A) 1572 B) 1701 C) 1643 D) 1756
A) Physics B) Biology C) Psychology D) Economics
A) Law of Gravity B) Law of Relativity C) Law of Thermodynamics D) Law of Inertia
A) Calculus B) Statistics C) Algebra D) Geometry
A) Royal Society of London B) Royal Society of Physics C) Royal Society of Edinburgh D) Royal Society of Sciences
A) Orange B) Banana C) Pear D) Apple
A) Opticks B) Principia C) On the Origin of Species D) A Brief History of Time
A) Warden B) Chancellor C) Treasurer D) Keeper
A) 1753 B) 1698 C) 1785 D) 1727
A) Quantum Mechanics B) Special Relativity C) Universal Gravitation D) Electromagnetism
A) Green B) Black C) White D) Red
A) Royal Tutor B) Chief Scientist C) Master of the Mint D) High Councilor
A) Smith B) Johnson C) Jones D) Ayscough
A) De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium B) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems C) Principia D) Elements
A) 1687 B) 1704 C) 1715 D) 1699
A) The observational method B) The experimental method C) The scientific method D) The theoretical method
A) Carl Friedrich Gauss B) Leonhard Euler C) Albert Einstein D) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A) Refracting telescope B) Radio telescope C) Infrared telescope D) Reflecting telescope
A) Rayleigh scattering B) Fresnel diffraction C) Snell's law D) Goos–Hänchen effect
A) Tories B) Labour Party C) Whigs D) Conservatives
A) A perfect sphere B) An irregular shape C) An oblate spheroid D) A prolate spheroid
A) Fermat's Last Theorem B) The binomial theorem C) Euclidean geometry D) Pythagorean theorem
A) Monte Carlo method B) Simpson's rule C) Newton–Cotes formulas D) Gaussian quadrature
A) Reynolds number B) Turbulent flow C) Laminar flow D) Newtonian fluid
A) Secretary B) Member C) Founder D) President
A) 31 October 1642 B) 4 January 1643 C) 29 February 1642 D) 25 December 1642
A) Cambridge, England B) Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire C) London, England D) Oxford, England
A) Ten years old B) Three months old C) Five years old D) One year old
A) A mathematician B) A lawyer C) A schoolteacher D) A farmer
A) Curiosity about science B) Encouragement from his mother C) Interest in mathematics D) A desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully
A) Physics, chemistry, and biology B) Engineering, architecture, and design C) Latin, Ancient Greek, and mathematics D) Medicine, philosophy, and theology
A) Trinity College B) King's College C) St John's College D) Queens' College
A) Subsizar, performing valet duties B) Fellow of the college C) Librarian D) Tutor
A) John Wallis B) Isaac Barrow C) Thomas Street D) William Ayscough
A) 1672 B) 1699 C) 1665 D) 1687
A) John Dugdale B) Bernhardus Varenius C) Shaw D) Isaac Newton
A) 1699 B) 1687 C) 1671 D) 1664
A) Integral Calculus B) Fluxions C) Differential Calculus D) Analytical Geometry
A) Minimal resistance problem B) Newton–Pepys problem C) Cubic plane curves classification D) The brachistochrone curve problem
A) Numerical integration B) Geometric probability C) Calculus of variations D) Coordinate geometry
A) Jacob Bernoulli B) Nicolas Fatio de Duillier C) John Keill D) Simon Stevin
A) Around £30,000 B) Under £10,000 C) Over £50,000 D) Exactly £20,000
A) Queen Anne B) A servant C) His niece from Cranbury Park D) His half-niece, Catherine Barton
A) Edward Andrade B) Peter Rowlands C) Albert Einstein D) Jean-Baptiste Biot
A) Power series B) Polar coordinates C) Dot notation D) Bipolar coordinates
A) 1687 B) 1672 C) 1701 D) 1744
A) Time magazine B) BBC World C) University of Cambridge students D) Royal Society
A) Copper B) Glass C) Speculum metal D) Silver
A) Johann Jakob Brucker B) René Descartes C) Baruch Spinoza D) David Hume
A) Puritan B) Jewish C) Catholic D) Anglican
A) Quadratic equations B) Geometric shapes C) Linear transformations D) Cubic plane curves
A) The Royal Society headquarters B) His home in London C) Westminster Abbey D) St. Paul's Cathedral
