A) 1701 B) 1756 C) 1643 D) 1572
A) Biology B) Psychology C) Physics D) Economics
A) Law of Thermodynamics B) Law of Inertia C) Law of Relativity D) Law of Gravity
A) Geometry B) Calculus C) Statistics D) Algebra
A) Royal Society of London B) Royal Society of Physics C) Royal Society of Sciences D) Royal Society of Edinburgh
A) Banana B) Orange C) Apple D) Pear
A) On the Origin of Species B) A Brief History of Time C) Opticks D) Principia
A) Keeper B) Warden C) Treasurer D) Chancellor
A) 1785 B) 1698 C) 1753 D) 1727
A) Universal Gravitation B) Special Relativity C) Quantum Mechanics D) Electromagnetism
A) Red B) White C) Green D) Black
A) Chief Scientist B) Master of the Mint C) High Councilor D) Royal Tutor
A) Smith B) Johnson C) Ayscough D) Jones
A) Elements B) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems C) De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium D) Principia
A) 1699 B) 1715 C) 1704 D) 1687
A) The observational method B) The scientific method C) The theoretical method D) The experimental method
A) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz B) Carl Friedrich Gauss C) Leonhard Euler D) Albert Einstein
A) Reflecting telescope B) Refracting telescope C) Radio telescope D) Infrared telescope
A) Fresnel diffraction B) Snell's law C) Rayleigh scattering D) Goos–Hänchen effect
A) Labour Party B) Conservatives C) Whigs D) Tories
A) A perfect sphere B) An oblate spheroid C) A prolate spheroid D) An irregular shape
A) The binomial theorem B) Pythagorean theorem C) Euclidean geometry D) Fermat's Last Theorem
A) Newton–Cotes formulas B) Simpson's rule C) Gaussian quadrature D) Monte Carlo method
A) Newtonian fluid B) Turbulent flow C) Reynolds number D) Laminar flow
A) Secretary B) President C) Member D) Founder
A) 4 January 1643 B) 31 October 1642 C) 29 February 1642 D) 25 December 1642
A) London, England B) Cambridge, England C) Oxford, England D) Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire
A) Three months old B) Five years old C) One year old D) Ten years old
A) A farmer B) A lawyer C) A schoolteacher D) A mathematician
A) Curiosity about science B) A desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully C) Interest in mathematics D) Encouragement from his mother
A) Latin, Ancient Greek, and mathematics B) Medicine, philosophy, and theology C) Physics, chemistry, and biology D) Engineering, architecture, and design
A) Queens' College B) King's College C) St John's College D) Trinity College
A) Librarian B) Tutor C) Fellow of the college D) Subsizar, performing valet duties
A) Thomas Street B) Isaac Barrow C) John Wallis D) William Ayscough
A) 1672 B) 1699 C) 1665 D) 1687
A) Isaac Newton B) Bernhardus Varenius C) Shaw D) John Dugdale
A) 1664 B) 1671 C) 1699 D) 1687
A) Differential Calculus B) Fluxions C) Analytical Geometry D) Integral Calculus
A) The brachistochrone curve problem B) Newton–Pepys problem C) Cubic plane curves classification D) Minimal resistance problem
A) Geometric probability B) Calculus of variations C) Numerical integration D) Coordinate geometry
A) Simon Stevin B) Nicolas Fatio de Duillier C) Jacob Bernoulli D) John Keill
A) Over £50,000 B) Around £30,000 C) Exactly £20,000 D) Under £10,000
A) His half-niece, Catherine Barton B) His niece from Cranbury Park C) Queen Anne D) A servant
A) Edward Andrade B) Jean-Baptiste Biot C) Albert Einstein D) Peter Rowlands
A) Bipolar coordinates B) Dot notation C) Power series D) Polar coordinates
A) 1672 B) 1744 C) 1701 D) 1687
A) Royal Society B) University of Cambridge students C) Time magazine D) BBC World
A) Copper B) Silver C) Glass D) Speculum metal
A) Johann Jakob Brucker B) Baruch Spinoza C) René Descartes D) David Hume
A) Catholic B) Jewish C) Puritan D) Anglican
A) Cubic plane curves B) Geometric shapes C) Quadratic equations D) Linear transformations
