General Quiz Questions

What was invented in 1879 by American cafe owner James Ritty who called it the thief catcher?
 
 Cash register

Which sports man once remarked Gravitation is my greatest enemy?
 
 Sergei Bubka

In the 50's the DMK stopped financing Shivaji. This happened after Parasakthi was released and was also a hit. Inspite of this why did such a thing happen?
 
 Coz Shivaji went on a pilgrimage to Tirupathi to celebrate Parasakthi's earnings and this hurt DMK's aesthetic feelings.

When first introduced in England it was described as a versatile medicine which purgeth superfluous phlegm and other gross humours, and openeth all the pores and passages of the body?
 
 Tobacco

'Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. 'Who gave this excellent advise?
 
 Dr.Johnson

Just as a state government transfers its capital to Jammu in summer from Srinagar, to which city does the Spanish government move its capital during the summer?
 
 San Sebastian

He is the inventor of a data encryption program called PHB. Also invented the D- Chop television filter. Holds a masters degree in Computer Engineering from MIT.He made 10 million dollars by investing in a company called Zymed.He has an account in the Bank of Ethel in Switzerland.Who?
 
 Dilbert

In 1902, Morris Mitchum of Brooklyn was inspired by a cartoon drawn by Cliford Berryman in the Washington Star about a well publicised hunting party. what did this inspire him to create?
 
 The teddy-bear. What are women in Taliban ruled Afghanistan supposed to wear on their arms ?
 
 Tattoes of their husbands' names

Born on Nov 11 1885, in San Gabriel California, he graduated from the US military academy in 1909. An excellent athlete, he placed 5th in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon Entered the cavalry after graduation and served in the 1916 Mexican campaign. In WW1 , he commanded a tank brigade in France. His dramatic manner and outspoken comments on on military and political affairs won him both applause and criticism. He was named old blood and guts by his troops.
 
 General George Patton

He held the world long jump record. He represented England in squash and sking. He is the only person other than Bradman and Mike Procter to score centuries in six successive innings infirst class cricket. He took a break to train naval officers in his ship HMS Mercury. who?
 
 C.B.Fry

He signed a contract for scripting films with Mohan Bhawnan's of Ajanta Cinetone . He didn't like the film industry and decide to pack up after a year . Himamshu Rai who had just come back fromm London approached him with a lucrative offer which was politely refused by him. Who?
 
 Premchand

Tales from Middle Earth: according to Tolkien, Samwise is an anglicization of Banazir. Similarly, what is the anglicization of Trahald?
 
 Gollum.

This person obtained his PhD. thesis in The life and works of John Keats and emphasised the concept of return to childhood in a unique fashion. Who?
 
 Harivansh Rai Bachhan

Which fictional character was described by his creator as The normal boy?
 
 Tom Sawyer

Who published the first unexpurgated edition of Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' in Britain?
 
 Penguin Books

She was born in 1861, the same year as Motilal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore. She separated from her husband because he did not support her joining politics. A tireless crusader, she was on of the first Indian women journalists and addressed the seventh Intenational Socialist Congress in Stuttgart. Who are we discussing?
 
 Madam Bhikaji Cama

Oh come now, Muses and go to the craggy sacred place upon the far seen twin peaked Parnassus What is the significance of this inscription ?
 
 The Oracle at Delphi.

It has been found that 30 percent of the people feel 'computer anxious'. Out of these, about 3 to 5 percent suffer from serious computer phobia. What is the technical name for this feeling of fear?
 
 Cyberphobia

Which popular brand takes its name from a particular species of deer native to South Africa?
 
 Reebok

He was born in 1753, and was co-pilot in the first successful balloon crossing of the English Channel. He invented a parachute, but died testing it in 1809.
 
 Jean Pierre Blanchard

Born in Canada in 1849, he was a classics scholar and one-time Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. His Principles and Practices of Medicine reflected his new approach to the teaching of medicine and became a respected textbook for students of clinical medicine.
 
 William Osler

Named by Fleming in 1879, they may be, rod, J, L, V shaped; the longest of their type is called Lamp Brush and are as long as 9800 microns. What?
 
 chromosomes

In 1858, Rudolf Virchow stated one basic rule of Cytology - Omnis Cellulae Cellula. What?
 
 Cells come only from pre-existing cells.

In 1927, American Geneticist Herman J. Muller discovered a phenomena which later lent movie makers major flights of fantasy. What?
 
 mutation

A special kind of map called a gnomonic projection. To follow a great circle route exactly, a ship must constantly change the compass direction. Instead, the navigators can plot a course with a series of connected lines following a constant direction. What are these called as.
 
 These lines are called rhumb lines

Kodak Chrome marketed by Eastman Kodak was the 1st modern color film. It was called 'Boon of God and Man'. Why?
 
 Godwsky &Leopold Mannes

Professor of Physics at the University of Copenhagen, his name is used to describe a unit used for the measurement of the strength of a magnetic field.
 
