Isaac Newton - Quiz
A) 1572 B) 1701 C) 1756 D) 1643
A) Physics B) Psychology C) Economics D) Biology
A) Law of Gravity B) Law of Relativity C) Law of Thermodynamics D) Law of Inertia
A) Geometry B) Algebra C) Calculus D) Statistics
A) Royal Society of Sciences B) Royal Society of Physics C) Royal Society of London D) Royal Society of Edinburgh
A) Banana B) Apple C) Orange D) Pear
A) On the Origin of Species B) Opticks C) Principia D) A Brief History of Time
A) Keeper B) Chancellor C) Treasurer D) Warden
A) 1727 B) 1698 C) 1753 D) 1785
A) Universal Gravitation B) Quantum Mechanics C) Special Relativity D) Electromagnetism
A) Black B) White C) Red D) Green
A) Master of the Mint B) High Councilor C) Chief Scientist D) Royal Tutor
A) Johnson B) Ayscough C) Smith D) Jones
A) De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium B) Elements C) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems D) Principia
A) 1687 B) 1699 C) 1715 D) 1704
A) The experimental method B) The observational method C) The theoretical method D) The scientific method
A) Carl Friedrich Gauss B) Albert Einstein C) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz D) Leonhard Euler
A) Refracting telescope B) Radio telescope C) Reflecting telescope D) Infrared telescope
A) Snell's law B) Goos–Hänchen effect C) Rayleigh scattering D) Fresnel diffraction
A) Tories B) Whigs C) Labour Party D) Conservatives
A) An irregular shape B) A prolate spheroid C) An oblate spheroid D) A perfect sphere
A) Euclidean geometry B) Fermat's Last Theorem C) Pythagorean theorem D) The binomial theorem
A) Simpson's rule B) Gaussian quadrature C) Monte Carlo method D) Newton–Cotes formulas
A) Turbulent flow B) Newtonian fluid C) Reynolds number D) Laminar flow
A) Member B) President C) Secretary D) Founder
A) 29 February 1642 B) 31 October 1642 C) 25 December 1642 D) 4 January 1643
A) Oxford, England B) London, England C) Cambridge, England D) Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire
A) Five years old B) One year old C) Three months old D) Ten years old
A) A schoolteacher B) A farmer C) A lawyer D) A mathematician
A) A desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully B) Interest in mathematics C) Curiosity about science D) Encouragement from his mother
A) Physics, chemistry, and biology B) Latin, Ancient Greek, and mathematics C) Medicine, philosophy, and theology D) Engineering, architecture, and design
A) King's College B) Trinity College C) St John's College D) Queens' College
A) Subsizar, performing valet duties B) Tutor C) Fellow of the college D) Librarian
A) William Ayscough B) Thomas Street C) Isaac Barrow D) John Wallis
A) 1687 B) 1699 C) 1672 D) 1665
A) Bernhardus Varenius B) John Dugdale C) Isaac Newton D) Shaw
A) 1699 B) 1664 C) 1671 D) 1687
A) Fluxions B) Differential Calculus C) Analytical Geometry D) Integral Calculus
A) Cubic plane curves classification B) Newton–Pepys problem C) Minimal resistance problem D) The brachistochrone curve problem
A) Geometric probability B) Calculus of variations C) Numerical integration D) Coordinate geometry
A) John Keill B) Simon Stevin C) Jacob Bernoulli D) Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
A) Exactly £20,000 B) Over £50,000 C) Under £10,000 D) Around £30,000
A) Queen Anne B) A servant C) His half-niece, Catherine Barton D) His niece from Cranbury Park
A) Jean-Baptiste Biot B) Edward Andrade C) Albert Einstein D) Peter Rowlands
A) Polar coordinates B) Bipolar coordinates C) Power series D) Dot notation
A) 1672 B) 1687 C) 1744 D) 1701
A) BBC World B) Time magazine C) University of Cambridge students D) Royal Society
A) Glass B) Silver C) Copper D) Speculum metal
A) Baruch Spinoza B) David Hume C) René Descartes D) Johann Jakob Brucker
A) Anglican B) Puritan C) Jewish D) Catholic
A) Cubic plane curves B) Linear transformations C) Geometric shapes D) Quadratic equations
A) St. Paul's Cathedral B) His home in London C) The Royal Society headquarters D) Westminster Abbey
A) Harvard University B) Oxford University C) Indiana University D) Cambridge University
