Every Knowledge

General Knowledge: EveryDay Science:

Self Assessment Test

Invention and Discoveries

QNo.1 Who build the first modern motorcar?

A Daimler

B Karl Benz

C Henry Ford

D Henry Austin

QNo.2 Bacteria was first discovered by

A Louis Pasteur

B Robert Koch

C Robert Hooke

D A. V. Leeuwenhoek

QNo.3 Who invented penicillin?

A Dresser

B Louis Pasteur

C Edward Jenner

D Alexander Fleming

QNo.4 Force of deflection was first discovered by

A Ferrel

B Koeppen

C Coriolis

D Thornthwaite

QNo.5 Who invented ‘Helicopter’?

A Otis

B Breguet

C Cockrell

D Frank Whittle

QNo.6 Who invented aeroplane?

A Christian Huygens

B Michael Faraday

C Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

D Sir Frank Whittle

QNo.7 Who is the founder of quantum theory of radiation?

A S. N. Bose

B Plank

C Bohr

D Einstein

QNo.8 Who introduced the concept of “Stored Program”?

A John Von Neumann

B John Mauchly

C Charles Babbage

D Blaise Pascal

QNo.9 The study of Drugs and their action is known as

A Pharmacy

B Paleontology

C Paleozoology

D Pharmacology

QNo.10 Who is the inventor of the Web?

A Ted Nelson

B Mike Sendall

C Bill Gates

D Tim Berners-Lee

QNo.11 Who invented the Jet Engine?

A Karl Benz

B Thomas Savery

C Sir Frank Whittle

D Michael Faraday

QNo.12 X-rays were discovered by

A Marie Curie

B Van Lue

C Becquerel

D Roentgen

QNo.13 Who is known as ‘the Father of Geometry’?

A Kepler

B Aristotle

C Euclid

D Pythagoras

QNo.14 Who invented the polio vaccine (oral)?

A Robert Koch

B Albert Sabin

C Jonas Salk

D Burkholder

QNo.15 Who invented Radar?

A P.T. Farnsworth

B J. H. Van Tassel

C Wilhelm K. Roentgen

D A. H. Taylor and Leo C. Young

QNo.16 Who invented the laser?

A T. H. Maiman

B Fred Morrisson

C Sir Frank Whittle

D Dr. Charles H. Jones

QNo.17 The first thermionic Tube was invented by

A Lee De Forest

B J. A. Fleming

C Richardson

D Thomas Edison

QNo.18 The telephone was invented by:

A G. Marconi

B J. L. Baird

C Alexander Graham Bell

D Thomas Barrow

QNo.19 Who is associated with the invention of Nylon?

A Louis Pasteur

B John Corbutt

C J. Nicephore Niepce

D Dr. Wallace H. Carothers

QNo.20 Insulin was discovered by:

A Ronald Ross

B Edward Jenner

C Frederick G Banting

D S. A. Wakesman

QNo.21 Trie concept of “Green House Gases” was postulated by

A Joseph Fourier

B Abdui Kalam

C M. S. Swami Nathan

D Richael Carlson

QNo.22 The purity of Milk is determined by

A Thermometer

B Stalagmometer

C Lactometer

D Hydrometer

QNo.23 Blood groups were discovered by

A Morgan

B Weismann

C William Harvey

D Karl Landsteiner

QNo.24 Cresco graph was invented by

A P. C. Mahalanobis

B J. C. Bose

C P. C. Roy

D S. N. Bose

QNo.25 Who discovered cement?

A Agassit

B Janseen

C Joseph Aspdin

D Albertus Magnus

QNo.26 Who invented vaccination for ‘Small Pox’?

A Louis Pasteur

B Edward Jenner

C Sir Alexander Fleming

D Sir Fredrick Grant Banting

QNo.27 Who invented chloroform as an aesthetic?

A James Simpson

B Edward Jenner

C Christian Barnard

D Alexander Fleming

QNo.28 The computer was invented by

A Faraday

B Babbage

C Maxwell

D Bill Gates

QNo.29 Who was associated with the creation of Pentium Chip?

A Vinod Dham

B C. Kumar Patel

C Saber Bhatia

D Arun Netravali

QNo.30 Who is the father of cellular phone?

A Fred Morrison

B Linus Torvalds

C Martin Cooper

D Percy Lebaron Spencer

QNo.31 Who introduced the use of artificial heart for surgery?

A Christian Barnard

B Michael de Bakey

C Walton Lillehel

D Denton Cooly

QNo.32 Who discovered electromagnetic nature of light?

A Young

B Maxwell

C Snell

D Newton

QNo.33 Who invented Cinema?

A William Murdock

B Thomas Alva Edison

C Nicolas and Jean Lumiere

D Dr. J. Branden Berger

QNo.34 For which invention is Otto Hahn famous?

A Television

B Atom bomb

C X-rays

D Miner’s safety lamp

QNo.35 Who invented the “Voice Mail”?

A V. Poulsen

B J. A. Fleming

C Gordon Matthews

D Alexander Graham Bell

QNo.36 Who invented optical fibre?

A T. H. Maimah

B Samuel Cohen

C Percy L. Spencer

D Narinder Kapany

QNo.37 What is the name given to the outermost “planetoid” discovered recently in the Solar System?

A Asterix

B Sedan

C Xenon

D Quark

QNo.38 Electron was discovered by

A Max Planck

B Albert Einstein

C Joseph Thomson

D Ernest Rutherford

QNo.39 Leprosy bacillus was invented by

A Armauer Hansen

B Robert Koch

C Fleming

D Harvey

QNo.40 Electron microscope was discovered by

A Knoll and Ruska

B Janseen and Janseen

C Garhn and Shortt

D Farmer and Moore

QNo.41 Who was the leader of the term that developed the ‘Web Browser’ known as Mosaic?

A Bob Kahn

B Marc Andreessen

C Tim Berners-Lee

D Paul Mockapetris

QNo.42 Who discovered Solar System?

A Galileo

B Nicolaus Copernicus

C John Hadley

D Newton

QNo.43 Which scientist discovered the radioactive element Radium?

A Marie Curie

B Albert Einstein

C Isaac Newton

D Benjamin Franklin

QNo.44 Radioactivity was discovered by

A Einstein

B Roentgen

C Henri Becquerel

D Rutherford

QNo.45 Gunpowder was invented by

A Dr. Gatting

B C.V. Raman

C Colt

D Roger Bacon

QNo.46 Who invented the video-tape?

A Charles Ginsberg

B P. T. Farnsworth

C Richard James

D Georges de Mestral

QNo.47 Who discovered North Pole?

A John Cobot

B Robert Peary

C Amundson

D Captain Cook

QNo.48 Who invented vaccination?

A Edward Jenner

B Christian Barnard

C James Simpson

D Alexander Fleming

QNo.49 Who invented the hydrogen bomb?

A Samuel Cohen

B Albert Einstein

C Edward Taylor

D J. Robert Oppenheimer

QNo.50 Which company invented the transistor ratio?

A Panasonic

B Grundig

C Sony

D Telstra

QNo.51 Oxygen was discovered by

A Joseph Priestley

B Dr. Gatting

C Rutherford

D Robert Peary

QNo.52 thermometer was invented by

A Dr. Gatting

B Gordon Matthews

C Galileo Galilei

D William Murdock

QNo.53 Rocket engine was invented by

A Robert H. Goddard

B John Loud Biro

C Graham Bell

D Albert Einstein

QNo.54 Who invented the Doctor's thermometer?

A Fahrenheit

B Edison

C Galileo

D None of these