Clue Into Science Fun Fact Exam|100
Questions and Answers
Luis Alvarez (#1) - -He participated in the Manhattan Project.
- Charles E. Anderson (#2) - -He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps during
World War II.
- Mary Anning (#3) - -She had nine siblings, although only her and her older
brother Joseph survived until adulthood.
- Archimedes (#4) - -He supposedly yelled Eureka when he figured out the
answer to a problem the king had.
- Amedeo Avogrado (#5) - -He had six children.
- Patricia Bath (#6) - -She claims that her "personal best moment" was
when she helped restore the eyesight of a woman who had been blind for
over 30 years.
- Alexander Graham Bell (#7) - -The first words that he said on his
telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."
- Daniel Bernoulli (#8) - -His father plagiarized his son's work
(Hydrodynamica), writing a book called Hydraulica and changing the dates
out of jealousy.
- Elizabeth Blackwell (#9) - -She got rejected by 29 medical schools before
she was admitted to Geneva Medical College.
- Niels Bohr (#10) - -He was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project
- Robert Boyle (#11) - -In 1654 he was invited to Oxford.
- Tycho Brahe (#12) - -He lost his nose in 1566 in a duel with Manderup
Parsberg, a fellow Danish student at the University of Rostock and his third
cousin.
- Brahmagupta (#13) - -Late in his life, Brahmagupta wrote
Khandakhadyaka (665; "A Piece Eatable"), an astronomical handbook that
employed Aryabhata's system of starting each day at midnight.
- Robert Bunsen (#14) - -He taught at the Universities of Marburg and
Breslau and elsewhere.
, - Santiago Ramon Y Cajal (#15) - -He served as professor of descriptive
anatomy at the University of Valencia (1884-87) and professor of histology
and pathological anatomy at the universities of Barcelona.
- Rachel Carson (#16) - -From 1929 to 1936 she also taught in the Johns
Hopkins summer school and pursued postgraduate studies at the Marine
Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- George Washington Carver (#17) - -He was born into slavery, the son of
an enslaved woman named Mary, owned by Moses Carver. During the
American Civil War, the Carver farm was raided, and infant George and his
mother were kidnapped and taken to Arkansas to be sold.
- James Chadwick (#18) - -When World War I broke out, He was imprisoned
in a camp for civilians at Ruhleben. He spent the entire war there but
nevertheless was able to accomplish some scientific work.
- Subrahmanayan Chandrasekhar (#19) - -He joined the staff of the
University of Chicago, rising from assistant professor of astrophysics.
- Nicolaus Copernicus (#20) - -In 1500 he spoke before an interested
audience in Rome on mathematical subjects, but the exact content of his
lectures is unknown.
- Jacques Cousteau (#21) - -He helped create the first waterproof camera.
- Marie Curie (#22) - -She is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize in two
fields.
- John Dalton (#23) - -He had a meteorological diary, in which he entered
more than 200,000 observations.
- Charles Darwin (#24) - -His ship was called the Beagle.
- Democritus (#25) - -He also studied physics, astronomy, botany, zoology,
and medicine.
- Rene' Descartes (#26) - -He disagreed with Aristotelian thinking. Aristotle
believed that objects must be present and visible, unlike Him.
- Charles Drew (#27) - -He worked on the Blood for Britain project, whose
goal was to give US blood to the United Kingdom.
- Eratosthenes (#28) - -He may have been the first to use the word
geography, and invented a system of longitude and latitude.
Questions and Answers
Luis Alvarez (#1) - -He participated in the Manhattan Project.
- Charles E. Anderson (#2) - -He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps during
World War II.
- Mary Anning (#3) - -She had nine siblings, although only her and her older
brother Joseph survived until adulthood.
- Archimedes (#4) - -He supposedly yelled Eureka when he figured out the
answer to a problem the king had.
- Amedeo Avogrado (#5) - -He had six children.
- Patricia Bath (#6) - -She claims that her "personal best moment" was
when she helped restore the eyesight of a woman who had been blind for
over 30 years.
- Alexander Graham Bell (#7) - -The first words that he said on his
telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."
- Daniel Bernoulli (#8) - -His father plagiarized his son's work
(Hydrodynamica), writing a book called Hydraulica and changing the dates
out of jealousy.
- Elizabeth Blackwell (#9) - -She got rejected by 29 medical schools before
she was admitted to Geneva Medical College.
- Niels Bohr (#10) - -He was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project
- Robert Boyle (#11) - -In 1654 he was invited to Oxford.
- Tycho Brahe (#12) - -He lost his nose in 1566 in a duel with Manderup
Parsberg, a fellow Danish student at the University of Rostock and his third
cousin.
- Brahmagupta (#13) - -Late in his life, Brahmagupta wrote
Khandakhadyaka (665; "A Piece Eatable"), an astronomical handbook that
employed Aryabhata's system of starting each day at midnight.
- Robert Bunsen (#14) - -He taught at the Universities of Marburg and
Breslau and elsewhere.
, - Santiago Ramon Y Cajal (#15) - -He served as professor of descriptive
anatomy at the University of Valencia (1884-87) and professor of histology
and pathological anatomy at the universities of Barcelona.
- Rachel Carson (#16) - -From 1929 to 1936 she also taught in the Johns
Hopkins summer school and pursued postgraduate studies at the Marine
Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- George Washington Carver (#17) - -He was born into slavery, the son of
an enslaved woman named Mary, owned by Moses Carver. During the
American Civil War, the Carver farm was raided, and infant George and his
mother were kidnapped and taken to Arkansas to be sold.
- James Chadwick (#18) - -When World War I broke out, He was imprisoned
in a camp for civilians at Ruhleben. He spent the entire war there but
nevertheless was able to accomplish some scientific work.
- Subrahmanayan Chandrasekhar (#19) - -He joined the staff of the
University of Chicago, rising from assistant professor of astrophysics.
- Nicolaus Copernicus (#20) - -In 1500 he spoke before an interested
audience in Rome on mathematical subjects, but the exact content of his
lectures is unknown.
- Jacques Cousteau (#21) - -He helped create the first waterproof camera.
- Marie Curie (#22) - -She is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize in two
fields.
- John Dalton (#23) - -He had a meteorological diary, in which he entered
more than 200,000 observations.
- Charles Darwin (#24) - -His ship was called the Beagle.
- Democritus (#25) - -He also studied physics, astronomy, botany, zoology,
and medicine.
- Rene' Descartes (#26) - -He disagreed with Aristotelian thinking. Aristotle
believed that objects must be present and visible, unlike Him.
- Charles Drew (#27) - -He worked on the Blood for Britain project, whose
goal was to give US blood to the United Kingdom.
- Eratosthenes (#28) - -He may have been the first to use the word
geography, and invented a system of longitude and latitude.
