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Quiz about Scientists with Fruit Heads
Quiz about Scientists with Fruit Heads

Scientists with Fruit Heads Trivia Quiz


What on EARTH could this quiz be about? Exactly what the title suggests! All these scientists have had their heads altered in this fruity themed quiz. Talk about picking your brain!

A photo quiz by trident. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
trident
Time
5 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
369,425
Updated
Jan 16 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1162
Awards
Editor's Choice
Last 3 plays: Mookie325 (10/10), BarbaraMcI (10/10), hellobion (6/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. While he was in the middle of his studies on relativity, Albert Limestein had forgotten the well-known equation for mass-energy equivalence that he was famous for discovering. He decided that he would use a fruit-themed mnemonic device to help recall the letters!

By taking the first letter of each fruit to represent the letters in the equation, what did he come up with?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This Danish physicist was a part of the Manhattan Project and had an element as well as an atomic model named after him, which Wikipedia says "depicts the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus". If his name were fruit-themed, who would it be? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Here we have Papayagoras, who is famous for his Papayagorean theorem. Even though the Babylonians had been familiar with this theorem previously, he was the first to create proofs for it. When one learns this theorem, one often learns the concept of a "hypotenuse". Which of the following would have a "hypotenuse"? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Marie Ki-wi was Polish-born and soon became a famous physicist and chemist, becoming even more famous than her husband, Peach-erre. She is also particularly famous for the way in which she perished, due to aplastic anemia from an outside cause. Not to be entirely morbid, but what food preparation is the most comparable way for a kiwi to perish? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Enrico Pearmi was an Italian physicist famous for his work with quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He even had a particular function named after him which deals with what fruit-related process present in nuclear physics? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Here is Johannes Grapeler, a German astronomer who contributed much to the field of optics. He was also an avid defender of a certain model of the heliocentric universe, proposed by what fruit-themed Renaissance astronomer? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Henry Gourd was well-known for "Gourdism", an economic model of production in which one mass produces inexpensive goods while paying workers high wages. This was the production model he used to manufacture his two most famous Model automobiles, which were represented by a single letter. The two models can be discovered by taking the first two letters of which fruit? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This Russian chemist with a plethora of facial hair was Dmitri Meloneev. As he is most widely known for developing it, if he were to want to eat some fruit (is that cannibalistic?!), he would be most likely to figuratively eat it where? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Frenchman Pierre de Kumquat was most influential to the field of mathematics due to his extremely difficult math problem known as Kumquat's Last Theorem. Over a period of 358 years, mathematicians tried to create a successful proof. It wasn't until 1995 that British mathematician Andrew Wiles provided one. What fruity geometric aspect reductively describes his approach? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Gregor Mangol was the father of the modern science of genetics, having successfully studied the concept of genetic variance and forming the idea Mangolian inheritance. Now he has decided to breed a fruit and vegetable together! What vegetable would he be most likely to use as it was the vegetable he used in his experiments? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. While he was in the middle of his studies on relativity, Albert Limestein had forgotten the well-known equation for mass-energy equivalence that he was famous for discovering. He decided that he would use a fruit-themed mnemonic device to help recall the letters! By taking the first letter of each fruit to represent the letters in the equation, what did he come up with?

Answer: Eggplant, Melon, Cranberry (squared)

The famous equation for mass-energy equivalence is E=MC^2. (Of course, the symbol "^2" means "to the second power" or "squared"). In the clue, the first letter of each fruit spells out EMC which are the letters of the equation. Einstein was famous for having made this discovery, and many believe that the discovery led to the advent of the atomic bomb.
2. This Danish physicist was a part of the Manhattan Project and had an element as well as an atomic model named after him, which Wikipedia says "depicts the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus". If his name were fruit-themed, who would it be?

Answer: Niels Bohrange

Niels Bohr was a contemporary of other scientists such as Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, and was indeed included in the famous atom bomb project. The element named after him is "bohrium", which is synthetic and radioactive with an atomic number of 107.

The "Bohr model" is an atomic model which improved on the Rutherford model, but was later superseded by the Sommerfield model.
3. Here we have Papayagoras, who is famous for his Papayagorean theorem. Even though the Babylonians had been familiar with this theorem previously, he was the first to create proofs for it. When one learns this theorem, one often learns the concept of a "hypotenuse". Which of the following would have a "hypotenuse"?

