Top 250+ Solved History and Philosophy of Science MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……….. holds that science is a dangerous activity.
a. Bacon
b. Paul Feyerabend
c. Chomsky
d. C.P.Snow
Q. ……. argues that science is inevitably political.
a. Bill Zimmerman
b. Paul Feyerabend
c. Newton
d. Darwin
Q. Who performed a simple experiment to calculate the circumference of the Earth two thousand years ago?
a. Aristotle
b. Alfred Wegener
c. Abraham Ortelius
d. Eratoshthenes
Q. The Chinese were measuring earthquake intensities using ………… almost two thousand years ago.
a. Seismographs
b. Sthethascope
c. Galvanometer
d. None of these
Q. Complex surgical procedures were described in details in the …………..
a. Yajur Veda
b. Sushruta Samhita
c. Kanada Sutras
d. Caraka Samhita
Q. Who suggested the idea of Continental drift?
a. Aryabhata
b. Alfred Wegner
c. Abraham Ortelius
d. Aristotle
Q. Who resurrected the concept of continental drift?
a. Alfred Wegner
b. Aristotle
c. Abraham Ortelius
d. Aryabhata
Q. Palaeolithic Age is also called………….
a. The Bronze Age
b. New Stone Age
c. Copper Age
d. Old Stone Age
Q. Pottery was invented during the ………… age.
a. The Neolithic
b. The Bronze
c. The Palaeolithic
d. The Copper
Q. The old stone Age humans were……….
a. Hunter-gatherers
b. Technicians
c. Agriculturalists
d. Industrialists
Q. Which among the following does not belong to the most momentous inventions in human history?
a. Agriculture
b. Hunting
c. The conquest of fire
d. Harnessing of the natural sources of energy
Q. The surplus food was stored in ………….. during the Neolithic Age.
a. Special storage houses
b. Underground buildings
c. Mud pots
d. Stone pots