Significant People Year 5

Question 1

Which characteristic would not describe Stephen Hawking at college?

Accepted Answer

timid

Question 2

The Model S Tesla can monitor traffic using sensors

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Marie Curie's discovery led to a treatment for cancer, still used today:

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize:

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Elon Musk wants people to travel to Mars one day

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Stephen Hawking was born 300 years after which famous cosmologist?

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 7

Marie Curie's greatest dream was to find a cure for cancer

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What did Stephen and his friends build with clock parts?

Accepted Answer

a computer

Question 9

Marie Curie discovered these two elements:

Accepted Answer

polonium and radium

Question 10

Stephen Hawking was so clever at school that his nickname was:

Accepted Answer

Einstein

Question 11

Marie Curie was famous for...

Accepted Answer

Discovering radioactive materials

Question 12

Marie Curie's work clothes were the same colour as her:

Accepted Answer

wedding dress

Question 13

Which one is NOT a business that Elon Musk had?

Accepted Answer

Instagram

Question 14

Stephen Hawking studied Maths at University:

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Elon Musk's company SpaceX has also designed and launched which rocket?

Accepted Answer

Falcon Heavy Rocket

Question 16

Stephen Hawking's parents went to Cambridge University too:

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Which one has Space X NOT done?

Accepted Answer

landed on the Moon

Question 18

The Dragon Crew capsule was the first time that a private company had sent an astronaut into space:

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 18