🧬 If You Can Get 10/15 on This Science History Quiz Then You’re Super Smart

Which scientist changed how we see the evolution of species with his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species"?

• Charles Darwin

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Aristotle

Which Belgian Catholic priest first postulated the Big Bang Theory?

• Louis Pasteur

• Charles Babbage

• Nikola Tesla

• Georges Lemaître

Which Scottish-born American inventor was the first to patent the telephone?

• Samuel Morse

• Steve Jobs

• Eli Whitney

• Alexander Graham Bell

What person is credited with having invented electricity in 1752 after conducting an experiment flying a kite during a storm?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Albert Einstein

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

Which French virologist is credited with being the first to discover the HIV virus in 1983?

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Louis Pasteur

• Luc Antoine Montagnier

• Samuel Morse

Who was the first person to claim the world is round?

• Pythagoras

• Thomas Edison

• Aristotle

• Charles Darwin

Who is credited with having developed a vaccine for smallpox?

• Marie Curie

• Rene Laennec

• Phillip Drinker

• Edward Jenner

Who discovered that the weight of an object does not determine how fast it will fall?

• Galileo Galilei

• Stephen Hawking

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

Who was the first to market the light bulb commercially and is often credited with its invention?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Hiram Maxim

• Thomas Edison

What physicist has argued that the theory of time travel violates the laws of physics and is therefore impossible?

• Bill Nye

• John Locke

• Stephen Hawking

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

Who first put forward the idea that the Sun is the center of our universe?

• Aristotle

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Albert Einstein

Who discovered gravity after famously watching an apple fall from a tree?

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

Who is credited with coming up with the idea for the internet when he published a paper titled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1961?

• Mark Zuckerberg

• Leonard Kleinrock

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Al Gore

Who is often credited with having built the world's first programmable robot when he developed Unimate in 1954?

• Bill Gates

• Alan Turing

• George Devol

• George Jetson