The Great Pioneers The Great Pioneers The first to do first of all 1 / 10 Who first discovered the rotation of the Sun? Galileo Cassine Copernicus Fred Hoyle 2 / 10 Who first detected the radio waves? Rutherford G. Marconi J.C. Maxwell Heinrich Hertz 3 / 10 Who devised the first calculating machine? Henry Greathead Pascal Charles Babbage Napier 4 / 10 Who among the following treated ‘Zero’ as a number and showed its mathematical operations? Brahmagupta Aryabhatta Plato Pythagoras 5 / 10 Who was the first to devise the reflecting type of telescope? Copernicus Newton Galileo None of these 6 / 10 Which among the following trees was the first to be cultivated as a crop? Lax Neem Peepal Date Palm 7 / 10 Which medicine was the first to be prepared directly in the laboratory? Aspirin Streptomycin Terramycin None of the above 8 / 10 Which is the first wholly synthetic fibre? Nylon Teflon Rayon Wool 9 / 10 Which was the first molecule to be discovered in space? Silicon dioxide Hydroxide Carbon dioxide Carbon monoxide 10 / 10 Which is the first element to be transmitted into another by means of high-energy machines, and accelerators? Helium Plutonium Lithium Gold Your score isThe average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte 0% Restart quiz By WordPress Quiz plugin