 Hans Christian Oested

What is the enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay related to?
 
 AIDS

The US Bureau of Standards in cooperation with certain enterprising users had adopted as a basis for the construction of a wire having a diameter of 0.21 inches. This choice was made on the basis of a proposal made by a person many years ago. The first complete set of this produced in accordance with this plan was manufactured by W.S. Tyler and Co. Who was the peson who made this proposal?
 
 The proposal was that each opening would be twice as large as the next smaller hole. It was made by Rittinger.

An English engineer, he won a prize of 1000 pounds in 1815 for his invention of a miners' lamp and was involved in a dispute with Humphry Davy over the resultant credit for the development. The invention most commonly associated with him was very much larger. However, it was probably invented by his son.
 
 George Stephenson

Since 1987, Hindustan Computers Ltd. (HCL) has been quite prominent in the Indian computer industry. Who founded it and when?
 
 Shiv Nadar, 1977

What was the name of the first personal-computer electronic spreadsheet software package which became a smash hit as soon as it was introduced in 1978?
 
 VisiCalc

An Australian archaeologist born in 1892, he discovered a pre-historic village in the Orkneys at Skara Brae in 1939. He was the author of The Dawn of European Civilization and was Director of the London Institute of Archaeology from 1946 until his death, in 1957.
 
 Gordon Childe

He was a Hamburg-born scientist, whose study of electromagnetic waves enabled Marconi to send the first wireless signals. The waves were named after him. He died in 1894
 
 Heinrich Hertz

A Dutch zoologist born in 1907, his studies on the behaviour of animals led to a Nobel Prize in 1973, shared with Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch.
 
 Nikolaas Tinbergen

A Belgian priest, born in 1894, his astrophysical studies in America and England led to the development of his 'Big Bang' theory of the origin of the Universe.
 
 Georges Lemaitre

A physicist and astronomer born in 1840, he became a partner of Carl Zeiss and contributed to major advances in the field of optics.
 
 Ernst Abbe

An engineer, he built and flew, in Russia in 1913, the first four-engined aeroplane. In 1919 he moved to the US to build flying boats and in 1939 he developed the first successful single-rotor helecopter.
 
 Igor Ivan Sikorsky

A British engineer, known as the 'Cornish Giant', he died penniless in London in 1833 after a scheme to introduce steam mechanisation to the mines of Peru had failed disastrously.
 
 Richard Trevithick

He was a British soldier and explorer, who was a one-time organizer of adventure training at RMA Sandhurst. In 1975, he was the leader of the expedition, which achieved the first complete navigation of the Zaire river.
 
 John Blashford-Snell

Name the Indian, born in 1894, who was a one-time professor of Physics at Calcutta University and who formulated a law of quantum Physics with Einstein
 
 Satyendranath Bose

Born in 1730 and educated at Harrow, he was the one-time wine merchant and consular official, who reached Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, in 1770.
 
 James Bruce

Which discovery is the result of an idea to conduct a new experiment, conceived by the inventor while cycling, from the station to college on one day after a trip from London?
 
 DNA Double Helical Structure, expt. was to investigate a two-link structure.

Paul Elrich is credited with the discovery of modern chemotherapy and called his discovery Magic Bullets, What did he discover?
 
 Use of Medicines as Tablets

The Pentagon commissioned a project to study the after effects of the Korean War. One revealed that the GIs from the country were stronger than those from the city. Hence a chemical engineer by name Don Spears was commissoned to come up with a solution. What did he do?
 
 He invented Astroturf

Lauren Solomon, 12 year old daughter of Les Solomon, publisher of Popular Electronics, suggested the name for Ed Robert's new micro computer. This was the name of the place Star Trek ship `Enterprise' was going that night on TV. What?
 
 Altair, the first PC.

Born in 1872 in Poland, she helped create a range of beauty products, which she marketed under her own name, first in Australia and, later, through a world-wide chain of Maisons de Beaute.
 
 Helena Rubinstein

One is positive, the other is negative; what is this in connection to genetics ?
 
 strands of DNA

This term caught on after the II World War and referred to medical and genetic intervention designed to reduce the impact of defective genotypes on individuals. Use of insulin by diabetics and dietary control of new born phenlyketonur is an example of this. What?
 
 Euphenics

A Scottish chemist, he isolated 'fixed air', now known as carbon dioxide. He was the first to understand the difference between heat and temperature and his studies helped the work of his pupil, James Watt.
 
 Joseph Black

The largest flower in the world is named after the person who forced Lord Minto to occupy Java and was at one time the keeper of the London Zoo. We know him best for a city that he founded. Name him and the flower?
 
 Sir Stamford Thomas Raffles and the Rafflesia Arnoldi

Who was the voice of the computer in James T. Kirk's Star Trek Enterprise?
 
