Science & tech
The “Great scientists” quiz — Science & tech. It has 25 questions in five categories: Eureka moments, The cost of science, Scientific rivalries, Ahead of their time, Codes of the cosmos. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Who ran through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka!" after discovering water displacement in his bath?
Which Scottish bacteriologist discovered penicillin after mould contaminated his staphylococcus petri dishes?
Which physicist discovered X-rays…
In the gameWhich German chemist proposed…
In the gameWho discovered phagocytosis after…
In the gameWhose laboratory notebooks are still so radioactive they must be kept in lead-lined boxes in Paris?
Which Australian doctor drank a broth of Helicobacter pylori to prove that bacteria cause stomach ulcers?
Which British chemist discovered…
In the gameWhich Swedish chemist discovered…
In the gameWho inserted a catheter…
In the gameWhich Serbian-American inventor championed alternating current in the famous "War of the Currents" against Thomas Edison?
Which Italian physicist disputed animal electricity and built the first battery using copper and zinc discs?
Which French microbiologist disproved…
In the gameWhich paleontologist waged the…
In the gameWhich French astronomer used…
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Which English naturalist formulated the theory of evolution after a five-year voyage on HMS Beagle?
Which Austrian monk discovered the laws of inheritance by breeding varieties of peas in a monastery garden?
Which British mathematician wrote…
In the gameWhich scientist captured the…
In the gameWhich Austrian physicist gave…
In the gameWhich scientist published the landmark 1687 work "Principia", formulating the law of universal gravitation?
Which Italian scientist pointed his telescope at Jupiter in 1610 and discovered its four largest moons?
Which physicist explained the…
In the gameWhich Scottish physicist unified…
In the gameWhich mathematician proved the…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.