The questions
- 1
Who described gravity after (the story says) an apple fell?
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
Answer: Isaac Newton
- 2
Who won two Nobel Prizes for work on radioactivity?
- Ada Lovelace
- Jane Goodall
- Marie Curie
- Rosalind Franklin
Answer: Marie Curie
- 3
Who wrote about evolution and natural selection?
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Isaac Newton
- Louis Pasteur
Answer: Charles Darwin
- 4
Who is famous for E = mc²?
- Albert Einstein
- Niels Bohr
- Nikola Tesla
- Stephen Hawking
Answer: Albert Einstein
- 5
Who used a telescope to see Jupiter's moons in 1610?
- Copernicus
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Kepler
Answer: Galileo Galilei
- 6
Who said the Earth goes around the Sun, in a famous book of 1543?
- Aristotle
- Galileo
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Ptolemy
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
- 7
Who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania for many years?
- Dian Fossey
- Jane Goodall
- Marie Curie
- Rachel Carson
Answer: Jane Goodall
- 8
Who wrote "A Brief History of Time"?
- Albert Einstein
- Carl Sagan
- Isaac Newton
- Stephen Hawking
Answer: Stephen Hawking
- 9
Who is called the first computer programmer?
- Ada Lovelace
- Alan Turing
- Bill Gates
- Grace Hopper
Answer: Ada Lovelace
- 10
Who helped break secret codes in World War II and imagined thinking machines?
- Ada Lovelace
- Alan Turing
- Charles Babbage
- Tim Berners-Lee
Answer: Alan Turing
- 11
Who made milk safer by heating it?
- Alexander Fleming
- Edward Jenner
- Louis Pasteur
- Robert Koch
Answer: Louis Pasteur
- 12
Who made the first vaccine, for smallpox?
- Edward Jenner
- Jonas Salk
- Louis Pasteur
- Marie Curie
Answer: Edward Jenner
- 13
Whose X-ray photo helped show the shape of DNA?
- Ada Lovelace
- Jane Goodall
- Marie Curie
- Rosalind Franklin
Answer: Rosalind Franklin
- 14
Who worked on alternating current (AC) electricity?
- Galileo
- Isaac Newton
- Nikola Tesla
- Thomas Edison
Answer: Nikola Tesla
- 15
Who described the double helix shape of DNA in 1953, together with Francis Crick?
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- James Watson
- Louis Pasteur
Answer: James Watson
- 16
Who is called the father of genetics, for his work with peas?
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Isaac Newton
- Louis Pasteur
Answer: Gregor Mendel
- 17
Which Ancient Greek shouted "Eureka!" in the bath?
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Pythagoras
Answer: Archimedes
- 18
Whose famous theorem is about right-angled triangles?
- Archimedes
- Euclid
- Newton
- Pythagoras
Answer: Pythagoras
- 19
Who was an artist and inventor who drew flying machines 500 years ago?
- Galileo
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
- 20
What do we call a scientist who studies living things?
- A biologist
- A chemist
- A geologist
- A physicist
Answer: A biologist
- 21
What do we call a scientist who studies stars and planets?
- A biologist
- A geologist
- An astrologer
- An astronomer
Answer: An astronomer
- 22
What do we call a scientist who studies the Earth and rocks?
- A biologist
- A chemist
- A geologist
- An astronomer
Answer: A geologist
