Inventions & Science
Questions about British inventions, scientists and technological achievements.
24 questions
Practice these questions →What was the Enlightenment?
✓ An 18th-century movement of new ideas about politics, philosophy and science
Who invented the steam engine?
✓ James Watt
Who invented the television?
✓ John Logie Baird
Isaac Newton is famous for:
✓ Developing the theory of gravity and laws of motion
The BAFTA awards recognise achievements in which field?
✓ Film and television
Which of these is the UK's longest-running television soap opera?
✓ Coronation Street
What is the BBC?
✓ The British Broadcasting Corporation, a public service broadcaster
John Logie Baird made the first television broadcast between London and Glasgow in which year?
✓ 1932
The BBC is funded primarily by:
✓ The television licence fee paid by households with a TV
Alexander Fleming is famous for discovering:
✓ Penicillin
In which year did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin?
✓ 1928
Which TV programme has the longest run in British television history?
✓ Coronation Street
Which scientific society, the oldest surviving in the world, was formed during the reign of Charles II?
✓ The Royal Society
Which New Zealand-born scientist, working in Britain, was the first to "split the atom"?
✓ Ernest Rutherford
In which year was the world's first "test-tube baby" (IVF) born in Britain?
✓ 1978
IVF therapy was pioneered in Britain by Sir Robert Edwards and which gynaecologist?
✓ Patrick Steptoe
Penicillin, discovered by Fleming, was developed into a usable drug by Howard Florey and whom?
✓ Ernst Chain
Some British scientists took part in which US project that developed the atomic bomb?
✓ The Manhattan Project
The scientist Ernest Rutherford, who first split the atom, was born in which country?
✓ New Zealand
In which year was the supersonic airliner Concorde retired from service?
✓ 2003
Isaac Newton discovered that white light is made up of what?
✓ The colours of the rainbow
An early member of the Royal Society, Sir Edmund Halley, successfully predicted the return of what?
✓ A comet
Which 1969 TV show introduced a new type of progressive British comedy?
✓ Monty Python's Flying Circus
Which satirical puppet show was popular on British TV in the 1980s and 1990s?
✓ Spitting Image
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