Wednesday, July 21, 2010

People and Theories Quiz

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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