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John Dalton - Quiz
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  • 1. What year was John Dalton born?
A) 1766
B) 1856
C) 1699
D) 1789
  • 2. In which country was John Dalton born?
A) France
B) Germany
C) United States
D) England
  • 3. Which branch of science did John Dalton significantly contribute to?
A) Botany
B) Chemistry
C) Geology
D) Astronomy
  • 4. What is the name of John Dalton's book where he first proposed his atomic theory?
A) The Origin of Species
B) A New System of Chemical Philosophy
C) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
D) Principia Mathematica
  • 5. What was the occupation of John Dalton's father?
A) Military Officer
B) Weaver
C) Doctor
D) Politician
  • 6. Which law of chemistry is often attributed to John Dalton?
A) Avogadro's Law
B) Boyle's Law
C) Law of Multiple Proportions
D) Charles's Law
  • 7. Which city did John Dalton spend most of his life working in?
A) Glasgow
B) Manchester
C) London
D) Birmingham
  • 8. Which fellow scientist of John Dalton independently discovered the Law of Multiple Proportions?
A) Lavoisier
B) Boyle
C) Faraday
D) Berzelius
  • 9. What job did John Dalton hold for most of his life?
A) Sailor
B) Farmer
C) Blacksmith
D) Teacher
  • 10. Which university awarded John Dalton an honorary doctorate in 1832?
A) Heidelberg University
B) Harvard University
C) Sorbonne University
D) University of Oxford
  • 11. John Dalton's atomic theory proposed that all matter is made up of tiny indivisible particles called what?
A) Atoms
B) Electrons
C) Protons
D) Molecules
  • 12. What nationality was John Dalton?
A) English
B) German
C) French
D) American
  • 13. Which field did John Dalton NOT significantly contribute to?
A) Chemistry
B) Physics
C) Meteorology
D) Biology
  • 14. What is the official SI unit of atomic mass named after John Dalton called?
A) Dalton, symbol Da
B) Pascal, symbol Pa
C) Newton, symbol N
D) Joule, symbol J
  • 15. What did Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy present?
A) The discovery of the electron.
B) The periodic table of elements.
C) A coherent atomic model and relative atomic weights.
D) The theory of relativity.
  • 16. What condition did John Dalton describe scientifically, which is still called 'Daltonism'?
A) Dyslexia
B) Aphasia
C) Color blindness
D) Deafness
  • 17. In what year was John Dalton elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
A) 1815
B) 1808
C) 1844
D) 1822
  • 18. What medal did John Dalton receive from the Royal Society in 1826?
A) Royal Medal
B) Fields Medal
C) Nobel Prize
D) Copley Medal
  • 19. Who provided John Dalton with his early education?
A) Private tutors in London
B) Local university professors
C) Self-taught through books
D) His father and Quaker John Fletcher.
  • 20. At what age did John Dalton begin earning his living?
A) Fifteen
B) Ten
C) Twenty
D) Eight
  • 21. What was the amount of John Dalton's pension raised to in 1836?
A) £250
B) £350
C) £400
D) £300
  • 22. What theory of atmospheric circulation did John Dalton rediscover?
A) Dalton's theory
B) Otley's theory
C) Hadley's theory (now known as the Hadley cell)
D) Robinson's theory
  • 23. In Dalton's first table of relative atomic weights, how many elements were listed?
A) Four
B) Six
C) Ten
D) Eight
  • 24. Who published a map in 1818 using information on mountain heights?
A) Jonathan Otley
B) The Ordnance Survey
C) Elihu Robinson
D) John Dalton
  • 25. In what year was John Dalton's first publication released?
A) 1818
B) 1787
C) 1793
D) 1801
  • 26. Which Irish chemist claimed that John Dalton had plagiarized his ideas?
A) Bryan Higgins
B) Henry Cavendish
C) Thomas Thomson
D) William Higgins
  • 27. What method did John Dalton use to estimate the height of mountains?
A) Weather balloons
B) Maps
C) Barometer
D) Aeroplanes
  • 28. How many years did John Dalton continue to make observations in his meteorological diary?
