World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

Q: How can I prepare for World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated?

You can prepare for World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated by attempting the free online quizzes at Gotest.com.pk. We provide instant results, performance reports, and detailed explanations for every question.

Question 1

1. What is a "shooting star"?

Answer

A star that has exploded

Answer

A satellite falling from orbit

Answer

A small comet passing near Earth

Answer

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere

Question 2

2. What is a light-year?

Answer

The distance light travels in one year

Answer

The brightness of a star

Answer

The age of a star measured in years

Answer

The time it takes light to travel from the Sun to Earth

Question 3

3. What is the name of the deep-space observation programme that identified thousands of exoplanets?

Answer

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Answer

Kepler Space Telescope Programme

Answer

Hubble Space Telescope Programme

Answer

Spitzer Space Telescope Programme

Question 4

4. What is the Greenhouse Effect?

Answer

The depletion of the ozone layer

Answer

The warming of Earth's surface due to the trapping of heat by atmospheric gases

Answer

The cooling of Earth's atmosphere by clouds

Answer

The process by which plants produce oxygen

Question 5

5. What is the name of the force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?

Answer

Nuclear force

Answer

Centrifugal force

Answer

Magnetic force

Answer

Gravitational force

Question 6

6. What is the name of the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the Solar System?

Question 7

7. What is a neutron star?

Answer

The extremely dense remnant of a massive star after a supernova, composed almost entirely of neutrons

Answer

A newly formed star before it begins nuclear fusion

Answer

A star composed entirely of hydrogen neutrons

Answer

A star with neutral electric charge

Question 8

8. What is the name of Pakistan's first space satellite?

Answer

Paksat-MM1

Question 9

9. What is the name of the largest volcano in the Solar System?

Answer

Mount Everest (Earth)

Answer

Mauna Kea (Earth)

Answer

Olympus Mons (Mars)

Answer

Maxwell Montes (Venus)

Question 10

10. What is a nebula?

Answer

A cloud of gas and dust in space that is often a region of star formation

Answer

A type of galaxy

Answer

A black hole surrounded by light

Answer

A cluster of dark matter

Question 11

11. What is a Pulsar?

Answer

A type of exploding star

Answer

A star that pulses in brightness

Answer

A black hole that spins rapidly

Answer

A rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation

Question 12

12. Who is known as the "Father of the Indian Space Programme" and also contributed to Pakistan's SUPARCO?

Answer

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Answer

Vikram Sarabhai

Answer

Abdul Salam

Answer

Homi Bhabha

Question 13

13. What is the Hubble Space Telescope named after?

Answer

George Hubble

Answer

Walter Hubble

Answer

James Hubble

Answer

Edwin Hubble

Question 14

14. What is the approximate distance from the Earth to the Sun?

Answer

150 million km (1 AU)

Answer

200 million km

Answer

100 million km

Answer

300 million km

Question 15

15. Which planet is known as the "Earth's Twin" due to its similar size?

Question 16

16. Who was the first human to walk on the Moon?

Answer

Alan Shepard

Answer

Buzz Aldrin

Answer

Neil Armstrong

Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 17

17. What is a Quasar?

Answer

A small asteroid belt

Answer

A type of comet

Answer

An extremely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole

Answer

A slow-moving neutron star

Question 18

18. According to the Big Bang Theory, the Universe originated approximately how many years ago?

Answer

13.8 billion years ago

Answer

20 billion years ago

Answer

4.6 billion years ago

Answer

10 billion years ago

Question 19

19. What are sunspots?

Answer

Holes in the Sun's corona

Answer

Burning patches on the Sun's surface

Answer

Temporary cooler regions on the Sun's photosphere caused by intense magnetic activity

Answer

Nuclear explosions on the Sun's surface

Question 20

20. What does a light-year measure?

Answer

Brightness

Question 21

21. Which planet has a ring system most visible from Earth?

Question 22

22. Which planet has the longest day in the Solar System?

Question 23

23. What is the TRAPPIST-1 system famous for?

Answer

Containing seven Earth-sized planets, three of which may be in the habitable zone

