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