Famous Scientists Quiz

Challenge yourself with this famous scientists quiz and see how many major discoveries and breakthroughs you can correctly match to their discoverer.

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15 questions

  1. Who is the scientist who developed the theory of general relativity? Choices: Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, Max Planck
  2. Who is the scientist known for the theory of evolution by natural selection? Choices: Gregor Mendel, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wegener, Louis Pasteur
  3. Who is the scientist who developed the oral polio vaccine? Choices: Jonas Salk, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Albert Sabin
  4. Who is the scientist credited with discovering gravity, according to the famous falling apple story? Choices: Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Who is the scientist who discovered penicillin? Choices: Robert Koch, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur
  6. Who is the scientist who discovered radioactivity? Choices: Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, J.J. Thomson, Henri Becquerel
  7. Who is the scientist who discovered blood circulation in the human body? Choices: William Harvey, Andreas Vesalius, Robert Hooke, Louis Pasteur
  8. Who is the scientist known for germ theory and pasteurization? Choices: Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Fleming, Joseph Lister
  9. Who is the scientist who discovered X-rays? Choices: Marie Curie, Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Röntgen, Ernest Rutherford
  10. Who is the scientist who developed the periodic table of elements? Choices: Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Marie Curie, Dmitri Mendeleev
  11. Who is the scientist who developed the theory of continental drift? Choices: Charles Lyell, Alfred Wegener, James Hutton, Charles Darwin
  12. Who is the scientist who discovered the electron? Choices: Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, J.J. Thomson, Max Planck
  13. Who is the scientist who developed the first successful vaccine, against smallpox? Choices: Louis Pasteur, Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk, Edward Jenner
  14. Who is the scientist who proposed heliocentrism, that the Earth orbits the Sun, in the 16th century? Choices: Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton
  15. Who is the scientist who developed the injected polio vaccine? Choices: Albert Sabin, Edward Jenner, Jonas Salk, Louis Pasteur

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