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To celebrate 24th year of H K Firodia Awards along with Rotaract District 3131, we are glad to bring to you the 4th Season of Science Quiz Contest based on questions on general science.&General knowledge. These are simple & straight forward questions. Any college student attending any class or stream but is interested in science & has a curiosity is welcome to participate.

The contest is online from 16th August 2022 to 16th September 2022 and will be open for 24 hours a day.. You can login from any place, from your laptop, computer lab or your Smartphone. We will compile the scores and announce the winners on http://www.hkfirodiaawards.org/.

They are multiple choice questions with a single correct answer.The questions are selected from a question bank randomly by the computer when you register.

The format of the contest is very simple. It has multiple choice questions with single correct answer. Time limit is 45 minutes to answer 45 questions. Each correct answer will get 1 mark. There will be no negative marking. Once you select an answer or skip any question, the same will not be shown again. At the end of 45 minutes, you will know your total score.

The student will have to make a registration on the first page giving his personal & college details. He will get a mail containing his User ID & Password, so that he can login for the quiz.

The questions will be from the following domains:

  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Mathematics

We will have a score card of all the participants from whom top rankers will be chosen by a panel of judges.

All the participants & winners will be invited for interactive session with the scientists and meet them. The winners will get an opportunity to ask questions to the scientists in their fields of specialization or about the exciting future in science.

The participants will be invited for the interactive session and also to attend the award presentation ceremony thereafter. Each one of the participant will get a digital certificate of participation after the programme is over.

All the participants are invited for the interactive session at 03:00 PM  on 7th February 2020 at the Bal Gandharva Ranga Mandir, Shivajinagar, Pune. The Awards Presentation Ceremony program will start by 06:00 PM at Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir in the same premises.

For more information, participants are kindly requested to visit our website www.hkfirodiaawards.org

To participate/appear/take the quiz:
Participants need a computer with an internet connection of min. speed of 128 kbps.

The computer’s operating systems can be:

  • Windows XP and above in case of Windows OS and/or
  • Ubuntu 4.0 and above in case of Linux OS

The internet browser to be used can be:

  • Google Chrome 10.0 & above
  • Firefox Mozilla
  • Firefox 3.6 & above
  • Internet Explorer 6 & above

The minimum hardware requirement for computer is Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and 50GB hard disk drive (HDD).


To know more about the H K Firodia awards and its history of 23 years - Do visit http://www.hkfirodiaawards.org