Q 01/05

Which of Franklin's students took Photo 51, the famous X-ray picture of DNA?

A) Raymond Gosling

B) Alec Stokes

C) Kenneth Holmes

D) John Finch

Answer · why

A) Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling: as Franklin prepared to leave King's, he gave the picture to Wilkins, his new supervisor.

Q 02/05

An unpublished 1953 article on the DNA discovery, found in Franklin's papers, was written for which magazine?

A) Time

B) Life

C) Newsweek

D) The Economist

Answer · why

A) Time

Time: its London reporter wrote that the King's and Cambridge teams 'linked up, confirming each other's work from time to time'.

Q 03/05

In a 1940 letter, Franklin chided her father for treating science as something apart from what?

A) Real life

B) Politics

C) The arts

D) Family duty

Answer · why

A) Real life

Real life: in the same letter she told him that faith in this world was perfectly possible without faith in another.

Q 04/05

What was the profession of Franklin's wealthy father, Ellis?

A) Barrister

B) Physician

C) Newspaper editor

D) Merchant banker

Answer · why

D) Merchant banker

Merchant banker: some accounts say he opposed her going to Cambridge, but her biographers say he did not.

Q 05/05

Franklin's great-uncle Herbert Samuel was the first practising Jew to serve in what?

A) The House of Lords

B) The Royal Society

C) The Privy Council

D) The British Cabinet

Answer · why

D) The British Cabinet

He was Home Secretary in 1916; her aunt Mamie was a suffrage campaigner and London County Councillor.