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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?
Ernest Rutherford ✓
Max Planck ✓
Albert Einstein ✓
Max Born ✓
2. Niels Bohr is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of relativity ✓
Theory of gravity ✓
Theory of atomic structure ✓
Theory of subconscious ✓
3. Who invented the light bulb in 1883?
Thomas Edison ✓
Karl Benz ✓
Walter Hunt ✓
Alexander Graham Bell ✓
4. Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?
Samuel Morse ✓
Henry Ford ✓
George Stephenson ✓
Alessandro Volta ✓
5. Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?
Ernest Rutherford ✓
Pierre Curie ✓
Alexander Fleming ✓
Louis Pasteur ✓
6. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Michael Faraday ✓
Albert Einstein ✓
Isaac Newton ✓
Richard Feynman ✓
7. Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of evolution ✓
Theory of relativity ✓
Theory of dark matter ✓
Theory of gravity ✓
8. Who did the Catholic Church sentence to prison because he said that Earth orbited the Sun?
Francesco Petrarch ✓
Filippo Brunelleschi ✓
Galileo Galilei ✓
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?
Evangelista Torricelli ✓
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Isaac Newton ✓
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?
Selma Lagerlöf ✓
Bertha von Suttner ✓
Marie Curie ✓
Mother Teresa ✓
12. What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Telegraph machine ✓
Compass ✓
Light bulb ✓
Printing press ✓
13. What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?
Thomas ✓
Conrad ✓
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 ✓
Louis Pasteur ✓
Robert Koch ✓
Alexander Fleming ✓
16. Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?
Nikola Tesla ✓
Albert Einstein ✓
Max Planck ✓
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?
James Naismith ✓
Alexander Graham Bell ✓
Benjamin Franklin ✓
Thomas Edison ✓
19. Who invented the first battery?
Nikola Tesla ✓
James Watt ✓
Michael Faraday ✓
Alessandro Volta ✓
20. Who discovered the periodic table?
John Dalton ✓
Linus Pauling ✓
Jöns Jacob Berzelius ✓
Dmitri Mendeleev ✓
21. Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?
George Orwell ✓
Samuel Morse ✓
Louis Braille ✓
Helen Keller ✓
22. Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?
Vaccine ✓
Parachute ✓
Lifeboat ✓
Seat belt ✓
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