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- Question 1 of 45
1. Question
Who was associated with the creation of Pentium Chip?
Hint
Vinod Dham is known as the ‘Father of the Pentium Chip’ for his contribution to the development of Intel’s Pentium microprocessor. He is an Indian engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
- Question 2 of 45
2. Question
Who developed Ballistic Missile?
Hint
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.
- Question 3 of 45
3. Question
Who invented the videotape recorder?
Hint
The videotape recorder was invented by Charles Ginsberg in 1951. In 1953, Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki developed a prototype helical scan videotape recorder.
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. - Question 4 of 45
4. Question
Who invented the polio vaccine (oral)?
Hint
In 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first injectable vaccine against polio. Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) was developed by Dr Albert Sabin in 1961.
- Question 5 of 45
5. Question
Who is the father of cellular phone?
Hint
A mobile phone or Cellular Phone is invented by American engineer Martin Cooper in 1973. He is considered the “father of cellular phone” and is also cited as the first person in history to make a handheld cellular phone call in public.
- Question 6 of 45
6. Question
Who among the following analysed DNA for the first time?
Hint
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.
- Question 7 of 45
7. Question
Which among the following events occurred first?
Hint
Scotland engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated the first prototype television in 1925. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, in 1928. The first experimental television programme produced by the BBC was Telecast on 22 August 1932. Jonas E. Salk developed the first polio vaccine in 1955
- Question 8 of 45
8. Question
Who among the following developed World Wide Web (WWW), which gave a new type of information exhibition?
Hint
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The World Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by URL (Uniform Resource Locators), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
- Question 9 of 45
9. Question
Who is known as the ‘Father of Geometry’?
Hint
Greek mathematician Euclid (lived 300 BCE) is often referred to as the ‘founder of geometry’ or ‘father of geometry’. He is best known for his geometry book, the Elements.
- Question 10 of 45
10. Question
Who is hailed as the ‘God of Medicine’ by the practitioners of Ayurveda?
Hint
Dhanvantari is the Hindu god of medicine and an avatar of Lord Mahavishnu. He is mentioned in the Puranas as the god of Ayurveda.
- Question 11 of 45
11. Question
The number system ‘Zero’ was invented by:
Hint
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.
- Question 12 of 45
12. Question
Herodotus is considered as the father of:
Hint
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.
- Question 13 of 45
13. Question
Which company invented the transistor radio?
Hint
The transistor radio was invented by the Japanese company Sony (old name Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). For several months, the founder of Sony, Masaru Ibuka traveled around the United States borrowing ideas from the American transistor manufacturers. Improving upon the ideas, Sony made its first functional transistor radio in 1954.
- Question 14 of 45
14. Question
Who invented Radar?
Hint
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’.
- Question 15 of 45
15. Question
Who among the following biologists used the statement ‘Survival of the fittest’ for the first time in his book, ‘Principles of Biology’?
Hint
The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer (1864) looked at biology in terms of themes, such as Function, Adaptation and Variation. In this book Spencer introduced the expression ‘survival of the fittest’, in the sense of ‘the most appropriate to its environment’.
- Question 16 of 45
16. Question
Who is said to be the father of modern Olympics?
Hint
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.
- Question 17 of 45
17. Question
The father of extremist movement in India is:
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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’.
- Question 18 of 45
18. Question
Who discovered sex hormones?
Hint
Eugen Steinach (1861-1944) discovered sex hormones. He was an Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrinology. Steinach played a significant role in discovering the relationship between sex hormones (estrogen and testosterone) to human physical identifiers. German biochemist Adolf Butenandt was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on sex hormones.
- Question 19 of 45
19. Question
The first thermionic valve was invented by:
Hint
British engineer John Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945) invented the first vacuum tube in 1904. It was also called a thermionic valve, vacuum diode, kenotron, thermionic tube, or Fleming valve.
- Question 20 of 45
20. Question
Who is called the Father of History?
Hint
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.
- Question 21 of 45
21. Question
The term ‘gene’ was coined by:
Hint
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.
- Question 22 of 45
22. Question
Gunpowder was invented by:
Hint
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.
- Question 23 of 45
23. Question
For which invention is Otto Hahn famous?
Hint
German chemist Otto Hahn (1879-1968) invented the atom bomb in 1938. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and the godfather of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for their role in the Manhattan Project – the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
- Question 24 of 45
24. Question
First successful heart transplantation was done by:
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922-2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant operation in 1967.
