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Know About The Life Of Otto Wichterle!

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1 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Otto Wichterle was best known for his invention of modern soft __________.


Gas cylinder

Digital clock

Contact lenses

2 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle studied at the Chemical and Technological Faculty of the ___________ University.


Czech Technical

Oxford

Cambridge Technology

3 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle's team made the first Czechoslovak synthetic fiber called _________.


Silk

Silon

Fabric

4 Question
30 seconds
Q.

After World War II Wichterle returned to the university, specializing in __________.


Organic chemistry

Physics

Psychology study

5 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Otto Wichterle's aim was to look after his father's work but his father forced him to take organic chemistry.


True

False

6 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The asteroid number _________ was named after Wichterle in 1993.


3899

3000

5689

7 Question
30 seconds
Q.

A high school in Ostrava was named after Otto Wichterle on September 1, 2006.


True

False

8 Question
30 seconds
Q.

In which year he was made president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences?


1888

1890

1990

9 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle built several new prototype machines using Merkur toys with increasing numbers of spindles which required the stronger motor taken from his telephone.


True

False

10 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle and NPDC won the court case of American rights to produce the lenses in which year?


1983

1990

1902

11 Question
30 seconds
Q.

On 27 October 2021, Google celebrated Wichterle's _________ birth anniversary with a doodle on its homepage.


100th

150th

108th

12 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle was imprisoned by the _________ in 1942.


Gestapo

Peaky Blinder

Squidders

13 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Wichterle's father Karel was co-owner of a successful _________ factory.


Ice manufacturing

Farm-machine

Food production

14 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Does Otto Wichterle died of lung cancer at the age of 31.


Yes

No

15 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Otto Wichterle died at the age of _________.


56

72

84