SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN INDIA - 3

Q1. Which indigenously designed and built reactor was the first operational nuclear reactor in Asia?

A. Apsara

B. CIRUS

C. NAPS

Q2. The first dedicated Meteorological Satellite (METSAT) launched by "Indian Space Research Organization" (ISRO) was named after ____________ .

A. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

B. Kalpana Chawla

C. Satish Dhawan

Q3. In August 1995, who made the first mobile phone call in India to then Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram?

A. Bal Thackeray

B. Jyoti Basu

C. T. N. Seshan

Q4. Who is the first Director-General of the "Council of Scientific and Industrial Research" (CSIR) and is revered as the "Father of Research Laboratories in India"?

A. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

B. Vikram Sarabhai

C. Meghnad Saha

Q5. Who presided over the first ever Session of the "Indian Science Congress" in 1914 held at the premises of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta?

A. Ashutosh Mukherjee

B. C.V. Raman

C. Satyendra Nath Bose