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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

Multiple choice biology biodiversity and classification life introduction to plant kingdom classification of organisms

Which of the following is called the father of taxonomy?

  1. Aristotle

  2. Carolus Linnaeus

  3. John Ray

  4. Theophrastus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Taxonomy is defined as the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms. Carolus Linnaeus is known as the father of taxonomy.

Aristotle is known as the father of zoology.
John Ray coined the term species.
Theophrastus is known as the father of botany.
So, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice book keeping and accountancy conceptual framework of accounting distinction between accounting and book-keeping distinction between book-keeping and accounting meaning and objectives of accounting

Who is the father of Double entry- Book Keeping?

  1. F.W. Taylor

  2. Henry Fayol

  3. Lucas Paciol

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Luca Pacioli was an Italian mathematician and is famously known as The Father of Accounting and Bookkeeping due to his tremendous contributions in the field of accounting. 

Multiple choice maths introduction to three dimensional geometry coordinate axes and coordinate planes in 3d space coordinates in 3d introduction to 3d geometry

Who gave the systematic development of analytical geometry for the first time?

  1. Leonard Euler

  2. J. Bernoulli

  3. Rene' Descartes

  4. Pierre Fermat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

J. bernoulli in a letter of $1715 A.D$ to Leibnitz introduced the three coordinate planes which we are using today

He is the fist one to give the systematic development of analytical geometry
Therefore the correct option is $B$

Multiple choice ancient world history world history general knowledge

Who is considered as the master of Greek Comedy?

  1. Aeschylus

  2. So Phocles

  3. Aristophanes

  4. Philip
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Aristophanes is known as the father of comedy and the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy, having written many satirical plays.

Multiple choice ancient world history world history general knowledge

Who is the father of Athenian democracy?

  1. Cleisthenes

  2. Draco

  3. Hippias

  4. Preisistratos
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cleisthenes is credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing, earning him the title of the father of Athenian democracy.

Multiple choice mathematics and statistics angle and their measurement angles and sides naming the sides in a right angled triangle understanding ratios

In the early 9th century AD, _________ produced accurate sine and cosine tables, and the first table of tangents.

  1. Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi

  2. Muhammad ibn Jabir al-Harrani al-Battani

  3. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

  4. Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In the early 9th century AD, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī produced accurate sine and cosine tables, and the first table of tangents. He was also a pioneer in spherical trigonometry.

Multiple choice mathematics and statistics angle and their measurement angles and sides naming the sides in a right angled triangle understanding ratios

The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician ________________.

  1. William Rowan Hamilton

  2. Hipparchus

  3. Newton

  4. Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus.

So, option B is correct.

Multiple choice mathematics and statistics angle and their measurement angles and sides naming the sides in a right angled triangle understanding ratios

______ mathematicians created the trigonometry system based on the sine function instead of the chords.

  1. Greek

  2. Indian

  3. German

  4. Egyptian
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
Indian mathematicians $\text{Aryabhata}$ created the trigonometry system based on the sine function instead of the chords.
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Hence, the answer is Indian.
Multiple choice mathematics and statistics angle and their measurement angles and sides naming the sides in a right angled triangle understanding ratios

Find the name of the person who first produce a table for solving a triangle's length and angles.

  1. William Rowan Hamilton

  2. Hipparchus

  3. Euclid

  4. Issac Newton
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

$\text {Hipparchus}$ gave the first table of chords analogus to modern table of sine values, and used them to solve trigonometric problems

Multiple choice history socialism in europe and the russian revolution the russian revolution russian revolution the russian revolution

Who among the following is acknowledged as the father of Scientific Socialism ?

  1. Karl Marx

  2. V. I. Lenin

  3. Jawahar Lal Nehru

  4. Mao Tse Tung
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Karl Marx studied political economy and capitalism for his Economic and Philosophical manuscript and framed a new political economic theory scientific socialism.