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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 organization of commerce and management principles and techniques of management henri fayol's principles of management principles of management management of business

Henry Fayol, the ______ industrialist and popularly known as the 'founder of modern management theory'.

  1. German

  2. French

  3. Greek

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

Henry Fayol was a French mining engineer and executive who developed the 14 principles of management. He is widely recognized as the father of modern management theory.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management principles and techniques of management henri fayol's principles of management principles of management management of business

Who is popularly known as the 'founder of modern management theory?

  1. Frederick Taylor

  2. Luther Gulick

  3. Newmann and Summer

  4. Henry Fayol
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Henry Fayol is widely recognized as the father of modern management theory for his development of the 14 principles of management and the functional approach to management.

Multiple choice biology blood circulatory system of human cardiac disorders cardiac regulation and disorders the blood system

Which one of the following doctors performed the first heart
transplant

  1. Hargovind Khurana

  2. Christian Barnard

  3. Watson

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

The first human heart transplant was performed on 3rd December, 1967 by a team of 30 doctors headed by Prof. Christian Barnard on 55 years old Louis Washkansky at the Groote Schurr Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Inspite of the operation by a leading' surgeon WasEKansKy died on @Ist December, 1967.

Multiple choice bio-chemistry aids to health immunity and the lines of immunity immune system of the body immunity and blood groups

Who is called the father of immunology?

  1. Louis Pasteur

  2. Robert Koch

  3. Edward Jenner

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

  • Edward Jenner, an English physician, and scientist is called the father of immunology. 
  • Jenner was the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, as his experiments opened the pathway of the discovery of the immune system. 
  • He observed the immune capabilities by injecting pus of an infected person to a healthy host. 
  • The healthy person was not infected rather the antigen in the pus activated the immune response.

So, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice business economics and quantitative methods correlation analysis aspects of correlation scatter graphs and correlation linear regression

Francis Galton used the regression analysis to study the relationship between the _______________.

  1. heights of fathers and sons

  2. weights of fathers and sons

  3. heights of mothers and daughters

  4. weights of mothers and daughters
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Francis Golton used the regression analysis for a biological phenomenon to study the relationship between the heights of fathers and son i.e. how the heights of the descendants of the tall ancestors tends to regress down towards a normal average.

Multiple choice elements of book keeping and accountancy book of original record - journal understand the need for journal journals functions, advantages, objects and importance of journal

The author or the book Suma de Arithmetica is _______________.

  1. H.A. Cassel

  2. Luca Paetolli

  3. Adam Smith

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

Luca Pacioli is the author of 'Summa de Arithmetica', which contains the first published description of the double-entry bookkeeping system.

Multiple choice geography economic growth and development development and growth need for sustainable development economics of development

___________ was one of the earliest writers on development economics.

  1. Simon Kuznets

  2. Adam Smith

  3. A.C. Pigou

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

Simon Kuznets was one of the earliest writers on the development of the economies where economic development refers to the development and growth of the economy in all terms which includes all aspects and has become a main and central theme of economic thought throughout the years. 

Multiple choice organisation of commerce and management economics of development and planning fundamental of economic development economics of development economic mechanism

Who first raised the fears of a world food shortage?

  1. David Ricardo

  2. T.R. Malthus

  3. J.S. Mill

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

Thomas Robert Malthus was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography who for the first time proposed the condition of food shortage on the grounds of scarce resources and unlimited wants after studying the world demographics.