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scientific quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is known for his work on radioactivity and for discovering the elements polonium and radium?

a)

Enrico Fermi

b)

Henri Becquerel

c)

Irene Joliot-Curie

d)

Marie Curie

2.

Who is considered the father of modern computer science?

a)

John von Neumann

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Ada Lovelace

3.

Which scientist is famous for the law of electromagnetic induction?

a)

James Clerk Maxwell

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Heinrich Hertz

d)

Nikola Tesla

4.

Who invented the World Wide Web?

a)

Bill Gates

b)

Steve Jobs

c)

Tim Berners-Lee

d)

Vint Cerf

5.

Who developed the polio vaccine?

a)

Albert Sabin

b)

Jonas Salk

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Edward Jenner

6.

Which scientist discovered the structure of DNA along with James Watson?

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Francis Crick

c)

Linus Pauling

d)

Maurice Wilkins

7.

Which scientist is credited with the discovery of the circulation of blood in the human body?

a)

Andreas Vesalius

b)

William Harvey

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Avicenna

8.

Who is known for the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics?

a)

Erwin Schrödinger

b)

Max Planck

c)

Werner Heisenberg

d)

Niels Bohr

9.

Which scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?

a)
  • Johannes Kepler

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Albert Einstein

10.

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Lise Meitner

c)

Dorothy Hodgkin

d)

Marie Curie

11.

What is the name of the physicist who proposed the quantum theory?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Max Planck

c)

Werner Heisenberg

d)

Erwin Schrödinger

12.

Who discovered penicillin?

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Robert Koch

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Edward Jenner

13.

Which scientist developed the general theory of relativity?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Stephen Hawking

14.

Who is known as the father of modern chemistry?

a)

John Dalton

b)

Antoine Lavoisier

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)
  • Robert Hooke

15.

Who is the father of INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

Niels Bohr

c)

prafulla chandra ray

d)

Max Planck

16.

G.N. Ramachandran is best known for his work in which field?

a)

Astronomy

b)

Molecular Biology

c)

Computer Science

d)

Quantum Physics

17.

In which year was G.N. Ramachandran born?

a)

1922

b)

1925

c)

1929

d)

1932

18.

Which of the following books was written by Stephen Hawking?

a)

"A Brief History of Time"

b)

"The Origin of Species"

c)

"The Selfish Gene"

d)

"The God Delusion"

19.

Stephen Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time," was first published in the year

(a)  

20.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is often referred to as the "father" of what?

a)

Quantum Mechanics

b)

The Atomic Bomb

c)

The Internet

d)

Nuclear Medicine

21.

Charles Darwin is best known for his work on which scientific theory?

a)

Germ Theory

b)

Theory of Relativity

c)

Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection

d)

Quantum Theory

22.

William Thomson, also known as Lord Kelvin, is renowned for his work in which field?

a)

Chemistry

b)

Biology

c)

Thermodynamics

d)

Astronomy

23.

Pierre Curie is famous for his research in which area?

a)

Optics

b)

Radioactivity

c)

Electromagnetism

d)

Genetics

24.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is often referred to as the father of which scientific discipline?

a)

Microbiology

b)

Botany

c)

Geology

d)

Pharmacology

25.

Sir Alexander Fleming is credited with the discovery of which antibiotic?

a)

Penicillin

b)

Streptomycin

c)

Tetracycline

d)

Ciprofloxacin