Practice Quiz set 2 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Sir C.V. Raman received Nobel Prize for Physics in the year
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Q-2) The causative virus of AIDS was isolated in the year of
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in 1981 in San Francisco and New York. However, it was in 1983-84 that the causative virus was isolated from patients of AIDS and was named HIV in 1986.
Q-3) The photoelectric effect was discovered by
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Q-4) Albert Einstein was proficient in playing which musical instrument?
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Q-5) Phycology is the study of
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Phycology is the scientific study of algae. Phycology or algology is a branch of life science and often is regarded as a sub-discipline of botany. It includes the study of prokaryotic forms known as blue-green algae or cyanobacteria.
Q-6) “Linkage” was discovered by
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William Bateson, an English geneticist, co-discovered genetic linkage with Reginald Punnett in 1909. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel.
Q-7) Gas engine was invented by
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Q-8) Leprosy bacillus was invented by
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Mycobacteriumleprae, the causative agent of leprosy, was discovered by G. H. Armauer Hansen in Norway in 1873. Hansen observed a number of non-refractile small rods in unstained tissue sections.
The rods were not soluble in potassium lye, and they were acid- and alcohol-fast. In 1879, he was able to stain these organisms with Ziehl’s method and the similarities with Koch’s bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) were noted.
Q-9) Alfred Nobel invented
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Q-10) Who was the inventor of the fountain pen?
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