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