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Scientists and Inventors

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which American scientist invented the revolver?

a)

Samuel Colt

b)

John Browning

c)

Samuel Walker

d)

Oliver Winchester

2.

Which scientist among these not contributed for the invention of transistor?

a)

Walter Brattain

b)

John Bardeen

c)

William Shockley

d)

Linus Pauling

3.

Who is considered as the founder of modern breaking system?

a)

Armand Peugeot

b)

Louis Renault

c)

Carlos Ghosn

d)

Andre Citronen

4.

Which American scientist invented the submarine in 1776? It was used for the American revolutionary war too.

a)

David Bushnell

b)

James Watt

c)

Thomas Newcomen

d)

Edmund Cartwright

5.

Which French Scientist invented the Neon lamp in 1910?

a)

Charles Cros

b)

Paul Delorme

c)

Georges Claude

d)

Guglielmo Marconi

6.

Which American scientist invented the electric elevator (Escalator) in 1891?

a)

Jesse Reno

b)

Alexander Miles

c)

Roger Penske

d)

Donald Ritter

7.

This German scientist invented PVC(Polyvinyl Chloride). who is he?

a)

Eugen Baumann

b)

Waldo Semon

c)

Carl Schotten

d)

Herman Von Fehling

8.

Who was the founder of "PUMA" company?

a)

Horst Dassler

b)

Armin Dassler

c)

Rudolf Dassler

d)

Kasper Roasted

9.

Who invented the fire extinguisher?

a)

Michael Faraday

b)

Richard Trevithick

c)

George William Manby

d)

James Dewar

10.

Who invented the method of vulcanization of rubber?

a)

Charles Goodyear

b)

John Dunlop

c)

Thomas Hancock

d)

Charles Macintosh

11.

Which German scientist discovered the X ray machine?

a)

Wilhelm Rontgen

b)

Henry Becquerel

c)

Phillip Lenard

d)

Marie Curie

12.

Who is the founder of radar system?

a)

Eric Megaw

b)

Arnold Wilkins

c)

Heinrich Hertz

d)

Robert Watson

13.

Who invented the Hydrogen bomb in 1952?

a)

Enrico Fermi

b)

Edward Teller

c)

John Neumann

d)

Ernest Lawrence

14.

Who is the inventor of the Polio vaccine?

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Albert Sabin

c)

Thomas Francis

d)

Donna Lindsay

15.

Who discovered Insulin?

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Fredrick Banting

c)

Charles Best

d)

James Collip

16.

who invented the method of vulcanization rubber?

a)

Jack Kilby

b)

Adolf Dassler

c)

Hans Geiger

d)

Charles Goodyear

17.

Who invented the compass?

a)

William Thomson

b)

Rudolf Clausius

c)

Nicolas Leonard

d)

Anders Celsius

18.

Who invented the printing press ?

a)

Johannes Gutenberg

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Nicolaus Copernicus

19.

Which scientist won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1918?

a)

Carl Bosch

b)

Fritz Haber

c)

Clara Immerwahr

d)

Walther Nerst

20.

For a certain research Albert Einstein won the Nobel Chemistry prize in 1921.What is that?

a)

Quantum Physics

b)

Photoelectric effect

c)

Chemical Science

d)

Earth and related environmental sciences

21.

Who discovered the Polio vaccine?

a)

Jonas Salk

b)

Albert Sabin

c)

Thomas Francis

d)

Jack Kilby

22.

What is the protozoa which causes Malaria?

a)

Aconoidasida

b)

Plasmodium

c)

Amoeba

d)

Paramecium

23.

Which scientist is considered as the"Father of Quantum physics"?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Max Planck

c)

Guglielmo Marconi

d)

Niels Bohr

24.

For discovering which subatomic structure, James Chadwick was awarded with the Nobel physics prize in 1935?

a)

Proton

b)

Electron

c)

Neutron

d)

Mesosome

25.

Which Austrian scientist discovered the human blood groups?

a)

Karl Landsteiner

b)

Phillip Levine

c)

Jan Jansky

d)

Alexander Wiener