Invention and Inventor Quiz

Bal Gangadhar Tilak is known as the father of the extremist movement in India. He was one of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirates. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him 'The father of the Indian unrest'.

American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA in 1953. Watson co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule.

In 1922 Albert Hoyt Taylor and Leo C. Young, researchers working with the U.S. Navy invented Radar. Albert Hoyt Taylor (1879-1961) was an American electrical engineer and Leo C. Young was an American radio engineer. Sir Robert Watson-Watt was also One of the greatest radar pioneers who developed the first practical radar system that helped defend the British in world war II. Watson was widely known as the 'father of radar'.

The human blood groups were discovered by Austrian-born American biologist Karl Landsteiner in 1901. In 1900 Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates, and in 1901 he found that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood.

Roald Amundsen was a respected Norwegian explorer who was determined to beat the British expedition and be the first to reach the South Pole.

Ballistic Missile was developed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s under the direction of Wernher von Braun. It was invented by Walter Dornberger and Wernher Von Braun, and was first used in 1944, to attack London, England.

The first recorded use of the word geography was by Eratosthenes (276–194 BC), a Greek scholar who is credited with creating the discipline of geography.

Gunpowder was originally developed by the Taoists (China) for medicinal purposes. It was first used for warfare around 904 AD. Roger Bacon (1220-1292) was the first to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder, and he proposed flying machines and motorized ships and carriages.

Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when He noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox.

The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip directly from Europe to India, via the Cape of Good Hope. Under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, it was undertaken during the reign of King Manuel I in 1495–1499.