Q 01/05

The famous DNA X-ray image Photo 51 was actually taken by which of Franklin's students?

A) Raymond Gosling

B) Aaron Klug

C) Kenneth Holmes

D) John Finch

Answer · why

A) Raymond Gosling

He had been Wilkins's graduate student until Randall reassigned him to Franklin.

Q 02/05

Who showed Photo 51 to James Watson without Franklin's permission?

A) Max Perutz

B) Lawrence Bragg

C) Maurice Wilkins

D) John Randall

Answer · why

C) Maurice Wilkins

Watson had just been chased out of Franklin's lab after suggesting she could not interpret her own data.

Q 03/05

Franklin was born in 1920 in which London district?

A) Hampstead

B) Notting Hill

C) Chelsea

D) Kensington

Answer · why

B) Notting Hill

The family was affluent, influential and Jewish; her great-uncle Herbert Samuel had been Home Secretary.

Q 04/05

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

A) Barrister

B) Physician

C) Diplomat

D) Merchant banker

Answer · why

D) Merchant banker

He also taught electricity, magnetism and the history of the Great War at the Working Men's College.

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.