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