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Famous scientists quiz
How well do you really know Famous scientists? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Famous scientists questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
What falling object is Isaac Newton famously said to have noticed, and what force did it prompt him to think about?
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- An apple
- Gravity
- The story links the falling apple with Newton’s thinking about gravity
- Warm-up
Who’s famous for E = mc², and what two things does the equation connect?
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- Albert Einstein
- Mass
- Energy
- The equation expresses the relationship between mass and energy
- Warm-up
Alexander Graham Bell patented a world-changing device—but what was it, and what kind of message could it carry?
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- The telephone
- It carried speech or voice
- It sent sound over electrical wires
- Easy
Marie and Pierre Curie found polonium—but what other element did they discover, and what is its chemical symbol?
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- Radium
- Its chemical symbol is Ra
- Marie and Pierre Curie discovered it in 1898
- Medium
Quantum particles don’t give up every secret at once: what named principle is at work, and which two properties does it link?
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- Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Position
- Momentum
- Medium
CERN’s big discovery made physics headlines: what particle was found, and which Standard Model idea did it support?
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- The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN in 2012
- Its discovery supported the Higgs mechanism
- The Higgs mechanism explains how fundamental particles acquire mass
- Medium
Mendeleev left curious gaps in his periodic table: what property ordered the elements, and what did he predict about the missing entries?
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- Mendeleev arranged elements by increasing atomic weight (relative atomic mass).
- He left gaps for elements not yet discovered and predicted their properties.
- Boss
Which two kinds of measurements did Edwin Hubble compare, and what pattern appeared as galaxy distances increased?
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- Distances to galaxies
- Their radial velocities, inferred from redshifts
- More distant galaxies recede faster
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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