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?

Max Planck ✓

Ernest Rutherford ✓

Albert Einstein ✓

Max Born ✓

2. Niels Bohr is most famous for which of the following theories?

Theory of atomic structure ✓

Theory of subconscious ✓

Theory of relativity ✓

Theory of gravity ✓

3. Who invented the light bulb in 1883?

Walter Hunt ✓

Thomas Edison ✓

Karl Benz ✓

Alexander Graham Bell ✓

4. Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?

Samuel Morse ✓

George Stephenson ✓

Alessandro Volta ✓

Henry Ford ✓

5. Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?

Alexander Fleming ✓

Louis Pasteur ✓

Pierre Curie ✓

Ernest Rutherford ✓

6. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?

Albert Einstein ✓

Michael Faraday ✓

Richard Feynman ✓

Isaac Newton ✓

7. Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?

Theory of evolution ✓

Theory of gravity ✓

Theory of dark matter ✓

Theory of relativity ✓

8. Who did the Catholic Church sentence to prison because he said that Earth orbited the Sun?

Filippo Brunelleschi ✓

Francesco Petrarch ✓

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?

Isaac Newton ✓

Nicolaus Copernicus ✓

Leonardo da Vinci ✓

Evangelista Torricelli ✓

10. Which scientist improved the telescope and constructed the first one that could be used to observe the planets?

Johannes Kepler ✓

Galileo Galilei ✓

Tycho Brahe ✓

Nicolaus Copernicus ✓

11. Who is the first female Nobel Prize winner?

Mother Teresa ✓

Marie Curie ✓

Bertha von Suttner ✓

Selma Lagerlöf ✓

12. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?

Compass ✓

Printing press ✓

Light bulb ✓

Telegraph machine ✓

13. What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?

Thomas ✓

Wilhelm ✓

Wolfgang ✓

Conrad ✓

14. Who first stated that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction?

Isaac Newton ✓

Georg Ohm ✓

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ✓

Albert Einstein ✓

15. Who developed the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?

Robert Koch ✓

Louis Pasteur ✓

Maria Curie ✓

Alexander Fleming ✓

16. Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?

Albert Einstein ✓

Nikola Tesla ✓

Max Planck ✓

Mihajlo Pupin ✓

17. What did the founder of the Nobel Prize invent?

Ballpoint pen ✓

Microscope ✓

Dynamite ✓

Typewriter ✓

18. Which inventor, scientist, and engineer is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell ✓

Benjamin Franklin ✓

James Naismith ✓

Thomas Edison ✓

19. Who invented the first battery?

Nikola Tesla ✓

James Watt ✓

Michael Faraday ✓

Alessandro Volta ✓

20. Who discovered the periodic table?

Linus Pauling ✓

Dmitri Mendeleev ✓

Jöns Jacob Berzelius ✓

John Dalton ✓

21. Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?

Louis Braille ✓

Samuel Morse ✓

Helen Keller ✓

George Orwell ✓

22. Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?

Parachute ✓

Lifeboat ✓

Vaccine ✓

Seat belt ✓

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