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General Science Inc. Trivia Quiz

The quiz tracks the developments in different areas in science through the ages. A bit tough perhaps, but workable. All the best!

A multiple-choice quiz by sajish_gp. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
sajish_gp

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
207,489

Updated
Jun 10 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1958

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. The name of this gas comes from Greek for "water-former." Hint

Oxygen

Hydrogen

Nitrogen

Helium

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Question 2 of 10

2. He was the first scientist to define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. Hint

Linus Pauling

Arrhenius

Henry Cavendish

Friedrich Kekul�

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Question 3 of 10

3. In the Principles of Chemistry (1869), Russian chemist Dmitri Mendel�ev published the first Periodic Table. How many elements were there in this original list? Hint

100

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the book "Mathematical Syntaxis" better known as? Hint

Principia Mathematica

Tetrabiblos

Almagest

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

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Question 5 of 10

5. "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, Let ________ be! and all was light."
Hint

Newton

Halley

The sun

Galilio

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of the following does not fall under the "four humours", an imbalance in them believed to be the cause of diseases, in ancient times?
Hint

Yellow bile

Saliva

Blood

Black bile

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Question 7 of 10

7. James Phipps, as a human guinea pig, assisted in the developement of the vaccination for __________ ? Hint

Polio

Malaria

Smallpox

Plague

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who was the first scientist to accurately measure the diameter of earth? Hint

Ptolemy

Tycho Brahe

Anaxagoras

Eratosthenes

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Question 9 of 10

9. What would you associate H.M.S Beagle with? Hint

Icebergs

Galapagos

Komodo dragons

Bermuda Triangle

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Question 10 of 10

10. One of them did not get the Nobel Prize, despite having made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA. Who?
Hint

James Watson

Rosalind Franklin

Maurice Wilkins

Francis Crick

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The name of this gas comes from Greek for "water-former."

Answer: Hydrogen

Oxygen: Greek for acid-former.
Nitrogen: Niter (Greek) for saltpeter, combined with gen (Greek), meaning producing.
Helium: Helios, the Greek name for the sun.

2. He was the first scientist to define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

Answer: Friedrich Kekul�

Kekul� proposed a structure for benzene consisting of a ring of carbon atoms with alternating double and single bonds.

3. In the Principles of Chemistry (1869), Russian chemist Dmitri Mendel�ev published the first Periodic Table. How many elements were there in this original list?

Answer: 63

The 63 elements known at that time were arranged in the periodic table on the basis of atomic mass. However he accurately left spaces for as yet undiscovered elements and gave them temperory names.

4. What is the book "Mathematical Syntaxis" better known as?

Answer: Almagest

Alamgest and Tetrabiblos were written by Ptolemy, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Copernicus and Principia - of course by Sir Isaac Newton.

5. "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let ________ be! and all was light."

Answer: Newton

Famous couplet by Alexander Pope.

6. Which of the following does not fall under the "four humours", an imbalance in them believed to be the cause of diseases, in ancient times?

Answer: Saliva

The missing humour is phlegm.

7. James Phipps, as a human guinea pig, assisted in the developement of the vaccination for __________ ?

Answer: Smallpox

The famous physician, Edward Jenner, took the blister fluid of a lady with cowpox, and injected it into a boy named James Phipps. After the boy recovered from cowpox, Jenner injected him with smallpox. The experiment proved a success, and the boy proved to be immune from smallpox.

8. Who was the first scientist to accurately measure the diameter of earth?

Answer: Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes observed that, on the day of the summer solstice, the Sun was directly overhead in Syene(Cyrene) in Egypt. Next year on the same day he observed that the sun was
7� from the zenith in Alexandria. Then since he knew the distance between Syene and Alexandria, he could determine the circumference and the diameter of the earth.

9. What would you associate H.M.S Beagle with?

Answer: Galapagos

H.M.S Beagle was the ship on which Charles Darwin travelled to Galapagos Islands. The voyage shaped Darwin's theory of evolution.

10. One of them did not get the Nobel Prize, despite having made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA. Who?

Answer: Rosalind Franklin

The 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine was shared by Watson, Crick and Wilkins. Rosalind Franklin performed X-ray diffraction studies which showed James Watson and Crick's original model to be wrong. Franklin and Wilkins demonstrated that the double helix model later found to be correct was consistent with the data.

Source: Author sajish_gp

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