Famous Scientists Quiz

Question 1

Who developed the theory of relativity?

Accepted Answer

Albert Einstein

Answer

Charles Darwin

Answer

Isaac Newton

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Nikola Tesla

Question 2

Who discovered penicillin?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Fleming

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Louis Pasteur

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Marie Curie

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Edward Jenner

Question 3

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In which field?

Accepted Answer

Physics

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Chemistry

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Medicine

Answer

Peace

Question 4

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

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Thomas Edison

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Nikola Tesla

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Guglielmo Marconi

Question 5

Who invented the light bulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

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Nikola Tesla

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Benjamin Franklin

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Joseph Swan

Question 6

Which scientist formulated the three laws of motion?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

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Galileo Galilei

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Johannes Kepler

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Nikola Tesla

Question 7

Who is called the "father of genetics" for his experiments with pea plants?

Accepted Answer

Gregor Mendel

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Charles Darwin

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Louis Pasteur

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James Watson

Question 8

Which scientist developed the first successful vaccine, against smallpox?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

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Louis Pasteur

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Jonas Salk

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Robert Koch

Question 9

Who created the periodic table of elements in 1869?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Mendeleev

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John Dalton

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Niels Bohr

Question 10

Which astronomer proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Ptolemy

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Aristotle

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Tycho Brahe

Famous Scientists Quiz — Free Trivia Quiz

Who developed the theory of relativity?