André-Marie Ampère - Quiz
André Marie Ampère
  • 1. When was André-Marie Ampère born?
A) 20 January 1775
B) 10 June 1836
C) 15 July 1775
D) 20 January 1750
  • 2. When did André-Marie Ampère die?
A) 10 June 1836
B) 20 January 1775
C) 10 June 1800
D) 15 July 1836
  • 3. What nationality was André-Marie Ampère?
A) German
B) Italian
C) French
D) British
  • 4. What were Ampère's primary scientific fields?
A) Physics and mathematics
B) Medicine and psychology
C) Chemistry and geology
D) Biology and astronomy
  • 5. What did Ampère refer to the science of classical electromagnetism as?
A) Thermodynamics
B) Magnetostatics
C) Kinematics
D) Electrodynamics
  • 6. In what fields outside of physics and mathematics did Ampère make important contributions?
A) Chemistry and philosophy
B) Literature and history
C) Biology and astronomy
D) Medicine and economics
  • 7. Which application was invented by Ampère?
A) The incandescent light bulb
B) The voltaic pile
C) The electric motor
D) The electrical telegraph
  • 8. Who coined the term 'solenoid'?
A) Leonhard Euler
B) André-Marie Ampère
C) Denis Diderot
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 9. What educational background did Ampère have in terms of formal schooling?
A) He graduated from the École polytechnique
B) He was educated exclusively by private tutors in mathematics
C) He was an autodidact
D) He attended a Jesuit academy
  • 10. Of which prestigious academy was Ampère a member?
A) Prussian Academy of Sciences
B) Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
C) Royal Society
D) French Academy of Sciences
  • 11. At which institutions was Ampère a professor?
A) École polytechnique and the Collège de France
B) University of Paris and Sorbonne
C) École polytechnique and University of Lyon
D) École normale supérieure and Collège de France
  • 12. What SI unit is named after André-Marie Ampère?
A) The volt
B) The coulomb
C) The ampere
D) The ohm
  • 13. Where is Ampère's name inscribed along with 71 others?
A) The Pantheon
B) The Louvre
C) The Arc de Triomphe
D) The Eiffel Tower
  • 14. What English term is derived from Ampère's 'cinématique'?
A) Kinematic
B) Kinetic
C) Cinema
D) Kinesis
  • 15. From which language is the Greek root of 'cinématique' derived?
A) Greek
B) Latin
C) French
D) German
  • 16. What is the Greek word meaning 'movement, motion' that inspired Ampère's term?
A) solen
B) electrum
C) κίνημα
D) κινεῖν
  • 17. What does the Greek word 'kinein' mean?
A) To current
B) To move
C) To measure
D) To spark
  • 18. Who was André-Marie Ampère's father?
A) Leonhard Euler
B) Denis Diderot
C) Jean-Jacques Ampère
D) Georges-Louis Leclerc
  • 19. What was the profession of Jean-Jacques Ampère?
A) A university professor
B) A government official
C) A famous mathematician
D) A prosperous businessman and merchant
  • 20. Who was André-Marie Ampère's mother?
A) Émilie du Châtelet
B) Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey Ampère
C) Marie-Thérèse Rousseau
D) Sophie Germain
  • 21. During what historical period was Ampère born?
A) The French Enlightenment
B) The French Revolution
C) The Renaissance
D) The Napoleonic Wars
  • 22. Where did Ampère spend his childhood and adolescence?
A) Versailles
B) Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon
C) Marseille
D) Paris
  • 23. What is housed today in the family property where Ampère spent his childhood?
A) A public library
B) The Ampère Museum
C) A town hall
D) A university research center
  • 24. Whose philosophy was Jean-Jacques Ampère an admirer of?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Voltaire
C) Montesquieu
D) René Descartes
  • 25. Which treatise by Rousseau formed the basis of Ampère's education?
A) Confessions
B) Discourse on Inequality
C) The Social Contract
D) Émile
  • 26. According to Rousseau's educational theories, what should young boys avoid?
A) Formal schooling
B) Reading books
C) Studying foreign languages
D) Learning mathematics
  • 27. According to Rousseau, how should young boys be educated?
A) By learning solely from professional tutors
B) Through strict religious instruction
C) Through a direct education from nature
D) By attending public boarding schools
  • 28. How did Ampère's father actualize Rousseau's educational ideal?
A) By enrolling him in a nature-focused academy
B) By hiring private math and science tutors
C) By allowing his son to educate himself within his well-stocked library
D) By sending him to live in the woods
  • 29. Which French Enlightenment masterpiece was part of Ampère's self-education in his father's library?