Answer

Being the first system where a supernova was observed

Answer

Having the largest known black hole

Answer

Being the closest star system to Earth

Question 24

24. What is the speed of sound in air at room temperature?

Answer

340 m/s (approximately)

Question 25

25. What is "Dark Energy"?

Answer

The energy inside dark matter

Answer

A hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the Universe

Answer

Radiation emitted by pulsars

Answer

Energy released by black holes

Question 26

26. What is the name of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy?

Answer

Cygnus X-1

Answer

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)

Question 27

27. What is the name of the nearest star to Earth (other than the Sun)?

Answer

Proxima Centauri

Answer

Betelgeuse

Answer

Alpha Centauri A

Question 28

28. Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation states that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force that is:

Answer

Inversely proportional to their masses and directly proportional to the distance between them

Answer

Directly proportional to their masses and directly proportional to the square of the distance between them

Answer

Directly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

Answer

Independent of their masses and dependent only on distance

Question 29

29. Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet?

Answer

It has not cleared the neighbourhood of its orbit

Answer

It was discovered to be a captured asteroid

Answer

It is smaller than Earth's Moon

Answer

It was found to be made of gas, not rock

Question 30

30. What is the name of the first exoplanet confirmed orbiting a sun-like star?

Answer

Kepler-22b

Answer

HD 209458 b

Answer

51 Pegasi b (Dimidium)

Answer

TRAPPIST-1e

Question 31

31. What is the chemical composition of water?

Question 32

32. Who was the first human to travel to outer space?

Answer

Buzz Aldrin

Answer

Neil Armstrong

Answer

Alan Shepard

Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 33

33. What is the Oort Cloud?

Answer

A cloud of gas around the Sun

Answer

A region of ice in the inner Solar System

Answer

A spherical cloud of icy objects at the outermost edge of the Solar System, believed to be the source of long-period comets

Answer

The atmosphere of Jupiter

Question 34

34. What is a "white dwarf"?

Answer

The dense, hot remnant of a low-to-medium mass star after it has shed its outer layers

Answer

A type of neutron star

Answer

A small, hot star newly formed from a nebula

Answer

A small star with white coloured surface gas

Question 35

35. What are the four fundamental forces of nature?

Answer

Strong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear, Electromagnetic, Gravitational

Answer

Nuclear, Chemical, Thermal, Gravitational

Answer

Magnetic, Electric, Gravitational, Kinetic

Answer

Gravity, Friction, Tension, Normal Force

Question 36

36. What is a Black Hole?

Answer

A region in space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape

Answer

A dead star that has turned completely dark

Answer

A tunnel through space-time

Answer

A dark region of space with no stars

Question 37

37. What is the speed of light in a vacuum?

Answer

299,792 km/s (approximately 3 × 10⁸ m/s)

Answer

200,000 km/s

Answer

150,000 km/s

Question 38

38. Which planet has the shortest day (fastest rotation) in the Solar System?

Question 39

39. What is the Asteroid Belt and where is it located?

Answer

Between Earth and Mars

Answer

Between Mars and Jupiter

Answer

Between Mercury and Venus

Answer

Between Jupiter and Saturn

Question 40

40. Which is the smallest planet in our Solar System?

Question 41

41. What type of star is our Sun?

Answer

White Dwarf

Answer

Yellow Dwarf (G-type main-sequence star)

Answer

Neutron Star

Question 42

42. What does the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation represent?

Answer

Radiation from the Sun's corona

Answer

The thermal radiation left over from the early Universe shortly after the Big Bang

Answer

Radiation emitted by dark matter

Answer

Radiation from distant quasars

Question 43

43. What is the name of the first animal to orbit Earth in space?

Answer

Laika the dog

Answer

Ham the chimpanzee

Answer

Belka the dog

Answer

Gordo the squirrel monkey

Question 44

44. Which planet is farthest from the Sun in our Solar System?

Question 45

45. What is the Doppler Effect?

Answer

The change in frequency or wavelength of a wave relative to an observer moving relative to the wave source

