❓ Question 1
Who discovered penicillin – the first antibiotic?
A) Marie Curie
B) Alexander Fleming
C) Louis Pasteur
D) Albert Einstein
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B) Alexander Fleming – discovered in 1928 when mold accidentally grew in his petri dish.❓ Question 2
Which planet has the largest volcano in the solar system?
A) Venus
B) Mars
C) Jupiter
D) Mercury
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B) Mars – Olympus Mons is about 22 km high, nearly three times taller than Everest.❓ Question 3
Who invented the first practical telephone?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Thomas Edison
D) Guglielmo Marconi
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B) Alexander Graham Bell – patented the telephone in 1876.❓ Question 4
What does DNA stand for?
A) Deoxyribonucleic Acid
B) Dynamic Nitrogen Atom
C) Double Nucleus Array
D) Deoxy Natural Amino
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A) Deoxyribonucleic Acid – it carries the genetic instructions of all living things.❓ Question 5
Which scientist proposed the theory of relativity?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Galileo Galilei
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B) Albert Einstein – his theory, published in 1905, changed our understanding of space and time.❓ Question 6
What element has the chemical symbol “O”?
A) Gold
B) Oxygen
C) Osmium
D) Ozone
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B) Oxygen – essential for respiration and combustion.❓ Question 7
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A) Rosalind Franklin
B) Marie Curie
C) Ada Lovelace
D) Lise Meitner
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B) Marie Curie – she won it in 1903 for her work on radioactivity, and again in 1911 for chemistry.❓ Question 8
Which natural force keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
A) Magnetism
B) Radiation
C) Gravity
D) Friction
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C) Gravity – the same force that makes an apple fall to the ground keeps planets in motion.❓ Question 9
What was the first man-made object to reach space?
A) Sputnik 1
B) V-2 rocket
C) Apollo 11
D) Voyager 1
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B) The German V-2 rocket – launched in 1944, it crossed the Kármán line (100 km altitude).❓ Question 10
Which physicist developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Johannes Kepler
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B) Isaac Newton – his “Principia” (1687) remains one of the most influential scientific works ever published.🎯 Final Challenge
How many discoveries did you get right?
👉 Share your score in the comments and tell us which invention you think changed the world the most!