INVENTIONS & DISCOVERY-MCQs

INVENTIONS & DISCOVERY

ID1. Who invented the calendar?

(1) Luwen Hock

(2) Robert Hook

(3) Fleming

(4) Pope Gregory XIII

ID2. The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun was

(1) Newton

(2) Dalton

(3) Copernicus

(4) Einstein

ID3. Who invented the telephone?

(1) Thomas Alva Edison

(2) Galileo

(3) Alexander Graham Bell

(4) G. Marconi

ID4. Who developed the small pox vaccination?

(1) Eduard Jenner

(2) Alexander Fleming

(3) Albert Einstein

(4) None of these

ID5. Mark the wrong combination

(1) James Watt            :           Steam Engine

(2) A.G. Bell               :           Telephone

(3) J. L. Baird              :           Television

(4) J. Perkins              :           Penicillin

ID6. Who discovered Uranus?

(1) William Herschel

(2) Galileo

(3) Copernicus

(4) None of these

ID7. A German Physicist developed the mercury thermometer in 1714 was

(1) Galileo

(2) Archimedes

(3) Laplace

(4) Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit

ID8. The first attempt in printing was made in England by

(1) James Arkwright

(2) James Watt

(3) William Caxton

(4) Isaac Newton

ID9. The credit of developing the polio vaccine goes to

(1) Jonas Salk

(2) Alb E. Sabin

(3) Selman Waksman

(4) None of these