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INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the scientist who had discovered that some molecules have mirror images?

a)

Lord Kelvin

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Robert Hooke

d)

Henry Moseley

2.

Who is known as the father of plastic surgery?

a)

Charaka

b)

G.D. Naid

c)

Sushruta

d)

None of the above

3.

Who invented the safety break, which stop the elevator from crashing?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Eli Whitney

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Elisha Otis

4.

The Father of white revolution is

a)

Patanjali

b)

Jagadish Chandra Bose

c)

Verghese Kurein

d)

Raja Ramanna

5.

Who built the first working, programmable, electro mechanical computer?

a)

Konrad Zuse

b)

Laszlo Jozsef Biro

c)

Brandenburg

d)

Karl Benz

6.

Who discovered the iridium layer and won Nobel Prize also?

a)

Henry Moseley

b)

Pierre Curie

c)

Santiago Ramon

d)

Luis Alvarez

7.

Who is known as the father of neuroscience?

a)

Santaigo Ramony Cajal

b)

Alessandro Volta

c)

Salim Ali

d)

None of the above

8.

Who invented coffee filter?

a)

Orville

b)

Wilbur Wright

c)

Melitta Bentz

d)

Nikola Tesla

9.

Who is the founder of oceanography?

a)

Susumu Tonegawa

b)

Alhazen

c)

Karl Landsteiner

d)

Matthew Maury

10.

Oxygen was independently discovered by

a)

Rutherford

b)

William Ramsay

c)

Joseph Priestley

d)

Neils Bohr

11.

Which of the following inventions were done by Thomas Alva Edison?

a)

Incandescent lamp

b)

Phonograph C (Gramophone) and microphone

c)

Carbon telephone transmitters

d)

All of the above

12.

Michael Faraday discovered

a)

Electromagnetism

b)

Benzene, liquid gases and optical glass

c)

The induction of electric current

d)

All of the above

13.

Wright Brothers are regarded inventors of the

a)

Balloon

b)

Bicycle

c)

Aeroplane

d)

None of the above

14.

Who discovered Penicillin?

a)

Alexander Fleming

b)

Joseph Lister

c)

Robert Koch

d)

W. Roentgen

15.

The velocity of light was first measured by

a)

Einstein

b)

Newton

c)

Romer

d)

Galileo