General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2019-11-03 00:00:50

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#7357. Which of the following nations are landlocked? Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan.

#7358. Which of the following nations are landlocked? Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-11-20 00:59:10

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#7359. In which Continent is the nation Burkina Faso situated?

#7360. In which Continent is the nation Burundi situated?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-11-25 00:50:18

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#7361. Which countries use the CFA franc?

#7362. 'Renminbi' is the currency of which nation?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-11-27 00:13:30

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#7363. What is 'phytology'?

#7364. What is 'phylogenetics'?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-11-30 00:50:24

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#7365. Name the American businessman (April 25, 1820 – 1901) who is credited with commercializing the electromagnetic burglar alarm and with establishing the first burglar alarm networks.

#7366. Name the inventor (29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890) of first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs. He patented his discovery as Parkesine in 1862 after realising a solid residue remained after evaporation of the solvent from photographic collodion.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-02 00:29:55

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#7367. Name the French chemist and inventor who is famous for his invention of margarine (24 October 1817 – Paris 31 May 1880). (Margarine is a spread used for flavoring, baking, and cooking that was first made in France in 1869.)

#7368. Name the Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology (July 29 [O.S. July 17] 1888 – July 29, 1982). He invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-04 00:14:53

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#7369. Name the United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings (October 23, 1838 – April 7, 1915).

#7370. Name the American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor (September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937).

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-06 00:46:11

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#7371. Name the English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution (23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792). He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to "cotton lap" prior to spinning. He was the first to develop factories housing both mechanised carding and spinning operations.

#7372. What is 'Time clock'?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-08 00:25:05

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#7373. Who and when was the mechanical calculator invented?

#7374. When was antiseptic invented?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-10 00:47:18

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#7375. When was Argon isolated?

#7376. Chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt treated the medicine sodium salicylate with acetyl chloride to produce acetylsalicylic acid for the first time. In which year was is?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-12 00:35:15

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#7377. It is reported in some ancient sources to have been a philosopher who was the earliest Greek to develop the theory of atomism—the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms. He often appears as the master to his pupil Democritus, a philosopher also touted as the originator of the atomic theory. Name the person.

#7378. What famous invention is Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva known for?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-14 00:46:45

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#7379. Siegfried Samuel Marcus (18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German inventor. What did he invent?

#7380. Bakelite or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride was the first plastic made from synthetic components. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York. In which year? When was it patented?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-16 00:16:31

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#7381. Name a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.

#7382. What was patented in 1853 by the Reverend Augustus Russell Pope (1819–1858) of Somerville, Massachusetts? (Edwin Holmes acquired Pope's patent rights in 1857 for US$1500 and manufactured the device in his factory in Boston, Massachusetts. He began to sell them in 1858. His son Edwin Thomas Holmes took over his father's company after his death and documented the events in his biography, A Wonderful Fifty Years).

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-18 01:02:14

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#7383. He began to find the conflict between his job as works manager and his research work irksome. Therefore, in 1893, he resigned his job in favour of his younger brother George. At about the same time, he produced a second engine type similar in design to his previous one but operating on benzene at 800 rpm. An important part of his new engine was the revolutionary carburettor, for mixing the fuel and air correctly. His invention was known as a wick carburettor, because fuel was drawn into a series of wicks, from where it was vapourised. He patented this invention in 1905. Name the person.

#7384. Name the English machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology. His inventions were an important foundation for the Industrial Revolution.

His invention of a metal lathe to cut metal, circa 1800, enabled the manufacture of standard screw thread sizes. Standard screw thread sizes allowed interchangeable parts and the development of mass production.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-20 00:53:39

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#7385. Name the German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in the Third Reich, and member of the Nazi party (24 January 1888 – 30 January 1958) . His company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178, the world's first turbojet aircraft and jet plane, and the Heinkel He 176, the first rocket aircraft.