 Majel Barret

The murder of teenaged girl in Leicestershire in 1983 made headline news in 1985, murderer was convicted. More importantly a year before the wrong guy was absolved of his charges thanks to an Alec Geofries. What did Alec do?
 
 invented DNA finger-printing.

In Jurassic Park, the DNA code of a dinosaur is used to synthesize the organism, by obtaining the code from the fossilized mosquito from the ambergis. What's wrong here?
 
 mosquitoes could never suck blood of dinosaurs

As assistant zoologist, he accompanied Robert Scott to the Antarctic and wrote The Worst Journey in the World
 
 Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Henry VII of England commissioned him and his three sons to discover new lands. On 24th June 1497 he reached Cape Breton Island, thus discovering the North American mainland in advance of Columbus.
 
 John Cabot

Born in 1901, he was a one-time New Zealand immigrant, who made several pioneering flights over the Pacific. In 1960, he won the first single-handed Transatlantic yacht race.
 
 Francis Chichester

Blind from the age of three, he developed a system which greatly improved the lives of those similarly afflicted.
 
 Louis Braille

Forced to leave Vienna, he created a sensation in Paris in 1778 when he claimed to be able to heal people, when they were in the trance-like state, which he was able to induce by his 'animal magnetism'
 
 Friedrich Mesmer

He was an English engineer, who in 1912 constructed the first cabin aircraft. He was the co-founder of the Avro Company and later established a company for the design and construction of flying-boats.
 
 Edwin Verdon-Roe

Living during the 2nd century AD in Alexandria, his geographical and astronomical observations formed the basis for the work of many other scientists. His maps shaped enlightened people's vision of the world until the Age of Discovery. His most enduring work is known as Almagest.
 
 Ptolemy

The importance of its creation can never be exaggerated. This giving to air nothing, not merely a local habitation and a name, a picture, a symbol but helpful power is the characteristic of the Hindu race from whence it sprat. It is like coining the Nirvana into dynamos. No single creation has been more potent for the general on go of

intelligence.
 
 Prof.Halsted talking about the concept of Zero

He was an 18th-century Scottish explorer of Canada. A district and a river in the Northwest Territories are named after me. In 1793 he was the first white person to reach the Pacific coast by taking a cross-country route to the North.
 
 Alexander Mackenzie

Gene maps are constructed by cleaving a chromosomes's DNA in a gene sized fragments. What are chemicals used for

cleaving called?
 
 Restriction Enzymes

In 1519, he sailed for the Spice Islands by the western route. His fleet consisted of the Trinidad, Vittoria, San

Antonia, Concepcion and Santiago.
 
 Ferdinand Magellan

He was a German astronomer. In 1801 he published Uranographia the first comprehensive atlas of stars visible to

the naked eye.
 
 Johann Elert Bode

Director of the Atomic Bomb Project between 1940 and 1945, he had previously isolated heavy water and received a

Nobel Prize in 1934. Who?
 
 Harold Clayton Urey

This element was discovered in 1923 by DirkCosta, a Dutch Physicist and Giorg Von, a Hungarian chemist. Its name

comes from the Latin name for Copenhagen, because they discovered it there. Which element?
 
 Hafnium

An Australian immigrant of Scottish origin, he headed a government-initiated search party in 1861, which ventured

into the interior of Australia to look for Burke and Wills. Although unable to find more than traces of them, he

successfully completed the expedition without loss of life despite hardship and privation.
 
 John McKinlay

Who is called the 'mother' of COBOL?
 
 Grace Murray Hopper

A Dutch astronomer, he discovered a 'supernova' in 1572 and made the first accurate records of the movements of

stars and planets.
 
 Tycho Brahe

His research into creatures and their environment form the basis for the whole subject of ecology. He founded the

Bureau of Animal Populations at Oxford in 1932. Who was this?
 
 Charles Elton

In data processing system, what is the name given to the lead line of a paragraph that accidentally becomes an

isolated last line on a print page?
 
 Widow

The comic character Yogi Bear lives in a national park that takes its name from the world's first national park.

Name both.
 
 Jellystone and Yellowstone

An engineer, he registered his patent for a jet engine in 1930. On 15th May 1941 the first British jet aircraft,

powered by an engine of his design, took to the air.
 
 Sir Frank Whittle

What is the name of the British gentleman who was the first to put forward in 1952 the idea for an integrated

circuit?
 
 G.W. Dummer

Hugo de Vries, German Carl Correns and Austrian Eric Von Iscmerk all claimed credit for it. What?
 
 Laws of Genetics

Which comic character cannot stand trees being cut down?
 
 Dogmatix

In the 1880s one of the earliest drives to save the environment, hence the game of billiards suffered as a

substitute for the Billiards Balls was required. Hence a prize of $10000 was reoffered to anyone who came up with

a substitute. A person called James Wesley Wyatt won the prize. What did he invent?
 