- Question 25 of 45
25. Question
Match the following:
A. Jenner 1. blood grouping B. Watson 2. penicillin C. Landsteiner 3. vaccination D. Flemming 4. double helix Hint
The correct match is as follows:
A. Edward Jenner (pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine.) 3. vaccination B. Watson (first described the molecular structure of DNA, which they called a ‘double helix’) 4. double helix C. Landsteiner (distinguished the main blood groups) 1. blood grouping D. Flemming (discovered the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic penicillin.) 2. penicillin - Question 26 of 45
26. Question
Who discovered X-rays?
Hint
Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass. He named them X-rays to underline the fact that their nature was unknown.
- Question 27 of 45
27. Question
With which among the following fields is the name of S. Chandrasekhar associated?
Hint
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. Today we call these collapsed stars neutron stars and black holes. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler.
- Question 28 of 45
28. Question
Leprosy bacillus was invented by:
Hint
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) invented Leprosy bacillus in 1873. He worked on leprosy throughout his career.
- Question 29 of 45
29. Question
Revealed Preference Theory was propounded by:
Hint
Revealed Preference Theory was propounded by American economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938. This theory states that consumer behaviour, if their income and the item’s price are held constant, is the best indicator of their preferences.
- Question 30 of 45
30. Question
Who coined the word ‘Geography’?
Hint
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.
- Question 31 of 45
31. Question
Who discovered portland cement?
Hint
The invention of portland cement usually is attributed to Joseph Aspdin of Leeds, Yorkshire, England, who in 1824 took out a patent for a material that was produced from a synthetic mixture of limestone and clay. Portland cement is named after the high-quality building stones quarried in Portland, England.
- Question 32 of 45
32. Question
Who discovered the North Pole?
Hint
Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole in 1909. He was an American explorer and United States Naval officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
- Question 33 of 45
33. Question
The scientist who first sent electromagnetic waves to distant places is:
Hint
The scientist who first sent electromagnetic waves to distant places was Heinrich Hertz (German physicist, 1857-1894). He applied Maxwell’s theories to the production and reception of radio waves. He used a spark gap attached to an induction coil and a separate spark gap on a receiving antenna. When waves created by the sparks of the coil transmitter were picked up by the receiving antenna, sparks would jump its gap as well. Hertz showed in his experiments that these signals possessed all the properties of electromagnetic waves.
- Question 34 of 45
34. Question
Bacteria were first discovered by:
Hint
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek is commonly known as the father of microbiology and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. He discovered bacteria in 1676.
- Question 35 of 45
35. Question
The discoverer of penicillin was:
Hint
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician-scientist who was recognised for discovering penicillin. Penicillins are a group of antibacterial drugs that attack a wide range of bacteria. The discovery of penicillin has changed the face of medicine, as these drugs have saved millions of lives.
- Question 36 of 45
36. Question
Blood groups were discovered by:
Hint
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.
- Question 37 of 45
37. Question
Who is called the Father of the Computer?
Hint
Charles Babbage was an English polymath. He originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is called the ‘Father of the Computer’.
- Question 38 of 45
38. Question
The electron microscope was discovered by:
Hint
The electron microscope was discovered by Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll in 1931. Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and Max Knoll was a German electrical engineer.
- Question 39 of 45
39. Question
The credit of discovering the sea route of India goes to the:
Hint
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.
- Question 40 of 45
40. Question
Who discovered the South Pole?
Hint
Roald Amundsen was a respected Norwegian explorer who was determined to beat the British expedition and be the first to reach the South Pole.
- Question 41 of 45
41. Question
Who invented vaccination for SmallPox?
Hint
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.
- Question 42 of 45
42. Question
Who invented the Jet Engine?
Hint
Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) was an English aviation engineer and pilot who invented the jet engine. He registered a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930.
- Question 43 of 45
43. Question
Who invented vaccination?
Hint
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) 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.
- Question 44 of 45
44. Question
Who invented chloroform as an anesthetic?
Hint
Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery. The first narcosis with chloroform was performed by Simpson on himself on November 4, 1847.
- Question 45 of 45
45. Question
The telephone was invented by:
Hint
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor and scientist who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone in 1876. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.