Quiz  /  Faces of Science Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who invented the safety elevator?

  • Emily Warren Roebling
  • George M. Pullman
  • Elisha Otis
  • Gustave Eiffel

  • 2. 
    Who said, "God does not play dice with the universe"?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Albert Einstein
  • Louis Pasteur

  • 3. 
    In which field did Marie Curie and her daughter Irene-Joliot Curie both win the Nobel Prize?

  • literature
  • geology
  • chemistry
  • astronomy

  • 4. 
    For whom is the centigrade system of temperature measurement named?

  • Lord Kelvin
  • Bobby Centigrade
  • Anders Celsius
  • Daniel Fahrenheit

  • 5. 
    For whom is the Fahrenheit system of temperature measurement named?

  • Anders Celsius
  • Daniel Fahrenheit
  • Daniel Webster
  • Lord Kelvin

  • 6. 
    Who developed the theory of evolution?

  • Charles Norton Smith
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Charles Darwin
  • Charles Lindbergh

  • 7. 
    Which scientist is well known for his work with falling bodies?

  • Galileo
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Alexander Fleming

  • 8. 
    Who is considered the "father" of the scientific method?

  • Galileo
  • Copernicus
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Alexander Fleming

  • 9. 
    Which scientist was born the year Galileo died?

  • Isaac Newton
  • Alessandro Volta
  • Juice Newton
  • Isaac Walton
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