G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. Oxygen was independently discovered by
- (A) Rutherford
- (B) William
Ramsay
- (C) Joseph
Priestley
- (D) Neils Bohr
2. Until Victorian times, chocolate was thought of as a drink. When did the first chocolate bar appear?
- (A) 1828
- (B) 1831
- (C) 1825
- (D) There
is no sure date
3. What plaything was invented by Joe McVicker in 1956?
- (A) Silly Putty
- (B) Etch-A-Sketch
- (C) Lite-Brite
- (D) Play-Doh
4. Which of the following inventions were done by Thomas Alva Edison?
- (A) Incandescent
lamp
- (B) Phonograph C
(Gramophone) and microphone
- (C) Carbon
telephone transmitters
- (D) All of the
above
5. The theory of inheritance of acquired character was propounded by
- (A) Charles
Darwin
- (B) Gregor
Mendel
- (C) J.B. Lamarck
- (D) Weismann
6. Michael Faraday discovered
- (A) Electromagnetism
- (B) Benzene,
liquid gases and optical glass
- (C) The induction
of electric current
- (D) All of the
above
7. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who
- (A) Developed
the telescope
- (B) Discovered
four satellites of Jupiter
- (C) Discovered
that the movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement
- (D) All of the
above
8. Where is the village of Branston, after which the famous pickle is named?
- (A) Yorkshire
- (B) Lancashire
- (C) Staffordshire
- (D) Norfolk
9. The velocity of light was first measured by
- (A) Einstein
- (B) Newton
- (C) Romer
- (D) Galileo
10. Who discovered antiseptic surgery?
- (A) Joseph
Lister
- (B) Ronald Ross
- (C) Alexander
Fleming
- (D) William
Hervey
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