Fine marble powder
c) Air
d) Oil
11.Cos45 =
a) 0.707
b) 0.811
c) 0.987
d) 9.81
12.A body is in dynamic equilibrium when its
a) Acceleration is uniform
b) Speed is uniform
c) Acceleration is zero
d) None of these
13.The knowledge of Centre of gravity helps a lot in solving the problems
a) Rigid bodies
b) Equilibrium
c) Optics
d) Mechanics
14.Earth's gravitational force disappears _______Nm2Kg-2:
a) 6400
b) 6.67 x 10-11
 c) 7.8 x 10-11
d) 42300
15.The gravitational pull of the earth acting on the body is called
a) Field Force
b) Gravitational acceleration
c) Field strength
d) None of these
16.The mass of a body on surface of earth is 6.4kg weight of body at the surface of moon is :
a) 64N
b) 10.24N
c) 9.8N
d) 16N
17.Value of 'g' increases with the:
a) Increase in the mass of body
b) Increase in altitude
c) Decrease in altitude
d) None of these
18.In Einstein's mass-energy equation, c is the.
a) Speed of sound
b) Speed of earth
c) Speed of light
d) Speed of sun
19.If velocity of a body is halved then its K.E will:
a) Become 1/4th
b) Remain constant
c) Become 4 times
d) Become half
20.If the velocity of a body become a three times greater, then kinetic energy will be
a) 3 times
b) 6 times
c) 9 times
d) 12 times
21.Electrical power generated in some wind farms of America has value greater than:
a) 1300MV
b) 18000MV
c) 1300GV
d) 800KV
22.The % efficiency of petrol engine is
 a) 25%
b) 55%
c) 75%
d) 30%
23.The surface tension of a liquid ____ due to increase in temperature :
a) Decrease
b) Increase
c) Constant
d) Half
24.Which of following material have largest young's modulus:
a) Wood
b) Rubber
c) Aluminum
d) Steel
25.What should be the approximate length of a glass tube to construct a water barometer?
a) 50cm
b) 1000cm
c) 1100cm
d) 250cm
26.According to the law of heat exchange the heat absorbed by cold bodies and heat released by h
bodies is?
a) Different
b) Same
c) Large
d) Small
27.The specific heat of iron in joules per kilogram kelvin is :
a) 387
b) 920
c) 470
d) 530
28.The materials which take longer time to cool or heat have specific heat capacity?
a) Less
b) High
c) Equal
d) None of these
29.Land breeze is an example of
a) Conduction
b) Convection Currents
 c) Radiation
d) None of these
30.Land breeze blows from:
a) Land to sea during night
b) Sea to land during night
c) Land to sea during day
d) Sea to land during daY
CHEMISTRY
31.Which groups of periodic table are included in p block elements?
a) 6-12
b) 13-18
c) 1-18
d) 1-5
32.The trend of ionization energy in a group from top to bottom is:
a) Decrease
b) Increase
c) Same
d) None of these
33.Long form of periodic table was constructed on the basis of:
a) Mendeleev postulate
b) Atomic number
c) Atomic mass
d) None of these
34.Covalent bond between two different atoms is:
a) Polar
b) Non-polar
c) Ionic
d) None of these
35.How much energy is required to break a chemical bond?
a) 428KJ
b) 429KJ
c) 430KJ
d) 431KJ
36.Brass is the example of which solution in the following :
a) Liquid in solid
b) Solid in solid
c) Gas in gas
d) Liquid in liquid
37.Which of the following is soluble in corn tetrachloride?
a) Greese
b) Alcohol
c) Sugar
 d) Salt
38.Which one of the following will show negligible effect of temperature on its solubility?
a) KCl
b) NaCl
c) PCL
d) AlBr
39.Tyre puncture is an example of.
a) Effusion process
b) Diffusion process
c) Evaporation process
d) Condensation process
40.The constant factor in boyle's law is :
a) Volume
b) Pressure
c) Mole
d) Temperature
BIOLOGY
41.Night blindness is caused due to the deficiencies of_______.
a) Vitamin A
b) Vitamin B
c) Vitamin C
d) Vitamin E
42.Which of the following diseases is an example of non-communicable diseases?
a) Cancer
b) Diabetes
c) Hypertension
d) All of the above
43.Excessive bleeding during an injury is a deficiency of_________.
a) Vitamin A
b) Vitamin C
c) Vitamin K
d) Vitamin F
44.Cystic Fibrosis and Haemophilia are examples of _______.
a) Hereditary diseases
b) Degenerative diseases
c) Deficiency diseases
d) None of the above
45.Which of the following diseases is caused by protein deficiency?
a) Anaemia
b) Kwashiorkor
c) Hypothyroidism
d) All of the above
46.AIDS, common cold, dengue fever and influenza are examples of __________.
a) Deficiency Disease
b) Infectious diseases
c) Physiological Diseases
d) Non-infectious diseases
47.Which of the following vitamins helps in blood clotting?
a) Vitamin A
b) Vitamin C
 c) Vitamin K
d) Vitamin F
48.Where does the ovum receive the sperm?
a) Animal pole
b) Vegetal pole
c) Zona pellucida
d) None of the above

49.___________is an organelle that helps the sperm to penetrate the ovum.

a) Acrosome
b) Zona pellucida
c) Megalis
d) Megalis

50.Umbilical cord contains _________

a) Pluripotent stem cells
b) Cord blood stem cells
c) Blood stem cells
d) None of the above
COMPUTER SCIENCE
51.Which of these parts would interpret a program’s instructions to initiate the control
operations?
a) Logic unit
b) Control unit
c) Storage unit
d) Input
52.What access method do we use to obtain any record out of a cassette tape?
a) Random
b) Direct
c) Sequential
d) All of the above
53.What is the CPU’s section that interprets, selects, and also sees to a program instructions’
execution?
a) Register unit
b) Control unit
c) ALU
d) Memory
54. _____________ is a computer that has been designed so that it is as compact as possible.
a) Supercomputer
b) Mini
c) Mainframe
d) Microcomputer
55.Which of these is a general-purpose microcomputer that is single-user and is designed to
be operated by just a single person at any given time?
a) M
b) PC
c) KIPS
d) SPC
56.A total of how many bit codes are used for TELEPRINTER machines by Murray code?
a) 25
b) 5
c) 9
d) 4
57.__________ refers to the datum that would indicate the important state in an input or
output content.
a) Sentinel
 b) Sequence
c) Sibling
d) SIO
58.Out of the following, which one is still useful if we want to add numbers?
a) UNIVAC
b) Abacus
c) ENIAC
d) EDSAC
59.Which of these is a high-level machine-oriented language for the machines that are of the
GEC 4080 series?
a) ALGOL
b) Babbage
c) SNOBOL
d) LOGO
60.Which of these output devices are used for the translation of information from any
computer into a pictorial form on the papers?
a) Card punch
b) Touch panel
c) Plotter
d) Mouse