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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 atomic structure
Theory of subconscious
Theory of relativity
Theory of gravity
3. Who invented the light bulb in 1883?
Karl Benz
Walter Hunt
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
4. Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?
Alessandro Volta
Henry Ford
George Stephenson
Samuel Morse
5. Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?
Louis Pasteur
Ernest Rutherford
Alexander Fleming
Pierre Curie
6. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday
Richard Feynman
7. Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of dark matter
Theory of relativity
Theory of gravity
Theory of evolution
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?
Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac Newton
Evangelista Torricelli
Nicolaus Copernicus
10. Which scientist improved the telescope and constructed the first one that could be used to observe the planets?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
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?
Light bulb
Compass
Printing press
Telegraph machine
13. What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?
Conrad
Thomas
Wolfgang
Wilhelm
14. Who first stated that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Georg Ohm
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
15. Who developed the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?
Maria Curie
Alexander Fleming
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
16. Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Nikola Tesla
Mihajlo Pupin
17. What did the founder of the Nobel Prize invent?
Dynamite
Microscope
Ballpoint pen
Typewriter
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?
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Alessandro Volta
James Watt
20. Who discovered the periodic table?
Dmitri Mendeleev
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Linus Pauling
John Dalton
21. Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?
Helen Keller
Samuel Morse
George Orwell
Louis Braille
22. Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?
Seat belt
Lifeboat
Parachute
Vaccine
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