A) The Spirit of the Laws
B) Candide
C) Critique of Pure Reason
D) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
  • 30. Who wrote 'Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière'?
A) Jean le Rond d'Alembert
B) Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
C) Denis Diderot
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 31. In what year was Buffon's 'Histoire naturelle' begun?
A) 1749
B) 1735
C) 1751
D) 1775
  • 32. Who were the editors of the Encyclopédie found in Ampère's father's library?
A) Voltaire and Rousseau
B) Bernoulli and Ampère
C) Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert
D) Buffon and Euler
  • 33. During which years were the volumes of the Encyclopédie added?
A) Between 1775 and 1836
B) Between 1751 and 1772
C) Between 1740 and 1760
D) Between 1720 and 1745
  • 34. What language lessons did the young Ampère eventually resume?
A) Latin lessons
B) German lessons
C) Greek lessons
D) Italian lessons
  • 35. Resuming his Latin lessons enabled Ampère to master the works of which scientists and mathematicians?
A) Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli
B) Voltaire and Montesquieu
C) Buffon and Diderot
D) Rousseau and d'Alembert
  • 36. At what age did Ampère begin teaching himself advanced mathematics?
A) 15
B) 10
C) 12
D) 18
  • 37. Which of the following subjects was NOT mentioned as part of Ampère's wide reading as a polymath?
A) Poetry
B) Philosophy
C) History
D) Architecture
  • 38. What was the religious background of Ampère's mother?
A) Atheist
B) Devout Catholic
C) Deist
D) Devout Protestant
  • 39. What position did Ampère's father take in public service for the new revolutionary government?
A) Mayor of Lyon
B) Local judge
C) Military general
D) Tax collector
  • 40. Which political faction seized control of the Revolutionary government in 1792?
A) The Girondins
B) The Bonapartists
C) The Royalists
D) The Jacobins
  • 41. In what year did Ampère meet Julie Carron?
A) 1796
B) 1799
C) 1792
D) 1789
  • 42. In what year did Ampère marry Julie Carron?
A) 1796
B) 1799
C) 1803
D) 1802
  • 43. What was Jean-Jacques Ampère famous for later in life?
A) Chemical discoveries
B) Political leadership
C) Language scholarship
D) Military strategy
  • 44. Which regime's technocratic structures provided new opportunities for Ampère?
A) The Bourbon Restoration
B) The Ancien Régime
C) The Napoleonic regime
D) The Second Republic
  • 45. What was the title of Ampère's 1802 treatise on mathematical probability?
A) Essai sur la révolution française
B) Traité de physique et de chimie
C) Philosophie des sciences naturelles
D) Considérations sur la théorie mathématique du jeu
  • 46. In which month and year did Ampère's wife pass away?
A) July 1803
B) July 1804
C) June 1803
D) August 1809
  • 47. Where did Ampère move after the death of his wife?
A) Paris
B) Rome
C) Marseille
D) Lyon
  • 48. What post did Ampère begin at the École Polytechnique in 1804?
A) A professor of mathematics
B) An administrator
C) A tutoring post
D) A professor of physics
  • 49. In what year was Ampère appointed a professor of mathematics at the École Polytechnique?
A) 1804
B) 1828
C) 1809
D) 1814
  • 50. Until what year did Ampère hold positions at the École Polytechnique?
A) 1828
B) 1819
C) 1824
D) 1809
  • 51. What course did Ampère offer at the University of Paris in 1820?
A) Mathematics
B) Philosophy
C) Astronomy
D) Experimental physics
  • 52. In what year was Ampère invited to join the class of mathematicians in the new Institut Impérial?
A) 1809
B) 1819
C) 1824
D) 1814
  • 53. What was the umbrella under which the reformed state Academy of Sciences sat?
A) University of Paris
B) Collège de France
C) École Polytechnique
D) Institut Impérial
  • 54. At what age did Ampère claim he found three culminating points in his life?
A) Twenty-one years
B) Eighteen years
C) Twenty years
D) Sixteen years
  • 55. Who was the young student Ampère took into his family for a time?
A) Antoine Leonard Thomas
B) Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
C) Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
D) Frédéric Ozanam
  • 56. What are the birth and death years of Frédéric Ozanam as given in the text?
A) 1803–1850
B) 1814–1828
C) 1813–1853
D) 1775–1836
  • 57. Who beatified Frédéric Ozanam in 1998?
A) Pope Pius IX
B) Pope John Paul II
C) Pope Leo XIII
D) Pope Benedict XVI
  • 58. In what year was Frédéric Ozanam beatified?