Answer

The bending of light around massive objects

Answer

The splitting of white light into a spectrum

Answer

The absorption of light by a black hole

Question 46

46. Which space probe was the first to leave the Solar System and enter interstellar space?

Answer

Pioneer 10

Answer

New Horizons

Question 47

47. Which is the largest planet in our Solar System?

Question 48

48. What is Schrödinger's Cat?

Answer

A thought experiment illustrating the paradox of quantum superposition

Answer

A real experiment performed on a cat in space

Answer

The name of the first cat sent into orbit

Answer

A scientific theory about feline vision

Question 49

49. What is the name of the layer of Earth's atmosphere closest to the surface, where weather occurs?

Answer

Stratosphere

Answer

Troposphere

Answer

Thermosphere

Answer

Mesosphere

Question 50

50. What does E=mc² represent?

Answer

Electricity equals mass times distance squared

Answer

Entropy equals momentum times the speed of light squared

Answer

Energy equals mass times the speed of sound squared

Answer

Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

Question 51

51. What does NASA stand for?

Answer

National Aerospace Science Academy

Answer

North American Space Association

Answer

National Astronomy and Space Agency

Answer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 52

52. What is the name of the force that holds the nucleus of an atom together?

Answer

Weak nuclear force

Answer

Electromagnetic force

Answer

Strong nuclear force

Answer

Gravitational force

Question 53

53. What instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?

Answer

Anemometer

Answer

Hygrometer

Answer

Thermometer

Question 54

54. What is a comet primarily composed of?

Answer

Liquid hydrogen

Answer

Rock and gas

Answer

Ice, dust, and rocky material

Answer

Iron and nickel

Question 55

55. Halley's Comet is visible from Earth approximately every how many years?

Answer

50–55 years

Answer

75–76 years

Answer

25–30 years

Question 56

56. What is the process by which the Sun produces energy?

Answer

Nuclear Fission

Answer

Gravitational Compression

Answer

Chemical Combustion

Answer

Nuclear Fusion

Question 57

57. What is the name of the theory that describes the behaviour of matter and energy at the smallest scales (subatomic level)?

Answer

Quantum Mechanics

Answer

General Theory of Relativity

Answer

String Theory

Answer

Classical Mechanics

Question 58

58. Which scientist proposed the General Theory of Relativity?

Answer

Albert Einstein

Answer

Niels Bohr

Answer

Isaac Newton

Answer

Max Planck

Question 59

59. What is the name of the telescope launched in December 2021 that replaced the Hubble Space Telescope?

Answer

James Webb Space Telescope

Answer

Spitzer Space Telescope

Answer

Kepler Space Telescope

Answer

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Question 60

60. What is the name of NASA's Mars rover that landed in February 2021?

Answer

Perseverance

Answer

Opportunity

Question 61

61. Who invented the telescope?

Answer

Johannes Kepler

Answer

Isaac Newton

Answer

Galileo Galilei

Answer

Hans Lippershey

Question 62

62. What is the outermost layer of the Sun called?

Answer

Chromosphere

Answer

Photosphere

Answer

Radiative Zone

Question 63

63. What is the name of the first space shuttle launched by NASA?

Answer

Challenger

Question 64

64. Which planet rotates on its side with an axial tilt of about 98 degrees?

Answer 193

Galileo Galilei

Answer 194

Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer 195

Tycho Brahe

Answer 196

Matter composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass but opposite charge to normal particles

Answer 197

A hypothetical substance faster than light

Answer 198

The substance making up dark matter

Answer 199

Matter that exists only in black holes

Answer 200

The dark regions between galaxies

Answer 201

A hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with electromagnetic radiation but exerts gravitational effects

