British Citizenship Test Famous British People and Achievements

Question 1

Which British scientist is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Fleming

Answer

Isaac Newton

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Charles Darwin

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Michael Faraday

Question 2

Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet' and is considered England's greatest playwright?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

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Charles Dickens

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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John Milton

Question 3

Which British physicist developed the theory of gravity after reportedly observing a falling apple?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

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Stephen Hawking

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Ernest Rutherford

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James Clerk Maxwell

Question 4

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and is associated with discoveries about radioactivity?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Answer

Rosalind Franklin

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Dorothy Hodgkin

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Ada Lovelace

Question 5

Which British naturalist published 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859, introducing the theory of evolution?

Accepted Answer

Charles Darwin

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David Attenborough

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Thomas Huxley

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Question 6

Who was the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Ann Packer

Answer

Kelly Holmes

Answer

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Answer

Mary Peters