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What is the official term for what can be described as the edge of space from earth?

Published: Friday, Nov 20, 2009, 5:00 IST
Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

1. Which of the following medical terms describes the condition in which one half of the visual field is blinded in both eyes?
Hemianophilia
Hemainophobia
Hemianopia
2. The research team from which medical centre has revolutionised hunting for brain tumours by developing a new hand-held laser confocal microscope that can easily detect tumours without performing a biopsy?
St Joseph's Hospital
Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital
Sacred Heart Hospital
3. Which method can be used to find the age of artefacts up to a million years?
Carbon dating
Uranium-thorium dating
Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating
4. What is Seasonal Affective Disorder most probably caused by?
Lack of adrenalin
Lack of serotonin
Lack of cortisol
5. What is the official term for what can be described as the edge of space from earth?
Kármán line
Thermosphere
Exo line
6. Who is credited as the inventor of the first portable phone?
Joel Engel
Martin Cooper
Alexander Graham Bell
7. What has been designated to be the successor to the internet?
The cloud
The matrix
The grid
8. Which company is set to be the first to provide suborbital spaceflights to the paying public?
Boeing
Airbus
Virgin
9. Which of the following is not a legitimate clinical brain disorder?
Exploding head syndrome
Alice in wonderland syndrome
See-saw syndrome
10. What is the social networking tool for natural historians?
Digger
ScratchPads
TheScroll

Compiled by Yash Rohera

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