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Inventions and Discoveries Quiz: 10 GK Questions

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Great ideas changed the world. Match the invention or discovery to the person behind it.

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1Who is credited with inventing the telephone?

  1. Alexander Graham Bell
  2. Nikola Tesla
  3. Thomas Edison
  4. Guglielmo Marconi
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Answer: A. Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell received the first US patent for the telephone in 1876.

2Who discovered penicillin in 1928?

  1. Edward Jenner
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. Marie Curie
  4. Louis Pasteur
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Answer: B. Alexander Fleming. Alexander Fleming noticed that a mould killed bacteria, leading to the first antibiotic.

3Who invented the World Wide Web?

  1. Tim Berners-Lee
  2. Charles Babbage
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Bill Gates
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Answer: A. Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee created the Web in 1989 while working at CERN.

4The Wright brothers are famous for:

  1. The first powered aeroplane flight
  2. The car
  3. The radio
  4. The steam engine
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Answer: A. The first powered aeroplane flight. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled powered flight in 1903.

5The Raman Effect was discovered by:

  1. Jagadish Chandra Bose
  2. C. V. Raman
  3. S. N. Bose
  4. Homi Bhabha
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Answer: B. C. V. Raman. C. V. Raman discovered it in 1928 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

6National Science Day, marking the Raman Effect, is on:

  1. 11 May
  2. 14 November
  3. 28 February
  4. 5 June
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Answer: C. 28 February. India celebrates National Science Day on 28 February each year.

7Who invented dynamite?

  1. Michael Faraday
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. Alfred Nobel
  4. James Watt
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Answer: C. Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. His fortune funds the Nobel Prizes.

8Who gave the laws of motion and the law of gravitation?

  1. Galileo
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Johannes Kepler
  4. Isaac Newton
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Answer: D. Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton described them in his book Principia in 1687.

9Who invented the printing press with movable type in Europe?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Johannes Gutenberg
  3. William Caxton
  4. Galileo
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Answer: B. Johannes Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg built his printing press around 1440.

10Who is called the father of the computer?

  1. Alan Turing
  2. Charles Babbage
  3. Blaise Pascal
  4. John von Neumann
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Answer: B. Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine, an early general-purpose computer.
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