Deck 6: History and Discoveries in Science

Question 1

It has been said that the French Revolution was inspired by philosophers. Who among the following philosophers does not belong to this group?

A)Rousseau
B)Voltaire
C)Helvetius
D)Descartes

Answer 1

Descartes

Question 2

Those who believe in 'scientific determinism' argue that ………..

A)Everything is predetermined by fate.
B)Science gives us the determination to decide our future.
C)Everything has a cause, so whatever now is determined by earlier events, and we have no choice in the matter.
D)When science has progressed enough, we will be able to predict the future.

Answer 2

Everything is predetermined by fate.

Question 3

John Hunter, Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister had much in common:

A)All of them were reputed surgeons.
B)All of them tried to introduce the principles of 'asepsis' into surgical practices.
C)All of them faced stiff opposition from their colleagues.
D)And one of them was so persecuted that he died in a mental hospital.

Answer 3

And one of them was so persecuted that he died in a mental hospital.

Question 4

The credit for discovering the Microscope is usually shared by the Hansens, Leewenhock, and Robert Hooke. But only one of them managed to see any micro? organisms through his magnifying glass, and to produce reasonable sketches. This was done by ……..

A)Robert Hooke
B)Hans Jansen
C)Sakharias Jansen
D)Leeuwenhock

Question 5

Who is called the father of Microbiology?

A)Joseph Lister
B)Leeuwenhock
C)Robert Hooke
D)John Hunter

Question 6

Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Robert Koch and Ronald Ross were associated in the establishment of the Germ Theory. Which one of them was born in India?

A)Pasteur
B)Jenner
C)Koch
D)Ross

Question 7

Homeopathy had been founded by ……….

A)Samuel Hahnemann
B)Ronald Ross
C)Robert Koch
D)Louis Pasteur

Question 8

Systema naturae is a work by ………..

A)George Cuvier
B)Carolus Linnaeus
C)Gregor Mendel
D)Darwin

Question 9

Who discovered that sudden mutations might appear in plants and could get transmitted to future generations?

A)Hugo de Vries
B)Gregor Mendel
C)Darwin
D)Linnaeus

Question 10

Chromosomes were discovered by ……..

A)William Bateson
B)Darwin
C)Wather Flemming
D)Pasteur

Question 11

The number of genes in the human body is ………

A)Between 20 and 250000
B)About 1 million
C)Close to 5 million
D)Above 1 billion

Question 12

Among the fundamental particles, the first to be discovered was …….

A)Proton
B)Electron
C)Neutron
D)Positron

Question 13

Who discovered X?ray?

A)Rutherford
B)Konrad Von Rontgen
C)J.J. Thomson
D)Einstein

Question 14

Gamma?radiation was discovered by ………..

A)J.J. Thomson
B)Rontgen
C)Paul Villard
D)Newton

Question 15

Raman effect was discovered by ……….

A)Chandrasekhara Vankata Raman
B)Neils Bohr
C)J.J.Thomson
D)Newton

Question 16

Positron was discovered by ……….

A)James Chadwick
B)Otto Hahn
C)Carl D. Anderson
D)Darwin

Question 17

The term 'Nanotechnology' refers to ..,……..

A)Extreme miniaturization.
B)Operations involving particles of one nanometer or less.
C)Operations in the scale 100 nanometer or less.
D)Anything which is done at molecular level.

Question 18

Who invented the Pascalina?

A)Leibniz
B)Blaise Pascal
C)Ada Lovelace
D)None of these

Question 19

Telephone was invented by ………

A)Pascal
B)Lovelace
C)Alexander Graham Bell
D)None of these

Question 20

Radio was invented by ……..

A)Lovelace
B)Marconi
C)Graham Bell
D)Pascal

Question 21

The first High Speed, General?Purpose Electronic Computer using vacuum tubes, was …..

A)ENIAC
B)UNIVAC
C)EDVAC
D)None of these

Question 22

The first binary, stored programme computer was …….

A)UNIVAC
B)ENIAC
C)EDVAC
D)None of these

Question 23

The world's first commercial computer was ……..

A)UNIVAC
B)ENIAC
C)EDVAC
D)None of these

Question 24

The term nanotechnology was first coined by ………

A)Norio Taniguchi
B)John von Neumann
C)Ada Lovelace
D)Pascal