What is Kepler's Conjecture?
There is an ultimate way to pack spheres into a box
There is no ultimate way to pack spheres into a box
There is an ultimate way of packing boxes into a sphere
When was Sir Isaac Newton born?
Christmas Day, 1642
4 January, 1643
Both - because of a correction in the Gregorian calendar
When was Newton's 'Naturalis Principa Matematica' (or Principia as it is often called) published?
1543
1687
1701
What was Pierre de Fermat's profession?
Mathematician
Lawyer
Doctor
Where did Albert Einstein famously do much of his great work?
In the Swiss Patent Office
In his home
In an office on the College ground
Was Aristotle a student under Plato?
No, he was a student at Plato's Academy
No, Plato was a student of Aristotle
Yes
Who invented the telescope?
Galileo Galilei
Dutch spectacle makers
Chinese glass makers
Does the Talmud (created during the last 5 centuries BC) include the concept of game theory?
Yes
No
No, but it did in a later, revised edition
A way to calculate the probability for intelligent life in the Cosmos
It shows the relationship between time and distance in the Cosmos
A method to measure the doppler effect
What is Kepler's second law?
Planets travel in constant velocity in their orbits
Planets travel faster when closer to the sun
Planets travel slower when closer to the sun
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