A) Oxford University B) Cambridge University C) Harvard University D) Indiana University
A) Philosophiæ Naturalis B) Principia Mathematica C) Historia Coelestis Britannica D) Opticks
A) Edmond Halley B) Robert Hooke C) Francis Bacon D) Galileo Galilei
A) Thomas Jefferson B) Joseph-Louis Lagrange C) James Clerk Maxwell D) Albert Einstein
A) Stephen Hawking B) Lev Landau C) Albert Einstein D) James Jeans
A) 200 W cm⁻², half as bright as the Sun B) 100 W cm⁻², equal to the Sun's intensity C) 50 W cm⁻², dimmer than the Sun D) 460 W cm⁻², brighter than a thousand Suns
A) Inertia B) Kepler's laws C) Gravitational constant D) Centripetal force
A) Relativity B) Quantum mechanics C) Wave theory D) Corpuscular alchemy
A) Its first gold standard B) The silver standard C) A bimetallic standard D) A paper currency standard
A) 2012 B) 2015 C) 2007 D) 2020
A) 30 percent B) 20 percent C) 50 percent D) 10 percent
A) John Adams B) George Washington C) Benjamin Franklin D) Thomas Jefferson
A) 1727 B) 1666 C) 1752 D) 1816
A) William Shakespeare B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge C) John Milton D) Alexander Pope
A) Outcome A: six dice tossed with at least one six appearing B) Outcome C: eighteen dice tossed with at least three sixes appearing C) Outcome B: twelve dice tossed with at least two sixes appearing D) None of the above
A) 17th century B) 18th century C) 20th century D) 19th century
A) Finite differences B) Power series C) Taylor series D) Logarithms
A) Fluxions B) Taylor series C) Newton-Cotes formulas D) Gaussian elimination
A) Thomas Burnet B) John Maynard Keynes C) Stephen Snobelen D) David Brewster
A) Mathematical proofs B) Observable data C) Theoretical conjectures D) Hypotheses
A) David Brewster B) Henry More C) Thomas Tenison D) John Mill
A) Heinrich Magnus B) Immanuel Kant C) Joseph Fourier D) Denis Diderot
A) Purely mathematical problems B) Empirically solvable ones C) Philosophical inquiries D) Hypothetical conjectures
A) Chemistry B) Mysticism C) Chymistry D) Alchemy
A) 1671 B) 1699 C) 1685 D) 1666
A) 7.2% B) 3% C) 10% D) 15%
A) John Locke B) Jean le Rond d'Alembert C) Thomas Hobbes D) Voltaire
A) Thomas Burnet B) John Maynard Keynes C) Samuel Clarke D) Henry More
A) John Flamsteed B) Edmond Halley C) David Brewster D) Robert Hooke
A) John Locke B) Thomas Burnet C) Pierre-Simon Laplace D) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
A) Clifford A. Pickover B) Walter Crosby Eells C) Donald M. Davis D) E.T. Bell
A) Peter Rowlands B) Stephen Hawking C) James Jeans D) Guillaume de l'Hôpital
A) Reflection is more important than refraction. B) Refraction occurs without reflection. C) They are independent phenomena. D) They arise from interactions across the entire surface.
A) Samuel Pepys B) Catherine Barton C) John Conduitt D) Voltaire
A) E pur si muove B) Hypotheses non fingo C) Sic transit gloria mundi D) Cogito, ergo sum
A) Erwin Schrödinger B) Albert Einstein C) Niels Bohr D) Richard Feynman
A) 15% B) 40% C) 27.2% D) 10%
A) Robert Lucas, 3rd Baron Lucas of Shenfield B) Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax C) William Chaloner D) Thomas Neale
A) Oxford University B) Trinity College, Cambridge C) Cranbury Park, near Winchester D) London
A) Ludwig Boltzmann B) Stephen Hawking C) James Jeans D) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
A) 2020 B) 2015 C) 2000 D) 1990
A) Force B) Acceleration C) Gravitas (weight) D) Mass
A) Diffraction B) Interference C) Astigmatism D) Chromatic aberration
A) He developed Gaussian elimination for it. B) He formulated Bézout's theorem for it. C) He is regarded as the single most significant contributor. D) He introduced fractional indices for it.
A) prismatogram B) color array C) chromatic display D) spectrum
A) 1675 B) 1687 C) 1699 D) 1704
A) To establish unchangeable laws B) To reject all previous scientific theories C) To guide research through successive approximations D) To avoid empirical testing
A) Deism B) Socinianism C) Arianism D) Trinitarianism |