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