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
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
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