What is the name of the ancient Greek scientist who was the first to understand the water cycle? (Lived in 300 BC and taught Alexander the Great). First true person to think scientifically
100
Robert Hooke (DAILY DOUBLE)
What famous scientist gets credit for being the "father of the living cells"?
100
Alexander Graham Bell
Who patents the first telephone?
100
Alexander Fleming
What is name of the scientist whose discovery led to the life-saving antibiotics?
100
Orville and Wilbur Wright
What is the name of the brothers who built their own gliders and airplanes, which later led them to fly the first airplane in 1903?
200
Galileo or Copernicus
What is the name of the scientist who studied the universe and explained that the planets orbit the sun, not the Earth?
(heliocentric)
200
Newton
Which famous scientist discovered that white light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow and laws of gravity?
200
Thomas Alva Edison
Which scientist patented the first light bulb?
200
Albert Einstein
Which famous scientist theory of relativity paved the way for a better understanding of nuclear power?
200
Mark Zuckerberg (DAILY DOUBLE)
Who was one of the Harvard graduates who introduced the world to Facebook?
300
Galileo
What is the name of the Italian scientist who built a telescope and discovered mountains on the moon, stars in the Milky Way, and Jupiter's moons? Astronomy was what he was best known for.
300
Benjamin Franklin
What is the name of the famous inventor of the bifocal lenses and electricity
300
George Washington Carver
What famous inventor can we thank for peanut butter?
300
Rachael Carson
What is the name of the female scientist who help start the environmental movement which focuses on saving our planet from harmful chemicals.
300
Luis and Walter Alvarez
What is the name of the father and son team whose theory led to the extinction of the dinosaur?
400
Sir Isaac Newton
Who is the scientist who studied Jupiter and Venus--father of astronomy and postulated the laws of gravity
400
James Watt (DAILY DOUBLE)
Which inventor has the metric system's unit of power named after him?
400
Louis Howard Latimer (DAILY DOUBLE)
What is the name of the scientist/techinical drafter whose parents where slaves, but fled to Boston where he was born. He worked side by side with Bell on the telephone patent?
400
Michael Faraday (DAILY DOUBLE)
Which inventor discovered that a magnetic field can produce an electric current?
400
Steve Jobs (DAILY DOUBLE)
Who is one of the men given credit for the creation of the Apple computer?
500
Archimedes
Who discovered the method to find the exact volume of irregular shaped objects?
500
Louis Pasteur
What is the name of the famous scientist who is best known for his work on diseases like rabies. He is also known for the advancement of vaccinations?
500
Marie Curie
What is the name of the female scientist who was one of the first to work with radioactive elements? Thanks for the xray!
500
Charles Darwin
What scientist published a book on his theory of evolution and natural selection?
500
Stephen Hawkins
What scientist has ALS and is still working today on study of Black Holes, Gravitation, quantum mechanics?