1. What lesson did Ebright learn when he lost at the county science fair?
- a) He should stop doing science
- b) Science fairs are useless
- c) Slides are always the best project
- d) Real science requires experiments, not displays
Correct Answer: d) Real science requires experiments, not displays
2. What was Ebright’s first unsuccessful project at the fair?
- a) Tagging butterflies
- b) Frog tissue slides under microscope
- c) Raising caterpillars
- d) Testing butterfly wings
Correct Answer: b) Frog tissue slides under microscope
3. Who did Ebright write to for new experiment ideas?
- a) His teacher
- b) His mother
- c) Dr. Urquhart
- d) James R. Wong
Correct Answer: c) Dr. Urquhart
4. What was Ebright’s eighth-grade project?
- a) Gold spots on pupae
- b) Cause of caterpillar disease
- c) Testing DNA
- d) Butterfly migration
Correct Answer: b) Cause of caterpillar disease
5. What did Ebright suspect carried the caterpillar disease?
- a) Birds
- b) Ants
- c) Viruses
- d) Beetles
Correct Answer: d) Beetles
6. What prize did he win for the caterpillar disease project?
- a) Nothing
- b) First place at county fair
- c) Third prize
- d) First in zoology division
Correct Answer: c) Third prize
7. What was his project for next year?
- a) Bird migration
- b) Mimicry in viceroy butterflies
- c) Frog dissections
- d) DNA study
Correct Answer: b) Mimicry in viceroy butterflies
8. Why do viceroy butterflies resemble monarchs?
- a) To attract insects
- b) To look beautiful
- c) To fly faster
- d) To avoid being eaten by birds
Correct Answer: d) To avoid being eaten by birds
9. Which bird did Ebright test with monarchs?
- a) Sparrow
- b) Crow
- c) Starling
- d) Robin
Correct Answer: c) Starling
10. What did he find the starling preferred?
- a) Seeds only
- b) Ordinary bird food
- c) Monarch butterflies
- d) Beetles
Correct Answer: c) Monarch butterflies
11. What award did Ebright win for this mimicry project?
- a) First in zoology division, third overall
- b) First in physics division
- c) Second in international fair
- d) No prize
Correct Answer: a) First in zoology division, third overall
12. What was the focus of his high school research?
- a) Gold spots on monarch pupae
- b) Bird migration
- c) Frog tissues
- d) Fossils and rocks
Correct Answer: a) Gold spots on monarch pupae
13. What did most people believe about the gold spots?
- a) They were ornamental
- b) They were poisonous
- c) They were food for caterpillars
- d) They were DNA
Correct Answer: a) They were ornamental
14. What did Ebright prove about the gold spots?
- a) They produced a hormone necessary for development
- b) They were for decoration
- c) They were useless
- d) They gave butterflies colour
Correct Answer: a) They produced a hormone necessary for development
15. What prize did this project win at the county fair?
- a) Nothing
- b) First place
- c) Third place
- d) Second place
Correct Answer: b) First place
16. Where did Ebright later work as a high school student?
- a) Harvard laboratory
- b) Entomology lab at Walter Reed Army Institute
- c) NASA
- d) Toronto University
Correct Answer: b) Entomology lab at Walter Reed Army Institute
17. What did he show in his senior project?
- a) Cells of butterfly wings need the hormone to develop
- b) Monarchs migrate long distances
- c) Beetles carry diseases
- d) Starling birds eat viceroys
Correct Answer: a) Cells of butterfly wings need the hormone to develop
18. Which award did this project win?
- a) First place in zoology at International Fair
- b) Second place in biology
- c) No prize
- d) Third in chemistry
Correct Answer: a) First place in zoology at International Fair
19. Where did he continue research after high school?
- a) U.S. Department of Agriculture lab
- b) Harvard University library
- c) NASA research centre
- d) Local school lab
Correct Answer: a) U.S. Department of Agriculture lab
20. What chemical did Ebright study at Harvard?
- a) DNA
- b) Insect hormone
- c) Protein structure
- d) Blood cells
Correct Answer: b) Insect hormone
21. What did X-ray photos help Ebright discover?
- a) Migration paths
- b) How cells read DNA
- c) Butterfly colours
- d) Viruses in caterpillars
Correct Answer: b) How cells read DNA
22. Who was Ebright’s college roommate who worked with him?
- a) James R. Wong
- b) Richard Weiherer
- c) Dr. Urquhart
- d) Robert Peterson
Correct Answer: a) James R. Wong
23. Where did their paper get published?
- a) Science Daily
- b) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- c) Nature Journal
- d) Harvard Gazette
Correct Answer: b) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
24. What honour did Ebright achieve at Harvard?
- a) First in class
- b) Second in class of 1,510
- c) No recognition
- d) Third in class
Correct Answer: b) Second in class of 1,510
25. Which teacher influenced Ebright in debating and public speaking?
- a) James Wong
- b) Robert Peterson
- c) Dr. Urquhart
- d) Richard Weiherer
Correct Answer: d) Richard Weiherer
26. What qualities did Mr. Weiherer appreciate Ebright?
- a) His competition spirit and hard work
- b) His laziness and calmness
- c) His sportsmanship
- d) His artistic nature
Correct Answer: a) His competition spirit and hard work
27. What was Ebright’s attitude towards winning?
- a) Win for winning’s sake
- b) Win to do the best job possible
- c) Win to defeat others
- d) Win to become famous
Correct Answer: b) Win to do the best job possible
28. Which of these was NOT Ebright’s interest?
- a) Canoeing
- b) Debating
- c) Photography
- d) Singing
Correct Answer: d) Singing
29. Which awards did Richard Ebright receive for his scientific work?
- a) Nobel Prize
- b) Searle Scholar Award and Schering Plough Award
- c) National Award for Science
- d) None
Correct Answer: b) Searle Scholar Award and Schering Plough Award
30. Which three qualities are essential in the making of a scientist, according to the lesson?
- a) A good mind, curiosity, will to win for the right reasons
- b) Sports, friends, ambition
- c) Rich family, school, teachers
- d) Intelligence, money, power
Correct Answer: a) A good mind, curiosity, will to win for the right reasons
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