Inventions & Discoveries trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 Inventions & Discoveries questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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Which molecule's double-helix structure was described by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953?Very easy
Answer: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
Which Scottish bacteriologist discovered penicillin in 1928?Very easy
Answer: Alexander Fleming (Fleming)
What form of radiation, now used in medical imaging, did Wilhelm Röntgen discover in 1895?Very easy
Answer: X-rays
Which British computer scientist invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989?Easy
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee (Berners-Lee)
Which English doctor pioneered vaccination against smallpox in 1796, using material from cowpox sores?Easy
Answer: Edward Jenner (Jenner)
Which Frenchman, blind from childhood, invented a reading and writing system of raised dots in the 1820s?Easy
Answer: Louis Braille (Braille)
Which American virologist developed the first effective polio vaccine, declared safe and effective in 1955?Intermediate
Answer: Jonas Salk (Salk)
Which Italian physicist invented the first electric battery in 1800 and gives his name to the unit of electric potential?Intermediate
Answer: Alessandro Volta (Volta)
Which American company launched Post-it notes in 1980?Intermediate
Answer: 3M
Which Spanish naval officer launched an electrically powered submarine, armed with a torpedo tube, in 1888?Hard
Answer: Isaac Peral (Peral)
Which Danish physicist proposed, in 1913, the model of the atom in which electrons occupy fixed orbits around the nucleus?Hard
Answer: Niels Bohr (Bohr)
Which 1687 work by Isaac Newton set out his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation?Hard
Answer: Principia (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica)
At which American research laboratory was the transistor invented in 1947?Very hard
Answer: Bell Labs (Bell Telephone Laboratories)
Which Dutch draper and amateur scientist was the first to observe bacteria, using his own handmade microscopes in the 1670s?Very hard
Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Leeuwenhoek)
Which French physician invented the stethoscope in 1816?Very hard
Answer: René Laennec (Laennec)
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