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Famous Scientists Quiz
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Inventor of one light bulb style, phonograph, and numerous other innovations.
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
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Defined laws of motion and gravity.
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Grace Hopper
Copernicus
3
Who calculated the flight path for the first manned moon mission?
Neil Armstrong
Mae Jemison
Stephen Hawking
Katherine Johnson
4
Began "pasteurizing" milk to kill bacteria.
Louis Armstrong
Nikola Tesla
Galileo Galilei
Louis Pasteur
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Astronomer and mathematician that first used a telescope to study the stars.
Galileo Galilei
Nikola Tesla
Alan Turing
Charles Darwin
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Invented the Alternating Current (AC Current) for electricity.
Alan Turing
Charles Darwin
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
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Known for proof of black holes.
Rachel Carson
Stephen Hawking
Isaac Newton
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection. "Survival of the fittest".
Alan Turing
Charles Darwin
Nikola Tesla
Galileo Galilei
9
Who electrocuted an elephant to prove a point?
Joseph Swan
Thomas Edison
Nikolas Tesla
Michael Faraday
10
Devised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center, and not the Earth.
Isaac Newton
Jane Goodall
Rachel Carson
Copernicus
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What age was Stephen Hawking told he would live to? (He lived to 76!)
23
50
62
76
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Wrote the book "Silent Spring" about the effects of DDT and other pesticides.
Rachel Carson
Grace Hopper
Summerstar Brewer
Jane Goodall
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Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton were great friends
True
False
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Came up the the compiler, a program that translates human readable code into machine language. Also, DEBUGGING.
Rachel Carson
Isaac Newton
Jane Goodall
Grace Hopper
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Who published the findings from the alpha scattering experiment?
Mendeleev
Watson and Crick
Rutherford
Curie
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Which Scientist that worked to discover DNA believed all life on Earth descended from ALIENS?
Rosalin Franklin
Maurice Wilkins
Francis Crick
James Watson
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German physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Marie Curie
Benjamin Franklin
18
Invented the telephone.
Alan Turing
Charles Darwin
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
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Who was the first woman in Space?
Naoko Yamazaki
Valentina Tereshkova
Eileen Collins
Mae Jemison
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Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to answer the telephone with AHOY
False
True
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Who is the only person to have won 2 Nobel Prizes in 2 different fields of Science (Chemistry and Physics)
Marie Curie
Richard Feynman
Albert Einstein
Ernst Rutherford
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Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
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She was the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
Isaac Newton
Grace Hopper
Jane Goodall
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Zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild.
Copernicus
Mrs. Miller
Grace Hopper
Jane Goodall
25
Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer and scientist. Known for painting the Mona Lisa.
Raphael
Leonardo daVinci
Donatello
Michelangelo
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Who formed the modern day Periodic Table?
John Newlands
Dimitry Mendeleev
Maurice Wilkins
Ernst Rutherford
27
Inventor/Politician that invented bifocals and help prove lightning was a form of electricity.
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Thomas Edison
28
Where was the first house in the world to have electric lights installed?
The Savoy Theatre, London
Thomas Edison's houses, Ohio
Underhill, Low Fell
College Sante-Barbe, Paris
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Helped develop the fuel for the atomic bomb and disproved the 'law of conservation of parity'
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Esther Lederberg
Chien-Shiung Wu
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Leonardo da Vinci wrote their ideas in Latin to avoid Plagarism
False
True
