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Famous Personalities and Discoveries
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Famous personalities and discoveries questions test your knowledge of historical figures, scientists, and their groundbreaking inventions. These are highly scoring topics in SSC, banking, and state PSC general awareness sections. Solve these questions to memorize important contributions easily.
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Famous Personalities and Discoveries Questions
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Mark Twain was born in 1835 during Halley's Comet's appearance and died in 1910 when the comet returned. He indeed predicted he would 'go out with the comet.'
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George Eiffel
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Alexeder Eiffel
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Michael Eiffel
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Adam Eiffel
B
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The Eiffel Tower was designed and built by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (whose name is commonly shortened to Gustave Eiffel). The tower was named after him, not his father George or any other family members. The spelling 'Alexeder' is incorrect, but B is the intended answer.
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sheldon orton
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sir sidny
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benjamen franklin
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dave vectore
C
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Benjamin Franklin is featured on the US $100 bill, which is commonly called a 'dollar bill' colloquially. The question is poorly phrased ('famous one in the dollar') and has typos in all options (benjamen, sheldon orton, sir sidny, dave vectore). Franklin is one of the most recognizable figures on US currency.
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18 July 1982
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17 July 1982
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16 July 1982
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15 July 1982
A
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Priyanka Chopra was born on July 18, 1982. Option A shows the correct date. The other options are off by 1-3 days from the actual birth date.
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12th of January
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13th of January
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23th of January
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14th of January
A
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Swami Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863, in Kolkata. This date is now celebrated as National Youth Day in India in his honor.
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Steven Hawkings
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Newton
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Albert Einstine
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Jayant Naralikar
A
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A Brief History of Time was written by Stephen Hawking, exploring cosmology and theoretical physics for general readers. Newton, Einstein, and Naralikar are other physicists but not the author of this specific book.
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Chennai
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Bangalore
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Mumbai
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Jaipur
C
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Sneha was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Though she became a prominent actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema, her birthplace was Mumbai. This is less commonly known as she's strongly associated with South Indian cinema, making it a good trivia question about her background.
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New york
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Washington DC
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Boston
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New Jersey
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After Einstein's death in 1955, his brain was removed and preserved. It is currently housed at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, which is in the state of New Jersey. The pathologist Thomas Harvey took it without permission.
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Edwin Hubble
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Isaac Newton
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Copernicus
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Galileo
A
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Edwin Hubble provided the first observational evidence that there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way in the 1920s by showing that spiral nebulae were actually distant galaxies, not nearby gas clouds.
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Saurav G
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Dimple
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Hirak
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Akhil
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Agatharchos
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Galileo Galilei
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Aryabhatta
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Engel
C
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Aryabhata (476-550 AD) is credited with developing the concept of zero as a number in ancient Indian mathematics. The other options are unrelated - Agatharchos (Greek artist), Galileo (astronomer), Engel (unknown context).
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Marie Curie
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Savey
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Lucretius
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Saint Gyandev
D
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Saint Gyandev, a 13th-century Indian saint, is traditionally credited with creating Snakes and Ladders as a moral teaching game called Moksha Patam. The question claims this is correct.
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11-Sep-06
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12-Sep-07
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10-Sep-06
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21-Sep-06
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Hippocrates
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Aristotle
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Achilles
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Plato
A
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Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BCE), the ancient Greek physician, is universally recognized as the 'Father of Medicine' for establishing medicine as a rational profession based on observation and documentation rather than superstition. He's also credited with the Hippocratic Oath.
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Albert Einstein
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Werner Heizenberg
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Wolfgang Paulie
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Niels Bohr