 Celluloid. Made by reacting pyroxiline with acid and using camphor as plasticizer

Though many planets are essentially formed in a similar fashion, only few are capable of supporting life forms

(from same materials). For eg. Venus is very hot. Earth is just the right temperature. Mars is very cold. What is

this paradox called?
 
 Goldilocks Paradox

Although originally thought of as a laboratory research device, this is now being widely applied to analyse air

pollutants. Basically it is an instrument used to separate and identify atoms and molecules. What?
 
 Mass Spectrometer

In which book would you find the lines All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others ?
 
 George Orwells Animal farm

If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world & force anyone who wants some of the precious

liquid to cut a deal with him Who on whom?
 
 Larry Ellison, The Oracle CEO on Bill Gates.

He was the botanist who, with his father, introduced Acacia and Lilac to Britain. He bequeathed his 'closet of

rarities' to Elias Ashmole upon his death in 1662. He has a well-known house plant named after him.
 
 John Tradescant

Largest cell known to man?
 
 ostrich cell

In 1793 he revolutionised the American cotton-growing industry with a 'Cotton Gin', an invention, which was able

to separate cotton fibre from the waste and by-products.
 
 Eli Whitney

Born in Belfast in 1824, he was a one-time President of the Royal Society, whose search on energy led to the

Second Law of Thermodynamics. He died in 1907 and was buried in Westminister Abbey.
 
 Lord Kelvin

John Scialli got together a lot of e-signatures and convinced the international astronomic union to name a

recently discovered asteroid after whom?
 
 Frank Zappa

When was the world's first laptop computer introduced in the market and by whom?
 
 Epson, 1981

Cubatao, in Brazil has certain epithet because it is the worlds most polluted place. What epithet?
 
 Valley of Death

The North Pole, published in 1910, chronicles his experiences as the first man to reach the North Pole. Who?
 
 Robert Peary

Although originally thought of as a laboratory research device, this is now being widely applied to analyse air

pollutants. Basically it is an instrument used to separate and identify atoms and molecules. What?
 
 Mass Spectrometer

He was a physicist and was born in Yorkshire in 1892. Much of his research was carried out in Cambridge. In 1947,

he received the Nobel Prize for Science for his studies of the atmosphere and, in particular, the demonstration of

the existence of the 'Kennelly-Heaviside Layer'.
 
 Edward Appleton

When first looked at, they looked like small prison rooms surrounded by walls. What?
 
 cells

A few years ago a group of people were put into a submarine with no opening and were left with no opening and were

left stranded for 3 hours at the bottom of the Atlantic. what was the purpose of the mission ?
 
 To show the world how difficult the life would be without Windows.

In 1936 he founded Penguin Books. He was born in 1902.
 
 Allen Lane Williams Lane

Who is credited with the development of the 'blueprints' for the first digital computer?
 
 Charles Babbage

Knighted in 1935, he carried out archaeological excavations in Syria and Egypt, but he is best known for his

workings at Ur between 1922 and 1934 in search of biblical evidence.
 
 Leonard Woolley

He was born in Ireland in 1627 and in 1645 he became a founder-member of the Royal Society. He was sometimes

described as the 'father of modern chemistry' for his work on gases and vacuums, which resulted in a 'law' named

after him.
 
 Robert Boyle

A physician born in County Down, he founded the Chelsea Physic Garden and in 1727 succeeded Isaac Newton as

President of the Royal Society. His library and other collections were the nucleus for the foundation of the

British Museum.
 
 Hans Sloane

The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a name similar to the name of

the market leader in record players in those days. Today, this company has a worldwide presence and is known as a

premier communications company. Name the company?
 
 Motorola (from Motorised Victrola, a Victrola being one of those gramaphone types)

Born in 1771, he was an English naval surgeon, who explored, between 1797 and 1798, the strait separating Tasmania

from mainland Australia.
 
 George Bass

Nivenberg, Holly and this person won the Nobel prize for working on the 64 codons from 4 nucleotides. who?
 
 H.G. Khorana

If 21st pair of a chromosome has an extra chromosome, it results in a genetical disorder. What?
 
 Down's syndrome

Name the English surgeon, born in 1827, who discovered that infection was caused by the action of micro-organisms.

He invented a spray of carbolic acid for use as an antiseptic.
 
 Joseph Lister

New Jersey born in 1930, he was a crew member of Apollo XI and became the second man to set foot on the Moon.
 
 Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin

Which was the first guided weapon which used a programmable digital computer?
 
 Sting Ray Torpedo

He was a janitor at the Delft City Hall for his entire life, built his own microscopes, first to describe

spermatazoa, but reported the discovery nervously as the discovery was thought of as obscene. Who?
 
 Leewanhoek

The inventor's wife considered the name plain stupid because the acronym took longer time to pronounce than the

expansion for it. What are we talking about ?
 
