TRB PG Assistant - Books and authors, Discoveries Online Test (MCQ Quiz)

1. Who is the author of the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

A) William Shakespeare B) John Milton C) Geoffrey Chaucer D) Edmund Spenser

2. Which scientist is credited with the discovery of penicillin?

A) Marie Curie B) Louis Pasteur C) Alexander Fleming D) Isaac Newton

3. The novel 'Pride and Prejudice' was written by whom?

A) Charlotte Brontë B) Emily Brontë C) Jane Austen D) Mary Shelley

4. Who discovered the structure of DNA, the double helix?

A) Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins B) James Watson and Francis Crick C) Linus Pauling D) Gregor Mendel

5. Which of the following is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?

A) Ernest Hemingway B) F. Scott Fitzgerald C) John Steinbeck D) William Faulkner

6. Who is known for the discovery of the law of universal gravitation?

A) Galileo Galilei B) Johannes Kepler C) Isaac Newton D) Albert Einstein

7. The play 'Hamlet' is a work by which renowned playwright?

A) Christopher Marlowe B) Ben Jonson C) William Shakespeare D) Oscar Wilde

8. Who is credited with inventing the theory of relativity?

A) Niels Bohr B) Max Planck C) Albert Einstein D) Werner Heisenberg

9. 'Moby Dick' is a classic novel authored by:

A) Edgar Allan Poe B) Herman Melville C) Nathaniel Hawthorne D) Walt Whitman

10. Who made significant contributions to the understanding of radioactivity and discovered polonium and radium?

A) Ernest Rutherford B) Henri Becquerel C) Marie Curie D) Enrico Fermi

11. The famous novel '1984' was written by:

A) Aldous Huxley B) George Orwell C) Ray Bradbury D) H.G. Wells

12. Who is recognized for discovering the structure of the atom and proposing the Bohr model?

A) J.J. Thomson B) Ernest Rutherford C) Niels Bohr D) John Dalton

13. 'War and Peace' is a monumental novel by which Russian author?

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Anton Chekhov C) Ivan Turgenev D) Leo Tolstoy

14. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Neptune?

A) William Herschel B) John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier C) Giovanni Cassini D) Tycho Brahe

15. The dystopian novel 'Brave New World' was authored by:

A) George Orwell B) Ray Bradbury C) Aldous Huxley D) Kurt Vonnegut

16. Who is famous for the discovery of the circulation of blood in the human body?

A) Andreas Vesalius B) William Harvey C) Galen D) Hippocrates

17. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is a classic American novel written by:

A) Herman Melville B) Nathaniel Hawthorne C) Mark Twain D) Edgar Allan Poe

18. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection, co-authored with Alfred Russel Wallace?

A) Gregor Mendel B) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck C) Charles Darwin D) Alfred Wegener

19. The novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was written by:

A) William Faulkner B) John Steinbeck C) Harper Lee D) Tennessee Williams

20. Who is credited with the discovery of X-rays?

A) Michael Faraday B) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen C) James Clerk Maxwell D) Lord Kelvin

21. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are epic poems attributed to which ancient Greek poet?

A) Sophocles B) Euripides C) Homer D) Virgil

22. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

A) Nicolaus Copernicus B) Galileo Galilei C) Johannes Kepler D) Tycho Brahe

23. The novel 'Jane Eyre' was written by:

A) Emily Brontë B) Anne Brontë C) Charlotte Brontë D) George Eliot

24. Who is known for discovering the laws of inheritance, often referred to as the father of genetics?

A) Charles Darwin B) Louis Pasteur C) Gregor Mendel D) Francis Crick

25. 'The Lord of the Rings' is a fantasy epic authored by:

A) C.S. Lewis B) J.R.R. Tolkien C) Ursula K. Le Guin D) Robert Jordan

26. Who discovered the electron?

A) Ernest Rutherford B) J.J. Thomson C) John Dalton D) James Chadwick

27. The novel 'Anna Karenina' is a masterpiece by which Russian author?

A) Leo Tolstoy B) Fyodor Dostoevsky C) Nikolai Gogol D) Maxim Gorky

28. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Uranus?

A) Pierre-Simon Laplace B) William Herschel C) Edmond Halley D) Caroline Herschel

29. 'Frankenstein' was written by:

A) Bram Stoker B) Edgar Allan Poe C) Mary Shelley D) H.G. Wells

30. Who developed the first practical electric battery (the voltaic pile)?

A) Michael Faraday B) Alessandro Volta C) André-Marie Ampère D) Nikola Tesla

31. The epic poem 'The Divine Comedy' was written by:

A) Giovanni Boccaccio B) Francesco Petrarch C) Dante Alighieri D) Niccolò Machiavelli

32. Who is known for the discovery of the neutron?

A) J.J. Thomson B) Niels Bohr C) James Chadwick D) Ernest Rutherford

33. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a seminal work by which Colombian author?

A) Jorge Luis Borges B) Mario Vargas Llosa C) Gabriel García Márquez D) Isabel Allende

34. Who is credited with the discovery of the laws of motion and universal gravitation?

A) Galileo Galilei B) Johannes Kepler C) Isaac Newton D) Albert Einstein

35. The novel 'Les Misérables' was written by:

A) Gustave Flaubert B) Victor Hugo C) Alexandre Dumas D) Émile Zola

36. Who discovered the structure of the atom's nucleus?

A) J.J. Thomson B) Niels Bohr C) Ernest Rutherford D) James Chadwick

37. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a famous work by which English poet?

A) William Langland B) Geoffrey Chaucer C) John Gower D) John Lydgate

38. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Pluto?

A) Clyde Tombaugh B) Percival Lowell C) Vesto Slipher D) Gerard Kuiper

39. The novel 'Don Quixote' is attributed to which Spanish author?

A) Lope de Vega B) Miguel de Cervantes C) Calderón de la Barca D) Francisco de Quevedo

40. Who discovered the element oxygen and also played a role in the naming of the element?

A) Henry Cavendish B) Joseph Priestley C) Antoine Lavoisier D) Carl Wilhelm Scheele

41. 'The Catcher in the Rye' was written by:

A) John Steinbeck B) Ernest Hemingway C) William Faulkner D) J.D. Salinger

42. Who is known for his work on electromagnetism and the discovery of electromagnetic induction?

A) Hans Christian Ørsted B) André-Marie Ampère C) Michael Faraday D) James Clerk Maxwell

43. The epic poem 'The Aeneid' was written by which Roman poet?

A) Ovid B) Horace C) Virgil D) Catullus

44. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Mars?

A) Galileo Galilei B) Johannes Kepler C) Christiaan Huygens D) The planet Mars was known since antiquity and its discovery is not attributed to a single person.

45. 'The Tale of Genji', often considered the world's first novel, was written by:

A) Sei Shōnagon B) Muraski Shikibu C) Ihara Saikaku D) Natsume Sōseki

46. Who discovered the structure of the atom through the gold foil experiment?

A) J.J. Thomson B) Niels Bohr C) Ernest Rutherford D) James Chadwick

47. The novel 'Crime and Punishment' is a famous work by which Russian author?

A) Leo Tolstoy B) Ivan Turgenev C) Fyodor Dostoevsky D) Anton Chekhov

48. Who is credited with the discovery of the heliocentric model of the solar system?

A) Johannes Kepler B) Galileo Galilei C) Nicolaus Copernicus D) Tycho Brahe

49. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' was written by:

A) Robert Louis Stevenson B) Bram Stoker C) Oscar Wilde D) Arthur Conan Doyle

50. Who discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits?

A) Nicolaus Copernicus B) Galileo Galilei C) Isaac Newton D) Johannes Kepler

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