Quiz on Scientists and Inventions

A quiz on well-known scientists and their inventions. Can you name the scientist behind each discovery?

Question 1. Telescope was invented by ________.

(A) Graham Bell

(B) Edison

(C) Gutenberg

(D) Galileo

Question 2. The microscope is used for the study of __________.

(A) Micro and nearby objects

(B) Small objects

(C) Nearby objects

(D) Distant objects

Question 3. The machine-Gun was invented by __________.

(A) James Puckle

(B) Karl Benz

(C) G. Brousa

(D) J.L. Beared

Question 4. Who invented thermoscope, an early form of thermometer?

(A) Beno Gutenberg

(B) Galileo

(C) Charles F. Richter

(D) Sir Christopher Wren

Question 5. Which is the biggest telescope of the world?

(A) Challenger

(B) Discovery

(C) Ice Cube

(D) Galileo

Question 6. Wilhelm Roentgen invented ___________.

(A) Electric Motor

(B) Electric Bulb

(C) X-Ray Machine

(D) Radio

Question 7. Who among the following scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son?

(A) Enrico Fermi

(B) William Henry Bragg

(C) Albert Einstein

(D) Max Plank

Question 8. Who invented Steam Engine?

(A) Robert Watson

(B) William Harvey

(C) James Watt

(D) None of the above

Question 9. ‘Telephone’ was invented by _________.

(A) George Stephenson

(B) Wilson

(C) Hoffman

(D) Graham Bell

Question 10. Who discovered electric bulb?

(A) Terry Addison

(B) William Cooke

(C) Alexander Graham Bell

(D) Thomas Edison

Question 11. Gas engine was invented by ____________.

(A) Charles

(B) Daimler

(C) Davy

(D) Diesel

Question 12. Who was the inventor of the fountain pen? 

(A) Shaeffers

(B) Chelpark

(C) Parker

(D) Waterman

Question 13. Who was the inventor of Radar?

(A) Austin

(B) Bush Wall

(C) Fleming

(D) Robert Watson

Question 14. Alfred Nobel invented ____________.

(A) Gramophone

(B) Dynamite

(C) Typewriter

(D) Microphone

Question 15. Who discovered Television?

(A) Franklin

(B) Baird

(C) Galileo

(D) Edison

Question 16. With what invention is the name of J.L. Baird associated with _______.

(A) Telephone

(B) Television

(C) Helicopter

(D) Barometer

Question 17. Who among the following invented Lasers?

(A) Francis Crick

(B) William Morton

(C) Denis Papin

(D) Theodore Maiman

Question 18. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) J. Perkins – Penicillin

(B) J.L. Baird – Television

(C) A.G. Bell – Telephone

(D) James Watt – Steam Engine

Question 19. Who is the discoverer of Penicillin?

(A) Albert Einstein

(B) Christopher Macdonald

(C) Alexander Fleming

(D) Alexander Graham Bell

Question 20. Alexander Fleming discovered __________.

(A) Telephone

(B) Streptomycin

(C) X-ray

(D) Penicillin

Question 21. Who among the following is the inventor of ‘X’ rays?

(A) Torricelli

(B) Maxwell

(C) Roentgen

(D) Rutherford

Question 22. Who among the following gave the term ‘Nanotechnology’ and when?

(A) Sumiolijima – 1991

(B) Eric Drexler – 1986

(C) Norio Taniguchi – 1974

(D) Richard Feynman – 1959

Question 23. The principle of ‘Black hole’ was enunciated by ___________.

(A) H. Khurana

(B) S. Chandrashekhar

(C) H.J. Bhabha

(D) C.V. Raman

Question 24. Scientist S. Chandrashekhar got Nobel Prize for which field?

(A) Studies of Core of the Sun

(B) Super conductivity at low temperatures

(C) Micro-electronics in Satellites

(D) Astrophysics

Question 25. Who of the following scientists proved that the stars with mass less than 1.44 times the mass of the Sun end up as White Dwarfs when they die?

(A) Steven Weinberg

(B) Stephen Hawking

(C) S. Chandrashekhar

(D) Edwin Hubble

Question 26. Scientist Albert Einstein is famous for _________.

(A) The prediction of the existence of neutrons

(B) Planting first Nuclear Reactor

(C) The photoelectric effect

(D) The interpretation of atomic structure of hydrogen