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Famous Scientists - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 42,548 times
27,337 since last reset
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Clue | Scientist | % Correct |
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| Formulated the Special and General theories of Relativity | Albert Einstein | 97%
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| His book "On the Origin of Species" is considered the foundational text of the theory of evolution | Charles Darwin | 97%
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| Husband and wife duo who discovered Radium and Polonium | Marie and Pierre Curie | 89%
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| First person to see the moons of Jupiter | Galileo Galilei | 85%
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| When he wasn't trying to turn lead into gold or looking for secret messages in the Bible, he invented calculus and explained how the planets move | Isaac Newton | 75%
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| Italian polymath who drew "The Vitruvian Man" | Leonardo da Vinci | 72%
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| Serbian-American inventor who helped make AC power possible. | Nikola Tesla | 66%
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| Discovered that heating milk can lengthen its shelf life | Louis Pasteur | 64%
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| While sitting in the bath, he figured out how to find the density of an object by measuring the amount of water it displaces, leading him to run naked in the streets yelling "Eureka!" | Archimedes | 61%
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| Russian physiologist who made dogs salivate by ringing a bell | Ivan Pavlov | 61%
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| Determined that the Earth revolves around the Sun, not vice versa | Nicolaus Copernicus / Aristarchus of Samos | 61%
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| Discovered penicillin by accident in 1928 | Alexander Fleming | 49%
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| Inventor of the Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 49%
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| Ancient Greek considered to be the father of geometry | Euclid | 47%
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| Primatologist who documented the Gombe Chimpanzee War in the 1970s | Jane Goodall | 37%
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| The number e (≈ 2.71828) is named after this Swiss genius | Leonhard Euler | 36%
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| Inventor of the battery. A unit of electrical potential is named after him. | Alessandro Volta | 35%
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| He discovered X-rays in 1895. In his native Germany, they are named after him. | Wilhelm Röntgen | 33%
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| The smallest measurable distance, about 1.616255 x 10-35 meters, is named after him | Max Planck | 29%
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| Considered the father of modern chemistry, he was guillotined in the French Revolution | Antoine Lavoisier | 17%
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