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