Deck 5: The Founders, Works, and Discoveries in Science

Question 1

Who founded the 'Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge' in 1662?

A)Charles II
B)Charles I
C)James I
D)James II

Answer 1

Charles II

Question 2

The Academe des Sciences was founded by ……..

A)Louis X
B)James I
C)Louis XIV
D)Charles I

Answer 2

Louis XIV

Question 3

The Berlin Academy was founded by ……..

A)Louis XI
B)Frederick of Prussia
C)James II
D)Charles I

Answer 3

Frederick of Prussia

Question 4

Principia is a work by ………

A)Robert Boyle
B)Hooke
C)Isaac Newton
D)James I

Question 5

Who among the following was not a contemporary of Newton?

A)Robert Hooke
B)Leibniz
C)Huygens
D)Galileo

Question 6

……….. built the first state observatory of modern times in Paris?

A)Leibniz
B)Newton
C)Claude Perrault
D)Boyle

Question 7

Horologium Oscillatorium is a work by ………….

A)Newton
B)Chritian Huygens
C)Boyle
D)Hooke

Question 8

………. was the first to show that light has a finite velocity.

A)Ole Christian Romer
B)Huygens
C)Newton
D)Boyle

Question 9

When Newton published the Principia, he was forced to acknowledge that one of the results obtained by this person. Who was this person?

A)Kepler
B)Leibniz
C)Hooke
D)Wren

Question 10

The controversy between Newton and Huygens was related to …….

A)Whether light consisted of waves or particles
B)The authorship of the discovery of laws of diffraction
C)Which of them had invented calculus
D)Mere personal rivalry

Question 11

Flamsteed was asked to set up an observatory in Greenwich because ……

A)England wanted to build the best observatory in the world.
B)Flamsteed was the most celebrated astronomer in Europe.
C)A very accurate star chart was needed to be preparewd for navigation.
D)There was a great deal of popular interest.

Question 12

Who described light as the 'sensation of a stimulation of the retina'?

A)G.D. Cassini
B)Kepler
C)Newton
D)Hooke

Question 13

Micrographia is a work by ……….

A)Kepler
B)Newton
C)Robert Hooke
D)Descartes

Question 14

The Skeptical Chemist was written by ……….

A)Robert Boyle
B)Hooke
C)Kepler
D)Descartes

Question 15

Who has been hailed as the French Newton?

A)Laplace
B)Hooke
C)Kepler
D)Descartes

Question 16

Who introduced the concept of 'phlogiston'?

A)Newton
B)George Ernst Stahl
C)Hooke
D)Huygens

Question 17

Who discovered hydrogen?

A)Henry Cavendish
B)Kepler
C)Priestly
D)Newton

Question 18

Who discovered oxygen?

A)Kepler
B)Joseph Priestly
C)Newton
D)Cavendish

Question 19

The important feature of Industrial Revolution was ………

A)The switch from cottage mode of production to factory mode of production.
B)Division of labour and mechanization
C)The use of steam power
D)All of the above

Question 20

The proposition that everything is determined by God is known as ……..

A)Determinism
B)Theological determinism
C)Casual determinism
D)Scientific determinism

Question 21

…….. think that free will is an illusion.

A)Incompatibilists
B)Combatibilists
C)Soft determinists
D)None of these

Question 22

……….. holds that all propositions, either about the past, present or future, are either true or false.

A)Environmental determinism
B)Biological determinism
C)Logical determinism
D)Casual determinism

Question 23

…………. says that physical environment,rather than social conditions, determines culture.

A)Casual determinism
B)Logical determinism
C)Environmental determinism
D)Biological determinism

Question 24

………… is the theory that all behaviour, belief and desire are governed by our genetic make up.

A)Environmental determinism
B)Biological determinism
C)Casual determinism
D)Logical determinism