Science and Suffrage Quiz

Which scientist is credited for being the pioneer in the structure of the atom?

• Alfred Wegener

• Ernest Rutherford

• Frederick Sanger

• J. J. Thomson

• Lise Meitner

The work of Ernest McCulloch involved ________.

• inventing the Laserphaco Probe for a more precise removal of cataracts

• research in cancer treatments, ethics and patient quality of life, and patient advocacy and support

• the discovery of how T-cells recognize antigens for the treatment of immune-system diseases, and immune responses to cancer

• the isolation of artemisinin which successfully treated malaria

• the study of normal and abnormal blood formation

Which scientist wrote A Brief History of Time?

• Albert Einstein

• Marie Curie

• Max Planck

• Stephen Hawking

• Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

The use of silver nitrate to stain tissue to view under the microscope occurred in ________.

• 1873

• 1889

• 1905

• 1911

• 1912

The World Wide Web became live in ________.

• 1953

• 1972

• 1980

• 1991

• None of the above

Which scientist identified the electron as the negative charge of the atom?

• Alfred Wegener

• Ernest Rutherford

• Frederick Sanger

• J. J. Thomson

• Lise Meitner

The presentation of the theory of continental drift occurred in ________.

• 1873

• 1905

• 1912

• 1929

• 1938

The writing of ENQUIRE, a program that could store information and track the connections between people and projects, occurred in ________.

• 1953

• 1972

• 1980

• 1991

• None of the above

Of the three fundamental polymers, which one did Frederick Sager first decode?

• DNA

• proteins

• RNA

• Both (A) and (B)

• None of the above are fundamental polymers

Which scientist received the Nobel Prize when she was 85 years old?

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Marie Curie

• Patricia Bath

• Rosalind Franklin

• Tu Youyou