Q 01/05

With Watson and which other scientist did Crick share the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

A) Maurice Wilkins

B) Rosalind Franklin

C) Linus Pauling

D) Max Perutz

Answer · why

A) Maurice Wilkins

The citation covered the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer.

Q 02/05

What two-word term did Crick coin for the idea that information in a polypeptide cannot flow back to nucleic acid?

A) Genetic code

B) Molecular clock

C) Central dogma

D) Selfish gene

Answer · why

C) Central dogma

Critics thought 'dogma' implied an unquestionable rule; he meant only a compelling idea without much evidence yet.

Q 03/05

Crick's father and uncle ran a family business near Northampton making what?

A) Bottled beer

B) Boots and shoes

C) Red bricks

D) Woollen cloth

Answer · why

B) Boots and shoes

He grew up in Weston Favell, then a small village outside the town.

Q 04/05

Crick's grandfather Walter, an amateur naturalist, had two of what named after him?

A) Beetles

B) Ferns

C) Fossil fish

D) Gastropods

Answer · why

D) Gastropods

He also wrote a survey of the local foraminifera.

Q 05/05

In a garden shed, Crick's uncle Walter taught him chemistry, glass-blowing and how to make what?

A) Simple fireworks

B) Crystal radio sets

C) Model aeroplanes

D) Photographic prints

Answer · why

D) Photographic prints

By about twelve he had decided he preferred scientific answers to religious ones and stopped going to church.