Books and authors, Discoveries - Question Bank

1. The novel 'Wuthering Heights' was written by:
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Anne Brontë
D) George Eliot
2. Who discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits?
A) Nicolaus Copernicus
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Isaac Newton
D) Johannes Kepler
3. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' was written by:
A) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Bram Stoker
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. '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
8. 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.
9. The epic poem 'The Aeneid' was written by which Roman poet?
A) Ovid
B) Horace
C) Virgil
D) Catullus
10. 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
11. 'The Catcher in the Rye' was written by:
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) William Faulkner
D) J.D. Salinger
12. 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
13. 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
14. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Pluto?
A) Clyde Tombaugh
B) Percival Lowell
C) Vesto Slipher
D) Gerard Kuiper
15. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a famous work by which English poet?
A) William Langland
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) John Gower
D) John Lydgate
16. Who discovered the structure of the atom's nucleus?
A) J.J. Thomson
B) Niels Bohr
C) Ernest Rutherford
D) James Chadwick
17. The novel 'Les Misérables' was written by:
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Victor Hugo
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Émile Zola
18. 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
19. '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
20. Who is known for the discovery of the neutron?
A) J.J. Thomson
B) Niels Bohr
C) James Chadwick
D) Ernest Rutherford
21. The epic poem 'The Divine Comedy' was written by:
A) Giovanni Boccaccio
B) Francesco Petrarch
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Niccolò Machiavelli
22. Who developed the first practical electric battery (the voltaic pile)?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Alessandro Volta
C) André-Marie Ampère
D) Nikola Tesla
23. 'Frankenstein' was written by:
A) Bram Stoker
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Mary Shelley
D) H.G. Wells
24. Who is credited with the discovery of the planet Uranus?
A) Pierre-Simon Laplace
B) William Herschel
C) Edmond Halley
D) Caroline Herschel
25. The novel 'Anna Karenina' is a masterpiece by which Russian author?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Maxim Gorky
26. Who discovered the electron?
A) Ernest Rutherford
B) J.J. Thomson
C) John Dalton
D) James Chadwick
27. '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
28. 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
29. The novel 'Jane Eyre' was written by:
A) Emily Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
30. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
A) Nicolaus Copernicus
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Johannes Kepler
D) Tycho Brahe
31. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are epic poems attributed to which ancient Greek poet?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Homer
D) Virgil
32. Who is credited with the discovery of X-rays?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
C) James Clerk Maxwell
D) Lord Kelvin
33. The novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was written by:
A) William Faulkner
B) John Steinbeck
C) Harper Lee
D) Tennessee Williams
34. 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
35. '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
36. 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
37. The dystopian novel 'Brave New World' was authored by:
A) George Orwell
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Kurt Vonnegut
38. 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
39. 'War and Peace' is a monumental novel by which Russian author?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Ivan Turgenev
D) Leo Tolstoy
40. 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
41. The famous novel '1984' was written by:
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) H.G. Wells
42. 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
43. 'Moby Dick' is a classic novel authored by:
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Herman Melville
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Walt Whitman
44. Who is credited with inventing the theory of relativity?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Max Planck
C) Albert Einstein
D) Werner Heisenberg
45. The play 'Hamlet' is a work by which renowned playwright?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Ben Jonson
C) William Shakespeare
D) Oscar Wilde
46. Who is known for the discovery of the law of universal gravitation?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Johannes Kepler
C) Isaac Newton
D) Albert Einstein
47. Which of the following is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
48. 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
49. The novel 'Pride and Prejudice' was written by whom?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Mary Shelley
50. Which scientist is credited with the discovery of penicillin?
A) Marie Curie
B) Louis Pasteur
C) Alexander Fleming
D) Isaac Newton