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Which of the following was invented by Sir Humphry Davy?

A) Safety Pin B) Steam Engine
C) Safety Lamp D) X-Rays
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Safety Lamp

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Who discovered Fullerene (an allotrope of carbon)?

A) K Scheele B) Richard Smalley
C) Faraday D) Heisenberg
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Richard Smalley

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Who discovered the colour photography?

A) Robert Noyce B) Enrico Fermi
C) John Logie Baird D) James Clerk Maxwell
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) James Clerk Maxwell

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Edward Jenner discovered vaccine for which of the following disease?

A) Polio B) Tuberculosis
C) Small Pox D) Rabies
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Small Pox

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Who discovered Penicillin?

A) Edward Jenner B) Niels Bohr
C) Sir Alexander Fleming D) Heinrich Hertz
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Sir Alexander Fleming

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Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word ‘EGREGIOUS’

A) Common B) Social
C) Plain D) Atrocious
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Atrocious

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Egregious means outstandingly bad or shocking and Atrocious means cruel or wicked and both words are nearly equal in meaning.

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Who discovered X-Ray?

A) Wilhelm Rontgen B) William Lee
C) X Rollswick D) I Thompson
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Wilhelm Rontgen

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's longest rail-road bridge Bogibeel Bridge in which state?

A) Tripura B) Sikkim
C) Assam D) Arunachal Pradesh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Assam

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* Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25th Dec 2018 inaugurated the 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge in Assam.
* It is India’s longest rail-cum-road road bridge, on the river Bramhaputra.
* The bridge is constructed at an estimated cost of 5,800 crore rupees.
* It is situated 17 km downstream of Dibrugarh city in Assam.

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