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John Venn - Quiz
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  • 1. Who did John Venn marry in 1868?
A) Maud Darwin
B) Mary Elizabeth Venn
C) Susanna Carnegie Edmonstone
D) Florence Ada Keynes
  • 2. What position did John Venn's son, John Archibald Venn, eventually hold?
A) Chair of the Horticultural Society
B) President of the Antiquarian Society
C) Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University
D) Mayor of Cambridge
  • 3. John Venn was elected vice-chairman of which organization in 1884?
A) Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society
B) Cambridge Provident Medical Institution
C) Cambridge Antiquarian Society
D) Cambridge Charitable Organisations Society
  • 4. Which society did John Venn serve as president of in 1908–1909?
A) Cambridge Charitable Organisations Society
B) Cambridge Antiquarian Society
C) Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society
D) Cambridge University Press
  • 5. What political cause did John Venn support?
A) Compulsory education
B) Abolition of the monarchy
C) Expansion of the railway
D) Votes for women
  • 6. In 1908, John and Susanna Venn encouraged women to run for which position?
A) Cambridge Town Council
B) University Board of Governors
C) Parliament
D) Antiquarian Society President
  • 7. Which vegetable did John Venn win a prize for in 1885?
A) White carrots
B) Pumpkins
C) Potatoes
D) Onions
  • 8. Where did John Venn live from the early 1900s until his death?
A) Vicarsbrook, Chaucer Road
B) Clarence Street
C) Venn Street
D) Clay Farm Centre
  • 9. When did John Venn pass away?
A) March 1919
B) April 1923
C) July 1885
D) October 1908
  • 10. What was used to decorate Drypool Bridge in Hull in 2017 to honor Venn?
A) Intersecting circles
B) Stained glass windows
C) Venn diagrams on plaques
D) Rose carvings
  • 11. Where is the Venn Building located?
A) Gonville and Caius College
B) University of Hull
C) Clapham, London
D) Cambridge University
  • 12. Which college features a stained glass window commemorating Venn?
A) St. John's College
B) Trinity College
C) Kings College
D) Gonville and Caius College
  • 13. Where is a street sign featuring a Venn diagram located?
A) Clarence Street in Hull
B) Trumpington Road in London
C) Chaucer Road in Cambridge
D) Venn Street in Clapham
  • 14. What is the name of the room at Clay Farm Centre named after Venn?
A) Venn Commons
B) Venn Touchdown
C) Venn Study
D) Venn Hall
  • 15. What is the title of the biographical register compiled by Venn?
A) The Cambridge Antiquarian Record
B) The History of Cambridge Society
C) Venn's Civic Memoirs
D) Alumni Cantabrigienses
  • 16. How many volumes were in the Alumni Cantabrigienses?
A) Eight
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Twelve
  • 17. Who co-edited the Alumni Cantabrigienses with John Venn?
A) His wife Susanna
B) Florence Ada Keynes
C) Maud Darwin
D) His son John Archibald Venn
  • 18. In what year did John Venn publish The Logic of Chance?
A) 1903
B) 1881
C) 1866
D) 1834
  • 19. Which theory of probability did The Logic of Chance espouse?
A) Frequency theory
B) Axiomatic theory
C) Subjective theory
D) Bayesian theory
  • 20. Whose theories did Venn further develop in his 1881 work Symbolic Logic?
A) Alan Turing
B) Charles Babbage
C) George Boole
D) Isaac Newton
  • 21. What was the occupation of John Venn's father, Henry?
A) Mathematician
B) Anglican rector
C) Cricket coach
D) Physician
  • 22. What was John Venn's rank in the Mathematical Tripos in 1857?
A) Second Wrangler
B) Senior Wrangler
C) Tenth Wrangler
D) Sixth Wrangler
  • 23. In what year was John Venn ordained as an Anglican priest?
A) 1862
B) 1883
C) 1859
D) 1903
  • 24. What device did John Venn invent with his son?
A) A steam-powered loom
B) A printing press
C) A cricket bowling machine
D) A mechanical calculator
  • 25. Which famous batsman was bowled by Venn's machine in 1909?
A) Jack Hobbs
B) W.G. Grace
C) Don Bradman
D) Victor Trumper
  • 26. When was John Venn elected President of his college?
A) 1883
B) 1923
C) 1866
D) 1903
  • 27. Where is John Venn buried?
A) Trumpington churchyard extension
B) Cambridge Cathedral
C) Highgate Cemetery
D) Westminster Abbey
  • 28. In what year was John Venn elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
A) 1883
B) 1903
C) 1866
D) 1881
  • 29. What degree was John Venn awarded by Cambridge in 1884?
A) Ph.D.
B) Sc.D.
C) M.A.
D) B.D.
  • 30. John Venn's grandfather was pastor to which famous abolitionist?
A) Victor Trumper
B) George Boole
C) Henry Venn
D) William Wilberforce
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