A) 1853
B) 1824
C) 1998
D) 1803
  • 59. Who was another leader of the neo-Catholic movement mentioned alongside Chateaubriand?
A) Descartes
B) Antoine Leonard Thomas
C) Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
D) André-Marie Ampère
  • 60. When did François Arago show the discovery of Hans Christian Ørsted to the French Academy of Sciences?
A) September 1826
B) August 1820
C) October 1815
D) September 1820
  • 61. Who showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the discovery that a magnetic needle is deflected by an electric current?
A) James Clerk Maxwell
B) Hans Christian Ørsted
C) François Arago
D) Charles Augustin de Coulomb
  • 62. Whose surprising discovery involving a magnetic needle and an electric current was shown to the French Academy of Sciences?
A) Hans Christian Ørsted
B) André-Marie Ampère
C) Wander Johannes de Haas
D) Gaspard Monge
  • 63. What did Ampère show that two parallel wires carrying electric currents do?
A) Attract or repel each other
B) Always attract each other
C) Always repel each other
D) Neutralize each other
  • 64. What determines whether two parallel wires carrying electric currents attract or repel?
A) The material of the wires
B) Whether currents flow in the same or opposite directions
C) The thickness of the wires
D) The temperature of the wires
  • 65. What did Ampère theorize as the component element of both electricity and magnetism?
A) Electrodynamic molecule
B) Electron
C) Neutron
D) Proton
  • 66. The electrodynamic molecule is considered the forerunner of the idea of which modern concept?
A) The photon
B) The electron
C) The atom
D) The quark
  • 67. Who, along with Wander Johannes de Haas, proved the correctness of Ampère's hypothesis in 1915?
A) Albert Einstein
B) François Arago
C) James Clerk Maxwell
D) Gaspard Monge
  • 68. In what year was the Einstein–de Haas effect used to prove Ampère's hypothesis?
A) 1827
B) 1820
C) 1915
D) 1826
  • 69. In what year did Ampère publish his magnum opus on electrodynamic phenomena?
A) 1826
B) 1915
C) 1820
D) 1828
  • 70. In what year did Ampère contribute to the treatment of nonlinear partial differential equations in geometry?
A) 1820
B) 1828
C) 1827
D) 1826
  • 71. In what year was Ampère elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society?
A) 1820
B) 1828
C) 1827
D) 1826
  • 72. Who named Ampère 'the Newton of electricity' in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism?
A) James Clerk Maxwell
B) Charles Augustin de Coulomb
C) Albert Einstein
D) François Arago
  • 73. In what year was the ampere established as a standard unit of electrical measurement?
A) 1814
B) 1881
C) 1834
D) 1825
  • 74. Which country is Alessandro Volta associated with in the text?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Scotland
  • 75. Which country is Georg Ohm associated with in the text?
A) England
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) France
  • 76. Which country is James Watt associated with in the text?
A) Italy
B) Scotland
C) Germany
D) England
  • 77. Which country is Michael Faraday associated with in the text?
A) England
B) France
C) Scotland
D) Italy
  • 78. What type of electric vehicle in Norway is named after Ampère?
A) Electric ferry
B) Electric tram
C) Electric train
D) Electric bus
  • 79. Celestial bodies named after Ampère include an asteroid and a...
A) Mountain on the moon
B) Moon of Jupiter
C) Star in Orion
D) Crater on Mars
  • 80. What kind of microarchitecture is named after Ampère according to the legacy section?
A) Quantum computing core
B) Motherboard chipset design
C) Central processing unit architecture
D) Graphics processing unit microarchitecture
  • 81. In what year was 'Recueil d'observations électro-dynamiques' published?
A) 1802
B) 1824
C) 1822
D) 1826
  • 82. Who co-authored the 1822 work 'Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l'électricité et le magnétisme' with Ampère?
A) Chaib
B) Babinet
C) Godfrey
D) Magie
  • 83. What is the title of Ampère's work published in 1824?
A) Considérations sur la théorie mathématique du jeu
B) Description d'un appareil électro-dynamique
C) Essai sur la philosophie des sciences
D) Théorie des phénomènes électro-dynamiques
  • 84. In which year was the second edition of 'Théorie mathématique des phénomènes électro-dynamiques' published?
A) 1834
B) 1826
C) 1843
D) 1883
  • 85. Who translated Ampère's masterpiece published by Apeiron in Montreal in 2015?
A) Michael D. Godfrey
B) J. P. M. C Chaib
C) Jacques Babinet
D) W. M. Magie
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