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History Quiz exercise-GK Questions On Famous Scientists and Their Inventions

The document is a quiz featuring general knowledge questions about famous scientists and their inventions. It highlights the contributions of various scientists and encourages readers to answer the questions and create their own. The quiz covers a range of topics, including discoveries in neuroscience, plastic surgery, and computer science.

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History Quiz exercise-GK Questions On Famous Scientists and Their Inventions

The document is a quiz featuring general knowledge questions about famous scientists and their inventions. It highlights the contributions of various scientists and encourages readers to answer the questions and create their own. The quiz covers a range of topics, including discoveries in neuroscience, plastic surgery, and computer science.

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General Knowledge Questions and Answers on Famous Scientists and their inventions

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This is a quiz I found online. Just a bit of fun. The choice of scientists is sometimes surprising. What scientists would you pick?

Try and answer as many questions as possible and then write some yourself!!

Scientists are people of great minds, who ask questions about different phenomena and systematically answer the questions
themselves. No doubt, they are curious, creative and well organised. They have the ability to observe new things in a different
way. Their discoveries have changed the world and given it a new dimension. It was correctly said by George C. Lichtenberg that,
"extraordinary people make the discoveries, which later appear so simple and easy".

1. Name the scientist who discovered that some 6. Who discovered the iridium layer and won the
molecules have mirror images? Nobel Prize also?
A. Lord Kelvin A. Henry Moseley
B. Louis Pasteur B. Pierre Curie
C. Robert Hooke C. Santiago Ramon
D. Henry Moseley D. Luis Alvarez

2. Who is known as the father of plastic surgery?


A. Charaka 7. Who is known as the father of neuroscience?
B. G.D. Naid A. Santaigo Ramony Cajal
C. Sushruta B. Alessandro Volta
D. None of the above C. Salim Ali
D. None of the above

3. Who invented the safety break, which stops an


elevator from crashing? 8. Who invented the coffee filter?
A. Thomas Edison A. Orville
B. Eli Whitney B. Wilbur Wright
C. Henry Ford C. Melitta Bentz
D. Elisha Otis D. Nikola Tesla

4. The Father of the ‘white revolution’ is 9. Who is the founder of oceanography?


A. Patanjali A. Susumu Tonegawa
B. Jagadish Chandra Bose B. Alhazen
C. Verghese Kurein C. Karl Landsteiner
D. Raja Ramanna D. Matthew Maury

5. Who built the first working, programmable, 10. Who discovered TB antibiotic streptomycin?
electro mechanical computer? A. Joseph Lagrange
A. Konrad Zuse B. Selman Waksman
B. Laszlo Jozsef Biro C. Linda Buck
C. Brandenburg D. James Croll
D. Karl Benz

Shikha Goyal

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