Science Quiz

Who won the Noble Prize for Physics their work on radioactivity?

• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Isaac Newton
• Thomas Edison

What is the name of the latest space telescope?

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Kepler Space Telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope
• James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Who was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights?

• Sally Ride
• Amelia Earhart
• Marie Curie
• Katherine Johnson

Who was an American aviation pioneer and writer to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

• Amelia Earhart
• Charles Lindbergh
• Wright Brothers
• Neil Armstrong

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer, who's discovery led to the effective measurement of vast distances to what?

• planets
• stars
• moons
• galaxies

Where in the UK was the AstraZeneca covid vaccine created?

• Glasgow
• Manchester
• London
• Oxford

What fossil was discovered in Dorset this year?

• Pliosaur

• Stegosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Trilobite

A perigee syzygy is otherwise known as what?

• Partial solar eclipse
• Microsun
• Mini-earth
• Supermoon

Someone who studies fossils is known as a what?

• paleontologist
• archaeologist
• zoologist
• geologist

A meteorologist studies what?

• Geology and rocks
• Meteors and asteroids

• Atmosphere and weather patterns
• Biology and ecosystems