The circulation of blood around the body was described in 1628 by which English physician?
Correct answer D. William Harvey
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Hydrogen was first identified as a distinct substance in 1766 by which scientist?
Correct answer A. Henry Cavendish
Logarithms, which simplified long calculations, were introduced in 1614 by whom?
Correct answer B. John Napier
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Which Muslim scholar’s book on solving equations gave the word algebra its name?
Correct answer B. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Which scholar wrote the influential Book of Optics (Kitab al-Manazir) in the eleventh century?
Correct answer C. Ibn al-Haytham
Who first described and named the cell after viewing cork under a microscope in 1665?
Correct answer D. Robert Hooke
Who was the first person to observe bacteria, using single-lens microscopes he made himself?
Correct answer C. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
The mercury barometer was invented in 1643 by which Italian scientist?
Correct answer B. Evangelista Torricelli
The Raman effect, the scattering of light that won a Nobel Prize in 1930, was discovered by whom?
Correct answer A. C. V. Raman
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Which French scientist developed the heat treatment of milk and wine now called pasteurisation?
Correct answer D. Louis Pasteur
In which year did Sri Lanka begin Operation Sure Victory, a counter-insurgency operation against the Tamil Tigers?
Correct answer B. 1997
Which state was declared India’s first digital state?
Correct answer D. Kerala
Who is called the father of modern psychology?
Correct answer A. Wilhelm Wundt
Who invented the telephone?
Correct answer D. Alexander Graham Bell
Through which of these countries does the Equator pass?
Correct answer B. None
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What is the deepest place on Earth?
Correct answer C. Mariana Trench
On which date did Pakistan beat India to win the Kabaddi World Cup 2020?
Correct answer B. February 16, 2020
One of these scientists formulated basic laws of Geometry?
Correct answer A. Pythagorus
Pakistan won Asia cricket cup in which year?
Correct answer C. 2012
Which of the following country has won the first edition of hockey championship trophy?
Correct answer A. Pakistan