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🔠Great British Scientists
From Newton's apple to Hawking's black holes — can you match Britain's greatest minds to their discoveries?
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Questions
According to a famous story, which falling object set Isaac Newton thinking about gravity?
A raindrop
A pear
An apple
An acorn
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On HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin visited islands famous for their giant tortoises and finches. Which islands were they?
The Galápagos Islands
The Canary Islands
The Hawaiian Islands
The Falkland Islands
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In 1928 Alexander Fleming noticed that penicillin killed bacteria. What kind of organism produced it?
A bacterium
A virus
An alga
A mould
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At Bletchley Park during the Second World War, Alan Turing helped to break which German cipher machine's codes?
Colossus
Enigma
Typex
Bombe
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In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy against smallpox using material from which milder disease?
Swine flu
Measles
Chickenpox
Cowpox
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In which seaside town did Mary Anning live and find famous fossils such as ichthyosaurs?
Scarborough
Lyme Regis
Whitby
Brighton
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Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831. Which device works on this principle?
An electric generator
A chemical battery
A magnifying lens
A mercury thermometer
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Ada Lovelace wrote notes that included what is often called the first computer program. Which machine was it for?
The Enigma machine
The Analytical Engine
The Colossus computer
The Difference Engine
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Rosalind Franklin's famous 'Photo 51' helped reveal DNA's structure. Which technique did she use to make it?
Electron microscopy
X-ray crystallography
Light microscopy
Gel electrophoresis
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Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes are not completely black. What did he show they should do?
Emit only gravitational waves
Give off radiation and slowly lose mass
Turn into white holes over time
Release matter that forms new stars
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