Guess Who

When I was younger, one of my favorite games was Guess Who.  After learning about the history of astronomy this week, I decided to make a mini quiz based on all the random facts of the scientists that have helped us get to where we are now in astronomy and science.  There are 10 questions and the correct answer is highlighted in red.  GOOD LUCK!


1. He coined the geocentric idea.

a. Aristotle
b. Ptolemy
c. Copernicus
d. Young

2. He wrote "The Almagest".

a.Copernicus
b. Young
c. Ptolemy
d. Kepler

3. He coined the heliocentric idea.

a. Copernicus
b. Newton
c. Brahe
d. Mathias

4. He went temporarily blind from looking into the sun.

a. Smith
b. Kepler
c. Newton
d. Fraunhofer

5. He was a scrappy fighter that cut his own nose off.

a. Kepler
b. Copernicus
c. Young
d. Brahe

6. He figured out how to make Mars work.

a. Kepler
b. Brahe
c. Young
d. Newton

7. He figured out that light moves as a wave.

a. Mathias
b. Mitchel
c. Copernicus
d. Young




8. He fine tuned the telescope so that you could see individual color.

a. Kepler
b. Fraunhofer
c. Newton
d. Copernicus

9. He discovered the laws of motion.

a. Newton
b. Divinci
c.Young
d. Fraunhofer

10. He discovered the distance of the comet.

a. Brahe
b. Newton
c. Mathias
d. Fraunhofer


HOW DID YOU DO???