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  • The most common format for a home video recorder is VHS. VHS stands for...?


  • Options
  • A. Video Home System
  • B. Very high speed
  • C. Video horizontal standard
  • D. Voltage house standard

  • Correct Answer
  • Video Home System 

    Explanation
    JVC (Japan Victor Corporation) and Matsushita (Panasonic) developed the VHS format to compete with Sony which developed the Beta format as the first home video cassette recorder. VHS originally stood for Vertical Helical Scan, but now means Video Home System.

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    • 1. Who invented Bicycle?

    • Options
    • A. Leo H Baekeland
    • B. Karl Benz
    • C. Evangelista Torricelli
    • D. Kirkpatrick Macmillan
      • Discuss
    • 2. The gas present in the stratosphere which filters out some of the sun's ultraviolet light and provides an effective shield against radiation damage to living things is

    • Options
    • A. helium
    • B. ozone
    • C. oxygen
    • D. methane
      • Discuss
    • 3. Which state Government of India has instituted the Samman Award?

    • Options
    • A. Uttar Pradesh
    • B. Himachal Pradesh
    • C. Madhya Pradesh
    • D. Andhra Pradesh
      • Discuss
    • 4. Natural radioactivity was discovered by

    • Options
    • A. Marie Curie
    • B. Ernest Rutherfor
    • C. Henri Becquerel
    • D. Enrico Fermi
      • Discuss
    • 5. Plants growing on sand are called as

    • Options
    • A. chasmophytes
    • B. oxylophytes
    • C. lithophytes
    • D. psammophytes
      • Discuss
    • 6. What is a NIC?

    • Options
    • A. Netware Intranet Controller
    • B. No Internet Connection
    • C. Network Interface Card
    • D. Network Interference Control
      • Discuss
    • 7. In which of the following industries is mica as a raw material?

    • Options
    • A. Cement
    • B. Glass and Pottery
    • C. Iron and Steel
    • D. Electrical
      • Discuss
    • 8. This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'

    • Options
    • A. Philo Farnsworth
    • B. J. Presper Eckert
    • C. John Mauchly
    • D. Charles Babbage
      • Discuss
    • 9. The mass number of an atom is equal to

    • Options
    • A. the number of protons
    • B. the number of protons and electrons
    • C. the number of nucleons
    • D. the number of neutrons
      • Discuss
    • 10. The organic reaction represented by equation CH3 - CH = O + H2NOH gives CH3 - CH - NH + H2O is an example of

    • Options
    • A. an addition reaction
    • B. a condensation reaction
    • C. an oxidation reaction
    • D. an elimination reaction
      • Discuss

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