Friday, August 15, 2008

Well, I thought for some time about what to put in my blog. The first thing that came up to mind was of course Quizzing. So I am sharing 6 sample science & Technology questions. Please do Comment. Soon I will be with the answers ......


1. Name the french chemist and biologist who succeeded in creating a vaccine to prevent death from rabies?

2. Robert J. Van de Graaff was an American physicist who specialized in the field of electricity, and he invented a piece of scientific equipment which is named after him. But what exactly is generated by the Van de Graff generator?

3. In 1995 Mario Molina, Paul Crutzen & F.Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel prize for chemistry for work leading to the discovery of a 'hole'.Where?

4. what is the term for a natural display of light in the sky that can be seen with the unaided eye only at night?

5. Which number series is believed to have been born from this problem: 'Beginning with a single pair of rabbits, if every month each productive pair bears a new pair, which becomes productive when they ate one month old, how many rabbits will there be after n months'?

6. The use of which element in drinking water supply pipes was discontinued after it was discovered that the element caused poisoning in humans?


Happy Quizzing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Heyy...By chance came across your post- here's my shot at the answers...

1. Louis Pasteur
2. Electrostatic Field?
3. Ozone Layer
4. Aurora
5. Didn't get the question clearly- is it 2^n??
6. Lead?

Good work though...keep up with more questions...will give some good work for our otherwise very idle brain....