Fri Mar 14 05:30:00 UTC 2025: ## The Hindu Quiz Challenges Readers with Science Questions
**CHENNAI, March 14, 2025** – The Hindu newspaper’s online quiz section today presented readers with a challenging series of questions spanning various scientific fields. The quiz, focusing on key discoveries and theories, tested knowledge of cosmology, geology, astronomy, biology, and meteorology.
Questions ranged from identifying the accidental discovery that spurred important cosmological studies (X = Cosmic Microwave Background radiation) to naming the scientist who introduced the concept of elliptical orbits in the heliocentric model (Johannes Kepler). Other questions probed the origins of continental drift theory (Alfred Wegener), the biological source of diversity (Thomas Hunt Morgan), and the historical explanation for combustion before the understanding of oxygen (phlogiston). The quiz also highlighted the work of a female scientist (unnamed in the provided text) and her contributions to understanding chaotic systems in nature alongside Edward Lorenz and Ellen Fetter.
The quiz, published on The Hindu’s website, invites readers to test their scientific knowledge and engage in the comments section following the community guidelines.
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