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Famous Scientists

Quiz by Margaret Scuteri

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  • Q1
    Who made our milk products safer to consume?
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    Madame Curie
    Humphry Davy
    Isaac Newton
    Louis Pasteur
    30s
  • Q2
    In 1939, who discovered nuclear fission?
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    Otto Hahn
    Michael Faraday
    James Clerk Maxwell
    Nikola Tesla
    45s
  • Q3
    Why was Dmitri Mendeleev's first version of the Periodic Table unacceptable?
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    Mendeleev's version of the elements did not include the noble gases.
    Mendeleev did not organize the known elements by their number of protons.
    Mendeleev left off too many elements so the table had to be redesigned.
    Mendeleev was unaware that more elements were to be discovered.
    45s
  • Q4
    Who invented the telescope?
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    Hans Lippershey
    Galileo Galilei
    Clyde Tombaugh
    Isaac Newton
    45s
  • Q5
    What famous scientist credits the fact that he was "slow to talk" with his sense of wonder about the world?
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    Aristotle
    Thomas Edison
    Albert Einstein
    Ben Franklin
    45s

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