Famous Scientists Quiz

1. Which scientist is credited with developing the theory of general relativity?

1. Albert Einstein
2. Isaac Newton
3. Max Planck
4. Niels Bohr

2. Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Which two?

1. Chemistry and Biology
2. Chemistry and Medicine
3. Physics and Chemistry
4. Physics and Medicine

3. Charles Darwin published his theory of natural selection in which book?

1. On Natural History
2. The Descent of Man
3. The Origin of Species
4. Voyage of the Beagle

4. Isaac Newton famously developed his laws of motion after supposedly observing what?

1. A star falling
2. An apple falling from a tree
3. The moon rising
4. Water flowing in a river

5. Who discovered penicillin accidentally in 1928?

1. Alexander Fleming
2. Edward Jenner
3. Joseph Lister
4. Louis Pasteur

6. Galileo Galilei is known for improving the telescope and supporting which theory about the solar system?

1. Geocentric — Earth is at the centre
2. Heliocentric — the Sun is at the centre
3. Planets orbit in squares
4. The solar system is infinite

7. What did Nikola Tesla invent that powers most of our homes today?

1. Alternating current (AC)
2. Direct current (DC)
3. The battery
4. The electric light bulb

8. Stephen Hawking was best known for his work on which subject?

1. Black holes and theoretical cosmology
2. DNA and molecular biology
3. Quantum mechanics and particle physics
4. String theory and particle colliders

9. Who is known as the 'Father of Computing' and developed the Analytical Engine?

1. Ada Lovelace
2. Alan Turing
3. Charles Babbage
4. John von Neumann

10. What did Gregor Mendel discover that founded the science of genetics?

1. DNA structure
2. How genes mutate
3. The human genome
4. The laws of inheritance through pea plant experiments

11. James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin are associated with the discovery of what?

1. Penicillin
2. The atom
3. The DNA double helix structure
4. The electron

12. Which physicist developed quantum theory and introduced the concept of the quantum of energy?

1. Erwin Schrödinger
2. Max Planck
3. Niels Bohr
4. Werner Heisenberg

13. What is the Turing Test, developed by Alan Turing?

1. A test for encryption strength
2. A test for quantum computers
3. A test of computer processing speed
4. A test to determine whether a machine can exhibit human-like intelligence

14. Louis Pasteur developed vaccines for which two diseases?

1. Cholera and rabies
2. Smallpox and measles
3. TB and influenza
4. Typhoid and polio

15. Who co-discovered the electron in 1897?

1. Ernest Rutherford
2. J.J. Thomson
3. Max Planck
4. Niels Bohr

16. Carl Linnaeus created what system still used in biology today?

1. Binomial nomenclature (scientific naming of species)
2. The food chain classification system
3. The geological time scale
4. The periodic table of elements

17. Which scientist gave her name to the element curium (Cm)?

1. Dorothy Hodgkin
2. Lise Meitner
3. Marie Curie
4. Rosalind Franklin

18. What did Edwin Hubble discover that changed our view of the universe?

1. That the universe is expanding and contains billions of galaxies
2. The Big Bang
3. The existence of dark matter
4. The speed of light

19. Richard Feynman was famous for his contributions to which field of physics?

1. Nuclear fission
2. Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
3. Relativity
4. Thermodynamics

20. Which scientist first proposed that continents were once joined together in a supercontinent?

1. Alfred Wegener
2. Arthur Holmes
3. Charles Lyell
4. James Hutton