General Awareness - Discoveries and Inventions ( Branches of Science and Scientific Instruments )

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Question - 1

Who produced the first automobile?

  • A Gottleib Daimler
  • B Henry Ford
  • C Rudolf Diesel
  • D Karl Benz

Question - 2

Who was associated with the creation of Pentium Chip?

  • A Arun Netravalli
  • B Sabeer Bhatia
  • C C.Kumar Patel
  • D Vinod Dham

Question - 3

Who invented the laser?

  • A Sir Frank Whittle
  • B Fred Morrisson
  • C T.H.Maiman
  • D Dr. Charles H.Jones

Question - 4

Which company invented the transistor ratio?

  • A Sony
  • B Grundig
  • C Panasonic
  • D Telstra

Question - 5

Who invented the polio vaccine (oral)?

  • A Jonas Salk
  • B Albert Sabin
  • C Burkholder
  • D Robert Koch

Question - 6

Who invented the "Voice Mail"?

  • A Gordon Matthews
  • B Alexander Graham Bell
  • C J A. Fleming
  • D V. Poulsen

Question - 7

Who is the father of cellular phone?

  • A Linus Torvalds
  • B Percy Lebaron Spencer
  • C Fred Morrison
  • D Martin Cooper

Question - 8

Which among the following events occurred first?

  • A John Logy Baird demonstrated first television
  • B Alexander Flemming discovered pencillin
  • C Telecast of talking pictures on television by BBC
  • D Jonas E. Salk developed first polio vaccine

Question - 9

Who is known as 'the Father of Geometry' ?

  • A Pythagoras  
  • B Euclid
  • C Aristotle
  • D Kepler

Question - 10

What is the name given to the outermost "planetoid" discovered recently in the Solar System?

  • A Quark
  • B Xenon
  • C Sedna
  • D Asterix