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Famous Scientists

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the first person to receive two Nobel prizes?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Sir Alexander Fleming

c)

Mother Theresa

d)

Marie Curie

2.

What invention was Alfred Nobel famous for?

a)

Teddy Bears

b)

Dynamite

c)

Typewriter

d)

Steam Engine

3.

Who among these is credited with inventing the telephone?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Thomas Edison

4.

Which scientist discovered the 4 biggest moons of Jupiter?

a)

Edwin Hubble

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Johannes Kepler

5.

Who are credited to have invented Calculus?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Gottfried Leibniz

c)

Al-Khwarizmi

d)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

e)

Albert Einstein

6.

His life was made into the movie "The Imitation Game" featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Alan Turing

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Sherlock Holmes

7.

He was known as the "father of the atomic bomb".

a)

Robert Oppenheimer

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Wernher von Braun

d)

Harry Truman

8.

Who invented the printing press?

a)

Joseph Pulitzer

b)

Johann Gutenberg

c)

Melvil Dewey

d)

Johann Carolus

9.

What is Archimedes' famous expression?

a)

Eureka!

b)

Cogito, ergo sum

c)

Scientia potentia est

d)

Carpe diem!

10.

Who among these scientists died by Guillotine?

a)

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Blaise Pascal

d)

Galileo Galilei

11.

Who discovered the "uncertainty principle"?


(Clue: He's Walter White's pseudonym in Breaking Bad)

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Erwin Schrödinger

c)

Werner Heisenberg

d)

Ernest Rutherford

12.

He was a Nobel laureate known for his work on game theory and differential equations. His struggles with paranoid schizophrenia was depicted in the movie "A Beautiful Mind".

a)

John von Neumann

b)

Milton Friedman

c)

Alan Turing

d)

John Nash

13.

Who among these is credited with inventing the light bulb?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Thomas Edison

14.

Who is the first person in space?

a)

Yuri Gagarin

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Alexei Leonov

d)

Yang Liwei

15.

This English mathematician was born on Christmas Day.

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Alan Turing

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Jesus Christ