General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-25 00:16:15

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#8507. When is the 'International Day of the Girl Child' observed? (The observation supports more opportunity for girls and increases awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their gender. This inequality includes areas such as access to education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care, and protection from discrimination, violence against women and forced child marriage.)

#8508. When is the 'International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples' observed? (The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population. This event also recognizes the achievements and contributions that indigenous people make to improve world issues such as environmental protection. It was first pronounced by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1994, marking the day of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in 1982.)

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-26 00:12:59

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#8509. Name the Austrian chemist and mineralogist born in Olomouc, Moravia (26 November 1802 – 15 April 1875). His son Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli (1837–1908) was a noted laryngologist.

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.

#8510. Name the British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900) known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone.

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.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-27 00:06:09

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#8511. 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.

#8512. Name the early German engine designer and industrialist (9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929). During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".

From the late 19th century he, together with Gottlieb Daimler, developed light, high-speed internal combustion engines suitable for land, water, and air use.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-28 00:09:47

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#8513. Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules.

What is Avogadro constant?

#8514. Name the English engineer and inventor who designed motorcycle, auto, and aero-engines (1887–1969).

His biggest seller was selling patents for gambling machines, although he lost all the money he made in further business deals. He later concentrated on toroidal internal-combustion engines. He produced a long list of inventions and designs, although very few achieved commercial success.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-29 00:16:25

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#8515. Name the French engineer and inventor (24 September 1870 – 23 May 1960) . He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths.

#8516. Name the German-Swiss chemist (18 October 1799 – 29 August 1868) who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-30 00:06:09

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#8517. Name the French balloonist and the inventor (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823) of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France.

#8518. Name the American lawyer and newspaper publisher. He also patented the first practical parking meter (5 January 1872 – February 1946). He was born in Iowa. He graduated from Upper Iowa University in 1896.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-07-31 00:22:02

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#8519. Name the British chemist (11 December 1855 – 15 April 1935). In 1892, together with another partner, Clayton Beadle they took out a patent for Viscose which became the basis for the viscose, rayon and cellophane industries. In 1894, he and Bevan took out a patent for the manufacture of cellulose acetate - this was to become the industrial process for its manufacture.

He was a recipient of the Perkin Medal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists. He was awarded the John Scott Medal in 1895. He died in 1935.

#8520. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833), commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor. What are his inventions and contributions to Science?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-01 00:02:48

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#8521. Name the photographic pioneer, stereo card publisher, and photographic entrepreneur (1832–1905). He came to be the first to use celluloid for photographic film and to market dry-plate glass negatives.

He founded the Keystone Dry Plate Works in 1879 and was the first to develop sheets of celluloid coated with photographic emulsion for making celluloid film in 1888. He sliced thin plates from a rigid celluloid block, and then coated them with a silver gelatin emulsion to make a Celluloid Dry plate.

#8522. Name the American inventor from New York City (September 12, 1812 – June 7, 1886) who designed a rotary printing press and related advancements, including the "web perfecting press" in 1871 in his name; it used a continuous roll of paper and revolutionized newspaper publishing.

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-02 00:04:00

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#8523. When is the 'World Patient Safety Day (WPSD)' observed? (World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), observed annually, aims to raise global awareness about patient safety and call for solidarity and united action by all countries and international partners to reduce patient harm. Patient safety focuses on preventing and reducing risks, errors and harm that happen to patients during the provision of health care.

World Patient Safety Day is one of 11 official global public health campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World Tuberculosis Day, World Health Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Malaria Day, World Immunization Week, World No Tobacco Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Hepatitis Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and World AIDS Day.)

#8524. When is the 'International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers' observed? (The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is "an international day to pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication, and courage and to honor the memory of those who have lost their lives in the cause of peace.")

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-03 00:03:42

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#8525. What does the term 'Deontology' mean?

#8526. What does the term 'Edaphology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-04 00:08:45

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#8527. What does the term 'Electrophysiology' mean?

#8528. What does the term 'Emetology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-04 00:09:02

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#8527. What does the term 'Electrophysiology' mean?

#8528. What does the term 'Emetology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-05 00:07:38

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#8529. What does the term 'Enigmatology' mean?

#8530. What does the term 'Epidemiology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-06 00:09:15

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#8531. What does the term 'Epileptologist' mean?

#8532. What does the term 'Epistemology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-07 00:06:08

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#8533. What does the term 'Epizootiology' mean?

#8534. What does the term 'Equinology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-08 00:08:52

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#8535. What does the term 'Choronym' mean?

#8536. What does the term 'Demonym' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-09 00:15:28

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#8537. What does the term 'Endonym' mean?

#8538. What does the term 'Eponym' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-10 00:07:09

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#8539. What does the term 'Dromomania' mean?

#8540. What does the term 'Eleutheromania' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-11 00:38:09

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#8541. What does the term 'Graphomania' mean?

#8542. What does the term 'Hypomania' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-12 00:15:05

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#8543. What does the term 'Logorrhea' (psychology) mean?

#8544. What does the term 'Ludomania' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-13 00:08:01

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#8545. What does the term 'Hagionym' mean?

#8546. What does the term 'Heteronym (linguistics)' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-14 00:10:25

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#8547. What does the term 'Megalomania' mean?

#8548. What does the term 'Mythomania' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-15 00:11:51

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#8549. What does the term 'Oniomania' mean?

#8550. What does the term 'Pteridomania' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-16 00:18:04

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#8551. What does the term 'Eschatology' mean?

#8552. What does the term 'Ethnoarchaeology' mean?

Jai Ganesh · 2022-08-17 00:03:42

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#8553. What does the term 'Ethnobiology' mean?

#8554. What does the term 'Ethnoecology' mean?

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