Invention and Inventor Quiz

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.

Pierre de Coubertin is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. He was a French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and its second president. He was particularly active in promoting the introduction of sport in French schools.

Zero is an important invention of India. It may have been invented by either Aryabhata or Brahmagupta. The first modern equivalent of numeral zero comes from a Hindu astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta (590-668 AD) in 628 AD. Brahmagupta was the first to give rules to compute with zero. Aryabhatta (598-665 AD) a great mathematician and an astronomer used zero in the decimal system.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

Herodotus (484-425/413 BCE) was a Greek writer who invented the field of study known today as history. He was called 'The Father of History' by the Roman writer and orator Cicero for his famous work The Histories.

Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms 'gene', and for his 1903 'pure line' experiments in genetics.