Famous scientists jeopardy. ppt

science

1. Science and Technology
Jeopardy
Created by Max Monroe
Oakway Middle School

2. Let’s Play Jeopardy!
•All answers should be in the
form of a question.
•All the questions deal with
Scientist and Technologist
•Raise you hand as quickly
as you know the answer.
Picture only gets double
credit.

3. Jeopardy
Techno
Whizzes
Biological
Parents
Chemical
Reactors
Physics
Parents
    
    
    
    
    
200 200 200 200
400
600
400 400 400
800
600 600 600
1000
800 800 800
100010001000
Double Jeopardy

4. Techno Whizzes 200
•My most
famous line is
“Watson, I
need you!”
Does my name
ring a bell?

5. Techno Whizzes 400
•For a man that
seldom slept
through the
night I invented
more things
than anyone.

6. Techno Whizzes 600
•One of my
inventions
dealing with
Alternating
Current was the
Electric Chair.

7. Techno Whizzes 800
•My Calculating
device led to
today’s
electronic
revolution.

8. Techno Whizzes 1000
•Although I am
more known for
something else my
most useful
invention was the
use of
interchangeable
parts.

9. Biological Parents 200
•I told people to
drink Vitamin C
to keep from
getting a cold.

10. Biological Parents 400
•Over a long
period of
time you
might change
to my way of
thinking.

11. Biological Parents 600
•I was
instrumental in
studying blood
preservation that
led to today’s
blood banks.

12. Biological Parents 800
•This duo
identified
the Double
Helix.

13. Biological Parents 1000
•I discovered
the first
antibiotic.

14. Chemical Reactors 200
•Most people
remember me
more by my
number than
by my name.

15. Chemical Reactors 400
•One day when I
was hungry I
imagined an
atom looking like
a Chocolate Chip
cookie.

16. Chemical Reactors 600
•I discovered
Radium and
Polonium and
later had an
element named
after me and my
husband.

17. Chemical Reactors 800
•What I did set
the table for
studying
elements and
their behavior.

18. Chemical Reactors 1000
•Many consider me
the father of
modern chemistry,
I am also the
namesake of
colorblindness.

19. Physics Moms and Pops 200
•I decided there
would be no
temperatures
below zero on
my scale.

20. Physics Moms and Pops 400
•If you are
uncertain
about who I
am, then it
just proves my
principle.

21. Physics Moms and Pops 600
•I built the first
man-made
nuclear reactor at
the football
stadium of the
University of
Chicago.

22. Physics Moms and Pops 800
•My exclusion
principle keeps
electrons from
being at the same
place and state in
time.

23. Physics Moms and Pops 1000
•My work was
so powerful
they named
the unit for
power after
me.

24. Double Jeopardy
Famous
Names
Space and
Astronomy
I am Alive!
Major
Blunders
    
    
    
    
    
400 400 400 400
800
1200
800 800 800
1600
120012001200
2000
160016001600
200020001000
Final Jeopardy

25. Famous Names 400
There were few
things this Greek
did not talk about
in the world of
science.

26. Famous Names 800
I was not a
pyromaniac, I just
wanted a good
flame for my lab.

27. Famous Names 1200
I use my scale to
measure you will
see earth shaking
results.

28. Famous Names 1600
I made sure that
the world did not
remember me for
the invention of
dynamite.

29. Famous Names 2000
My company has
made more products
with my name
attached that is
imaginable.

30. Space and Astronomy 400
I was the first to
get a great look at
celestial bodies
especially the
Jovian moons
named after me.

31. Space and Astronomy 800
I was the first
man in space.

32. Space and Astronomy 1200
My footprint was
one of the most
famous in
history to man
and mankind.

33. Space and Astronomy 1600
I am the first
African-
American
female in
space.

34. Space and Astronomy 2000
I am the father
of American
rocketry.

35. I am Alive! 400
The first
American to
orbit the earth.

36. I am Alive! 800
My drug cocktail
helped in treating
AIDS.

37. I am Alive! 1200
I created the scale
for tornado
intensity.

38. I am Alive! 1600
Having ALS has not
hampered my
thinking and
productivity in the
study of theoretical
physics.

39. I am Alive! 2000
I am the scientist
that first figured out
what happened to
the Challenger.

40. Major Blunders 400
I should put
something in
my oath
banning the
practice of
bloodletting.

41. Major Blunders 800
Although you
know me for
my success
with motion I
was an
alchemist.

42. Major Blunders 1200
I was good at
math but hated
modern life, it just
made me want to
explode!

43. Major Blunders 1600
People rightly
scoffed at my
proof of Arian
genetics.

44. Major Blunders 2000
Fusion in a jar
on a lab table
huh?

45. Final Jeopardy
The Final Jeopardy Category is…
Scientist Native to
South Carolina

46. Final Jeopardy
I was born in
Greenville, SC and
later became
famous for my
coherent thoughts
about light.

47. Thanks for Playing Science and
Technology Jeopardy