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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries

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This hub provides questions related to great inventors and their scientific discoveries. It covers the inventors of the telephone, radio, and microchips, alongside Nobel Prize winners. These facts are crucial for the general awareness section of major competitive exams.

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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice

Who among the following were awarded 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

  1. Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa and Yoichiro Nambu

  2. Harald Zur Hausen, Francoise Barre- Sinonssi and Lue Montagnier

  3. Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura

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

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).

Multiple choice

Passive immunity was discovered by

  1. Robert Koch

  2. L. Pasteur

  3. Edward Jenner

  4. Emil Von Behring
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Passive immunity is a type of artificial immunity in which antibodies are administered.

Multiple choice

Lysosome was discovered by

  1. Golgi

  2. De Duve

  3. Porter

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

In 1955, Christian de Duve discovered previously unknown organelles in the cell, lysosomes.

Multiple choice

Phenomenon of photoperiodism was discovered by

  1. W. Went

  2. Garner and Allard

  3. P. F. Blackman

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

Photoperiodism is the physiological reaction of organisms to the length of day or night. In 1920, W. W. Garner and H. A. Allard published their discoveries on photoperiodism.

Multiple choice

The auriculo-ventricular node was discovered by

  1. William Harvey

  2. Ringer

  3. Aristotle

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

Option (4) is the correct answer. The atrioventricular node is a part of the electrical conduction system of the heart that coordinates the top of the heart.

Multiple choice

Who is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes and created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence?

  1. Alan Turing

  2. Jeff Bezos

  3. George Boole

  4. Charles Babbage

  5. David Filo
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS, was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He is responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes and created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence.