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Scientists and Inventors

These human inventions changed the world and transformed life on earth.
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1. Which scientist is the founder of the quantum theory?
Albert Einstein
Max Born
Ernest Rutherford
Max Planck
2. Niels Bohr is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of gravity
Theory of atomic structure
Theory of relativity
Theory of subconscious
3. Who invented the light bulb in 1883?
Karl Benz
Thomas Edison
Walter Hunt
Alexander Graham Bell
4. Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?
George Stephenson
Henry Ford
Samuel Morse
Alessandro Volta
5. Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?
Louis Pasteur
Pierre Curie
Alexander Fleming
Ernest Rutherford
6. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Michael Faraday
Richard Feynman
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
7. Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of dark matter
Theory of gravity
Theory of evolution
Theory of relativity
8. Who did the Catholic Church sentence to prison because he said that Earth orbited the Sun?
Francesco Petrarch
Filippo Brunelleschi
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
9. Which scientist first said that the Sun was the center of the universe and that the Earth and the planets orbited the Sun?
Evangelista Torricelli
Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolaus Copernicus
10. Which scientist improved the telescope and constructed the first one that could be used to observe the planets?
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
11. Who is the first female Nobel Prize winner?
Marie Curie
Mother Teresa
Selma Lagerlöf
Bertha von Suttner
12. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Compass
Telegraph machine
Printing press
Light bulb
13. What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?
Wolfgang
Thomas
Wilhelm
Conrad
14. Who first stated that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Georg Ohm
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
15. Who developed the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?
Alexander Fleming
Maria Curie
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
16. Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
Nikola Tesla
Mihajlo Pupin
17. What did the founder of the Nobel Prize invent?
Ballpoint pen
Dynamite
Typewriter
Microscope
18. Which inventor, scientist, and engineer is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone?
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Graham Bell
James Naismith
Thomas Edison
19. Who invented the first battery?
James Watt
Michael Faraday
Alessandro Volta
Nikola Tesla
20. Who discovered the periodic table?
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Dmitri Mendeleev
John Dalton
Linus Pauling
21. Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?
Helen Keller
George Orwell
Samuel Morse
Louis Braille
22. Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?
Seat belt
Vaccine
Parachute
Lifeboat
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