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Famous Scientists

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which famous scientist created the light bulb?

a)

Bill Nye

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Michael Jordan

d)

Thomas Edison

2.

What is Robert Boyle most famous for?

a)

Making the Earth

b)

Making the light bulb

c)

Discovering the oxygen element

d)

Discovering x-rays

3.

Which one of these scientists pioneered molecular asymmetry?

a)

Barbara McClintock

b)

Louis Pasteur

c)

Alexander Bell

d)

Florence Nightingale

4.

Which one of these scientists pioneered scuba gear?

a)

Maria Sklodowska

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Jacques Cousteau

d)

Michael Faraday

5.

Who made the discovery that black holes emit radiation which can be detected by special instrumentation?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Mary Anning

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Robert Boyle

6.

What is Francis Crick most famous for?

a)

Discovering x-rays

b)

Discovering double helix

c)

Peabody award

d)

Provided the impetus for DDT

7.

Who modeled the atom?

a)

Elizabeth Blackwell

b)

Carl Sagon

c)

Rachel Carson

d)

Niels Bohr

8.

Which person was the first African American transplant surgeon?

a)

Florence Nightngale

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Velma Scantlebury

d)

Louis Pasteur

9.

Who was the first woman to receive Electrical Engineering degree?

a)

Wright Brothers

b)

Katherine Johnson

c)

Edith Clarke

d)

Rachel Carson

10.

Who discovered the nuclear structure of an atom?

a)

Neil Tyson

b)

Ernest Rutherford

c)

George Carver

d)

Charles Darwin

11.

What is Michael Faraday famous for?

a)

Inventing electrical generator and motor

b)

Discovering polonium and radium

c)

Revolutionized astronomy and biology

d)

First U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth

12.

What is Alexander Bell most famous for?

a)

Inventor of the telephone

b)

First training school for nurses

c)

Discovered galaxies beyond the Milky way

d)

First scientist to discover a comet

13.

What is Annie Easley most famous for?

a)

Pioneering scuba gear

b)

Developing code for energy conservation systems

c)

Revolutionizing astronomy and biology

d)

Holding three United Pendants

14.

Which scientist was the first to discover a full skeleton of plesiosaur?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Steve Irwin

d)

Mary Anning

15.

What is Dmitri Mendeleev most known for?

a)

Pioneered scuba gear

b)

Discovering the periodic table

c)

Discovering polonium and radium

d)

Inventing electrical generator and motor

16.

What is Tycho Brahe most known for?

a)

First U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth

b)

Accurate observations of planets and stars

c)

Developing code for energy conservation systems

d)

First Woman to receive electrical engineering

17.

What is Charles Darwin most known for?

a)

Theory of natural selection

b)

Model of an atom

c)

Peabody award

d)

Helped organize National Health Society

18.

What is Gregor Mandel most known for?

a)

Helped organize National Health Society

b)

Discovering nuclear structure of an atom

c)

Discovering calculus

d)

Laws of inheritance

19.

Which scientists built and flew the first air plane?

a)

Rachel Carson

b)

Carl Sagon

c)

Wright Brothers

d)

Issac Newton

20.

What is Issac Newton most known for?

a)

Reclassification for dwarf planets

b)

Inventing Calculus

c)

E = mc3

d)

Discovering double helix

21.

What is the scientists that calculated the first man mission on the Moon?

a)

Elizabeth Blackwell

b)

Francis Crick

c)

Niels Bohr

d)

Katherine Johnson

22.

What is Elizabeth Blackwell most known for?

a)

Provided the impetus for DDT

b)

Helping organize National Health Society

c)

Reclassification for dwarf planets

d)

Photo 51 revealing double helix of DNA

23.

What is Neil Tyson most important discovery?

a)

Reclassification for dwarf planets

b)

Planet research

c)

Build and flying the first ever airplane

d)

Laws of inheritance

24.

What is George Washington Carver most known for?

a)

Discovering calculus

b)

Discovering double helix

c)

Peabody Award

d)

Plant research

25.

Which scientist had photo 51 that revealed double helix of DNA?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Issac Newton