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John Venn
  • 1. Who did John Venn marry in 1868?
A) Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone
B) Mary Elizabeth Venn
C) Florence Ada Keynes
D) Maud Darwin
  • 2. What position did John Venn's son, John Archibald Venn, eventually hold?
A) President of the Antiquarian Society
B) Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
C) Chair of the Horticultural Society
D) Mayor of Cambridge
  • 3. John Venn was elected vice-chairman of which organization in 1884?
A) Cambridge Provident Medical Institution
B) Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society
C) Cambridge Antiquarian Society
D) Cambridge Charitable Organisations Society
  • 4. Which society did John Venn serve as president of in 1908–1909?
A) Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society
B) Cambridge Charitable Organisations Society
C) Cambridge University Press
D) Cambridge Antiquarian Society
  • 5. What political cause did John Venn support?
A) Expansion of the railway
B) Compulsory education
C) Abolition of the monarchy
D) Votes for women
  • 6. In 1908, John and Susanna Venn encouraged women to run for which position?
A) University Board of Governors
B) Cambridge Town Council
C) Parliament
D) Antiquarian Society President
  • 7. Which vegetable did John Venn win a prize for in 1885?
A) White carrots
B) Pumpkins
C) Potatoes
D) Onions
  • 8. Where did John Venn live from the early 1900s until his death?
A) Clarence Street
B) Venn Street
C) Clay Farm Centre
D) Vicarsbrook, Chaucer Road
  • 9. When did John Venn pass away?
A) March 1919
B) July 1885
C) April 1923
D) October 1908
  • 10. What was used to decorate Drypool Bridge in Hull in 2017 to honor Venn?
A) Intersecting circles
B) Venn diagrams on plaques
C) Rose carvings
D) Stained glass windows
  • 11. Where is the Venn Building located?
A) Clapham, London
B) Gonville and Caius College
C) Cambridge University
D) University of Hull
  • 12. Which college features a stained glass window commemorating Venn?
A) St. John's College
B) Kings College
C) Trinity College
D) Gonville and Caius College
  • 13. Where is a street sign featuring a Venn diagram located?
A) Chaucer Road in Cambridge
B) Clarence Street in Hull
C) Trumpington Road in London
D) Venn Street in Clapham
  • 14. What is the name of the room at Clay Farm Centre named after Venn?
A) Venn Study
B) Venn Touchdown
C) Venn Commons
D) Venn Hall
  • 15. What is the title of the biographical register compiled by Venn?
A) The Cambridge Antiquarian Record
B) Alumni Cantabrigienses
C) Venn's Civic Memoirs
D) The History of Cambridge Society
  • 16. How many volumes were in the Alumni Cantabrigienses?
A) Five
B) Eight
C) Ten
D) Twelve
  • 17. Who co-edited the Alumni Cantabrigienses with John Venn?
A) Maud Darwin
B) His son John Archibald Venn
C) His wife Susanna
D) Florence Ada Keynes
  • 18. In what year did John Venn publish The Logic of Chance?
A) 1881
B) 1834
C) 1866
D) 1903
  • 19. Which theory of probability did The Logic of Chance espouse?
A) Subjective theory
B) Frequency theory
C) Bayesian theory
D) Axiomatic theory
  • 20. Whose theories did Venn further develop in his 1881 work Symbolic Logic?
A) Charles Babbage
B) George Boole
C) Isaac Newton
D) Alan Turing
  • 21. What was the occupation of John Venn's father, Henry?
A) Cricket coach
B) Mathematician
C) Physician
D) Anglican rector
  • 22. What was John Venn's rank in the Mathematical Tripos in 1857?
A) Second Wrangler
B) Sixth Wrangler
C) Tenth Wrangler
D) Senior Wrangler
  • 23. In what year was John Venn ordained as an Anglican priest?
A) 1903
B) 1883
C) 1862
D) 1859
  • 24. What device did John Venn invent with his son?
A) A steam-powered loom
B) A cricket bowling machine
C) A printing press
D) A mechanical calculator
  • 25. Which famous batsman was bowled by Venn's machine in 1909?
A) Jack Hobbs
B) Don Bradman
C) W.G. Grace
D) Victor Trumper
  • 26. When was John Venn elected President of his college?
A) 1923
B) 1903
C) 1883
D) 1866
  • 27. Where is John Venn buried?
A) Westminster Abbey
B) Trumpington churchyard extension
C) Cambridge Cathedral
D) Highgate Cemetery
  • 28. In what year was John Venn elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
A) 1903
B) 1883
C) 1866
D) 1881
  • 29. What degree was John Venn awarded by Cambridge in 1884?
A) Ph.D.
B) B.D.
C) Sc.D.
D) M.A.
  • 30. John Venn's grandfather was pastor to which famous abolitionist?
A) Henry Venn
B) William Wilberforce
C) Victor Trumper
D) George Boole
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