Q 01/05

With which two scientists did Watson share the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

A) Crick and Chargaff

B) Crick and Wilkins

C) Crick and Avery

D) Crick and Gosling

Answer · why

B) Crick and Wilkins

Crick and Wilkins. Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work had been vital, had died in 1958 at the age of 37, and the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumou...

Q 02/05

In which American city was Watson born in 1928?

A) Boston

B) New York

C) Chicago

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

C) Chicago

Chicago. He went through its public schools on the South Side and stayed in the city for college, entering the University of Chicago on a scholarship ...

Q 03/05

As a boy Watson appeared on which popular radio show for bright children?

A) Whiz Kids

B) Quiz Kids

C) Brain Trust

D) Twenty Questions

Answer · why

B) Quiz Kids

He was already fascinated by birdwatching, a hobby shared with his father.

Q 04/05

Which field did the young Watson originally consider majoring in?

A) Astronomy

B) Entomology

C) Geology

D) Ornithology

Answer · why

D) Ornithology

Ornithology. Birdwatching with his father was his boyhood passion, and he entered college meaning to study birds before genetics won him over.

Q 05/05

Reading which 1944 book as a student turned Watson toward genetics?

A) The Origin of Species

B) Arrowsmith

C) Microbe Hunters

D) What Is Life?

Answer · why

D) What Is Life?

What Is Life? Its author, the physicist Erwin Schrodinger, argued that heredity must be written in a kind of molecular code, and Francis Crick credite...