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🔬Scientists Trivia Questions

Test your knowledge of the brilliant minds behind scientific discoveries — from Isaac Newton to Marie Curie and beyond.

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Albert Einstein

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Thomas Edison

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Isaac Newton

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Hippocrates

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Pythagoras

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Marie Curie

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Niels Bohr

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David Attenborough

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Stephen Hawking

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Sigmund Freud

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Charles Darwin

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Florence Nightingale

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John Maynard Keynes

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Euclid

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James Watt

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Richard Feynman

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Edward Jenner

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Jonas Salk

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Robert Oppenheimer

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Max Planck

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Edwin Hubble

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Galileo Galilei

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Nikola Tesla

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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James Clerk Maxwell

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Carl Jung

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Werner Heisenberg

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John von Neumann

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Francis Crick

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James Watson

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Wilhelm Röntgen

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Guglielmo Marconi

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Milton Friedman

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Noam Chomsky

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Linus Torvalds

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Leonhard Euler

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Erwin Schrödinger

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Enrico Fermi

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Ernest Rutherford

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Robert Koch

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Alan Turing

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Blaise Pascal

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Robert Boyle

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Friedrich Hayek

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Wernher von Braun

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Jane Goodall

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William Harvey

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Louis Pasteur

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Ivan Pavlov

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Albert Sabin

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Linus Pauling

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David Hilbert

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Vint Cerf

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John Dalton

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Paul Dirac

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Joseph Lister

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John Snow

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Frederick Banting

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Henri Poincaré

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William Herschel

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Andreas Vesalius

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Alexander Fleming

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Heinrich Hertz

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Wolfgang Pauli

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Christiaan Barnard

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Amartya Sen

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Fritz Haber

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Pierre de Fermat

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Dennis Ritchie

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Vera Rubin

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Paul Ehrlich

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E.O. Wilson

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Ada Lovelace

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Georg Cantor

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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Humphry Davy

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Rosalind Franklin

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Sergei Korolev

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B.F. Skinner

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Guido van Rossum

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George Boole

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Philo Farnsworth

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Abraham Maslow

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Donald Knuth

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John Dewey

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Paul Samuelson

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Joseph Schumpeter

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Jennifer Doudna

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Hedy Lamarr

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John Muir

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Peter Higgs

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Otto Hahn

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Jean Piaget

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Norman Borlaug

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Edward O. Wilson

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Daniel Kahneman

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Konrad Lorenz

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Howard Florey

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Ernst Haeckel

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Hans Bethe

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Michio Kaku

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Wangari Maathai

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Emmy Noether

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Charles Lyell

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Svante Arrhenius

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Évariste Galois

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Alan Kay

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Ken Thompson

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Buckminster Fuller

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Claude Shannon

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James Lovelock

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William James

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Freeman Dyson

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Murray Gell-Mann

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Irène Joliot-Curie

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William Ramsay

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

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Glenn Seaborg

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Mary Jackson

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Kip Thorne

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Brian Greene

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August Kekulé

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Roger Penrose

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Steven Weinberg

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Walter Reed

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Bjarne Stroustrup

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Gordon Moore

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James Hansen

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Frank Whittle

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Stanley Milgram

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Karl von Frisch

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Emmanuelle Charpentier

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Thomas Piketty

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Justus von Liebig

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Nikolaas Tinbergen

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Carl Sagan

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Kary Mullis

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Craig Venter

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Francis Collins

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Elizabeth Blackburn

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Frederick Sanger

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Lynn Margulis

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John McCarthy

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Shinya Yamanaka

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Dorothy Vaughan

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Abdus Salam

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Barry Marshall

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Marvin Minsky

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George Gamow

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Julian Schwinger

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Chen-Ning Yang

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Erik Erikson

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Amos Tversky

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Robert Noyce

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Lev Vygotsky

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Philip Zimbardo

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Joseph Banks

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Edwin Land

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Jack Kilby

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Sheldon Lee Glashow

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Ernst Chain

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Charles Best

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Barbara Liskov

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Brendan Eich

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James Gosling

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Thorstein Veblen

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Ahmed Zewail

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Gertrude Elion

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Lee Yang

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Hans von Ohain

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Leon Lederman

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Edsger Dijkstra

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Aldo Leopold

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Tsung-Dao Lee

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Andy Grove

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Carl Woese

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Harold Urey

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Albert Bandura

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Lisa Randall

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Norbert Wiener

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Hideki Yukawa

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Sydney Brenner

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Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Vandana Shiva

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Peter Medawar

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Robert Woodward

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Gerard 't Hooft

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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

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Chester Carlson

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