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Scottish Inventors and Innovators - Statistics
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| Innovation or Invention | Answer | % Correct |
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| Scientist, inventor and engineer credited with the invention of the first practical telephone. | Alexander Graham Bell | 88%
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| Author who created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. | Arthur Conan Doyle | 87%
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| Physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist who discovered penicillin. For this, he was a recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. | Alexander Fleming | 85%
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| Inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's steam engine in 1781, proving fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. The international unit of power is named after him. | James Watt | 79%
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| Author whose works include Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886) and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). | Robert Louis Stevenson | 72%
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| Chemist and inventor of waterproof fabric, with a particular style of raincoat bearing his name. | Charles Macintosh | 68%
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| Key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and considered the founder of modern economics. His most notable works include An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). | Adam Smith | 67%
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| Engineer credited as one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system in 1926. | John Logie Baird | 59%
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| Author who created the fictional character Peter Pan. | J. M. Barrie | 48%
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| Mathematician, physicist and astronomer who discovered logarithms (the inverse function to exponentiation in mathematics). Namesake of a university in Edinburgh. | John Napier | 39%
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| Scientist who formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, demonstrating that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. | James Clerk Maxwell | 29%
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| Chemist and physicist best known for his invention of the vacuum flask (or thermos). | James Dewar | 9%
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| Often credited with the invention of the pedal-driven bicycle (name either of the two possible Scots bearing this distinction). | Kirkpatrick Macmillan or Thomas McCall | 9%
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| Physician and pharmacologist who developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. For his contribution, he was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine. | James Black | 8%
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| Watchmaker and instrument inventor who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet (pioneered by the Englishman John Harrington), employing the 'S-trap' (or bend), which retained water permanently within the bowl, preventing sewer gases from entering buildings. | Alexander Cumming | 6%
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| Engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor who is credited with the invention of the steam hammer. | James Nasmyth | 6%
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| Biochemist and physiologist who discovered insulin. For his role in this discovery, he was a recipient of the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. | John Macleod | 6%
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| Physician who invented the first true hypodermic syringe in 1853. | Alexander Wood | 5%
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| Chemist who discovered the noble gases, for which he received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | William Ramsay | 5%
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| Physician, chemist and agriculturalist who first developed artificial refrigeration. | William Cullen | 4%
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