Grade 6General knowledgequiz16 questions

Famous scientists

Grade 6: scientists and their discoveries, how science works, women in science.

Free to play. Teams answer on one screen; your phone is the remote. No student devices.

Questions

Who is famous for describing gravity after watching an apple fall, according to legend?
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton
Which scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Isaac Newton
- Louis Pasteur
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Charles Darwin
Who is known for the theory of relativity and the equation E = mc²?
- Albert Einstein
- Nikola Tesla
- Stephen Hawking
- Thomas Edison
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Albert Einstein
Which scientist used a telescope to discover four moons orbiting Jupiter?
- Aristotle
- Edwin Hubble
- Galileo Galilei
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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Galileo Galilei
Who discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928?
- Alexander Fleming
- Edward Jenner
- Joseph Lister
- Louis Pasteur
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Alexander Fleming
Gregor Mendel discovered the basic rules of heredity by studying which plant?
- Pea plants
- Roses
- Tomato plants
- Wheat
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Pea plants
In science, what is a hypothesis?
- A final result
- A measuring tool
- A proven law
- A testable explanation
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A testable explanation
Why do scientists repeat their experiments many times?
- To avoid writing notes
- To check the results are reliable
- To make the experiment longer
- To prove their first idea is right
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To check the results are reliable
Which scientist was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
- Ada Lovelace
- Jane Goodall
- Marie Curie
- Rosalind Franklin
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Marie Curie
Which woman studied wild chimpanzees in Tanzania for many years?
- Jane Goodall
- Marie Curie
- Mary Anning
- Rachel Carson
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Jane Goodall
A scientific theory can change if new evidence shows it is wrong. (True or false?)
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True
Marie Curie did important research on radioactivity. (True or false?)
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True
Galileo Galilei discovered penicillin. (True or false?)
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False
In an experiment, what do we call the one thing we change on purpose? (Answer out loud)
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The independent variable
Which woman's X-ray images helped reveal the double helix shape of DNA? (Answer out loud)
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Rosalind Franklin
Which English woman fossil collector found early ichthyosaur skeletons at Lyme Regis? (Answer out loud)
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Mary Anning

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