Q 01/05

ISRO's Mars orbiter cost about ₹450 crore, less than which Hollywood film about astronauts adrift in orbit?

A) Interstellar

B) Gravity

C) Apollo 13

D) The Martian

Answer · why

B) Gravity

Gravity, the 2013 Sandra Bullock thriller, cost more to make than India's entire first mission to another planet. The orbiter reached Mars in Septembe...

Q 02/05

ISRO's Mars orbiter appears on the back of which Indian banknote, the high-value note introduced in 2016?

A) ₹100

B) ₹200

C) ₹500

D) ₹2,000

Answer · why

D) ₹2,000

The ₹2,000 note, issued after the 2016 demonetisation, carried the Mangalyaan spacecraft on its back. Its designers chose a space probe rather than a ...

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, meaning better than the whole world, was Sharma's answer over a live link to the prime minister. He was speaking from a Soviet s...

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 replaced the older INCOSPAR committee on that date in 1969. ISRO answered to a different minis...

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) 37

B) 64

C) 88

D) 104

Answer · why

D) 104

104 satellites went up on one PSLV, smashing the previous record of 37 set by a Russian Dnepr rocket in 2014. The record stood until SpaceX's Transpor...