QUIZ 1 - IDENTIFICATION

Question 1

Science came from what Greek word?

Answer 1

SCIENTIA

Question 2

Sumer is the first urban civilization of what ancient country?

Answer 2

MESOPOTAMIA

Question 3

Give ONE of the two rivers that flowed through the Fertile Crescent.

Answer 3

TIGRIS/EUPHRATES

Question 4

The sexagesimal system uses a base _______.

Answer 4

60

Question 5

It is the plant used by the Egyptians to make a paper for writing.

Answer 5

PAPYRUS

Question 6

Babylon literally means _________.

Answer 6

“the gate of gods”

Question 7

It was the movement that began the end of the Dark Ages.

Answer 7

SCHOLASTICISM

Question 8

What does the word renaissance mean?

Answer 8

REBIRTH

Question 9

According to Francis Bacon, what map is needed for a genius not to be lost?

Answer 9

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

Question 10

Where did the first industrial revolution begin?

Answer 10

GREAT BRITAIN

Question 11

What elementary particle did Joseph John Thompson discover?

Answer 11

ELECTRON

Question 12

It is the theory of Einstein that nothing can travel faster than light.

Answer 12

THEORY OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY

Question 13

Who proposed the continental drift theory? (full name)

Answer 13

ALFRED WEGENER

Question 14

What company produced the first smartphone?

Answer 14

NOKIA

Question 15

Who was the first man in space? (full name)

Answer 15

YURI GAGARIN

Question 16

Science came from a Greek word which means ___________?

Answer 16

KNOWLEDGE

Question 17

Sumer is the first urban civilization an ancient country which is now the modern country of _________?

Answer 17

IRAQ

Question 18

Give one use of the sexagesimal system today.

Answer 18

measurement of angles and time

Question 19

It is the writing system that used pictographs.

Answer 19

CUNEIFORM

Question 20

Babylon came from the Akkadian word _________.

Answer 20

BABILANI

Question 21

It was the idea endorsed by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Answer 21

NATURAL THEOLOGY

Question 22

What does the word renaissance mean?

Answer 22

REBIRTH

Question 23

Give a characteristic of the map given by Francis Bacon?

Answer 23

empirical observation/rational
analysis/experimentation

Question 24

What was the energy source used during the first industrial revolution?

Answer 24

COAL

Question 25

What elementary particle did James Chadwick discover?

Answer 25

NEUTRON

Question 26

According to Einstein, what is more important than knowledge?

Answer 26

IMAGINATION

Question 27

Who proposed the existence of genes? (full name)

Answer 27

GREGOR MENDEL

Question 28

What was invented by the Wright brothers?

Answer 28

AIRPLANE

Question 29

Who was the first man to walk on the moon? (full name)

Answer 29

NEIL ARMSTRONG

Question 30

Science came from what Greek word?

Answer 30

SCIENTIA

Question 31

Sumer was conquered by what group of people?

Answer 31

AMORITES

Question 32

It is considered as the first true city in the world.

Answer 32

URUK CITY

Question 33

Who conquered the Babylonians?

Answer 33

PERSIANS

Question 34

Give an event that happened during the Renaissance.

Answer 34

SOCIAL REVOLUTION/FREE
DISCUSSION/SCHOLASTICISM

Question 35

What invention started the first industrial revolution?

Answer 35

STEAM ENGINE

Question 36

What model was discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson?

Answer 36

DOUBLE-HELICAL DNA

Question 37

Give the famous equation of Albert Einstein.

Answer 37

E = mc^2

Question 38

Who proposed the atomic theory? (full name)

Answer 38

JOHN DALTON

Question 39

What was published by Amedeo Avogadro?

Answer 39

AVOGADRO’S LAW / Relationship of number of moles and
volume

Question 40

Who invented the telephone? (full name)

Answer 40

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL