Scientists & Inventors
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1.Which scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
- A. Pythagoras
- B. Michael Faraday
- C. Euclid
- D. Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton
Did you know? He also advanced the study of optics.
2.Which scientist shouted Eureka after solving a volume problem?
- A. Lord Kelvin
- B. Michael Faraday
- C. Gregor Mendel
- D. Archimedes
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Archimedes
Did you know? He used water displacement to test a crown.
3.Which scientist developed germ theory and pasteurization?
- A. Charles Darwin
- B. Edwin Hubble
- C. Dmitri Mendeleev
- D. Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur
Did you know? He also created early rabies vaccines.
4.Which scientist turned the telescope toward the night sky?
- A. Alan Turing
- B. Edwin Hubble
- C. Galileo Galilei
- D. Pythagoras
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Galileo Galilei
Did you know? He saw Jupiter's four largest moons.
5.Which scientist pioneered research on radioactivity?
- A. Marie Curie
- B. Albert Einstein
- C. Alfred Wegener
- D. Hypatia
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Marie Curie
Did you know? She won Nobel Prizes in two sciences.
6.Which scientist discovered penicillin by accident?
- A. Michael Faraday
- B. Alexander Fleming
- C. Ada Lovelace
- D. Charles Darwin
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Alexander Fleming
Did you know? A stray mold spore started it all.
7.Which scientist has a famous theorem about right triangles?
- A. Ibn al-Haytham
- B. Isaac Newton
- C. Jonas Salk
- D. Pythagoras
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Pythagoras
Did you know? The square on the hypotenuse equals the other two squares.
8.Which scientist studied finches and tortoises in the Galápagos?
- A. Niels Bohr
- B. Ibn al-Haytham
- C. Michael Faraday
- D. Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin
Did you know? His voyage on the Beagle shaped his ideas.
9.Which scientist developed the first practical light bulb and phonograph?
- A. Ada Lovelace
- B. Thomas Edison
- C. Isaac Newton
- D. Euclid
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Thomas Edison
Did you know? He held over a thousand patents.
10.Which scientist developed the theory of relativity?
- A. Georg Ohm
- B. Albert Einstein
- C. Galileo Galilei
- D. Archimedes
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Albert Einstein
Did you know? He explained the photoelectric effect too.
11.Which scientist studied how gases respond to pressure?
- A. Nikola Tesla
- B. Robert Boyle
- C. Pythagoras
- D. Euclid
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Robert Boyle
Did you know? Boyle's law links pressure and volume.
12.Which scientist discovered the laws of inheritance with pea plants?
- A. Isaac Newton
- B. Ibn al-Haytham
- C. Michael Faraday
- D. Gregor Mendel
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Gregor Mendel
Did you know? His work founded modern genetics.
13.Which scientist gave his name to the electrical unit volt?
- A. Michael Faraday
- B. Alan Turing
- C. Louis Pasteur
- D. Alessandro Volta
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Alessandro Volta
Did you know? The volt is named after him.
14.Which scientist is a founder of computer science?
- A. Alan Turing
- B. Antoine Lavoisier
- C. James Joule
- D. Stephen Hawking
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Alan Turing
Did you know? He proposed a famous test for machine intelligence.
15.Which scientist wrote the classic textbook of geometry?
- A. Euclid
- B. Edwin Hubble
- C. Gregor Mendel
- D. Galileo Galilei
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Euclid
Did you know? His Elements served scholars for centuries.
16.Which scientist was inspired by milkmaids' immunity to cowpox?
- A. Edward Jenner
- B. Archimedes
- C. Louis Pasteur
- D. Isaac Newton
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Edward Jenner
Did you know? The word vaccine comes from cowpox, vaccinia.
17.Which scientist discovered electromagnetic induction?
- A. Archimedes
- B. Michael Faraday
- C. Galileo Galilei
- D. Albert Einstein
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Michael Faraday
Did you know? His work led to electric generators.
18.Which scientist showed the universe is expanding?
- A. Thomas Edison
- B. Edwin Hubble
- C. Michael Faraday
- D. Alessandro Volta
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Edwin Hubble
Did you know? A space telescope bears his name.
19.Which scientist created the first successful polio vaccine?
- A. Jonas Salk
- B. William Harvey
- C. Alfred Wegener
- D. Marie Curie
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Jonas Salk
Did you know? He patented nothing to speed its spread.
20.Which scientist arranged the elements into the periodic table?
