Science Quiz 56

Science Quiz 56

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1. Who was the first to experimentally generate radio waves in the laboratory?

Mary Curie
Guglielmo Marconi
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell

2. Maria Skodowska–Curie Institute of Oncology was founded in 1932 as the Radium Institute by Maria Curie. Where is it located?

Warsaw
Lublin
Paris
Stockholm

3. Name the inventor of ball point pen

Waterman
Oscar
Wilson
Lazlo Biro

4. Who was the first recipient of Nobel Prize in Physics?

Marie Curie
Wilhem Rontgen
G Marconi
JJ Thomson

5. The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves around the sun?

Galileo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Aristarchus of Samos

6. Who is the only woman to have won Nobel Prize multiple times?

Marie Curie
Wangari Maathai
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Rosalyn Yalow

7. The element polonium which was discovered by Marie Curie was named so

to honour her husband
in the name of her best friend
after her country
homage to her parents

8. In 1903,The nobel prize for physics was jointly awarded to three scientists. Curie and her husband Pierre was two among them. Who was the third scientist?

Albert Einstein
Henri Becquerel
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Lord Rayleigh

9. Who was the first to hypotheses Nuclear Energy in the year of 1905?

Max Plank
Albert Einstein
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Madam Curie

10. Name the American biochemist or Indian origin who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1968

Subramanyan Chandrasekar
Harish Chandra
Har Gobind Khorana
E C George Sudarshan

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