 The WWW - 'The World Wide Web'

Connect Teryllium Aluminium Silicate, Aluminium Oxide, Aragonite (Calcium Carbonate) and Carbon.
 
 Precious stones.

He was the Greek mathematician and philosopher who founded a religious movement which governed Croton in Southern

Italy for many years. He died at the end of the 6th Century BC.
 
 Pythagoras

A photographic pioneer, he invented the first negative process. He published the first book of photographs

entitled The Pencil of Nature.
 
 William Fox Talbot

He was an Irish-born explorer, whose ship Endurance was crushed in the pack-ice of the Weddell Sea in 1915.

Subsequently he made, with several companions, an epic journey by sledge and boat to Elephant Island.
 
 Sir Ernest Shackleton

A record-breaking aviator, born in Hull in 1904, she died while ferrying aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary,

in 1941. On one of her journeys, she covered 10,000 miles in 19 days.
 
 Amy Johnson

What is the title of the first book written by a computer an published by Warner Books in mid-1984?
 
 The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed

Named by Fleming in 1879, they may be, rod, J, L, V shaped; the longest of their type is called Lamp Brush and are

as long as 9800 microns. What?
 
Ans: chromosomes

Henry VII of England commissioned him and his three sons to discover new lands. On 24th June 1497 he reached Cape

Breton Island, thus discovering the North American mainland in advance of Columbus.
 
Ans: John Cabot

If 21st pair of a chromosome has an extra chromosome, it results in a genetical disorder. What?
 
Ans: Down's syndrome

A record-breaking aviator, born in Hull in 1904, she died while ferrying aircraft for the Air Transport Auxiliary,

in 1941. On one of her journeys, she covered 10,000 miles in 19 days.
 
Ans: Amy Johnson

In 1884, he produced the first photographic roll-film and later designed a simple box camera. After a long

illness, he wrote an epitaph 'To my friends - my work is done. Why wait?' and took on his own life.
 
Ans: George Eastman

He was an archaeologist, born in 1873, who discovered, in collaboration with Lord Carnarvon in 1922, the tomb of

Tutankhamen.
 
Ans: Howard Carter

He was a Danish navigator, who made several voyages between Alaska and Siberia. In 1741 he died on the island now

named after him, as the result of a shipwreck towards the end of a voyage of exploration. He also has a stretch of

sea named after him.
 
Ans: Vitus Jonassen Bering

In 1920's, Rudolph Laban developed a method of recording and preserving something. It has received wide acceptance

and is called Labonotation. What is it used for?
 
Ans: Recording Dance Movements

He was the botanist who, with his father, introduced Acacia and Lilac to Britain. He bequeathed his 'closet of

rarities' to Elias Ashmole upon his death in 1662. He has a well-known house plant named after him.
 
Ans: John Tradescant

He was born in 1854, he was the Glasgow-born anthropologist, whose The Golden Bough (first published in 1890) was

an influential compilation of many theories relating to evolution, religion and magic.
 
Ans: James George Frazer

A few years ago a group of people were put into a submarine with no opening and were left with no opening and were

left stranded for 3 hours at the bottom of the Atlantic. what was the purpose of the mission ?
 
Ans: To show the world how difficult the life would be without Windows.

She was born in Bristol, and moved to America with her family, at the age of 11. In 1851, she set up practice in

New York, becoming the first woman doctor in the USA.
 
Ans: Elizabeth Blackwell

In 1793 he revolutionised the American cotton-growing industry with a 'Cotton Gin', an invention, which was able

to separate cotton fibre from the waste and by-products.
 
Ans: Eli Whitney

He was a British soldier and explorer, who was a one-time organizer of adventure training at RMA Sandhurst. In

1975, he was the leader of the expedition, which achieved the first complete navigation of the Zaire river.
 
Ans: John Blashford-Snell

The importance of its creation can never be exaggerated. This giving to air nothing, not merely a local habitation

and a name, a picture, a symbol but helpful power is the characteristic of the Hindu race from whence it sprat. It

is like coining the Nirvana into dynamos. No single creation has been more potent for the general on go of

intelligence.
 
Ans: Prof.Halsted talking about the concept of Zero

He was born in 1765, he was a French inventor. In 1826, he succeeded in taking the first photograph, which took

more than eight hours to expose. He continued to improve the process, with the co-operation of Louis Daguerre.
 
Ans: Joseph Niepce

The first special-purpose electronic computer which contained about 300 vacuum tubes and became operational in

early 1940s was called what?
 
Ans: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Genes are identified on chromosomes within cells using a lately used process. Name it?
 
Ans: gene mapping

Nivenberg, Holly and this person won the Nobel prize for working on the 64 codons from 4 nucleotides. who?
 
Ans: H.G. Khorana

George Agricola, was one of the great scientific writers of all time. He described certain operations in his book

in Latin called 'De Re Metallica'. What were the operations?
 
