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Famous Scientists throughout History

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was Galileo's most important invention
a)
Water Pump
b)
Telescope
c)
The Big Wheel
d)
Electricity
2.
Who Created The Heliocentric Theory/Model?
a)
Nicolus Copernicus
b)
Nicolaus Copernics
c)
Nicolaus Copernicus
d)
Nicolus Copernics
3.
This scientist sailed around the world looking for connections between various living organisms.  He spent a lot of his time on the Galapagos Islands looking at turtles and finches.
a)
Mendel
b)
Darwin
c)
Avery
d)
Hooke
4.

Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Rosalind Franklin

5.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

6.

Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Ernest Rutherford

7.
______________ was another Greek philosopher and student of Plato.
a)
Aristotle
b)
Alexander the GREat
c)
Socrates
8.
What was the force that made the apple fall to the ground that sparked Sir Isaac Newton's thinking?
a)
inertia
b)
friction
c)
gravity
d)
lift
9.
What animals did Jane Goodall spend most of her time studying and observing?
a)
Gorillas
b)
Elephants
c)
Tigers
d)
Chimpanzees
10.

Who studied space and hosted a TV show called "Cosmos"?

a)

Carl Sagan

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Edward James

d)

Ben Watson

11.
"Everything that goes up must come down."
a)
Max Planck
b)
Isaac Newton
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Justus Liebig
12.
Created the periodic table of elements.
a)
Marie Curie
b)
Niels Bohr
c)
Enrico Fermi
d)
Dmitri Mendeleev
13.
Proved that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.
a)
Nicolaus Copernicus
b)
Aristotle
c)
Archimedes
d)
William Harvey
14.
Coined the term radioactivity.
a)
Richard Feynman
b)
Marcello Malpighi
c)
Neils Bohr
d)
Marie Curie
15.
The founder of Genetics.
a)
Gordon Moore
b)
Robert Hooke
c)
Gregor Mendel
d)
Neils Bohr
16.

Which classes of animal did Carl Linnaeus create? (PICK THREE ANSWERS).

a)

Mammals

b)

Toads

c)

Birds

d)

Worms

e)

Snakes

17.

Who discovered DNA could exist in 2 forms?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Gregor Mendel

18.

Who created the naming system we use to organize life on earth?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Stephen Hawking

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Carolus Linnaeus

19.

Which scientists are known for their work on DNA? (multiple answers)

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Francis Crick

c)

James Watson

d)

Gregor Mendel

20.

Who is considered the father of Western Medicine?

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

James Watson

d)

Plato

21.

Who was the first human to go into outer space and orbit the earth?

a)

Buzz Aldrin

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Guion Bluford

d)

Yuri Gagarin

e)

Sally Ride

22.

Who was the first African American Woman in outer space?

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Alan Shepard

c)

Guion Bluford

d)

Gus Grissom

e)

Sally Ride

23.

Who was the first American astronaut tp travel to oute space?

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Alan Shepard

c)

Guion Bluford

d)

Gus Grisom

e)

Sally Ride

24.
What's the official name for someone who travels and works in space?
a)
a moonwalker
b)
a rocket scientist
c)
an astronaut
d)
a star person
25.

What is the name of the "Hidden Figure" who was the mathematician and the supervisor?

a)

Mary Jackson

b)

Katherine Goble

c)

Dorothy Vaughn

d)

Vivian Mitchell

26.

Which one of the "Hidden Figures" obtained an engineering degree?

a)

Mary Jackson

b)

Katherine Johnson

c)

Mae Jemison

d)

Dorothy Vaughan

27.
What country was the United States in a "space race" with?
a)
Russia
b)
Cuba
c)
China
d)
Mexico
28.
What was the name of the first satellite that Russia sent to space?
a)
Sputnik
b)
Sputnik II
c)
Explorer 1
d)
Vanguard
29.

Which astronomer created the 3 laws of planetary motion?

a)

Bruno

b)

Einstein

c)

Copernicus

d)

Kepler

30.

