PROPOUNDERS OF SCIENTIFIC IDEAS

By Dadazi

There are many who have put forward ideas depending upon their observations or other studies which were later proved and are common knowledge today. Who propounded a dozen of ideas in this quiz?


1. Who claimed that matter is made up of much smaller entities called 'quarks'?

    Murray Gell-Mann

    Carlo Rubbia

    Carl Anderson

    Richard R Feynman

2. Who attributed the presence of 'trade winds' to the rotation of the earth?

    John Dalton

    George Hadley

    J.G. Charney

    Francis Beaufort

3. Who proposed the hypothesis that sea-floors spread?

    Harry H. Hess

    Georgius Agricola

    Eduard Suess

    James Cook

4. Who forward the dynamo model of earth's magnetic field?

    William Gilbert

    Pierre Curie

    Walter M. Elsasser

    Alexander Humboldt

5. Who proposed the theory of 'hot spots' for the origin of islands in oceans?

    H.H. Hess

    John Tuzo Wilson

    Nicolas Desmarest

    Seth C. Chandler

6. Who proposed the 'Big Bang' theory of the universe?

    Georges E. Lemaitre

    Thomas Gold

    Arno A. Penzia

    George Gamov

7. Who proposed the rotation of our galaxy — the Milky Way?

    Edwin Hubble

    Harlow Shapley

    Berti Lindblad

    Jan Hendrik Oort

8. Who gave the direction of rotation of cyclones?

    T.H.E Bergeron

    John Dalton

    Christoph Buys Ballot

    Carl G. Rossby

9. Who propounded the theory that health depends upon the proper balance of four humours?

    Thales

    Hippocrates

    Praxagoras

    Alcmaeon

10. Who propounded the theory that the universe could be a vast automatic machine whose past and future could be ascertained?

    Pierre-Simon de Laplace

    Mikhail Lomonsov

    Blaise Pascal

    Benjamin Franklin

11. Who propounded the theory of valence?

    Thomas Graham

    William Prout

    Edward Frankiand

    Alexander Parkes

12. Who propounded the theory that animal or plant tissue is made up of cells?

    Matthias Schleiden

    Robert Hooke

    Theodor Schwann

    Both 1 and 3