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
Despite their massive size, blue whales survive almost exclusively on a diet of what tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans?
Krill
The 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Werner Heisenberg for the creation of what revolutionary field of science?
Quantum mechanics
Isolated using ordinary adhesive tape, what two-dimensional material earned Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Graphene
Which physicist defended the Copenhagen interpretation against Einstein’s EPR paradox by arguing the principle of complementarity?
Niels Bohr