Ans: distillation, Evaporation and Crystallisation.

A Dutch navigator, born in 1603, he was the first European to sight the islands of Tonga and Fiji in 1643.
 
Ans: Abel Tasman

If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world & force anyone who wants some of the precious

liquid to cut a deal with him Who on whom?
 
Ans: Larry Ellison, The Oracle CEO on Bill Gates.

The inventor's wife considered the name plain stupid because the acronym took longer time to pronounce than the

expansion for it. What are we talking about ?
 
Ans: The WWW - 'The World Wide Web'

Which comic character cannot stand trees being cut down?
 
Ans: Dogmatix

Avery, Mcleor and Mccarthy proved a basic fact in genetics which has laid base to many other theories. What?
 
Ans: DNA is genetic material

It would need a minimum of a 1000 Volume Encyclopedia. What is the claim to fame of this statement made by

geneticists in the 60's.
 
Ans: Estimate of space which coded in DNA in Human Cell would occupy if translated to English

In 1846 he opened a workshop in Jena and, 20 years later, joined with Ernst Abbe to produce optical instruments.

His name still belongs today to an important manufacturer.
 
Ans: Carl Zeiss

A Jewish entrepreneur, born in Whitechapel in 1852, he made a fortune in the diamond mines and initiated the

'Kaffir Boom' of 1895, two years before his suicide.
 
Ans: Barney Barnato

A chemist, born in 1766, he developed an atomic theory, which is considered the foundation of modern thought on

this subject. He produced a table of atomic weights and identified colour-blindness, which is also described by

his name.
 
Ans: John Dalton

Which metal was responsible for the fatal brain disease that affected people eating fish caught from the Minamata

Bay off the Japanese Island of Kyushu?
 
Ans: Mercury

A French naturalist, who became in 1744, the Keeper of the Royal Gardens in Paris, he adopted the term 'biology'

to describe the study of living matter.
 
Ans: Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Born in Canada in 1849, he was a classics scholar and one-time Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University.

His Principles and Practices of Medicine reflected his new approach to the teaching of medicine and became a

respected textbook for students of clinical medicine.
 
Ans: William Osler

In the first half of the 19th century, in the curio shop in East Smithfield, London, a Jewish dealer by name

Marcus Samuel sold debris from the seas for the sophisticated ladies he imported from Abroad. The money he

obtained from this, he invested in an upcoming industry. What?
 
Ans: Shell Oil

Living during the 2nd century AD in Alexandria, his geographical and astronomical observations formed the basis

for the work of many other scientists. His maps shaped enlightened people's vision of the world until the Age of

Discovery. His most enduring work is known as Almagest.
 
Ans: Ptolemy

He was a lawyer to whom John Tradescant bequeathed a closett of rarities, which formed the basis of England's

first public museum (opened in 1683). It still exists today and is not in London. It is named after him.
 
Ans: Elias Ashmole

She was a Polish-born scientist and became Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne. In 1903 she won the first of two

Nobel Prizes; the second followed in 1911.
 
Ans: Marie Curie

He was born in 1832 and educated at Rugby. He is a scholar and a photographer, whose Curiosa Mathematica and

Euclid and His Modern Rivals are two of his more serious publications. The properties of mirrors were important in

one of his other works.
 
Ans: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

A British engineer, known as the 'Cornish Giant', he died penniless in London in 1833 after a scheme to introduce

steam mechanisation to the mines of Peru had failed disastrously.
 
Ans: Richard Trevithick

The birth of which branch of science is marked by an experiment carried out by F.C. Steward of Cornell University

in 50's where he placed carrot slices in glass flasks containing nutritive solutions?
 
Ans: Cloning

A certain kind of bird called Storm Petrels are named after St.Peter. Why?
 
Ans: Because they can walk on water.

A great utilitarian thinker and legal theorist, born in 1748, his will required the preservation of his cadaver at

University College, London, in whose foundation he participated. Who?
 
Ans: Jeremy Bentham

Lauren Solomon, 12 year old daughter of Les Solomon, publisher of Popular Electronics, suggested the name for Ed

Robert's new micro computer. This was the name of the place Star Trek ship `Enterprise' was going that night on

TV. What?
 
Ans: Altair, the first PC.

He was born in Kassel Germany in 1829. His father was a senior municipal architect in Kassel and had 9 children.

He was persuaded by his elder brother to become a medical student. In his first scientific paper he dealt with the

torque exerted by the motor muscles of the femur in the hip joint. Most of his work is related primarily with

problems that interface medicine, physiology and physics. Who?
 
Ans: Adolf Fick

Born in Germany in 1884, he was a research chemist and a 1931 Nobel Prize winner. He developed processes for the

production of motor fuels from coal and oil residues.
 
Ans: Friedrich Karl Bergius

What does the world famous name Intel stand for?
 
