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Peope who changed the world. Admission ticket

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the American inventor who invented the light bulb and contributed to the development of other electrical technologies?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Christopher Columbus

2.

What is the name of the Serbian inventor who gave the world the alternating current (AC) motor?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

3.

Who discovered radioactivity?

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Nikola Tesla

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Marie Curie

4.

Whose disciple was Plato?

a)

Aristotel

b)

Socrate

c)

Arthimede

d)

Alexandru cel Mare

5.

What did Plato believe about mathematics?

a)

Mathematics as a path to truth

b)

In education mathematics is not important

c)

No connection between mathematics and harmony

d)

Mathematics is not perfect

6.

Who does the Vitruvian Man belong to?

a)

Rafael

b)

Goya

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Boticelli

7.

When did Isaac Newton invent the telescope?

a)

Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1968.

b)

 Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1866.

c)

 Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668.

d)

Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1868.

8.

What did Gutenberg invent?

a)

The wheel

b)

The printing press

c)

The balloon

d)

The computer

9.

Where did Christopher Columbus arrive?

a)

Africa

b)

America

c)

Asia

d)

Europe

10.

Who was Charles Darwin?

a)

artist

b)

musician

c)

 biologist and naturalist

d)

politician

11.

What is the name of Darwin's basic theory?

a)

Theory of gravity

b)

Theory of relativity

c)

 Theory of natural selection

d)

Big bang theory

12.

In what country was Johannes Gutenberg born?

a)

Italy

b)

Germany

c)

Austria

d)

Spain

13.

What elements did Maria Skłodowska-Curie discover?

a)

gold and silver

b)

hydrogen and helium

c)

phosphorus and fluorine

d)

polonium and radium

14.

Who is the Turkish sailor who drew "the oldest map that has survived to the present day showing the American continent"?

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

Piri Reis

c)

Marco Polo

d)

Vasco de Gama

15.

Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?

a)

Paris

b)

Corsica

c)

Madrid

d)

Roma

16.

Napoleon Bonaparte was the emperor of the:

a)

Italians

b)

Germans

c)

French

d)

Spanish

17.

What discovered Copernicus?

a)

Telescope

b)

Heliocentrism theory

c)

Planets

d)

Solar System

18.

Who created the reaction engine?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Henri Coandă

d)

Marco Polo

19.

Who is considered the founder/father of Genetic Science?


a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Gregor Mendel

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Galileo Galilei

20.

Who invented the world's first space telescope and studied the movements of the moon and planets?

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Graham Bell

21.

Which one is one of Dostoyevski’s books?

a)

Don Quixote

b)

Great Expectations

c)

Crime and Punishment

d)

Frankenstein

22.

Who invented the steam engine?

a)

James Watt

b)

Karl Benz

c)

Wright Brothers

d)
  1. Nicola Tesla