Scientia
What was the first scientific advance?
Controlled use of fire
Stone tools
Bow
Bone shuttle
Wooden spears
What was the first animal domesticated by humans?
Dog
Snake
Sheep
Goat
Pig
What was the first artificial aid for transport?
Logroller
Sledge
Four-wheeled wagon
Chariot
Wheelbarrow
What was the name of the first city?
Uruk
Hierakonpolis
Mohenjo Daro
Harappa
Mesopotamia
In Euclidean geometry, the sum of angles in a triangle is always equal to:
90 deg
145 deg
160 deg
180 deg
210 deg
The Black Death of the 14th century infected humans via:
Equines
Dogs
Rat fleas
Swine
Birds
Scurvy is a disease caused by a deficiency of:
Vitamin A
Vitamin B12
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Vitamin E
What is the bond called in which electrons are shared by atoms?
Ionic
Constituent
Double
Lone pair
Covalent
In what year did the first humans walk on the moon?
1945
1959
1961
1969
1971
What was the earliest form of the wheel?
Potter's wheel
Spoked wheel
Disc wheel
Logroller
Iron-rimmed wheel
The sun is composed mainly of hydrogen and:
Oxygen
Helium
Krypton
Neon
Nitrogen
What is the gravitational force acting on 1 kilogram, on Earth?
8.9 N
7.8 N
9.8 N
7.0 N
6.9 N
What numbers are divisible only by one and themselves?
Square
Imaginary
Irrational
Whole
Prime
Eli Whitney, in 1794, invented the:
Loom
Glider
Cotton gin
Telegraph
Gas turbine
What is Edward Jenner associated with?
Vaccination
Non-Euclidean geometry
Color blindness test
Discovery of strontium
First man to trek across North America
How many crystalline forms of carbon are there?
1
2
3
6
8
What does pasteurization not involve?
Puerperal
Food
Time
Killing microbes
Heat
In the periodic table of elements, what does the atomic number represent?
Number of protons
Number of neutrons
Number of quarks
Number of ions
Numbers of electron shells
In what year did the Trinity Test, in which the first atomic bomb was tested by the US Army, occur?
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
What has one surface and one continuous edge?
Klein bottle
Platonic solid
Möbius strip
Icosahedron
Kepler's polyhedra
Capella established seven liberal arts, which of the following was not one of them?
Music
Arithmetic
Geography
Astronomy
Rhetoric
How long does it take for light produced by the sun to reach the Earth?
2 min
8 min
36 min
1.5 hrs
4 hrs
Who first described capillary action?
Da Vinci
Ockham
Mercator
Copernicus
Galen
The Cartesian coordinate system, which linked algebra and geometry, was realized, independently, by de Fermat and:
Galilei
Descartes
Pascal
Mersenne
Harvey
The first manned flight in 1783 involved a hot-air balloon, which was the invention of which two brothers?
Wright
De Rozier
Montgolfier
Blanchard
De Coulomb
Who is responsible for creating the first table of elements, and known as the father of chemistry?
Gregor
De Jussieu
Volta
Lavoisier
Gauss
What is the 17th century machine, which involves a series of inscribed rods, used for calculating or dividing numbers called?
Slide rule
The Bombe
Napier's Bones
Arithmometer
Antikythera mechanism
The science of genetics began with Gregor Mendel’s experiments involving:
Canines
Pea plants
Nutria
Sunflowers
Foxgloves
Who, in 1882, isolated tubercle bacillus, the organism that causes tuberculosis?
Eduard Strasburger
Johann Balmer
Carl Koller
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Who was responsible for the idea of eugenics?
Herbert Spencer
Francis Galton
Sigmund Freud
John Venn
August Weismann
How many types of nuclear radiation are there?
2
3
4
5
6
Who launched the first liquid-filled rocket and is known as the father of rocketry?
Heisenberg
Baird
Schrodinger
Von Braun
Goddard
What was the first man-made plastic, commonly used to make buttons, called?
PVC
Bakelite
Nylon
Parkesine
Celluloid
The Sieve of Eratosthenes is:
A crane used in ancient warfare
A primitive compass
An algorithm for identifying prime numbers
A two-chamber pump
The first seismograph
Who is credited with being the first to perform a clinical trial?
Al-Kindi
Jabir
Al-Razi
Yi Xing
William of Ockham
Who proposed that vision was produced by light entering the eye, in the Book of Optics?
Alhazen
Al-Zahrawi
Ibn Sina
Omar Khayyam
Aristotle
What was the first machine that used gears?
Persian windmill
Chinese south-pointing chariot
Greek watermill
Zhang Heng's armillary sphere
Camera obscura
Who was the German astronomer who attempted to prove Copernicus’s theory?
Gutenberg
Golz
Glauber
Kepler
Herbst
John Kay’s invention to weave cotton, which kicked off the machine age, was known as the:
Cotton loom
Weaver's dream
Spinning jenny
Flying shuttle
Kay loom
Thomas Young, in 1801, using the double slit experiment, demonstrated:
Third Gas Law
Wavelike properties of light
Properties of photosynthesis
Galvanic electricity
All bodies radiate heat
What substance, isolated from opium by Friedrich Sertürner, came to be important in surgery?
Ketamine
Heroin
Morphine
Penicillin
Hemlock
Which is not a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere?
Mesosphere
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Thermosphere
Metasphere
What was the cipher machine, invented in 1918 and used by the Germans in World War II, called?
Schadenfreude
Enigma
Ubermensch
Heimlich
Colossus
Which element is not man-made?
Plutonium
Neptunium
Einsteinium
Americium
Promethium
What was the first digital computer called?
ENIAC
EDSAC
RAMAC
EDVAC
EDIAC
What is chaos theory associated with?
Butterfly effect
Photoelectric effect
Quantum zeno effect
Compton effect
Magnus effect
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