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Famous Scientists

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first person to land on the moon?

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Neil Armstrong

d)

Gregor Mendel

2.

They starred on a show, titled "Name" The Science Guy

a)

Leonardo Da Vinci

b)

Bill Nye

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Issac Newton

3.

Who invented the first telephone?

a)

Alfred Wegner

b)

Sylvia Earle

c)

James Webb

d)

Alexander Bell

4.

Who created the famous app known as Facebook?

a)

Mark Zuckerberg

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Jeff Bezos

d)

Elon Musk

5.

Who was the first female astronomer?

a)

Mary Anning

b)

Maria Mitchell

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Katherine Johnson

6.

Who was the first woman to go to space?

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Sally Ride

d)

Rosalind Franklin

7.

Who walked the deepest sea walk in history?

a)

Sylvia Earle

b)

Ernest Rutherford

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

John Glenn

8.

Which company did Elon Musk buy?

a)

Instagram

b)

Twitter

c)

Google

d)

Amazon

9.

Who is the CEO of Amazon?

a)

Elon Musk

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Francis Creek

d)

Jeff Bezos

10.

How did Issac Newton discover gravity?

a)

By a tree falling on him

b)

By an apple falling on his head

c)

By a bicycle going down a hill

d)

By a ship sailing on the sea

11.

Who created the car company "Ford"?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Leonardo Da Vinci

d)

Francis Creek

12.

Who is called the "father of genetics"?

a)

Bill Nye

b)

Niels Bohr

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Gregor Mendel

13.

Who came up with the theory for DNA?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

James Webb

c)

Francis Creek

d)

Neil Tyson

14.

Who had their own show called "Crocodile Hunter"?

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Steven Hawking

d)

Steve Irwin

15.

What did Benjamin Franklin invent?

a)

Lightning Rod

b)

Telephone

c)

Typewriter

d)

Cellphone

16.

What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with at the age of 21?

a)

Schizophrenia

b)

Down Syndrome

c)

ASL

d)

Cerebral Palsy

17.

Who was the first self taught fossil hunter?

a)

Ernest Ruthorford

b)

Mary Anning

c)

Tyge Brahe

d)

Elon Musk

18.

Who was a professor that conducted and taught at Harvard?

a)

John Glenn

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Carl Sagan

d)

Galileo Galilei

19.

Who was the Curie Lab named after?

a)

Wright Brothers

b)

Sir Issac Newton

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Marie Curie

20.

Who went on polar expeditions?

a)

Alfred Wegner

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Jane Goodall