Thinkers and enterpreneurs

Question 1

Adam Smith

Answer 1

Scottish economist, Enlightenment

Question 2

David Hume

Answer 2

Scottish philosopher with ideas about human nature, Enlightenment

Question 3

James Watt

Answer 3

Scot that worked on steam power, Industrial Revolution

Question 4

Richard Arkwright

Answer 4

Textile industry, ran his factories efficiently with steam power

Question 5

Sake Dean Mahomet

Answer 5

Opened the first Indian curry house in the UK in London and introduced shampooing

Question 6

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Answer 6

Engineer who built tunnels, bridges (Clifton Suspension Bridge), railway lines and ships

Question 7

Florence Nightingale

Answer 7

Nurse during the Crimean War, founder of modern nursing

Question 8

Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 8

Suffragette

Question 9

William Wilberforce

Answer 9

MP whp fought for end of slavery (1833 Emancipation Act)

Question 10

George and Robert Stephenson

Answer 10

Invented the railway engine

Question 11

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 11

Economist from inter-war period

Question 12

Ernest Rutherford

Answer 12

Split the atom (from New Zealand)

Question 13

Alexander Fleming

Answer 13

Scottish, invented penicillin, won Nobel prize in Medicine

Question 14

Howard Florey and Ernst Chain

Answer 14

Mass-production of penicillin