A) 45
B) 60
C) 57
D) 50
  • 29. At what age did John Dalton begin his meteorological diary?
A) 25
B) 18
C) 30
D) 21
  • 30. What is the ISBN number for 'A new system of chemical philosophy'?
A) ISBN 1893
B) No ISBN available
C) 978-1-153-05671-7
D) ISBN 1808
  • 31. What type of color blindness did John Dalton have?
A) Achromatopsia
B) Deuteranopia
C) Tritanopia
D) Protanopia
  • 32. In what year did John Dalton become a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society?
A) 1810
B) 1789
C) 1794
D) 1801
  • 33. In which year was John Dalton's 'Meteorological Observations and Essays' published?
A) 1794
B) 1893
C) 1808
D) 1834
  • 34. Who was the Irish chemist that influenced Dalton's ideas about atoms?
A) Bryan Higgins
B) Antoine Lavoisier
C) William Higgins
D) Thomas Thomson
  • 35. What was the amount of the pension conferred on John Dalton by Earl Grey's government in 1833?
A) £150
B) £200
C) £100
D) £250
  • 36. How many Memoirs did John Dalton contribute to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester?
A) 75
B) 117
C) 150
D) 100
  • 37. In which city was 'Foundations of the Molecular Theory' published?
A) Manchester
B) Edinburgh
C) New York
D) London
  • 38. Who was the wealthy local Quaker that employed John Dalton from a young age?
A) Joseph Priestley
B) John Fletcher
C) Robert Boyle
D) Elihu Robinson
  • 39. How does deuteranopia affect color perception?
A) Colors are inverted
B) Every colour is mapped to blue, yellow or gray
C) Red and green are perceived as black and white
D) All colors appear more vibrant
  • 40. What did John Dalton remark about the expansion of elastic fluids under pressure?
A) "Expansion is greater in liquids than in gases"
B) "Elastic fluids do not expand with heat"
C) "Only gases expand with heat, liquids do not"
D) "All elastic fluids under the same pressure expand equally by heat"
  • 41. Which society elected John Dalton as one of its eight foreign associates in 1830?
A) French Académie des Sciences
B) Royal Society
C) American Academy of Arts and Sciences
D) Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester
  • 42. Where can images from 'A New System of Chemical Philosophy' be downloaded?
A) Science History Institute Digital Collections
B) Edinburgh: William F. Clay
C) John Rylands Library, Manchester
D) Manchester: Harrison and Crosfield
  • 43. When did the Ordnance Survey publish maps for the Lake District?
A) 1818
B) 1801
C) 1860s
D) 1793
  • 44. Which chemist described Dalton as 'a very coarse experimenter'?
A) Antoine Lavoisier
B) Joseph Priestley
C) Sir Humphry Davy
D) Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  • 45. Which element did Dalton use as the reference point with a weight of 1 in his table of relative atomic weights?
A) Oxygen
B) Carbon
C) Nitrogen
D) Hydrogen
  • 46. What did Dalton hypothesize about the structure of compounds?
A) They have no fixed ratio.
B) They can be represented in whole number ratios.
C) They are always binary compounds.
D) They are always ternary compounds.
  • 47. In which year did Dalton present his series of lectures on the constitution of mixed gases?
A) 1803
B) 1800
C) 1805
D) 1799
  • 48. What did Dalton assume about the formula for water based on his rule?
A) H2O
B) H3O
C) HO2
D) He assumed it was OH
  • 49. How many times has the Dalton Medal been awarded by the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society?
A) Once every year
B) Twelve times
C) Twenty-five times
D) Fifty times
  • 50. What is 'Daltonism' a synonym for?
A) Aphasia
B) Myopia
C) Dyslexia
D) Colour-blindness
  • 51. Why did John Dalton decline the offer to become a fellow of the Royal Society in 1810?
A) Possibly for financial reasons
B) He had already joined another society.
C) He disagreed with the society's principles.
D) He was not interested in joining.
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