Astronomers and rocket scientists quiz: can you name them?
Galileo, Newton, Hawking and Katherine Johnson. The people who mapped the sky, and the ones who built the rockets to reach it. Name the scientist.
How it plays
- 1A blurry start8 pictures, each starting as a few big blocks that sharpen over ten seconds.
- 2Four optionsPick one whenever you think you know.
- 3Early is worth morePoints fall from 1000 towards zero as the picture clears. A wrong answer scores nothing.
About this quiz
Astronomers and rocket scientists is a picture quiz of 39 pictures, one of 13 on the Space shelf.
A game deals 8 of the 39, picked afresh every time, so a second round is mostly new pictures, in a new order.
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