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Science Week Quiz on Famous Scientists

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which scientist was famous for discovering gravity?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Mr Dixon

d)

Albert Einstein

2.

Which famous scientist put forward the theory of natural selection in his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species'

a)

Gregor Mendel

b)

Dr Bradburn

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Richard Dawkins

3.

Which famous British scientist developed the first microscope and was the first person to coin the term 'cell'

a)

Mrs Dowd

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Robert Hooke

4.

Which famous scientist discovered radioactivity which tragically cost them their life.

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Lisa Meitner

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Mrs Cohen

5.

Which famous Phsycist wrote the ground breaking 'A brief history of time' which to date has sold more than 10 million copies.

a)

Mr Millington

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Alan Turing

6.

Which scientist invented the first telescope to study the surface of the moon and later went on to discover the moons of Jupiter

a)

Galileo

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Dr Hughes

d)

Leonardo Da Vinci

7.

Which famous scientist is credited with arranging the elements into what is now known as the Periodic Table

a)

Mendeleev

b)

Mrs Chelton

c)

Lavoisier

d)

Marie Curie

8.

Which famous scientist was the first to investigate genetics by experimenting on pea plants

a)

David Attenborough

b)

Mr Harwood

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Gregor Mendel

9.

Which famous British scientist won a nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA

a)

John Dalton

b)

Earnest Rutherford

c)

Mr Hutchinson

d)

Francis Crick

10.

Which famous scientist discovered the antibiotic penicillin entirely by chance when attempting to grow agar plates of bacteria.

a)

Alexander Fleming

b)

Leonardo Da Vinci

c)

Richard Dawkins

d)

Mrs Laird