Answer: Watermelon cut into perfect right triangles

Pythagoras of Samos was a philosopher and mathematician. He was most famous for his proofs on the Pythagorean theorem, which is commonly written as a^2+b^2=c^2. Mathematics lessons with the Pythagorean theorem are often also taught in tandem with the concept of a hypotenuse, which is the longest side on a right-angled triangle (which is always opposite the right angle).

This would be represented by the "c" in the equation above.
4. Marie Ki-wi was Polish-born and soon became a famous physicist and chemist, becoming even more famous than her husband, Peach-erre. She is also particularly famous for the way in which she perished, due to aplastic anemia from an outside cause. Not to be entirely morbid, but what food preparation is the most comparable way for a kiwi to perish?

Answer: microwave oven

Marie Curie was constantly subjected to ionizing radiation, which she was unaware was dangerous. While she was working with radioactive isotopes, she had no idea they were destroying her health. Nonetheless, her life and achievements were very fruitful.

Microwave ovens work on the principle of non-ionizing radiation, which cannot damage DNA, but are enough to have thermal properties. That's why this type of radiation is used in microwave ovens.
5. Enrico Pearmi was an Italian physicist famous for his work with quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He even had a particular function named after him which deals with what fruit-related process present in nuclear physics?

Answer: decay

Enrico Fermi was another scientist involved with the Manhattan Project. He is possibly most famous for his studies in nuclear physics and the function that is named after him deals with radioactive decay. He also has an element named after him: Fermium (atomic number 100).
6. Here is Johannes Grapeler, a German astronomer who contributed much to the field of optics. He was also an avid defender of a certain model of the heliocentric universe, proposed by what fruit-themed Renaissance astronomer?

Answer: Nicolaus Coperni-quince

Johannes Kepler was born in the lands of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century. He worked under the famed scientist Tycho Brahe and published many works concerning astronomical patterns. At this time, astronomy and astrology were still linked, but mathematics and geometry increasing separated the two.

He was a huge proponent of the heliocentric universe theory proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus, believing that geometrically, the sun had to be the center of the universe.
7. Henry Gourd was well-known for "Gourdism", an economic model of production in which one mass produces inexpensive goods while paying workers high wages. This was the production model he used to manufacture his two most famous Model automobiles, which were represented by a single letter. The two models can be discovered by taking the first two letters of which fruit?

Answer: Tangerine

Henry Ford's two Model cars were the Model T and the Model A. Ford became quite successful after developing the "Fordism" model of production with assembly line production and high wages. The high wages kept employees from turning over and lowered training costs significantly.

He began producing the Model T in 1908, which became wildly popular. However, Ford became stubborn, and his competitors began to cut in on his profits because he refused to consider mechanical additions that other companies had introduced to their vehicles, as well as refusing to allow payment plans, forcing customers to buy their vehicles at full price. Finally, he retired the Model T and began producing the Model A in 1927.
8. This Russian chemist with a plethora of facial hair was Dmitri Meloneev. As he is most widely known for developing it, if he were to want to eat some fruit (is that cannibalistic?!), he would be most likely to figuratively eat it where?

Answer: periodic table

Though some others had experimented with creating periodic tables of elements, the table seen in chemistry classes today was designed by Dmitri Mendeleev. He never won a Nobel prize due to the scheming of an adversary who twice convinced the Academy to drop votes for him. He, too, had an element named after him: Mendelevium.
9. Frenchman Pierre de Kumquat was most influential to the field of mathematics due to his extremely difficult math problem known as Kumquat's Last Theorem. Over a period of 358 years, mathematicians tried to create a successful proof. It wasn't until 1995 that British mathematician Andrew Wiles provided one. What fruity geometric aspect reductively describes his approach?

Answer: The curve of a banana

Pierre de Fermat was most prominently a lawyer, though he considered himself an amateur mathematician and worked vigorously to prove himself in that field. His most enduring contribution to the field was his brain-scratcher, known as Fermat's Last Theorem, a mathematical theorem that no mathematician had developed a proof for for over 350 years.

In 1995, Andrew Wiles (who had been developing the proof for over seven years) was able to convincingly solve the problem by relating it to elliptical curves, a conjecture that had existed since the 1950s.
10. Gregor Mangol was the father of the modern science of genetics, having successfully studied the concept of genetic variance and forming the idea Mangolian inheritance. Now he has decided to breed a fruit and vegetable together! What vegetable would he be most likely to use as it was the vegetable he used in his experiments?

Answer: peas

Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar of Silesian descent who was also interested in botany. His experiments with different varieties of peas, and of breeding them, led to the modern science of genetics. However, his work was not largely seen as significant until nearly three decades later.
Source: Author trident

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