Answer 202

Matter that has turned into a black hole

Answer 203

Matter made of anti-particles

Answer 204

The zone in a galaxy where stars are most likely to form

Answer 205

The orbital region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface

Answer 206

The area near a black hole where matter orbits safely

Answer 207

The region of space between asteroids in the Asteroid Belt

Answer 208

A layer of oxygen near Earth's surface

Answer 209

A layer in the stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation

Answer 210

A protective layer that reflects sunlight back into space

Answer 211

A layer of ozone in the lower atmosphere that traps heat

Answer 212

A private aerospace company; founded by Elon Musk in 2002

Answer 213

A joint US-European company; founded in 1995

Answer 214

A Russian space agency; founded by Roscosmos

Answer 215

A NASA division; founded by Bill Gates

Answer 216

Explorer 1

Answer 217

An orbiting laboratory jointly operated by the USA, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada

Answer 218

A deep-space observation platform near Mars

Answer 219

A privately owned space hotel

Answer 220

A moon base shared by the USA and China

Answer 221

Photosphere

Answer 222

Chromosphere

Answer 223

Andromeda Galaxy

Answer 224

Triangulum Galaxy

Answer 225

Milky Way Galaxy

Answer 226

Sombrero Galaxy

Answer 227

8 minutes 20 seconds

Answer 228

15 minutes

Answer 229

1 minute 20 seconds

Answer 230

Phobos, Deimos, Europa, Titan

Answer 231

Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania

Answer 232

Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys

Answer 233

Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

Answer 234

A unit for measuring the mass of stars

Answer 235

The distance light travels in one month

Answer 236

A unit for measuring the brightness of stars

Answer 237

The average distance from the Earth to the Sun, approximately 150 million km

Answer 238

Albert Einstein

Answer 239

Johannes Kepler

Answer 240

Galileo Galilei

Answer 241

Isaac Newton

Answer 242

Newton's First Law

Answer 243

Hubble's Law

Answer 244

Kepler's First Law

Answer 245

Bohr's Law

Answer 246

A very hot, small, dense star

Answer 247

A large, cool star in a late stage of stellar evolution when a medium-mass star expands

Answer 248

A neutron star with a red glow

Answer 249

A star in its early formation stage

Answer 250

Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

Answer 251

Centaurus A

Answer 252

Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

Answer 253

Large Magellanic Cloud

Answer 254

Galileo Galilei

Answer 255

Johannes Kepler

Answer 256

Nicolaus Copernicus

Answer 257

Isaac Newton

Answer 258

The Universe is contracting at a constant rate

Answer 259

Galaxies are moving away from us at speeds proportional to their distance

Answer 260

All galaxies are moving towards each other

Answer 261

Stars rotate around black holes at uniform speed

Answer 262

A Pakistani telecommunications company

Answer 263

Pakistan's national space agency (Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission)

Answer 264

The body overseeing Pakistan's satellite TV

Answer 265

Pakistan's nuclear regulatory authority

Answer 266

The point of no return surrounding a black hole beyond which nothing can escape its gravity

Answer 267

The spinning disc of matter around a black hole

Answer 268

The edge of the black hole's magnetic field

Answer 269

The region where the black hole emits radiation

Answer 270

It showed the formation of the Solar System

Answer 271

It captured the first image of a black hole

Answer 272

It showed the surface of Pluto for the first time

Answer 273

It revealed thousands of galaxies in a tiny patch of sky, demonstrating the vastness of the Universe

Answer 274

The maximum distance light can travel in the Universe

Answer 275

The speed limit of objects in a black hole

Answer 276

The maximum mass a white dwarf star can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole

Answer 277

The minimum temperature required for nuclear fusion

Answer 278

-273.15°C (0 Kelvin) — the theoretical lowest possible temperature

Answer 279

0°C — the freezing point of water

Answer 280

-200°C — the temperature of liquid nitrogen

Answer 281

-100°C — the coldest temperature in the Solar System

General Knowledge	World gk
Topic	World Universe Science Information
Test Name	World Universe Science Information Test Online
Test Type	MCQs Test
Total Questions	80 MCQs
Time Allowed	80 Minutes

World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

Study Plan for World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

How to Use GoTest for Preparation:

More for World gk

Maan Ali

One Comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

Study Plan for World Universe Science Information Online Test (World General Knowledge) Updated

How to Use GoTest for Preparation:

More for World gk

Latest Updates

Maan Ali

One Comment

Leave a Reply Cancel reply