Ans: International Electronics

Professor of Physics at the University of Copenhagen, his name is used to describe a unit used for the measurement

of the strength of a magnetic field.
 
Ans: Hans Christian Oested

On 18th March 1965, he became the first man to walk in space.
 
Ans: Alexei Leonov

A special kind of map called a gnomonic projection. To follow a great circle route exactly, a ship must constantly

change the compass direction. Instead, the navigators can plot a course with a series of connected lines following

a constant direction. What are these called as.
 
Ans: These lines are called rhumb lines

This term caught on after the II World War and referred to medical and genetic intervention designed to reduce the

impact of defective genotypes on individuals. Use of insulin by diabetics and dietary control of new born

phenlyketonur is an example of this. What?
 
Ans: Euphenics

A one time French naval officer born in 1910, he invented the aqualung and developed under-water photography.
 
Ans: Jacques Costeau

Chemical engineers are now playing an important role in the electronics industry. Specifically they are becoming

more involved in the manufacturing of electronic and photonic devices and recording materials. In the formation of

microcircuits, electrically interconnected films are laid down by chemical reactions. The mechanism by which this

process occurs is very similar to the mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysis. What method am I talking about?
 
Ans: Chemical Vapour Deposition.(CVD)

He was a philosopher, mathematician and rationalist and was born in Leipzig in 1646. He was involved with Isaac

Newton in the controversy, which occurred following his independent invention of infinitesimal calculus. They each

maintained that they had formulated their own calculation before the other.
 
Ans: Gottfried Leibniz

In data processing system, what is the name given to the lead line of a paragraph that accidentally becomes an

isolated last line on a print page?
 
Ans: Widow

He is the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and his many outstanding contributions to science include his 1868

publication Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication. In 1833 he rode across the Argentinian Pampas in

the company of gauchos.
 
Ans: Charles Darwin

One of the earliest chemical industries started in Switzerland was in 1859 at Basle. Then it merged with other

company in the year 1970 and acquired it's present name. What?
 
Ans: Ciba

Hugo de Vries, German Carl Correns and Austrian Eric Von Iscmerk all claimed credit for it. What?
 
Ans: Laws of Genetics

He was born in Sweden in 1742. He became Professor of Botany at the University of Uppsala. A 4000-mile Lapland

journey enabled him to collect and classify a wide range of plants, using his own system of classification. A

London-based society is named after him.
 
Ans: Carolus Linnaeus

What is the name of the British gentleman who was the first to put forward in 1952 the idea for an integrated

circuit?
 
Ans: G.W. Dummer

He was a one-time cartographer to Henry VIII of England. During his service for Charles V of Spain, he explored

the coast of South America with a view of colonization. Before his death in 1557, Edward VI had appointed him

inspector of the Engish Navy.
 
Ans: Sebastian Cabot

This element was discovered in 1923 by Dirk Costa, a Dutch physicist and Giorg Von Hevesy, a Hungarian chemist.

Its name comes from the Latin name for Copenhagen, because they discovered it there. Which element?
 
Ans: Hafnium

Who is credited with the development of the 'blueprints' for the first digital computer?
 
Ans: Charles Babbage

He led a Pacific expedition to observe the transit of Venus. In 1772, he set out to circumnavigate Antarctica.

Seventeen years later, he died at the hands of natives in Hawaii.
 
Ans: James Cook

In the 1880s one of the earliest drives to save the environment, hence the game of billiards suffered as a

substitute for the Billiards Balls was required. Hence a prize of $10000 was reoffered to anyone who came up with

a substitute. A person called James Wesley Wyatt won the prize. What did he invent?
 
Ans: Celluloid. Made by reacting pyroxiline with acid and using camphor as plasticizer

By the mid-19th century, he had amassed a fortune, which enabled him to set about the excavation of the Mound of

Hissarlik. He had wrongly assumed it to be the site of Homeric Troy. At Mycenae, he discovered the Mask of

Agamemnon. Who?
 
Ans: Harold Smith

Director of the Atomic Bomb Project between 1940 and 1945, he had previously isolated heavy water and received a

Nobel Prize in 1934. Who?
 
Ans: Harold Clayton Urey

What is Cytology the study of?
 
Ans: Cells

Though many planets are essentially formed in a similar fashion, only few are capable of supporting life forms

(from same materials). For eg. Venus is very hot. Earth is just the right temperature. Mars is very cold. What is

this paradox called?
 
Ans: Goldilocks Paradox

The results of his experiments are published in the annual proceeding of the Natural History Society of Brunn.

What?
 
Ans: Mendel's pea experiments

An English engineer, he won a prize of 1000 pounds in 1815 for his invention of a miners' lamp and was involved in

a dispute with Humphry Davy over the resultant credit for the development. The invention most commonly associated

with him was very much larger. However, it was probably invented by his son.
 
