Question: How many times was Newton married?
1) Never
2) Two
3) One
4) Three
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Question: Under whose reign was Newton honored with a knighthood?
1) King Charles II
2) Queen Anne
3) King James II
4) King William III and Queen Mary II
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Question: When Newton was forty-seven, he sat for his first portrait. Who painted this now famous portrait of Newton?
1) Albert Cuyp
2) Thomas Murray
3) Sir Godfrey Kneller
4) David Logan
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Question: How old was Newton when he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge?
1) 27 years old
2) 47 years old
3) 35 years old
4) 40 years old
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Question: Which activity did Newton not enjoy doing as a child?
1) Singing and playing a harp
2) Building sundials, water clocks& windmills
3) Making and flying paper kites
4) Sketching and drawing
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Question: What was the occupation of Newton's father, also named Isaac, who died before Newton was born?
1) Tailor
2) Grammar school teacher
3) Innkeeper
4) Farmer
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Question: According to Pythagoras, the numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. were called what?
1) Arithmetic
2) Square
3) Harmonic
4) Triangular
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Question: Which number was a perfect number, according to Pythagoras?
1) 7
2) 8
3) 9
4) 10
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Question: According to Pythagoras, which of the following had a real and separate existence outside our minds?
1) Numbers
2) Atoms
3) Letters
4) Ideal forms
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Question: Where did Pythagoras settle in about 530 B.C.?
1) Solus
2) Tarentum
3) Croton
4) Locri
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Question: Of which island was Pythagoras a native?
1) Rhodes
2) Samos
3) Lesbos
4) Sicily
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Question: Empedocles came up with which of the following ideas?
1) Irrational Numbers
2) Four Regular Solids
3) Four Elements
4) Counter-Earth
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Question: Which Pythagorean gave the first coherent account of the blood vessel system in our bodies?
1) Posidonius
2) Strato
3) Diogenes
4) Sylvius
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Question: Which Pythagorean thinker held that the heart was the special seat of life based on its central placement in the circulatory system?
1) Empedocles
2) Galen
3) Hippocrates
4) Heracleides
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Question: Who was the first to publish a book on Pythagorean doctrine?
1) Empedocles
2) Pythagoras
3) Philolaus
4) Alcmaeon
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Question: Yuri Gagarin was born in March of what year?
1) 1936
2) 1929
3) 1934
4) 1933
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Question: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space on what date?
1) April 12, 1961
2) March 26, 1957
3) October 4, 1957
4) April 7, 1961
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Question: In 1922, Albert received what for his work?
1) A full time job
2) The Nobel Prize
3) A full time job as professor
4) A pre-paid vacation to Milan
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Question: How old was Albert when he died?
1) 76-years-old
2) 65-years-old
3) 92-years-old
4) 89-years-old
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Question: What were Albert's two favorite school subjects?
1) Algebra and Geography
2) Geometry and Philosophy
3) Psychiatry and Physical Fitness
4) English and Science
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