#7386. Name the British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone (16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900). He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. In 1855 he patented a printing telegraph. He moved back to London in 1857 and further pursued experimentation and invention, coming up with an improved carbon microphone in 1878. In 1879 he identified what seemed to be a new phenomenon during his experiments: sparking in one device could be heard in a separate portable microphone apparatus he had set up. It was most probably radio transmissions but this was nine years before electromagnetic radiation was a proven concept and he was convinced by others that his discovery was simply electromagnetic induction.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-22 00:27:49

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#7387. Name the Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft (May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972). His first success came with the S-2, the second aircraft of his design and construction. His fifth airplane, the S-5, won him national recognition as well as F.A.I. license number 64. His S-6-A received the highest award at the 1912 Moscow Aviation Exhibition, and in the fall of that year the aircraft won for its young designer, builder and pilot first prize in the military competition at Saint Petersburg.

#7388. Name the French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France, 35 km to the East of Carcassonne (October 1, 1842 – August 9, 1888). He was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color, but he is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-24 00:40:42

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#7389. Name the inventor : In aerospace, he held a French patent for a turbojet engine in 1921. The first patent for using a gas turbine to power an aircraft was filed in 1921 by Frenchman. French patent no. 534,801 (filed: 3 May 1921; issued: 13 January 1922). His engine was to be an axial-flow turbojet, but was never constructed, as it would have required considerable advances over the state of the art in compressors.

#7390. Name the Austrian chemist and mineralogist born in Olomouc, Moravia (26 November 1802 – 15 April 1875). As a chemist he conducted research involving reactions of metals with ammonia at higher temperatures, and performed investigations of substances such as amber, idrialite, ozokerite, asphalt and dopplerite. He also investigated the reactive behavior of potassium in liquid nitrous oxide, of phosphorus and antimony in liquid chlorine, and of iron towards oxygen at very low temperatures. In 1845 he discovered a process for preparing red phosphorus, a development which led to the invention of the safety match.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-26 00:11:35

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#7391. Name the American inventor (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son patented in 1834. Although he lived his life in rural Virginia, he was patriarch of the family that became influential throughout the world, especially in large cities such as Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York City.

#7392. David Bushnell, of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor.

Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

Bushnell is credited with creating the first submarine ever used in combat, while studying at Yale. In which year was it?

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-28 00:04:17

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#7393. Name the English inventor (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879). He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of this person and Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Lewis Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, in 1846. He was knighted in 1869.

#7394. Name the American machinist and inventor (September 25, 1807 – January 18, 1859). Along with Samuel Morse, he was central in developing and commercializing American telegraphy between 1837 and 1844.

Jai Ganesh · 2019-12-30 00:02:47

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#7395. How many chemical elements start with the letter 'S'? What are they?

#7396. How many chemical elements start with the letter 'T'? What are they?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-01 00:27:24

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#7397. Name the brothers succeeded in isolating tungsten by reduction of this acid with charcoal, and they are credited with the discovery of the element (they called it "wolfram" or "volfram").

#7398. What was as the first, was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Le Grand Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-03 01:10:33

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#7399. Name the American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934), though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies.

#7400. Name the Swedish-American electrical engineer, who is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954).

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-05 00:11:10

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#7401. Name the English inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry (3 December 1753 – 26 June 1827). Building on the work of James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine that revolutionized the industry worldwide.

(The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer. The carriage carried up to 1,320 spindles and could be 150 feet (46 m) long, and would move forward and back a distance of 5 feet (1.5 m) four times a minute.)

#7402. Name the German-Dutch spectacle-maker (1570 – buried 29 September 1619). He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. It is, however, unclear if he was the first one to build a telescope.

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-07 00:16:24

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#7403. By what other name is the Croatian Parliament known?

#7404. By what other name is the Danish Parliament known?

Jai Ganesh · 2020-01-09 00:03:08

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#7405. Name the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia.

#7406. Name the the unicameral Parliament of Mongolia.

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