Which Greek astronomer's model was the model accepted for nearly 1300 years?

a)

Aristotle's

b)

Ptolemy's

c)

Eratosthenes'

d)

Aristarchus of Samos

31.

Built models to determine that DNA was a double helix shape with base pairs A-T and G-C in rungs between the sugar/phosphate backbone of DNA.

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

32.

Provided clear x-ray crystallography images of DNA

a)

Watson & Crick

b)

Franklin

c)

Wilkins

d)

Pauling

e)

Chargaff

33.
Which scientist looked at cork under a microscope and labeled the little rooms he saw, 'cells?'
a)
Hooke
b)
Leeuwenhoek
c)
Schwann
d)
Schleiden
34.
This scientist was the first to see a living cell under the microscope.  He named these organisms "animalcules."
a)
Leeuvenhoek
b)
Hooke
c)
Schleiden
d)
Schwann
35.
Which scientist developed the atomic theory?
a)
JJ Thomson
b)
Ernest Rutherford
c)
John Dalton
d)
James Chadwick
36.
Who discovered the proton?
a)
Thomson
b)
Dalton
c)
Bohr
d)
Rutherford
37.

Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Antoine Lavoisier

38.
Who is called "The Father of Geology"?
a)
Harry Hess
b)
James Hutton
c)
Dan McKenzie
d)
Alfred Wegener
39.
Who created the Theory of Continental Drift?
a)
Harry Hess
b)
James Hutton
c)
Dan McKenzie
d)
Alfred Wegener
40.

Who painted this?

a)

Vincent Van Gogh

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Caravaggio

d)

unknown artist

41.

Invented much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, and made important discoveries in calculus, analysis, graph theory, physics, astronomy, and many other topics.

a)

Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

b)

Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)

c)

Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

d)

Arthur Cayley (1821 – 1895)

42.

Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.

a)

Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BCE)

b)

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)

c)

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)

d)

Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 – 70 CE)

43.

Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …

a)

Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)

b)

Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)

c)

Johann Lambert (1728 – 1777)

d)

François Viète (1540 – 1603)

44.

Calculated the circumference of the Earth, measured the tilt of the Earth’s axis of rotation, estimated the distance to the sun, and created some of the first maps of the world.

a)

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)

b)

Euclid of Alexandria (300 BCE)

c)

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)

d)

Democritus (c. 460 – 370 BCE)

45.

Was a Greek mathematician and is often called the father of geometry. He book The Elements first introduced Euclidean geometry, defines its five axioms, and contains many important proofs in geometry and number theory – including that there are infinitely many prime numbers.

a)

Arhimede (c. 287 - 212 î.Hr.)

b)

Euclid of Alexandria (around 300 BCE)

c)

Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BCE)

d)

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)

46.

He discovered many concepts of calculus and worked in geometry, analysis and mechanics.

While taking a bath, discovered a way to determine the volume of irregular objects using the amount of water they displaced when submerged. He was so excited by this discovery that he ran out on the street, still undressed, yelling “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”).

a)

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)

b)

Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)

c)

Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BCE)

d)

Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)

47.

Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.

a)

François Viète (1540 – 1603)

b)

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)

c)

Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)

d)

Diophantus

48.

was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.

a)

René Descartes (1596 – 1650)

b)

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)

c)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 – 1857)

d)

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813)

49.
Who is this?
a)
Hypatia
b)
Ada Lovelace
c)
Sophie Germain
d)
Emmy Noether
50.

Who was Marie Daly ?

a)

Marie Daly worked at NASA.

b)

She had six children that also became Chemist.

c)

She was the first African American Phd in Chemistry in USA

51.

Who is Valerie Thomas ?

a)

She designed a computer program for astronaut training at NASA .

b)

She was one of two women to major in Physics at Morgan University.

c)

She was the first African American to excel in the field of Entomology.

52.

Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson ?

a)

He loved to study stars at a young age.

b)

He majored in Astrophysics at Harvard University.

c)

He authored 15 books on the Cosmos.