Ans: George Stephenson

Born in 1901, he was a one-time New Zealand immigrant, who made several pioneering flights over the Pacific. In

1960, he won the first single-handed Transatlantic yacht race.
 
Ans: Francis Chichester

With which name was HCL started by Shiv Nadar in 1976?
 
Ans: Microcomp Ltd.

He was a Hamburg-born scientist, whose study of electromagnetic waves enabled Marconi to send the first wireless

signals. The waves were named after him. He died in 1894
 
Ans: Heinrich Hertz

John Scialli got together a lot of e-signatures and convinced the international astronomic union to name a

recently discovered asteroid after whom?
 
Ans: Frank Zappa

He was an 18th-century Scottish explorer of Canada. A district and a river in the Northwest Territories are named

after me. In 1793 he was the first white person to reach the Pacific coast by taking a cross-country route to the

North.
 
Ans: Alexander Mackenzie

What is the common name for the plants of hycopodiophyta family? (club mosses). If the water in the soil dries up,

the hygroscopic qualities cause them to curl up; roll in the wind until it reaches a moisture spot, where it stops

& reroots itself. Most common eg. is Rose of Jericho.
 
Ans: Resurrection Plant

Nell McAndrew was in the news for appearing on the cover of the Playboy magazine. But, what's her claim to fame in

the world of computer games?
 
Ans: Lara Croft, the heroine of the popular computer game `Tomb Raider' is modelled on Nell McAndrew.

He was born in Kent in 1908, and was awarded the Gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1951. In January

1958 he reached the South Pole as the leader of the Commonwealth expedition which went on to complete a successful

crossing of the Antarctic.
 
Ans: Vivian Fuchs

Blind from the age of three, he developed a system which greatly improved the lives of those similarly afflicted.
 
Ans: Louis Braille

Ordained in 1847, he was an Austrian scientist, whose Law of Independent Segregation and Law of Assortment are

basis for modern genetics.
 
Ans: Gregor Johann Mendel

A Scottish chemist, he isolated 'fixed air', now known as carbon dioxide. He was the first to understand the

difference between heat and temperature and his studies helped the work of his pupil, James Watt.
 
Ans: Joseph Black

Latin for Poison, it's existence was proved by Dmitre Iwanowski; Beijeruick in 1898 called it `Contagium vivium

fluidium'. What?
 
Ans: virus

Born in Belfast in 1824, he was a one-time President of the Royal Society, whose search on energy led to the

Second Law of Thermodynamics. He died in 1907 and was buried in Westminister Abbey.
 
Ans: Lord Kelvin

Kodak Chrome marketed by Eastman Kodak was the 1st modern color film. It was called 'Boon of God and Man'. Why?
 
Ans: Godwsky &Leopold Mannes

Who was the voice of the computer in James T. Kirk's Star Trek Enterprise?
 
Ans: Majel Barret

He was an Irish-born explorer, whose ship Endurance was crushed in the pack-ice of the Weddell Sea in 1915.

Subsequently he made, with several companions, an epic journey by sledge and boat to Elephant Island.
 
Ans: Sir Ernest Shackleton

He was an 18th-century French chemist who, with Humboldt, determined that water is one part oxygen to two parts

hydrogen. In 1802 he made two balloon ascents to heights greater than 7000m to study the Earth's magnetic field.
 
Ans: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

A Dutch zoologist born in 1907, his studies on the behaviour of animals led to a Nobel Prize in 1973, shared with

Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch.
 
Ans: Nikolaas Tinbergen

He was a French physicist, who invented the gyroscope in 1852, but he was better remembered for his development of

a pendulum which was able to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.
 
Ans: Jean Bernard Foucault

The North Pole, published in 1910, chronicles his experiences as the first man to reach the North Pole. Who?
 
Ans: Robert Peary

Name the Indian, born in 1894, who was a one-time professor of Physics at Calcutta University and who formulated a

law of quantum Physics with Einstein
 
Ans: Satyendranath Bose

He was a janitor at the Delft City Hall for his entire life, built his own microscopes, first to describe

spermatazoa, but reported the discovery nervously as the discovery was thought of as obscene. Who?
 
Ans: Leewanhoek

New Jersey born in 1930, he was a crew member of Apollo XI and became the second man to set foot on the Moon.
 
Ans: Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin

In 1813 he was born in Hertfordshire and developed a process, which bears his name, for the production of steel by

the action of air currents on molten iron.
 
Ans: Henry Bessemer

He was the Greek mathematician and philosopher who founded a religious movement which governed Croton in Southern

Italy for many years. He died at the end of the 6th Century BC.
 
Ans: Pythagoras

The first electronic computer using vacuum tubes was built in 1946 by J.P Eckert and J.W. Mauchly at the

University of Pennsylvania. It could multiply two ten-digit numbers in three thousandths of a second, compared to

roughly three seconds for the Howard Mark 1 computer. What was the name of that computer?
 
Ans: ENIAC