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PERSONALITIES QUIZ :: 01 :: 02 :: 03 :: 04 :: 05 :: 06 :: 07 :: 08 :: 09 :: 10 :: 11
 

Personalities Quiz 03

  1. How many times was Newton married?

    Never

    Two

    One

    Three

  2. Under whose reign was Newton honored with a knighthood?

    King Charles II

    Queen Anne

    King James II

    King William III and Queen Mary II

  3. When Newton was forty-seven, he sat for his first portrait. Who painted this now famous portrait of Newton?

    Albert Cuyp

    Thomas Murray

    Sir Godfrey Kneller

    David Logan

  4. How old was Newton when he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge?

    27 years old

    47 years old

    35 years old

    40 years old

  5. Which activity did Newton not enjoy doing as a child?

    Singing and playing a harp

    Building sundials, water clocks& windmills

    Making and flying paper kites

    Sketching and drawing

  6. What was the occupation of Newton's father, also named Isaac, who died before Newton was born?

    Tailor

    Grammar school teacher

    Innkeeper

    Farmer

  7. According to Pythagoras, the numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. were called what?

    Arithmetic

    Square

    Harmonic

    Triangular

  8. Which number was a perfect number, according to Pythagoras?

    7

    8

    9

    10

  9. According to Pythagoras, which of the following had a real and separate existence outside our minds?

    Numbers

    Atoms

    Letters

    Ideal forms

  10. Where did Pythagoras settle in about 530 B.C.?

    Solus

    Tarentum

    Croton

    Locri

  11. Of which island was Pythagoras a native?

    Rhodes

    Samos

    Lesbos

    Sicily

  12. Empedocles came up with which of the following ideas?

    Irrational Numbers

    Four Regular Solids

    Four Elements

    Counter-Earth

  13. Which Pythagorean gave the first coherent account of the blood vessel system in our bodies?

    Posidonius

    Strato

    Diogenes

    Sylvius

  14. Which Pythagorean thinker held that the heart was the special seat of life based on its central placement in the circulatory system?

    Empedocles

    Galen

    Hippocrates

    Heracleides

  15. Who was the first to publish a book on Pythagorean doctrine?

    Empedocles

    Pythagoras

    Philolaus

    Alcmaeon

  16. Yuri Gagarin was born in March of what year?

    1936

    1929

    1934

    1933

  17. Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space on what date?

    April 12, 1961

    March 26, 1957

    October 4, 1957

    April 7, 1961

  18. In 1922, Albert received what for his work?

    A full time job

    The Nobel Prize

    A full time job as professor

    A pre-paid vacation to Milan

  19. How old was Albert when he died?

    76-years-old

    65-years-old

    92-years-old

    89-years-old

  20. What were Albert's two favorite school subjects?

    Algebra and Geography

    Geometry and Philosophy

    Psychiatry and Physical Fitness

    English and Science

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