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