A) 1831 B) 1801 C) 1901 D) 1861
A) Quantum Mechanics B) Thermodynamics C) Electromagnetism D) Astrophysics
A) University of Glasgow B) University of Edinburgh C) University of Cambridge D) University of Oxford
A) Red, Yellow, Blue B) Green, Yellow, Blue C) Red, Green, Blue D) Red, Purple, Green
A) Farad B) Ohm C) Hertz D) Weber
A) 1909 B) 1889 C) 1879 D) 1899
A) Royal Society B) American Physical Society C) European Academy of Sciences D) National Academy of Sciences
A) Gravity and Strong Nuclear Force B) Gravity and Weak Nuclear Force C) Electricity and Magnetism D) Weak Nuclear Force and Electromagnetism
A) Radio B) Internet C) Television D) Telegraph
A) Schrodinger's Equation B) Ohm's Law C) Newton's Laws D) Maxwell's Equations
A) Welsh B) English C) Scottish D) Irish
A) 1854 B) 1865 C) 1859 D) 1860
A) Adams Prize B) Cavendish Medal C) Smith’s Prize D) Nobel Prize
A) The invention of the steam engine B) The second great unification in physics C) The first great unification in physics D) The discovery of radio waves
A) James Watt B) Niels Bohr C) Isaac Newton D) Albert Einstein
A) Trinity College, Cambridge B) Marischal College C) Oxford University D) King’s College London
A) Poisson distribution B) Binomial distribution C) Normal distribution D) Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
A) The first black and white photograph B) The first durable colour photograph C) The first panoramic photograph D) The first digital photograph
A) The theory of evolution B) The quantum model C) The Maxwell model for viscoelastic materials D) The theory of relativity
A) As a critic B) As a student C) As a founder D) As a historian
A) Ancient physics B) Medieval physics C) Classical physics D) Modern physics
A) Quantum B) Entropy C) Chaos D) Relativity
A) Artist B) Farmer C) Civil engineer D) Advocate
A) Nephew B) Brother C) Cousin D) Son
A) Blackburn B) Clerk C) Dyce D) Cay
A) 45 B) 30 C) Nearly 40 D) 25
A) Jemima B) Elizabeth C) Jane D) Frances
A) Penicuik B) Middlebie C) Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire D) Edinburgh
A) 500 acres B) 750 acres C) 2,000 acres D) 1,500 acres (610 ha)
A) "How does it work?" B) "Show me how it doos" C) "Tell me more" D) "What's the go o' that?"
A) William Dyce Cay B) Jemima Blackburn C) John Clerk Maxwell D) Robert Hodshon Cay
A) His mother, Frances B) A hired tutor C) His aunt Isabella D) His father
A) 20 years old B) 18 years old C) 16 years old D) 22 years old
A) Lewis Campbell B) Peter Guthrie Tait C) Robert Davidson D) James Forbes
A) 1842 B) 1843 C) 1840 D) 1841
A) His mother, Frances B) His father C) His aunt Isabella D) His older cousin Jemima
A) Genius B) Bookworm C) Smartie D) Daftie
A) 15 B) 12 C) 14 D) 13
A) Robert Davidson B) James Forbes C) Lewis Campbell D) Peter Guthrie Tait
A) René Descartes B) Leonhard Euler C) Isaac Newton D) Carl Friedrich Gauss
A) Electromagnetism B) Quantum mechanics C) Photoelasticity D) Thermodynamics
A) Royal Society B) Trinity College Society C) Cambridge Apostles D) Cambridge Philosophical Society
A) 15 August 1855 B) 1 January 1855 C) 10 October 1855 D) 25 December 1855
A) Senior wrangler-maker B) Mathematical mentor C) Math genius D) Math prodigy
A) Third B) Equal with Edward Routh C) Second D) First
A) Temporary double refraction produced by shear stress B) Permanent double refraction C) No refraction D) Single refraction