- A. Stephen Hawking
- B. Amedeo Avogadro
- C. Albert Einstein
- D. Dmitri Mendeleev
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Did you know? He left gaps that predicted new elements.
21.Which scientist is called the father of modern chemistry?
- A. Jonas Salk
- B. Antoine Lavoisier
- C. Rosalind Franklin
- D. Alexander Fleming
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Antoine Lavoisier
Did you know? He showed that mass is conserved in reactions.
22.Which scientist studied black holes and their radiation?
- A. Stephen Hawking
- B. Louis Pasteur
- C. Nikola Tesla
- D. Archimedes
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Stephen Hawking
Did you know? He wrote A Brief History of Time.
23.Which scientist proposed that continents drift?
- A. Dmitri Mendeleev
- B. Alfred Wegener
- C. Rosalind Franklin
- D. Ibn al-Haytham
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Alfred Wegener
Did you know? His idea became plate tectonics.
24.Which scientist found the law linking voltage, current and resistance?
- A. Georg Ohm
- B. James Joule
- C. Alessandro Volta
- D. Niels Bohr
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Georg Ohm
Did you know? The unit of resistance bears his name.
25.Which scientist made X-ray images crucial to discovering DNA's shape?
- A. Alessandro Volta
- B. Max Planck
- C. Rosalind Franklin
- D. Jonas Salk
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Rosalind Franklin
Did you know? Photo 51 revealed the double helix.
26.Which scientist showed how heat relates to mechanical work?
- A. Michael Faraday
- B. James Joule
- C. Hypatia
- D. Amedeo Avogadro
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James Joule
Did you know? The SI unit of energy honors him.
27.Which scientist modeled the atom with orbiting electrons?
- A. Robert Boyle
- B. Alexander Fleming
- C. Antoine Lavoisier
- D. Niels Bohr
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Niels Bohr
Did you know? He won a Nobel Prize for atomic structure.
28.Which scientist wrote the first published computer algorithm?
- A. Gregor Mendel
- B. Ada Lovelace
- C. Charles Darwin
- D. Edwin Hubble
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Ada Lovelace
Did you know? She worked on Babbage's analytical engine.
29.Which scientist unified electricity and magnetism in equations?
- A. Jonas Salk
- B. Nikola Tesla
- C. James Clerk Maxwell
- D. Galileo Galilei
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James Clerk Maxwell
Did you know? His equations predicted radio waves.
30.Which scientist discovered the atomic nucleus?
- A. Dmitri Mendeleev
- B. Albert Einstein
- C. Rosalind Franklin
- D. Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford
Did you know? He fired particles at gold foil.
31.Which scientist pioneered the modern study of optics?
- A. Stephen Hawking
- B. Lord Kelvin
- C. Ibn al-Haytham
- D. Max Planck
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Ibn al-Haytham
Did you know? He argued for testing ideas by experiment.
32.Which scientist described how blood circulates?
- A. William Harvey
- B. Georg Ohm
- C. Louis Pasteur
- D. Galileo Galilei
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William Harvey
Did you know? He traced the heart's pumping role.
33.Which scientist introduced the idea of energy quanta?
- A. Charles Darwin
- B. Nikola Tesla
- C. Thomas Edison
- D. Max Planck
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Max Planck
Did you know? He is called the father of quantum theory.
34.Which scientist taught mathematics in ancient Alexandria?
- A. Robert Boyle
- B. Alan Turing
- C. Alessandro Volta
- D. Hypatia
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Hypatia
Did you know? She was murdered by a mob in 415 CE.
35.Which scientist spent decades studying wild chimpanzees?
- A. Edward Jenner
- B. Ernest Rutherford
- C. Jane Goodall
- D. Edwin Hubble
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Jane Goodall
Did you know? Her work was at Gombe, Tanzania.
36.Which scientist created the two-part naming system for species?
- A. Alfred Wegener
- B. Alessandro Volta
- C. Michael Faraday
- D. Carl Linnaeus
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Carl Linnaeus
Did you know? Every species gets a genus and species name.
37.Which scientist inspired the absolute temperature scale?
- A. Lord Kelvin
- B. Niels Bohr
- C. Stephen Hawking
- D. Amedeo Avogadro
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Lord Kelvin
Did you know? Zero kelvin is the coldest possible temperature.
38.Which scientist lent his name to the number of particles in a mole?
- A. Amedeo Avogadro
- B. James Clerk Maxwell
- C. Gregor Mendel
- D. Stephen Hawking
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Amedeo Avogadro
Did you know? That number is about 6.02 × 10^23.
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