The 10 quiz questions
Question 1 : "Imagination is more important than knowledge." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Feynman
- Einstein
- Tesla
- Newton
Explanation: A quote by Albert Einstein: knowledge is limited, but imagination can explore everything.
Question 2 : "Eureka!" — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Archimedes
- Pythagoras
- Thales
- Euclid
Explanation: Exclamation by Archimedes of Syracuse upon discovering the principle of buoyancy in his bath (3rd century BC).
Question 3 : "And yet it moves." — Who allegedly said this?
Possible answers:
- Copernicus
- Galileo
- Newton
- Kepler
Explanation: A phrase attributed to Galileo after his trial before the Inquisition in 1633, reaffirming heliocentrism.
Question 4 : "In life, nothing is to be feared, everything is to be understood." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Marie Curie
- Einstein
- Darwin
- Pasteur
Explanation: A quote by Marie Curie, double Nobel Prize winner (physics 1903, chemistry 1911), pioneer of radioactivity.
Question 5 : "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Nikola Tesla
- Thomas Edison
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Henry Ford
Explanation: A phrase illustrating Thomas Edison's perseverance during the invention of the electric light bulb.
Question 6 : "Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Descartes
- Newton
- Pascal
- Lavoisier
Explanation: The principle of conservation of matter by Antoine de Lavoisier, father of modern chemistry (18th century).
Question 7 : "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Descartes
- Leibniz
- Newton
- Galileo
Explanation: A humble phrase by Isaac Newton (1675), acknowledging his debt to the scholars who preceded him.
Question 8 : "Chance favors only the prepared mind." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Pasteur
- Fleming
- Koch
- Curie
Explanation: Louis Pasteur during his inaugural lecture in Lille in 1854, summarizing his scientific method.
Question 9 : "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Albert Einstein
- Edward Teller
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Enrico Fermi
Explanation: A quote from the Bhagavad Gita, cited by Oppenheimer after the first nuclear test (Trinity, 1945).
Question 10 : "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world." — Who said this?
Possible answers:
- Pythagoras
- Euclid
- Thales
- Archimedes
Explanation: Archimedes illustrating the principle of the lever, one of the fundamental simple machines of physics.