A) Focusing only on theology B) Letting nothing be wilfully left unexamined C) Focusing only on physics D) Focusing only on mathematics
A) Scientific doubts B) Theological questions C) Mathematical errors D) Holy spots
A) They are commonly supposed to be 'Tabooed' by the orthodox B) They are universally accepted C) They are irrelevant to modern science D) They are fully understood by all
A) Social interactions B) God's grace C) Scientific discovery D) His own willpower
A) 10 hours B) 20 hours C) 15 hours D) 25 hours
A) London B) Glenlair C) Aberdeen D) Edinburgh
A) £130 B) £200 C) £100 D) £50
A) Isaac Newton B) George Biddell Airy C) Niels Bohr D) Albert Einstein
A) 2 June 1858 B) 2 June 1860 C) 2 June 1857 D) 2 June 1859
A) Malaria B) Tuberculosis C) Smallpox D) Cholera
A) 1865 B) 1862 C) 1861 D) 1860
A) 1862 B) 1860 C) 1861 D) 1865
A) thermodynamics B) dimensional analysis C) calculus D) quantum mechanics
A) Albert Einstein B) Michael Faraday C) Isaac Newton D) James Clerk Maxwell
A) 1861 B) 1865 C) 1863 D) early 1862
A) 1865 B) 1879 C) 1876 D) 1871
A) The SI system B) The Metric system C) The CGS system D) The Imperial system
A) Lung cancer B) Brain cancer C) Abdominal cancer D) Skin cancer
A) 50 B) 60 C) 48 D) 55
A) William Garnett B) Professor Lewis Campbell C) Colin Mackenzie D) George Edward Paget
A) Near the choir screen at Westminster Abbey B) In Cambridge University Chapel C) In Parton Kirk D) At the Cavendish Laboratory
A) Thermodynamic equilibrium B) Quantum entanglement C) The 'butterfly effect' D) The theory of relativity
A) 1882 B) 1865 C) 1890 D) 1875
A) June 1850 B) December 1855 C) April 1853 D) March 1852
A) Niels Bohr B) Erwin Schrödinger C) Richard Feynman D) Albert Einstein
A) Guitar B) Violin C) Flute D) Piano
A) Science Magazine B) Nature C) Scientific American D) PhysicsWeb
A) Empiricist B) Positivist C) Antipositivist D) Rationalist
A) Charisma B) Social awkwardness C) Outgoing personality D) Public speaking skills
A) 1881 B) 1873 C) 1865 D) 1861
A) Oliver Heaviside B) James Clerk Maxwell C) Albert Einstein D) Peter Guthrie Tate
A) Quaternions B) Vector analysis C) Partial differential equations D) Scalar potentials
A) Tate B) Einstein C) Maxwell D) Heaviside
A) Magnetic fields B) Electric fields C) A medium called the luminiferous aether D) A vacuum
A) The Einstein experiment B) The Maxwell experiment C) The Faraday experiment D) The Michelson–Morley experiment
A) Maxwell's equations B) The concept of force fields C) Vector analysis D) The luminiferous aether
A) The Copley Medal B) The Nobel Prize C) The Faraday Medal D) The Rumford Medal
A) Albert Einstein B) James Clerk Maxwell C) Isaac Newton D) Thomas Young
A) Isaac Newton B) Niels Bohr C) Thomas Sutton D) Albert Einstein
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) Ludwig Boltzmann C) Rudolf Clausius D) Peter Guthrie Tait
A) 1867-1868 B) 1874 C) 1859 D) 1871
A) Viscoelastic materials B) Heat transport C) Phase transitions D) Steam engine regulation
A) Josiah Willard Gibbs B) John Herapath C) Daniel Bernoulli D) Rudolf Clausius
A) A treatise on electricity and magnetism B) A plaster thermodynamic visualisation C) A model for viscoelastic materials D) A paper on governors
A) The Maxwell-Cattaneo equation B) Maxwell's thermodynamic visualisation C) Maxwell's demon D) Maxwell's thermodynamic relations |