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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 first used and supported the use of anti-septics?
Joseph Lister
Alexander Fleming
Henry Cavendish
Tim Berners-Lee
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Who invented the World Wide Web (which became known as the internet)?
Alexander Fleming
Tim Berners-Lee
Francis Crick
Charles Babbage
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Who jointly discovered the structure of DNA?
Charles Darwin
Francis Crick
Rosalind Franklin
Joseph Lister
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Who discovered the sub-atomic particle the electron?
Ernest Rutherford
Sir Isaac Newton
Charles Babbage
Sir John Joseph Thompson
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Who discovered the antibiotic penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
Joseph Priestley
Ernest Rutherford
Rosalind Franklin
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Who is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics?
Sir William Laurence Bragg
John Cockcroft
Sir Isaac Newton
Henry Cavendish
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Who first described gravity and proposed three Laws of Motion?
John Cockcroft
Ernest Rutherford
Lord Raleigh
Sir Isaac Newton
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Who first described 'the building blocks of life' as cells?
Robert Hooke
Charles Darwin
Sir Isaac Newton
Joseph Lister
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Who proposed the theory of evolution in his book 'On the Origin of Species'?
Stephen Hawking
Alexander Fleming
James Watt
Charles Darwin
10
Who discovered Hydrogen?
Joseph Priestley
Henry Cavendish
Robert Hooke
Joseph Lister
11
Who's ideas about energy and power improved the design of steam engines?
Francis Crick
Joseph Priestley
James Watt
Sir John Joseph Thompson
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Who's images provided the evidence for the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Joseph Lister
Stephen Hawking
Rosalind Franklin
Francis Crick
13
Who made pioneering discoveries about black holes?
Lord Raleigh
Ernest Rutherford
Stephen Hawking
Sir Isaac Newton
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Who's pioneering work with electricity led to many new inventions?
Joseph Priestley
Michael Faraday
Robert Hooke
Lord Raleigh
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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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Which British scientist jointly won the Nobel Prize for splitting the atom?
Lord Raleigh
Francis Crick
Michael Faraday
John Cockcroft
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Who discovered the atomic nucleus and the sub-atomic particle called the proton?
Ernest Rutherford
Lord Raleigh
Stephen Hawking
James Watt
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Who first isolated the element Oxygen?
Henry Cavendish
Francis Crick
Joseph Priestley
Charles Darwin
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Who invented the first computer, which he called a 'difference engine'?
Stephen Hawking
Charles Babbage
Michael Faraday
Lord Raleigh
