This quiz document contains questions about various topics in chemistry, including organic compounds, dyes, elements, early chemists and their discoveries. Some key figures and discoveries mentioned are William Perkins discovering dyes from coal tar, Aristotle believing matter was made of earth, water, fire and air, the first synthetic dye mauveine, Antoine Lavoisier publishing The Elements of Chemistry in 1789, Hermann Emil Fischer discovering phenol is a common raw material for salicylic acid, picric acid and other compounds, and metallurgy being mentioned as far back as in the Vedas in India. The document provides brief multiple choice questions and answers about important concepts and people in the history of chemistry.

1. Quiz

2. An organic compound must contain?

3. Carbon

4. Dyes are used for colouring various
materials, like cloth and plastic.
William Perkins, the English chemist,
discovered dyes for colouring from?

5. Coal tar

6. ID. This chemist?

7. Oliver sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE is a British
neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist
who is Professor of Neurology at New
York University School of Medicine

8. Who believed that matter was made
of earth, water, fire, and air?

9. Aristotle

10. The first dye that was prepared
synthetically was?

11. Mauveine

12. The elements of chemistry, published
in 1789 described elements with
modern chemical names. It
contributed significantly to the
progress of chemistry. The book was
written by?

13. Lavoisier(France)

14. Salicylic acid, picric
acid,aspirin,nylon and plastics have
common raw material, namely?

15. Phenol

16. Id. This chemist?

17. Hermann Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German
chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry. He also discovered the
Fischer esterification. He developed the
Fischer projection, a symbolic way of
drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.

18. Metallurgy, the science of metals,
known as ‘Lohasastra’ in India, was
mentioned as far back as in?

19. The Vedas

20. Thank you
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