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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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Galileo
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Copernicus
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Newton.
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Nicolaus Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system. Galileo later provided observational support for this model.
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Karl Marx
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Lenin
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Laski
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Mended
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Karl Marx is recognized as the father of scientific socialism for developing the theoretical framework of Marxism through works like The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Lenin was a later revolutionary leader who implemented Marxist theory. Laski was a 20th-century political theorist, and 'Mended' appears to be a garbled option.
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Friedrich Froebel
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William James
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John Dewey
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Benjamin Franklin
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Friedrich Froebel established the first kindergarten in Bad Blankenburg, Germany, in 1837.
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Lord Beveridge
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Angela Thorne
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Pamela Salem
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Brian Elias
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William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, the famous British economist known for the Beveridge Report, was born in Rangpur, which was then part of British India.
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Ernest Curtis
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Theodosius I
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Robert Dover
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Pierre de Coubertin
D
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Pierre de Coubertin is widely recognized as the father of the modern Olympic Games for his role in their revival.
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Solar system
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Solar power
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Solar energy
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None of these
A
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and physicist who was born in Pisa, Italy. The other locations are incorrect.
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Rousseau.
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John Abraham
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Bill Clinton
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Alexander
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is the philosopher most famously associated with the concept of the General Will in his work The Social Contract.
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Robert Boyle
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George Layley
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Johan Bell
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K. A. Abbas
B
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Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) is called the Father of Aviation for his pioneering work on aerodynamics and flying machines. He designed the first successful glider.
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William Herschel
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Abbe Goerges Lamaitre
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Jayant V. Narlikar
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Johannes Kepler
B
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Georges Henri Joseph ةdouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 - 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble.
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Newton
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Hygen
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Yong
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None of these
A
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Explanation
Isaac Newton proposed the corpuscular theory of light, suggesting light consists of particles. Huygens proposed the competing wave theory.
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Jean Picard
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Varahamihira
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Pythagoras
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Newton
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Andre Geim
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Akira Suzuki
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Richard F. Heck
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Liu Xiaobo
D
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Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”.
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Sir Alec Jeffreys
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Dr. Lalji Singh and Dr. V.K Kashyap
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Karry Mulis
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Paul Berg
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None of these.
A
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He was the father of DNA finger printing.
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T. H. Huxley
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Abbe Lemaitre
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Kant and Laplace
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Arrhenius
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None of these
B
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Abbe Lemaitre proposed the Big Bang hypothesis.