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History and Philosophy of Science | Set 3

1. ……….. holds that science is a dangerous activity.

Correct : B. Paul Feyerabend

2. ……. argues that science is inevitably political.

Correct : A. Bill Zimmerman

3. The history of Science is a study of the history of ………….

Correct : B. Ideas

4. Who performed a simple experiment to calculate the circumference of the Earth two thousand years ago?

Correct : D. Eratoshthenes

5. The Chinese were measuring earthquake intensities using ………… almost two thousand years ago.

Correct : A. Seismographs

6. Complex surgical procedures were described in details in the …………..

Correct : B. Sushruta Samhita

7. Who suggested the idea of Continental drift?

Correct : C. Abraham Ortelius

8. When was the idea of continental drift suggested?

Correct : C. 1596

9. Who resurrected the concept of continental drift?

Correct : A. Alfred Wegner

10. Palaeolithic Age is also called………….

Correct : D. Old Stone Age

11. Pottery was invented during the ………… age.

Correct : C. The Palaeolithic

12. The old stone Age humans were……….

Correct : A. Hunter-gatherers

13. Which among the following does not belong to the most momentous inventions in human history?

Correct : B. Hunting

14. The surplus food was stored in ………….. during the Neolithic Age.

Correct : A. Special storage houses

15. Bronze Age began in about………..

Correct : A. 4000 BC

16. Copper and then ………… were found to be malleable during the bronze age.

Correct : C. Bronze

17. In the Neolithic period man achieved………..

Correct : D. A new equilibrium with nature

18. ………. caused a revolutionary change in craft

Correct : B. The invention of Potter’s wheel

19. Mesopotamia is also called as………….

Correct : C. The land between the rivers

20. Which land is called the Cradle of Civilization

Correct : B. Mesopotamia

21. The Sexagesimal system was developed by……….

Correct : B. Chinese

22. Anaximenes considered …………. As his Primordial substance and derived the other elements from it.

Correct : A. Air

23. It was the ……….. which epitomized the achievements of Babylonians in the field of science

Correct : C. Calendar

24. Who started building pyramids?

Correct : A. Egyptians

25. Which pyramid contains approximately 3 million cubic meters of stone and the area of the base about 5 hectares?

Correct : C. The Great pyramid

26. How many blocks were there in the Great Pyramid at Giza?

Correct : B. 23,00,000

27. The finest scientific achievement of the Egyptians lay in ………..

Correct : D. Medicine

28. The large cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro belong to the ……….. civilization.

Correct : A. Indus Valley

29. ……… was home to the earliest inhabitation in China

Correct : C. Yellow River valley

30. The Yellow River Valley culture is named after………

Correct : B. Yangshao

31. The Yangshao culture is well known for its……..

Correct : B. Painted pottery

32. The documented history of China extends continuously to nearly ……..… BC.

Correct : A. 1600

33. Shadow clocks, the forerunners of the sundial, first appeared in China about …… years ago.

Correct : D. 4000

34. Abacus was invented in China sometime between ………..

Correct : C. 1000-500 BC

35. The most ancient verifiable eclipse in the history of any people was recorded by the Chinese in………..

Correct : C. 1361 BC

36. Which is the earliest written text of the Chinese medical practices?

Correct : B. Yellow Emperor’s classic of Internal Medicine

37. Accurate records of celestial events were associated with……. Civilization

Correct : A. Chinese

38. Who was the first and the foremost of the Greek natural philosophers?

Correct : B. Thales

39. Who identified Thales as the first person to investigate the basic principles of nature and considered him to be founder of natural philosophy.

Correct : C. Aristotle

40. Thales founded the ………

Correct : A. Ionian school of philosophy

41. Which one of following propositions does not belong to Thales credit?

Correct : D. Algebraic methods to solve equations of the first and second degree

42. Name the fourth element which Anaximander added to the existing three elements?

Correct : C. Fire

43. ………. is the continuous medium which filled all space.

Correct : A. Ether

44. Who said that “Living creatures rose from the moist element, as it was evaporated by the Sun”?

Correct : B. Anaximander

45. In practical affairs, the Pythagoreans aimed at a ………. Of society

Correct : C. Moral reformation

46. The Pythagoreans gave much attention to ………….

Correct : D. Regular solids

47. Who conceived the idea that the Universe began as a chaotic mixture of the four elements?

Correct : B. Empedocles of Agrigentum

48. According to Empedocles, the heavens were formed from air and the sun from………….

Correct : A. Fire

49. Among the choices given below, which one is the most valuable contribution of Empedocles?

Correct : B. The thought that the universe began as a chaotic mixture of the four elements.

