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Guess the Scientist/Inventor Challenge

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An accountant for the Fleer Company in Philadelphia, who invented bubble gum and taught salesmen how to market it by blowing gooey pink bubbles.

a)

Luca Pacioli

b)

Johann Conrad Dippel

c)

Walter Diemer

d)

Cai Lun

2.

Name the scientist.

a)

Charles F. Richter

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

James Chadwick

d)

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

3.

Discover that a star having a mass more than 1.44 times that of the Sun does not form a white dwarf but instead continues to collapse, blows off its gaseous envelope in a supernova explosion, and becomes a neutron star.

a)

Satyendra Nath Bose

b)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

c)

Homi J Bhaba

d)

Pierre Curie

4.

Name the scientist.

(a)  

5.

An American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea.

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Mary Anning

c)

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie

d)

Rachel Carson

6.

Name the scientist.

(a)  

7.

Name the scientist.

(a)  

8.

He proposed that black holes would emit subatomic particles until they eventually exploded. He also wrote best-selling books, the most famous of which was A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988).

a)

Thomas Hertog

b)

Don Page

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Louis Pasteur

9.

A brilliant mathematician and scientist in the Han Dynasty. He invented the first known earthquake detector in 132 A.D.

a)

Chang Heng

b)

Su Song

c)

Wang Zhen

d)

Shen Kuo

10.

He returned from a holiday to find mold growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mold seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mold produced a self-defense chemical that could kill bacteria.

a)

Dr. Raymond Damadian

b)

Dr. Mehmet Oz

c)

Dr. Alexander Fleming

d)

Dr. Hitesh Patel

11.

The first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism.

(a)  

12.

An Indian-born American astronaut and mechanical engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space.

(a)  

13.

Name the scientist.

a)

Jan Ingenhousz

b)

Willem Einthoven

c)

Regnier de Graaf

d)

Jan Swammerdam

14.

A Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

(a)  

15.

He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

(a)  

16.

Name the scientist.

a)

Georg Metius

b)

Adrianne Metius

c)

Georg Adriaanszoon

d)

Adriaan Adriaanszoon

17.

A Filipino botanist claimed to be the inventor of Quink ink.

(a)  

18.

A Spanish inventor, best remembered for presenting her first design in 1778, the epicyclindrical machine for twining silk, developed alongside her brothers.

a)

María del Carmen Betancourt y Molina

b)

Julia Rodríguez-Maribona

c)

María del Carmen Ortiz de Arce

d)

Julia Montoussé Fargues

19.

A Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response.

a)

Makoto Kobayashi

b)

Kazutoshi Mori

c)

Syukuro Manabe

d)

Ted Fujita

20.

A Filipino horticulturist and is the reason why we have mangoes to eat every season rather than waiting all year.

(a)