A) St. Paul's Cathedral B) Westminster Abbey C) His home in London D) The Royal Society headquarters
A) Cambridge University B) Harvard University C) Indiana University D) Oxford University
A) Opticks B) Historia Coelestis Britannica C) Philosophiæ Naturalis D) Principia Mathematica
A) Francis Bacon B) Robert Hooke C) Galileo Galilei D) Edmond Halley
A) Thomas Jefferson B) Albert Einstein C) Joseph-Louis Lagrange D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) Albert Einstein B) James Jeans C) Lev Landau D) Stephen Hawking
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) Inertia B) Gravitational constant C) Kepler's laws D) Centripetal force
A) Quantum mechanics B) Wave theory C) Corpuscular alchemy D) Relativity
A) The silver standard B) A paper currency standard C) A bimetallic standard D) Its first gold standard
A) 2015 B) 2012 C) 2007 D) 2020
A) 20 percent B) 30 percent C) 10 percent D) 50 percent
A) John Adams B) George Washington C) Benjamin Franklin D) Thomas Jefferson
A) 1666 B) 1752 C) 1727 D) 1816
A) Alexander Pope B) William Shakespeare C) John Milton D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A) Outcome B: twelve dice tossed with at least two sixes appearing B) None of the above C) Outcome C: eighteen dice tossed with at least three sixes appearing D) Outcome A: six dice tossed with at least one six appearing
A) 17th century B) 18th century C) 20th century D) 19th century
A) Finite differences B) Taylor series C) Power series D) Logarithms
A) Fluxions B) Gaussian elimination C) Taylor series D) Newton-Cotes formulas
A) Stephen Snobelen B) John Maynard Keynes C) David Brewster D) Thomas Burnet
A) Observable data B) Hypotheses C) Mathematical proofs D) Theoretical conjectures
A) Henry More B) John Mill C) Thomas Tenison D) David Brewster
A) Immanuel Kant B) Joseph Fourier C) Heinrich Magnus D) Denis Diderot
A) Hypothetical conjectures B) Empirically solvable ones C) Purely mathematical problems D) Philosophical inquiries
A) Chemistry B) Mysticism C) Chymistry D) Alchemy
A) 1671 B) 1666 C) 1685 D) 1699
A) 7.2% B) 10% C) 3% D) 15%
A) Jean le Rond d'Alembert B) John Locke C) Voltaire D) Thomas Hobbes
A) Samuel Clarke B) John Maynard Keynes C) Thomas Burnet D) Henry More
A) David Brewster B) Edmond Halley C) Robert Hooke D) John Flamsteed
A) Pierre-Simon Laplace B) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz C) John Locke D) Thomas Burnet
A) Clifford A. Pickover B) E.T. Bell C) Walter Crosby Eells D) Donald M. Davis
A) Stephen Hawking B) James Jeans C) Peter Rowlands D) Guillaume de l'Hôpital
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) John Conduitt B) Samuel Pepys C) Catherine Barton D) Voltaire
A) Hypotheses non fingo B) Cogito, ergo sum C) Sic transit gloria mundi D) E pur si muove
A) Erwin Schrödinger B) Albert Einstein C) Niels Bohr D) Richard Feynman
A) 40% B) 10% C) 27.2% D) 15%
A) Thomas Neale B) William Chaloner C) Robert Lucas, 3rd Baron Lucas of Shenfield D) Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
A) Cranbury Park, near Winchester B) Trinity College, Cambridge C) Oxford University D) London
A) Ludwig Boltzmann B) James Jeans C) Stephen Hawking D) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
A) 2000 B) 1990 C) 2015 D) 2020
A) Acceleration B) Gravitas (weight) C) Mass D) Force
A) Chromatic aberration B) Diffraction C) Interference D) Astigmatism
A) He introduced fractional indices for it. B) He developed Gaussian elimination for it. C) He is regarded as the single most significant contributor. D) He formulated Bézout's theorem for it.
A) chromatic display B) spectrum C) color array D) prismatogram
A) 1704 B) 1699 C) 1675 D) 1687
A) To reject all previous scientific theories B) To establish unchangeable laws C) To avoid empirical testing D) To guide research through successive approximations
A) Deism B) Socinianism C) Arianism D) Trinitarianism |