Quiz on Inventions and Discoveries for Competitive Exams
The purity of milk is measured by?
(A) Hydrometer
(B) Lactometer
(C) Stalagmometer
(D) Thermometer
Correct Answer : B
Write the name of the creation of "Pentium Chip"?
(A) Arun Netravalli
(B) Sabeer Bhatia
(C) C. Kumar Patel
(D) Vinod Dham
Correct Answer : D
Write the name of the inventor of radar?
(A) J. H. Van Tassel
(B) Wilhelm K. Roentgen
(C) P.T.Farksworth
(D) A. H. Taylor and Leo C. Young
Correct Answer : D
Assembly line was invented by
(A) Alexander Parkes
(B) Luigi Palmieri
(C) Alexey Pajitnov
(D) Ransom Eli Olds
Correct Answer : D
Who Invented the 3-D printer?
(A) Nick Holonyak
(B) Elias Howe
(C) Chuck Hull
(D) Christiaan Huygens
Correct Answer : C
Who discovered bacteria?
(A) Louis Pasteur
(B) Leeuwenhoek
(C) Robert Hooke
(D) Torricelli
Correct Answer : B
Who among the following invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989?
(A) Bill Gates
(B) Steve Wozniak
(C) Tim Berners – Lee
(D) Charles Babbage
Correct Answer : C
Explanation :
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
Who made the first automatic vehicle (automobile)?
(A) Gottlieb Daimler
(B) Henry Ford
(C) Rudolf Diesel
(D) Carl Baez
Correct Answer : D
Which of the following is the company that invented the transistor radio?
(A) Sony
(B) Grundig
(C) Panasonic
(D) Telstra
Correct Answer : B