Super quiz

Take this Super Quiz to a PH.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the freshman level, 2 points on the graduate level and 3 points on the PH.D. level.

Subject: SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS

(e.g., What is measured by a thermometer? Answer: Temperature.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Who is said to have been inspired by an apple falling from a tree?

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2. What is measured by an altimeter? Answer________

3. He is said to have cried, "Eureka!" as he was in his bath. Answer________

4. What famous scientist was offered the presidency of Israel? Answer________

5. For what is a microscope used?

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GRADUATE LEVEL

6. Which American inventor held over 1,000 patents at his death?

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7. What is measured by an anemometer? Answer________

8. This Italian astronomer and physicist was tried by the Inquisition for heresy.

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9. Her husband was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize. Answer________

10. What instrument shows distance traveled by a car? Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

11. This English scientist became almost totally paralyzed. Answer________

12. He is credited with creating the science of genetics. Answer________

13. What does a hydrometer measure? Answer________

14. He is said to have been inspired by holding a spoon over the spout of a kettle.

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15. Most of this Italian's writings are in mirror-image cursive. Answer________

1. Isaac Newton. 2. Altitude. 3. Archimedes. 4. Albert Einstein. 5. To magnify small objects. 6. Thomas Edison. 7. Wind speed and direction.

8. Galileo Galilei. 9. Marie Curie. 10. Odometer. 11. Stephen Hawking.

12. Gregor Mendel. 13. The density (specific gravity) of a liquid. 14. James Watt. 15. Leonardo da Vinci.