Question 1
Which Scottish scientist noticed mold killing bacteria in a laboratory dish in 1928?
- Alexander Fleming
- Robert Koch
- Joseph Lister
- Louis Pasteur
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Alexander Fleming
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Scientific Discoveries trivia quiz
Scientific Discoveries trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 Scientific Discoveries questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the Scientific Discoveries questions cover
- Radioactivity
- Neutron
- X-rays
- Chromosomes
- Cosmology
- Electron
- Exoplanets
- Genetics
- Germ Theory
- Induction
- Insulin
- Neutrinos
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Question 2
Which English physicist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
- Johannes Kepler
- Isaac Newton
- Albert Einstein
- Galileo Galilei
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Isaac Newton
Question 3
Which French physicist discovered that uranium salts emitted mysterious rays?
- Max Planck
- Niels Bohr
- Henri Becquerel
- Michael Faraday
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Henri Becquerel
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