50. What was the Pythagorean concept of the earth?

Correct : A. The earth was spherical in shape

51. Greeks called Determinism………….

Correct : B. Compulsion

52. Who was the Greek God of medicine?

Correct : C. Aesculapius

53. Which writings are the earliest collections of Greek medical works?

Correct : B. Hippocratic

54. The Ionian school regarded medicine as ……….

Correct : A. An art

55. Who first suggested that the moon shone by reflected light?

Correct : D. Anaxagoras

56. Whose intervention saved Anaxagoras from death?

Correct : D. Pericles

57. Plato was the disciple of……………

Correct : C. Socrates

58. Which was the first institution devoted to the pursuit of knowledge in the Western world and which lasted for a thousand years?

Correct : A. Academy

59. Aristotle was the disciple of …………

Correct : A. Plato

60. Aristotle interpreted all motion as………. of natural inclinations

Correct : D. Gratification

61. Aristotle had borrowed his idea of cosmogony from………….

Correct : C. Eudoxus

62. Aristotle had setup the …………. In opposition to the Academy

Correct : A. Lyceum

63. Who succeeded Aristotle in the Lyceyum?

Correct : B. Theophrastus

64. Who was the head of the Lyceum from 287 to 269 BC?

Correct : C. Strato of Lampascus

65. Who asserted that earth turned on its own axis?

Correct : B. Exogabtus

66. Who founded Epicureanism?

Correct : D. Epicurus of Samos

67. Which one among the following does not belong to the Cardinal teachings of Epicurus?

Correct : A. Heavenly bodies are divine

68. Epicurus of Samos wanted to set man free from the ………….

Correct : D. Burden of religion

69. Stoicism was founded by……….

Correct : A. Zeno

70. Who started a ‘Museum’ or ‘Temple of Muses’ in Alexandria?

Correct : C. Ptolemy

71. Ptolemy II started the ………….

Correct : D. Royal Library

72. Ptolemaic dynasty ended with the death of ………

Correct : B. Cleopatra

73. Who instigated the murder of Hypatia in 415?

Correct : A. St,Cyril

74. Some of the Alexandrians migrated to ………..

Correct : C. Athens

75. Byzantium was later known as ………….

Correct : D. Constantinople

76. Who was the first of the Great Alexandrian mathematicians?

Correct : B. Euclid

77. The famous work of Euclid on Geometry is ……….

Correct : A. Elements of Geometry

78. Archimedes is best known for his ………….

Correct : C. Method of measuring the specific gravities of substances

79. Name the person who does not belong to the following Mathematicians of Alexandria

Correct : C. Galen

80. Who is called as ‘The Father of Algebra’?

Correct : B. Diophantus

81. Which is the best known work of Claudius Ptolemy?

Correct : A. Almagest

82. Who introduced a drastic reform in the making of calendar?

Correct : C. Julius Caesar

83. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?

Correct : B. Rig Veda

84. Who is the Vedic Sage who has enumerated various multiples of 10 in a systematic way?

Correct : D. Medhatithi

85. Which is the earliest systematic astronomic text of this period?

Correct : A. Jothisha Vedanga

86. When Huan Tsang visited Nalanda, there were over ………. Students

Correct : C. 8500

87. Classical Indian medical knowledge is called…………

Correct : C. Ayurveda

88. The authoritative text on Yoga called ‘Yagasutra’ was written by………

Correct : A. Patanjali

89. Who was the first Emperor of Chin dynasty?

Correct : D. Shih Huang Ti

90. Who prepared a star chart of about 800 stars?

Correct : C. Shih Shen

91. Which was the philosophical school founded by Lao Tsu in the 6th century BC?

Correct : A. Taoism

92. The historic flight of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina took place in ……… AD

Correct : D. 622

93. Who is called ‘The Father of Arabic Alchemy’?

Correct : B. Jabir Ibn Hayyan

94. Who founded an astronomical observatory at Baghdad?

Correct : B. Caliph al-Mamun

95. Roger Bacon’s work ‘Opus Majus’ is a general compendium of ………….

Correct : A. Scientific ideas and knowledge of the period

96. Leonardo da Vinci’s ………. Anatomical drawings put him in the front rank of the anatomists of the world.

Correct : D. 750

97. Copernicus considered …….. at the centre with all other planets revolving around it.

Correct : B. Sun

98. Who prepared the Rudolphian Tables which appeared in 1627?

Correct : A. Johannes Kepler

99. Who said that there was no centre for the universe, since it is infinite?

Correct : C. Giordano Bruno

100. Who was the first person to use telescope to view the sky?

Correct : C. Galileo Galelei