Quiz on the History of Science and Discoveries
From ancient Greece and the medieval Islamic world, China and India, to modern laboratories — this is a 25-question quiz about scientific discoveries that changed the world and the people behind them. It also covers discoveries that were found by chance and names that were recognized only much later.
Sample questions
22 more questions in this quiz.1. Which scientist is famous for the anecdote that he was inspired by seeing a falling apple and, in 1687, organized the law of universal gravitation and the laws of motion in Principia?
- A. Isaac Newton
- B. Johannes Kepler
- C. Robert Hooke
- D. Christiaan Huygens
2. Which scientist returned from vacation in 1928 and found that the bacteria around a blue mold growing in a culture dish had died, leading to the first antibiotic?
- A. Robert Koch
- B. Alexander Fleming
- C. Joseph Lister
- D. Jonas Salk
3. Which astronomer published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543 and systematically presented the heliocentric theory that the Sun, not Earth, is at the center of the universe?
- A. Ptolemy
- B. Tycho Brahe
- C. Nicolaus Copernicus
- D. Giordano Bruno