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KS2 General Knowledge - Famous scientists
KS2 General Knowledge - Famous scientists
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True or false? Stephen Hawking was famous for his theory on black holes in space.
True
False
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Who invented the Television?
John Logie Baird
Robert Dixon
Micheal Brandon
Alexander Graham Bell
3
Which English scientist is credited with the invention of the world wide web?
Ray Turner
Alan Turing
Richard Dawkins
Timothy John Berners-Lee
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What scientist is this?
Thomas Edinson
Charles Darwin
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
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What is Albert Einstein best known for?
electricity
radio activity
theory of relativity
gravity
6
Who invented the very first mobile phone
Konrad Zuse
Jack Kilby
Steve Jobs
Martin Cooper
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This scientist helped prove everything in the world is made of atoms.
Albert Hall
Alvin & the Chipmunks
Isaac Newton
Albert Eistein
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What did Ada Lovelace help to invent?
camera
radio
telephone
computer
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Which is
NOT
true about the renowned astrophysicist, Brian Cox?
His first degree was in Music and Drama
He got a ‘D’ for his maths ‘A’ level
He played keyboards in a successful pop band
He studied at Manchester University
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Which biologist studied chimpanzees by living among them?
Rachel Carson
Beatrix Potter
Dian Fossey
Jane Goodall
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True or false? Nicola Tesla invented electric cars.
False
True
12
Who was Katherine Johnson?
A NASA reporter
An American mathematician for NASA
An astronaut for NASA
An American astronomer for NASA
13
Who is this famous scientist?
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Isaac Newton
Joseph Priestley
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Who was the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes? She studied radioactive material and X-rays.
Beatrix Potter
Selena Gomez
Marie Curie
Dian Fossey
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Alan Turing was a pioneer in which field?
Computer Science
Astronomy
Biology
Cricket
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What scientist is this?
Marie Curie
Dorothy Hodgkin
Lise Meitner
Gertrude B.Elion
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Why Are Watson And Crick Famous?
They discovered an animal in the Amazon rainforest.
They discovered a cure for a disease that animals might get.
They invented the microscope to look at tiny germs, plankton
They discovered DNA.
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Which scientist invented the modern light bulb?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Galileo
19
Who invented calculus math and discovered that light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow?
John Isaac
Newton Isaacson
Fig Newton
Sir Isaac Newton
20
This scientist invented dynamite and other explosives. His fortune supports peace prizes.
Alfred Nobel
Coppernicus
Sir Isaac Newton
Marie Curie
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How did Ibn al-Haytham contribute to the discovery of cells?
invented a compound microscope
discovered microorganisms using a simple microscope.
invented a simple microscope
explained the mathematics of lenses
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Which physicist studied gravity and created the Laws of Motion.
Sir Isaac Newton
Mario Molina
Coppernicus
Albert Eistein
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Who developed the scientific method? A structured way of doing science.
Robert Hooke
Nicholas Copernicus
Robert Levy
Nikolas Copperhead
24
What did William Henry Fox Talbot create?
The dark room
Light sensitive plastic film
The digital camera
Light sensitive photo paper
25
What famous scientist visited the Galapagos Islands in 1835?
Stephen Hawking
Immanuel Kant
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
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Who invented the World Wide Web?
Gabriel Weinberg
Thomas Edison
Tim Berners-Lee
Steve Jobs
27
What sort of scientist was Edwin Hubble?
Astrologer
Astronaut
Astronomer
Physicist
28
Tim Peake was the second person to wear a British flag in space, who was the first?
Pilot: James Lovell
Chemist: Helen Sharman
Physicist: Sally Ride
Engineer: Nicholas Patrick
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What did Rosalind Franklin discover using crystallography?
That blood contains cells.
That the Moon is made of cheese
That DNA consists of 2 strands that are twisted.
That hair is a protein
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Which scientist discovered, by using math, that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Robert Hooke
Copernicus
31
What did Alexander Fleming discover?
Penicillin
Smallvox vaccine
He was "the father of medicine"
He was "the father of biology"
32
Who is this American scientist inventor, and businessman?
Erastus "Deaf" Smith
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist who was awarded an MBE for her work. Which BBC programme does she present?
Spring Watch
The Sky at Night
Tomorrow's World
Horizon
34
Who invented the first battery?
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Count Allessandro Volta
James Watt
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The first successful vaccine was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. Which disease did it guard against?
Smallpox
Polio
COVID-19
The black death
