Science - every European should know the answers to these 12 questions!

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Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity and described the relationship between the equivalence of energy and _________ by his famous E = mc^2 formula.

Mass

Power

Velocity

Force

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The Pythagorean theorem is related to a _________.

An obtuse triangle

Right triangle

An acute triangle

An equilateral triangle

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Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer, discovered ________ laws of motion.

4

8

3

2

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Who jumped out of a bathtub, fascinated with the simplicity of his discovery and shouted "Eureka! Eureka!", which is the Greek word for "I found it!"

Euclid

Aristotle

Socrates

Archimedes

Archimedes discovered the basic laws of hydrostatics and aerostatics related to displacement.

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_______________ was an Italian scientist and artist living in the 15th and 16th century. He created many futuristic projects such as a design of a helicopter, a tank, a winged flying machine and a parachute.

Titian

Raphael

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

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Nicolas Copernicus wrote "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", in which he scientifically and usefully described the heliocentric model of the universe. What's the English title of his work?

On the Revolutionary View on the Universe

On the Heliocentric Model of the Universe

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

It Goes Around

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The scientific theory of evolution by natural selection was proposed by ______________. It says that every species evolved out of earlier forms of life.

Carolus Linnaeus

Gregor Mendel

Charles Darwin

Sigmund Freud

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What did Dmitri Mendeleev discover?

An atomic model

The process of synthesising ammonia

The principle of mass conservation

Periodic trends in the properties of chemical elements

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His research in virology and bacteriology was Louis Pasteur’s most important work. It allowed him to discover the first vaccines for:

Typhus fever

The flu

Polio

Rabies

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_____________ was persecuted by the Roman inquisition because he strongly supported and promoted Copernican heliocentrism while the Church was defending the geocentric model.

Blaise Pascal

Galileo Galilei

Pierre de Fermat

Descartes

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Maria Skłodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, developed techniques of separating radioactive isotopes and discovered two elements – polonium and:

Vanadium

Radium

Bismuth

Palladium

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Which of the following scientists received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"?

Max Planck

Werner Heisenberg

Niels Bohr

Erwin Schrödinger

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