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Introduction:
"There were many scientists and mathematicians who sparkled in their field at their times. This is a quiz about a few. Have fun and good luck!"


1. In which of the following fields of science did Ampere not work?
    Astronomy
    Classification of elements
    Electromagnetism
    Probability


2. Archimedes pulled a ship full of passengers and cargo, single-handed. (true or false)
    True
    False


3. Which astronomer first discovered the sunspots on the surface of the Sun?
    William Herschel
    Edwin Hubble
    Euclid
    Galileo Galilei


4. Which of the following isn't one of Aryabhatta's achievements??
    Finding the value of pi correct to 4 decimal places
    Complete solutions for Diophantine Equations of the first degree
    Finding sine and cosine value of angles
    Invention of even roots of negative numbers


5. In which element did Becquerel discover radioactivity?
    Uranium
    Radium
    Thorium
    Polonium


6. Brahmagupta, the ancient Indian mathematician proved that quadratic equations had 2 roots and one of them could be negative. (true or false)
    True
    False


7. Who designed the first steam engine?
    Thomas Newcommen
    Nikolaus Otto
    James Watt
    Rudolph Diesel


8. Name the scientist who found out the value of the gravitational constant(G).
    Isaac Newton
    Rene Decartes
    Albert Einstein
    Henry Cavendish


9. What was madam Marie Curie's real name?
    Paree Anterina
    Mariya Petrevina
    Manya Sklodowska
    Variya Davgoska


10. Who wrote the book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'?
    Answer: (Last name will suffice)


11. According to Einstein's Special Relativity, which of the following observations would be made, as seen from the Earth, if a rocket was travelling in space at nearly the speed of light?
    The rocket explodes!
    Time on the rocket seems to pass more slowly
    Rocket appears to increase in length
    Rocket appears to decrease in mass


12. Who discovered neutrons?
    Chadwick
    Thomson
    Rutherford
    Goldstein


13. Which of the following about Michael Faraday is not true?
    He discovered that a magnetic field could rotate the plane of polarization of light
    He liquified Chlorine
    He became the President of the London Royal Society
    He served Sir Humphrey Davy as a lab assistant


14. Which scientist has a class of sub-atomic particles and an element name after him?
    Albert Einstein
    Henri Becquerel
    Satyendranath Bose
    Enrico Fermi


15. Name the scientist who first coined the electrical terms - 'positive' and 'negative'.
    Michael Faraday
    George Ohm
    Andre Marie Ampere
    Benjamin Franklin


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