Q 01/05

Narendra Modi quipped that ISRO's ₹450-crore Mars orbiter cost less than which Hollywood space film?

A) Interstellar

B) Gravity

C) Apollo 13

D) The Martian

Answer · why

B) Gravity

Gravity, the 2013 Sandra Bullock thriller, cost more than India's first mission to another planet; Modi also priced the trip at ₹7 a kilometre, cheape...

Q 02/05

ISRO's Mars orbiter was pictured on the back of which Indian banknote, launched in the 2016 demonetisation?

A) ₹100

B) ₹200

C) ₹500

D) ₹2,000

Answer · why

D) ₹2,000

₹2,000 notes carried Mangalyaan where their sister notes show heritage sites such as the Red Fort; the Reserve Bank began withdrawing them from circul...

Q 03/05

Asked by Indira Gandhi how India looked from orbit, Rakesh Sharma replied with the title of which patriotic song?

A) Vande Mataram

B) Jana Gana Mana

C) Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon

D) Saare Jahan Se Achha

Answer · why

D) Saare Jahan Se Achha

Saare Jahan Se Achha, 'better than the whole world', is the opening of a patriotic Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal; Sharma, who spent nearly eight days in...

Q 04/05

ISRO was founded in 1969 on which date, one that Indians already mark every year as a national holiday?

A) 26 January

B) 2 October

C) 1 May

D) 15 August

Answer · why

D) 15 August

15 August, Independence Day, is ISRO's birthday too: it took over from Vikram Sarabhai's INCOSPAR committee that day, yet stayed under the Department ...

Q 05/05

ISRO's PSLV set a 2017 world record by releasing how many satellites on one flight, mostly tiny US-built Doves?

A) 26

B) 52

C) 104

D) 208

Answer · why

C) 104

104 satellites rode one PSLV, nearly tripling the old record of 37; the 88 shoebox-sized Doves gave their owner, Planet, enough cameras in orbit to ph...