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What famous scientist is known for discovering gravity as well as for formulating his namesake three laws of motion?
Albert Einstein
Sir Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
James Clerk Maxwell
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Otto Hahn was a scientist who discovered what process where a cell is split to produce massive amounts of energy?
Electrolysis
Stagnation
Nucelar fission
Peristalsis
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What famous Renaissance man discovered the fact that sound travels in waves?
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Dante Alighieri
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What astronomer, for whom a famous telescope is named, discovered the fact that the universe is constantly expanding?
Richard Salenga
Max Planck
Terrence Elgar
Edwin Hubble
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What Greek scientist is called "The Father of Medicine" because he used logic and scientific fact to treat illnesses?
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Paracelsus
Felgrand
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What French scientist became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes on account of her discovery of Radium and research on radioactivity?
Rosalind Franklin
Marie Curie
Dorothea Dix
Eloise Kohl
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What man discovered the speed of light by observing the rate at which Jupiter's moons were eclipsed?
Ole Romer
Donnov Guster
Talomad Randall
Gor Valli
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James Clark Maxwell discovered that magnetism was caused by what physical force?
Friction
Density
Electricity
Gravity
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What scientist is known for creating the first successful liquid-fuel rocket?
Ford Templeton
Horace Lincoln
Anthony Curtis
Robert Goddard
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What Italian scientist disproved the theory of spontaneous generation by covering meat and proving maggots couldn't form within it?
Francesco Redi
Enrico Fermi
Michelangelo
Patrice di Corsica
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What French scientist formulated vaccines for rabies and anthrax as well as a namesake process that kills microbes and improves the shelf-life of milk?
Louis Pasteur
Pierre Foucault
Rian DeBernay
Alexandre DuClerc
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What equation did Einstein discover as the basis of his Theory of Relativity?
E=MC^2
M=VX
B=V/T
2D=1/3Y
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Galileo discovered that the Earth revolves around what astral body?
The sun
The moon
A black hole
Nothing.
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What Russian scientist invented the Periodic Table of Elements by organizing the elements in terms of their similar properties?
Grigori Ballor
Dmitri Mendeleev
Damon Kalashnikov
Brutus Vodeneer
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Gregor Mendel is known as the "Father of Genetics" because of his work studying and recording the transmission of genes between generations of what plants?
Blackberry bushes
Strawberry plants
Carrots
Pea plants
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What American inventor created alternating current electricity that is still widely used to power devices?
Pytr Vrain
Nikola Tesla
Michael Farraday
Wendell Howe
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What scientist eradicated polio thanks to his creation of an unpatented vaccine that could be widely distributed?
Jonas Salk
Victor Hall
Templeton Algar
Aloisius Underhill
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What man ushered in a new era of military history by leading the Manhattan Project and developing the nuclear bomb?
I. L. Bentley
P. T. Barnum
J. R. Oppenheimer
C. S. Matherson
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What scientist came up with a namesake "Uncertainty Principle" which stated that merely observing some elements would alter them in minute ways?
Gunter Hendershott
Oskar Isakov
Werner Heisenberg
Algier Hesse
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Charles Darwin wrote what famous book explaining his theories of adaptation and evolution?
On the Origin of Species
Where We Came From
It Could Happen to You
Learning to Fly
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What "Father of Taxonomy" established the classification system of categorizing animals by genus and species?
Carl Linnaeus
Max Planck
Gustav Mohl
Joachim Malory
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Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what breakthrough antibiotic produced by fungal samples?
Ibuprofen
Vitamin C
Acetamide
Penicillin
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What scientist discovered the process of electrolysis where electricity is used to force otherwise-impossible reactions?
Tiffin O'Donoghue
Alexander Selkirk
Stephen Petrosel
Michael Farraday
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Robert Hooke discovered that which of the following is the smallest unit of living matter?
A mite
A bacteria
A cell
A nerve
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Alan Turing was a scientist known for building one of the first general-use computers. In addition, Turing helped crack what military code used by the Axis Powers during World War Two?
The Riser
The Seldom
The Enigma
The Typhoon
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On the subject of computers, Ada Lovelace aided what eccentric man in building the Analytical Engine that is considered one of the first computers?
Charles Babbage
Edmund Hillary
Uder Hasselberry
Lincoln Redbrick
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Erwin Schrodinger used what animal to famously explain the basis of quantum physics?
A fish
A dog
A cat
A bird
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is regarded as the "Father" of what scientific field?
Microbiology
Audiology
Psychology
Thermodynamics
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Rosaline Franklin helped discover that D.N.A. naturally occurred in what formation?
A double helix
A rectangular prism
A square pyramid
A cone
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What historic Greek scientist discovered multiple laws of fluid dynamics and additionally invented both the lever and the pulley?
Plato
Archimedes
Aristotle
Diogenes
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