Science Mcq Flashcards

(67 cards)

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Elements discovered by Marie curie

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Radium and Polonium

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2
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Who invented telephone

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Alexander Graham bell in 1876

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3
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Who discovered penicillin

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Dr alexander fleming in 1928

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4
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Name of first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union

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Sputnik 1

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5
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What did James watt invent that revolutionized the industry

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Steam engine

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6
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First successful polio vaccine

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Jonas Salk

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7
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Nikola Tesla’s famous inventions

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Development of alternating current power, AC induction motor, polyphase AC system

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Inventions of Michael Faraday

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Discovered Benzene
Invented first electric motor
Contribution to the field of electromagnetism and electrochemistry
Discovered effect of magnetism on light
Demonstrated relation between electricity and chemical bonding

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9
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What did Tim Burners Lee invent

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The world wide web at CERN in 1989

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10
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Structure of DNA

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1953
James D Watson and Francis Crick determined the double helix structure of DNA

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When was the first successful flight by the Wright brothers

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1903
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Airplane flew for 10 secs in the sand dunes of North Carolina

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12
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Steam engine

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First invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712
James Watt made critical improvements in 1769

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13
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Ceramics is used for making

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electrical items and artificial teeth

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14
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father of microbiology

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Louis Pasteur

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15
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father of modern embryology

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Karl Ernst von Baer

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16
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Father of immunology

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Edward Jenner

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17
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Father of blood grouping and immunochemistry

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Karl Landsteiner

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18
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Bacterial diseases list

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Cholera
Bacterial pneumonia
Typhoid fever
Whooping cough
Diptheria
tetanus
Tuberculosis
Bacterial meningitis
Leprosy
Bacillary dysentery

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19
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Viral disease list

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Small pox
Measles
Encephalitis
Rabies
common cold
mumps
influenza
chickenpox
Hepatitis b
jaundice
polio

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20
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Protozoan disease list

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Malaria
Amoebic dysentery
Kalaazar (Leishmaniasis)

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21
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Skin disease list

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Scabies
Ringworm
Leprosy

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22
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STDs (Venereal Disease)

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Gonorrhea
HIV AIDS
Syphillis

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23
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Worm disease list

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Roundworm
Thread worm/pin worm
Filariasis
Tape worm
Hook worm

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24
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When was Penicillin invented and by whom

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1928 Alexander Fleming

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Vitamins found in the egg
Vitamin A Vitamin B2, B5, B6, B12 Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K
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Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
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Calculator
Blaise Pascal
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AC
Willis Carrier
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Barometer (to measure atmospheric pressure)
Evangelista Torricelli
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Bicycle
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
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Crescograph (to measure growth in plants)
Jagdish Chandra Bose
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Cotton gin (machine in cotton production)
Eli Whitney
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Cinesmascope lens
Henri Chretien
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Diesel Engine
Rudolf Diesel
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Electromagnet
William Sturgeon
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Radioactivity
Heri Becquerel (term coined by marie curie)
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FM radio
Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Electric current and battery
Alessandro Volta
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Modern Sewing machine
Elias Howe
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Electric generator
Michael Faraday
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Wireless telegraph
Guglielmo Marconi
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Steam Engine
1st: thomas newcomen 2nd: james watt
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Steam boat
Robert Fuelton
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Oxygen
Joseph Priestley
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Thermoscope
Galileo Galilei
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First mercury thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Electron
J J Thompson
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Television
John Baird
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Xray
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
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Printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
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Reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton
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Pressure cooker
Dennis Papin
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Vaccination (for small pox)
Edward Jenner
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Stethescope
Rene Laennec
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Braille writing system
Louis Braille
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Phonograph and Electrical lightbulb
Thomas Edison
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carbon filament lightbulb
Lewis Latimer
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Basketball
James Naismik
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Automobile assembly line
Henry ford
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Helicopter
Igor Sikorsky
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Nuclear reactor
Enrico Fermi
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Atomic bomb
J Robert Oppenheimer
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Supercomputer
Seymour Cray
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Mobile cellphone
Martin Cooper
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DNA sequencing
Frederick Sanger
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Google
Sergey Brin, Larry Page
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Twitter
Jack Dorsey, Christopher stone, Evan williams