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science & technology Online Quiz - 494

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This amazing and religious genius believed that his insights into the functioning of the universe were merely recovered artifacts of "ancient wisdom" from pre-Christian civilizations that understood the principles of the universe

  1. Leonardo da Vinci

  2. L Ron Hubbard

  3. Sir Isaac Newton

  4. Ibn al-Haitham


Correct Option: C

This physicist lost out to arguably the most well-known genius of all time, Albert Einstein, in the explanation of why the time-space continuum falls apart near the speed of light because he concluded it was due to changes in "the ether":

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Hendrik Lorentz

  3. Pascual Jordan

  4. Werner Heisenberg


Correct Option: B

This genius predicted the existence of the hawk moth (or something like it) based solely on his observations of the structure of the Star of Bethlehem orchid

  1. Pascual Jordan

  2. Charles Darwin

  3. Elizabeth Britton

  4. John Muir


Correct Option: B

Who is widely considered the first female genius on record?

  1. Ibn al-Haitham

  2. Hypatia

  3. Helen

  4. Electra


Correct Option: B

Which ancient Greek genius philosopher was made to execute himself by drinking a cup of poisonous hemlock as his sentence for publicly criticizing the ruling class?

  1. Archimedes

  2. Aristotle

  3. Plato

  4. Socrates


Correct Option: D

This ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) genius is considered "the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly in the mists of antiquity" -- 2,500 years before the "father of medicine," Hippocrates

  1. Thoth

  2. Imhotep

  3. Khufu

  4. Plato


Correct Option: B

This amazing and religious genius believed that his insights into the functioning of the universe were merely recovered artifacts of "ancient wisdom" from pre-Christian civilizations that understood the principles of the universe

  1. Leonardo da Vinci

  2. L Ron Hubbard

  3. Sir Isaac Newton

  4. Ibn al-Haitham


Correct Option: C

The water screw, still saving lives of people in rural areas without access to clean water, was invented by which ancient genius inventor?

  1. Archimedes

  2. Ts'ai Lun

  3. Ibn al-Haitham

  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Correct Option: A

This physicist lost out to arguably the most well-known genius of all time, Albert Einstein, in the explanation of why the time-space continuum falls apart near the speed of light because he concluded it was due to changes in "the ether":

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Hendrik Lorentz

  3. Pascual Jordan

  4. Werner Heisenberg


Correct Option: B

Who is widely considered the first female genius on record?

  1. Ibn al-Haitham

  2. Hypatia

  3. Helen

  4. Electra


Correct Option: B

The water screw, still saving lives of people in rural areas without access to clean water, was invented by which ancient genius inventor?

  1. Archimedes

  2. Ts'ai Lun

  3. Ibn al-Haitham

  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Correct Option: A

The thought experiment of Quantum Suicide theoretically proves Hugh Everett III's Many-Worlds explanation of quantum mechanics Which of these physics geniuses came up with the Quantum Suicide experiment?

  1. Neils Bohr

  2. Max Planck

  3. Max Tegmark

  4. Archimedes


Correct Option: C

This genius predicted the existence of the hawk moth (or something like it) based solely on his observations of the structure of the Star of Bethlehem orchid

  1. Pascual Jordan

  2. Charles Darwin

  3. Elizabeth Britton

  4. John Muir


Correct Option: B

This ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) genius is considered "the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly in the mists of antiquity" -- 2,500 years before the "father of medicine," Hippocrates

  1. Thoth

  2. Imhotep

  3. Khufu

  4. Plato


Correct Option: B

Who is widely considered the first female genius on record?

  1. Ibn al-Haitham

  2. Hypatia

  3. Helen

  4. Electra


Correct Option: B
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