Vocabulary
Nobel Prize
Scientific Publications
Inventions and Discoveries
Famous Scientists
100

What's the English translation for "Klimawandel"?

climate change

100
Who established the Nobel Prize award in 1895? (full name)
Alfred Nobel
100

Which publication by Charles Darwin explains the process of evolution by showing that all species, including humans, have evolved over time from common ancestors?

On the Origin of Species
100
Who invented the improved steam engine, which was the power behind the Industrial Revolution (1769)?
James Watt
100
Which universal scholar of Italian origin lent his name to a German popular scientific (populärwissenschaftlich) television programme?
Galileo Galilei
200

What's the English translation for "Gentechnik"?

genetic engineering
200
How many categories are Nobel Prizes awarded for each year?
6 (Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine, Economics [established in 1969])
200

"A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes" is a publication by which British cosmologist and physicist?

Stephen Hawking
200
Who discovered the North American Continent in 1492?
Christoph Columbus
200
Which German theoretic physicist is best known for his publications on the special and general relativity theory?
Albert Einstein
300
What do you call the endless black void surrounding our Earth, solar system and galaxy?
the universe
300
Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes?
Marie Curie (Physics Prize 1903 , Chemistry Prize 1911)
300
Who published "A Short History of Nearly Everything"?
Bill Bryson
300
Name the most famous formula in modern physics, which was first used as part of Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity

E=mc2

300
Who improved the telephone and was the first person to make it accessible to the public?
Alexander Graham Bell
400

What is a generic term (Oberbegriff) for solar power, hydropower and windpower?

renewable energy
400
Who won the first ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901?

Wilhelm Röntgen ("in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him")

400

What does the main publication by Nicolaus Copernicus "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" describe?

the heliocentric system / Earth revolving around the sun (and not vice versa)
400
Who made the first correct model of the structure of DNA? (must name at least 2 out of 4)
Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, James Watson
400
Which scientist made appearances  on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "The Simpsons," "Futurama" and "The Big Bang Theory"?
Stephen Hawking
500
What do you call the current process of our Earth's atmosphere warming up?
climate change
500
Who was the first ever musician to be awarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Bob Dylan (in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition")

500

Which thought experiment illustrates the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects?

Schrödinger's Cat (by Erwin Schrödinger)
500

Who discovered the intermaxillary bone (Zwischenkieferknochen)?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
500

Which scientist and inventor of Croatian origin who developed the modern two-phase electric power died alone and impoverished in New York in 1943?

Nikola Tesla

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