WorksheetsCITS #11
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is Daniel Hale Williams known for?
Inventing a medical device
Founding the first non-segregated hospital in the United States
Writing a medical textbook
Discovering a new medicine
When was Daniel Hale Williams born?
January 18, 1856
December 25, 1850
July 4, 1856
October 1, 1855
Where did Daniel Hale Williams complete his education in medicine?
Harvard Medical School
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
What significant medical achievement is Daniel Hale Williams credited with?
Creating the first vaccine
Performing the first successful heart surgery
Developing the first X-ray machine
Conducting the first blood transfusion
What was Omar Khayyam known for?
His contributions to literature and drama
His contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry
His contributions to the development of medical science
His contributions to the field of music and dance
Which city was Omar Khayyam born in?
Tehran, Iran
Baghdad, Iraq
Nishapur, Iran
Istanbul, Turkey
Who were among the people that influenced Omar Khayyam?
Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates
Ibn Sina, Al-Khwarizmi, and Euclid
Galileo, Newton, and Kepler
Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi
What were the main interests of Omar Khayyam?
Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
Mathematics, Astronomy, and Persian literature
Geography, History, and Sociology
Political Science, Economics, and Law
What is Stephanie Kwolek best known for?
Inventing the microscope
Discovering the structure of DNA
Producing Kevlar, a material used in bulletproof vests
Developing the first synthetic rubber
What field of research was Stephanie Kwolek a pioneer in?
Quantum physics
Polymer research
Astronomy
Marine biology
When was Stephanie Kwolek born?
July 31, 1923
June 18, 1914
July 31, 1932
June 18, 2014
Where did Stephanie Kwolek pass away?
New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Wilmington, Delaware
New York City, New York
Los Angeles, California
What did Karl Landsteiner receive the Nobel Prize for?
The discovery of the polio vaccine
The development of the first antibiotic
The discovery of the major blood groups and the development of the ABO system
The invention of the microscope
In which year was Karl Landsteiner awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine?
1923
1930
1945
1952
When was Karl Landsteiner born?
June 14, 1868
July 14, 1868
June 14, 1886
July 14, 1886
Where did Karl Landsteiner die?
Vienna, Austria
Berlin, Germany
New York, USA
London, England
When was Ada Lovelace born?
December 10, 1815
November 27, 1852
December 10, 1852
November 27, 1815
What did Ada Lovelace discover about computers?
That computers could only calculate numbers
That computers could not follow a sequence of instructions
That a computer could follow a sequence of instructions, or a program
That computers were not capable of making complex calculations
What is Ada Lovelace considered to be?
The first computer engineer
The first computer scientist
The first computer programmer
The first computer analyst
What is James Clerk Maxwell most famous for?
His theory of relativity
His theory of electromagnetism
His work on gravity
His discovery of the electron
Which of the following theories is considered to have been paved by James Clerk Maxwell's work?
Germ theory of disease
Quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of special relativity
Plate tectonics
Evolution by natural selection
When was James Clerk Maxwell born?
June 13, 1831
May 22, 1859
July 1, 1646
December 25, 1642
Where did James Clerk Maxwell die?
Edinburgh, Scotland
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
London, England
Glasgow, Scotland
Who was the first person to formulate a complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis?
Charles Darwin
Marie Tharp
Alfred Wegener
James Hutton
What did Alfred Wegener notice that led him to speculate about the existence of a supercontinent?
The similarity in the coastlines of eastern South America and western Africa
The distribution of deserts across the world
The patterns of the ocean currents
The climate differences between the northern and southern hemispheres
What was the name of the supercontinent that Alfred Wegener speculated had once existed?
Gondwanaland
Laurasia
Pangaea
Eurasia
When was Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift finally acknowledged in the context of plate tectonics?
1915
1930
1950
1960s
