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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

The native land of 'Jim Corbett' is

  1. England

  2. India

  3. Germany

  4. France
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Explanation

Jim Corbett, the famous hunter and conservationist, was born in Naini Tal, India, to British parents. He spent much of his life in India.

Multiple choice

Who discovered Neptune?

  1. William Herschel

  2. Johann Gottfried Galle

  3. Clyde W. Tombaugh

  4. Unknown
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Neptune was discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle on September 23, 1846, based on mathematical predictions made by Urbain Le Verrier.

Multiple choice

Who is called the father of botany?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus

  2. Aristotle

  3. Gregor Mendel

  4. Theophrastus
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Theophrastus is known as the father of botany because of his extensive writings on plants, such as 'Enquiry into Plants'.

Multiple choice

Who i known as the father of zoology?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus

  2. Aristotle

  3. Gregor Mendel

  4. Theophrastus
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Aristotle is known as the father of zoology for his pioneering work in classifying and describing animals. His work 'Historia Animalium' laid the foundation for systematic zoological studies. Linnaeus is the father of taxonomy, Mendel is the father of genetics, and Theophrastus is known for botany.

Multiple choice

Who is the father of taxonomy?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus

  2. Aristotle

  3. Gregor Mendel

  4. Theophrastus
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Explanation

Carolus Linnaeus is known as the father of taxonomy for his development of the binomial nomenclature system for naming organisms.

Multiple choice

Who is the father of genetics?

  1. Carolus Linnaeus

  2. Aristotle

  3. Gregor Mendel

  4. Theophrastus
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Gregor Mendel is known as the father of genetics for his pioneering experiments with pea plants, which established the laws of inheritance.

Multiple choice

David Blaine is a renounced _____.

  1. actor

  2. footballer

  3. boxer

  4. illusionist

  5. hockey player
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D Correct answer
Explanation

David Blaine is a renowned illusionist. David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist.

Multiple choice

Who is the founder of Taoism?

  1. Confucius

  2. Lao Tzu

  3. Moses

  4. Lee Chu
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Lao Tzu is traditionally credited with writing the Tao Te Ching and is considered the founder of Taoism.

Multiple choice

Who among the following spent his early years in Yemen?

  1. Azim Premji

  2. Raj Kapoor

  3. Dhirubhai Ambani

  4. Vaikom Muhammad Bashir
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, spent his early working years in Aden, Yemen, where he worked as a gas station attendant. The other individuals listed did not spend their early years in Yemen.

Multiple choice

The propounder of the Law of Gravitation is

  1. Faraday

  2. Edison

  3. Newton

  4. Archimedes
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Sir Isaac Newton formulated the Law of Universal Gravitation in his work Principia Mathematica. He described the gravitational force between two masses as proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Multiple choice

Who is known as father of microbiology?

  1. Pare

  2. Liebig

  3. Pasteur

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Louis Pasteur is widely recognized as the father of microbiology for his work on germ theory and pasteurization.