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Famous British Scientists and Engineers
Famous British Scientists and Engineers
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A quiz about the major achievements of a range of British Scientists and Engineers,
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Who made pioneering discoveries about black holes?
Lord Raleigh
Ernest Rutherford
Sir Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking
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Dorothy Hodgkin discovered the structure of what?
Oxygen
Starch
Proteins
DNA
3
Who's images provided the evidence for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
Stephen Hawking
Francis Crick
Joseph Lister
4
Who first described 'the building blocks of life' as cells?
Joseph Lister
Charles Darwin
Sir Isaac Newton
Robert Hooke
5
Mary Anning
discovered this fossil. What is its name?
T Rex
Ichthyosaur
Megaladon
Brontosaurus
6
Who discovered the atomic nucleus and the sub-atomic particle called the proton?
James Watt
Lord Raleigh
Ernest Rutherford
Stephen Hawking
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Who proposed the theory of evolution in his book 'On the Origin of Species'?
Alexander Fleming
Stephen Hawking
Charles Darwin
James Watt
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Who's ideas about energy and power improved the design of steam engines?
Sir John Joseph Thompson
Francis Crick
James Watt
Joseph Priestley
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Who first described gravity and proposed three Laws of Motion?
Lord Raleigh
Ernest Rutherford
John Cockcroft
Sir Isaac Newton
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Anne McLaren
's discoveries led to the 1st what?
Image of the brain
Artificial limb
Heart transplant
Test tube baby
11
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first qualified what in the UK?
Engineer
Astronomer
Doctor
Geologist
12
Who is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics?
Henry Cavendish
John Cockcroft
Sir William Laurence Bragg
Sir Isaac Newton
13
Who first used and supported the use of anti-septics?
Alexander Fleming
Tim Berners-Lee
Henry Cavendish
Joseph Lister
14
Which British scientist jointly won the Nobel Prize for splitting the atom?
Michael Faraday
Francis Crick
John Cockcroft
Lord Raleigh
15
Who discovered the antibiotic penicillin?
Joseph Priestley
Alexander Fleming
Rosalind Franklin
Ernest Rutherford
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Who discovered Hydrogen?
Joseph Lister
Robert Hooke
Joseph Priestley
Henry Cavendish
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Who's pioneering work with electricity led to many new inventions?
Lord Raleigh
Joseph Priestley
Robert Hooke
Michael Faraday
18
What company did Alan Sugar create?
Google
Amazon
Amstrad
BP
19
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Argon and explained why the sky is blue?
Lord Raleigh
Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Robert Hooke
Tim Berners-Lee
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Who first isolated the element Oxygen?
Henry Cavendish
Charles Darwin
Joseph Priestley
Francis Crick
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Who jointly discovered the structure of DNA?
Francis Crick
Joseph Lister
Rosalind Franklin
Charles Darwin
22
What was the name of the 1st electric car?
C5
B3
D4
A2
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Who discovered the sub-atomic particle the electron?
Charles Babbage
Ernest Rutherford
Sir John Joseph Thompson
Sir Isaac Newton
24
Who invented the World Wide Web (which became known as the internet)?
Alexander Fleming
Charles Babbage
Francis Crick
Tim Berners-Lee
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Who invented the first computer, which he called a 'difference engine'?
Lord Raleigh
Charles Babbage
Stephen Hawking
Michael Faraday