A) Principia Mathematica B) Opticks C) Historia Coelestis Britannica D) Philosophiæ Naturalis
A) Francis Bacon B) Robert Hooke C) Edmond Halley D) Galileo Galilei
A) Albert Einstein B) Thomas Jefferson C) Joseph-Louis Lagrange D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) Albert Einstein B) Lev Landau C) Stephen Hawking D) James Jeans
A) 200 W cm⁻², half as bright as the Sun B) 50 W cm⁻², dimmer than the Sun C) 100 W cm⁻², equal to the Sun's intensity D) 460 W cm⁻², brighter than a thousand Suns
A) Centripetal force B) Kepler's laws C) Gravitational constant D) Inertia
A) Relativity B) Corpuscular alchemy C) Quantum mechanics D) Wave theory
A) The silver standard B) Its first gold standard C) A paper currency standard D) A bimetallic standard
A) 2007 B) 2020 C) 2015 D) 2012
A) 20 percent B) 10 percent C) 50 percent D) 30 percent
A) George Washington B) Thomas Jefferson C) John Adams D) Benjamin Franklin
A) 1816 B) 1727 C) 1666 D) 1752
A) William Shakespeare B) John Milton C) Alexander Pope D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A) Outcome A: six dice tossed with at least one six appearing B) Outcome C: eighteen dice tossed with at least three sixes appearing C) None of the above D) Outcome B: twelve dice tossed with at least two sixes appearing
A) 17th century B) 18th century C) 20th century D) 19th century
A) Power series B) Taylor series C) Logarithms D) Finite differences
A) Gaussian elimination B) Taylor series C) Fluxions D) Newton-Cotes formulas
A) Stephen Snobelen B) Thomas Burnet C) John Maynard Keynes D) David Brewster
A) Mathematical proofs B) Observable data C) Hypotheses D) Theoretical conjectures
A) Henry More B) Thomas Tenison C) David Brewster D) John Mill
A) Denis Diderot B) Heinrich Magnus C) Joseph Fourier D) Immanuel Kant
A) Philosophical inquiries B) Hypothetical conjectures C) Purely mathematical problems D) Empirically solvable ones
A) Mysticism B) Chemistry C) Chymistry D) Alchemy
A) 1699 B) 1671 C) 1685 D) 1666
A) 7.2% B) 10% C) 15% D) 3%
A) John Locke B) Thomas Hobbes C) Jean le Rond d'Alembert D) Voltaire
A) Samuel Clarke B) Henry More C) John Maynard Keynes D) Thomas Burnet
A) Edmond Halley B) David Brewster C) Robert Hooke D) John Flamsteed
A) John Locke B) Pierre-Simon Laplace C) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz D) Thomas Burnet
A) Walter Crosby Eells B) E.T. Bell C) Donald M. Davis D) Clifford A. Pickover
A) Guillaume de l'Hôpital B) Stephen Hawking C) James Jeans D) Peter Rowlands
A) Reflection is more important than refraction. B) Refraction occurs without reflection. C) They arise from interactions across the entire surface. D) They are independent phenomena.
A) Samuel Pepys B) Catherine Barton C) Voltaire D) John Conduitt
A) Sic transit gloria mundi B) E pur si muove C) Hypotheses non fingo D) Cogito, ergo sum
A) Albert Einstein B) Niels Bohr C) Erwin Schrödinger D) Richard Feynman
A) 40% B) 27.2% C) 15% D) 10%
A) Thomas Neale B) William Chaloner C) Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax D) Robert Lucas, 3rd Baron Lucas of Shenfield
A) Trinity College, Cambridge B) London C) Oxford University D) Cranbury Park, near Winchester
A) Stephen Hawking B) James Jeans C) Ludwig Boltzmann D) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
A) 2020 B) 2000 C) 2015 D) 1990
A) Gravitas (weight) B) Force C) Mass D) Acceleration
A) Chromatic aberration B) Interference C) Astigmatism D) Diffraction
A) He developed Gaussian elimination for it. B) He introduced fractional indices for it. C) He is regarded as the single most significant contributor. D) He formulated Bézout's theorem for it.
A) prismatogram B) color array C) chromatic display D) spectrum
A) 1699 B) 1704 C) 1687 D) 1675
A) To reject all previous scientific theories B) To guide research through successive approximations C) To establish unchangeable laws D) To avoid empirical testing
A) Arianism B) Trinitarianism C) Socinianism D) Deism |
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