Quiz Questions about Famous Scientific Discoveries and Inventions

Famous Scientific Discoveries and Inventions Quiz and Trivia Questions

Added: April 2020

Which researcher died from aplastic anaemia, probably long-term exposure to the scientific phenomena that she discovered?

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Marie Curie - radiation

Who accidentally discovered penicillin after one of his experiments got contaminated while he was away on holiday?

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Alexander Fleming

Who is considered the first computer programmer and has a programming language named after them?

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Ada Lovelace

Who invented the concept of a programmable computer, called an ‘Analytical Engine’?

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Charles Babbage

Who both founded AT&T and invented the telephone?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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