Quiz on “Discoveries and Inventions – General Knowledge Multiple Choice Questions and Answers” giving you an idea about questions asked on discoveries and inventions in competitive exams.
Who discovered the laws of planetary orbits?
A. John Dalton
B. Rosalind Franklin
C. Marie Curie
D. Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
In astronomy, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion are three scientific laws describing the motion of planets around the Sun, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619.
Que (2):
Who gave the first experimental value of G?
A. John Dalton
B. Rosalind Franklin
C. Marie Curie
D. Cavendish
Cavendish
The first direct measurement of gravitational attraction between two bodies in the laboratory was performed in 1798, seventy-one years after Newton’s death, by Henry Cavendish.
Que (3):
What is the name of the scientist who stated that matter can be converted into energy?
A. Einstein
B. Newton
C. Galileo
D. Darwin
Einstein
The name of scientists who stated that matter can be converted into energy are Boyle and Einstein.
Que (4):
Who is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW) ?
A. John Carmack
B. Sid Meier
C. Markus Person
D. Tim Berners Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.
Que (5):
By whom was Electron first identified?
A. Niels Bohr
B. John Dalton
C. J. J. Thomson
D. Oppenheimer
J. J. Thomson
Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney named this charge ‘electron’ in 1891, and J. J. Thomson and his team of British physicists identified it as a particle in 1897.
Que (6):
When was decimal coinage introduced in India?
A. 1998
B. 1993
C. 1995
D. 1957
1957
Indian coinage went decimal on April 1, 1957, ten years after it gained Independence from the British. Though coins as units of monetary value have been in use for 500 years or so, India’s history of modern coinage is only about 200 years old.
Que (7):
By whom was first successful vaccine against virul disease of small pox discovered?
A. Louis Pasteur
B. Albert Calmette
C. Jones E. Salk
D. Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
The smallpox vaccine, introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed. He observed that milkmaids who previously had caught cowpox did not catch smallpox
Que (8):
Who is regarded as the founder of the scientific Socialism?
A. Webber
B. Karl Marx
C. Robert Owen
D. Louis Blanc
Karl Marx
Later in 1880, Friedrich Engels used the term to describe Karl Marx’s social-political-economic theory.
Que (9):
When the first metal tool came into being why was it used for?
A. For making utensils
B. For farming
C. For ploughing
D. Jewels
Jewels
Gold was the first metal to be discovered 6000 years BC, it was used for jewellery since it was not good as a tool or weapon. Then copper was discovered 4200 years BC, it was used for weapons and tools and was more significant than gold due to its variable uses.
Que (10):
Which biologist, proposed that life is originated in water?
A. Oswald Avery
B. James Black
C. Rachel Carson
D. Thales
Thales
nan
Que (11):
Which Biologist proposed the theory of Germ plasm?
A. Carl Linnaeus
B. Mendel
C. Francis Crick
D. Weisman
Weisman
August Weismann’s 1892 germ plasm theory. The hereditary material, the germ plasm, is transmitted only by the gonads. Somatic cells (of the body) develop afresh in each generation from the germ plasm.
Que (12):
Who discovered South Pole?
A. Ronald Amundsen
B. Nellie Bly
C. Hernan Cortes
D. James Cook
Amundsen
Robert Falcon Scott returned to Antarctica with his second expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition, initially unaware of Amundsen’s secretive expedition. Scott and four other men reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, thirty-four days after Amundsen.
Que (13):
Edward Jenner is related with which disease?
A. Malaria
B. Small Pox
C. Chicken Pox
D. Dengue
Small pox
nan
Que (14):
What is making interesting discoveries unexpectedly or by accident?
A. Serendipity
B. Accident
C. Fluke
D. Providence
Serendipity
nan
Que (15):
Who gave the idea that originally there was only one continent called Pangea?
A. Wegener
B. Copernicus
C. Galileo
D. none of these
Wegener
nan
Que (16):
By whom was Neutron discovered?
A. Mendeleev
B. Bohr
C. Chadwick
D. Rutherford
Chadwick
nan
Que (17):
By whom was the most important theory of general biology proposed?
A. Darwin
B. Wallace
C. Newton
D. A and B
Darwin and Wallace
nan
Que (18):
Which Scientists has established the ‘Phylum Annelida’?
A. Lamark
B. Pyramus
C. Darwin
D. Linnaeus
Lamark
nan
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