Famous Scientists Trivia
From falling apples to radioactive notebooks, prove you're smart enough to win a Nobel Prize without the accidental poisoning.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
To prevent chromatic aberration and color distortion, Isaac Newton developed a telescope that utilized mirrors instead of which common optical component?
Lenses
Besides having eight legs instead of six, what sensory appendages do spiders lack that are found on the heads of almost all insects?
Antennae
In 1867, Alfred Nobel stabilized nitroglycerin by mixing it with diatomaceous earth to create which revolutionary explosive?
Dynamite
Which scientist developed the inactivated polio vaccine first tested in 1952 using a killed-virus method involving formaldehyde and monkey kidney cells?
Jonas Salk
Studies by Peter and Rosemary Grant showed that variations in the beak sizes of what Galápagos birds supported Darwin's theory of natural selection?
Finches