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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

Francis Bacon change the way Europeans viewed the world by

  1. recording the positions of stars and planets in the sky

  2. inventing a piece of equipment to study very small objects

  3. outlining a method to gain knowledge based on observation

  4. translating the works of important Muslim scientists
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Francis Bacon is known for the inductive method, which relies on gathering data through observation and experimentation to form general conclusions.

Multiple choice

Who discovered the concept of gravitational constant?

  1. Galileo Galilei

  2. Lord Henry Cavendish

  3. Samuel Pepys

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

Henry Cavendish is credited with the first measurement of the gravitational constant G in his famous 1798 experiment. Galileo studied gravity, but he did not determine the constant.

Multiple choice

What is the scientist Albert Einstein most known for?

  1. The theory of everything

  2. The theory of relativity and e = mc2

  3. The theory of evolution

  4. The Big Bang Theory
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity, which includes the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc^2.

Multiple choice

Who is known as the father of modern seismology

  1. Charles Richter

  2. R. D. Oldham

  3. W. M. Davis

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

R. D. Oldham is widely recognized for his pioneering work in seismology, specifically for identifying the P, S, and surface waves, earning him the title of the father of modern seismology.

Multiple choice history why did people want to vote? age of protest and law & order impact of industrial revolution democratic and nationalist revolutions in europe

Who designed the square plan design for workhouses?

  1. Sampson Kempthorne

  2. John Soane

  3. Herbert Baker

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

Sampson Kempthorne (1809–1873) was an English architect who specialised in the design of workhouses, before his emigration to New Zealand. Kempthorne came up with two designs – the square plan and the hexagonal or "Y" plan – both contained sections for the different types of inmates (men, women, boys, girls, infirm). The space between different wings was used to provide areas where inmates could exercise – segregated from the other groups. Kempthorne designed workhouses in Abingdon, Andover, Bath, Crediton, Hastings, and Newhaven. Hence, Option A is correct.

Multiple choice

Who is known as Historian ?

  1. A scholar who writes historical narratives

  2. A scholar who writes scientific experiment

  3. A scholar who writes astrology

  4. A scholar who writes essay
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A Correct answer
Explanation

A historian is a person who studies, researches, and writes about the past, typically by analyzing historical narratives and primary source documents.

Multiple choice chemistry basic concepts of chemistry history of atomic model atomic theory of dalton daltons atomic theory

Law of constant proportion is given by _________.

  1. Thompson

  2. Dalton

  3. Joseph Louis Proust

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

Joseph Louis Proust had given the law of constant proportion.


The law of constant proportions states that chemical compounds are made up of elements that are present in a fixed ratio by mass. This implies that any pure sample of a compound, no matter the source, will always consist of the same elements that are present in the same ratio by mass. For example, pure water will always contain hydrogen and oxygen in a fixed mass ratio (a gram of water consists of approximately 0.11 grams of hydrogen and 0.88 grams of oxygen, the ratio is 1:8).

Hence, the correct option is $\text{C}$

Multiple choice

Which historical figure is often credited with popularizing the term 'NOMA' (Non-Overlapping Magisteria)?

  1. Stephen Hawking

  2. Richard Dawkins

  3. Stephen Jay Gould

  4. Albert Einstein
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Stephen Jay Gould proposed the concept of NOMA, which suggests that science and religion operate in distinct domains and do not necessarily conflict with each other.

Multiple choice

Who is considered to be the father of legal positivism?

  1. John Austin

  2. Jeremy Bentham

  3. H.L.A. Hart

  4. Ronald Dworkin
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A Correct answer
Explanation

John Austin is considered to be the father of legal positivism. He developed the theory of legal positivism in his book \"The Province of Jurisprudence Determined\" (1832).