Richard Buckminster Fuller Quiz Questions 1. When was Richard Buckminster Fuller born? a) 1 January 1894 b) 24 May 1896 c) 12 July 1895 d) 8 October 1898 2. Where was Richard Buckminster Fuller born? a) Milton b) Atlanta c) San Francisco d) Richmond 3. Which university expelled Richard Buckminster Fuller twice? a) Princeton b)…
1) Who is Venus in mythology?
a) God of justice
b) Goddess of love
c) God of wind
d) God of storm
2) How is Venus sometimes referred to? (This is one of the two common references.)
a) Morning Star
b) Yellow Star
c) Noon Star
d) Blue Star
3) What is the number of Venus’ satellites?
a) One
b) Two
c) Zero
d) Three
1. When was Oliver Sacks born?
a) 4 February 1936
b) 2 April 1934
c) 9 July 1933
d) 30 December 1932
2. Where was Oliver Sacks born?
a) London
b) Bristol
c) Plymouth
d) Ipswich
3. Which college did Oliver Sacks attend?
a) King’s College
b) Queen’s College
c) St. Albert’s College
d) St. George’s College
4. Which Oliver Sacks book is about treatment of sleeping sickness?
a) Uncle Tungsten
b) Migraine
c) A Leg to Stand On
d) Awakenings
1. When did Philipp Lenard win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1903
b) 1905
c) 1904
d) 1907
2. When was Philipp Lenard born?
a) 7 November 1857
b) 7 June 1862
c) 15 May 1859
d) 9 January 1852
3. Where was Philipp Lenard born?
a) Nantes
b) La Rochelle
c) Pressburg
d) Amiens
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift by hypothesizing in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting…
1. When did John Bardeen first win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) 1956
b) 1950
c) 1945
d) 1962
2. When did John Bardeen win Nobel Prize for Physics for the second time?
a) 1966
b) 1964
c) 1972
d) 1976
3. When was John Bardeen born?
a) 29 February 1904
b) 23 May 1908
c) 11 July 1898
d) 5 December 1896
1) What is the number of toes in a front foot of a squirrel?
a) Three
b) Four
c) Five
d) Six
2) How far can a squirrel jump?
a) 20 feet
b) 10 feet
c) 15 feet
d) 30 feet
3) Which is the class of squirrel?
a) Amphibia
b) Mammalia
c) Gastropoda
d) Chondrichthyes
Har Gobind Khorana was a biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded…
1. When did Robert Edwards get Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1978
b) 1989
c) 1998
d) 2010
2. When was Robert Edwards born?
a) 5 March 1932
b) 22 May 1926
c) 27 September 1925
d) 1 November 1918
3. Where was Robert Edwards born?
a) Batley
b) Glasgow
c) Belfast
d) Coventry
1. When did Alan Hodgkin get Nobel Prize for Medicine?
a) 1971
b) 1958
c) 1963
d) 1984
2. When was Alan Hodgkin born?
a) 5 February 1914
b) 24 May 1912
c) 4 September 1907
d) 25 December 1916
3. Where was Alan Hodgkin born?
a) Edinburgh
b) Banbury
c) Liverpool
d) Chelsea