Scientia

What was the first scientific advance?

What was the first animal domesticated by humans?

What was the first artificial aid for transport?

What was the name of the first city?

In Euclidean geometry, the sum of angles in a triangle is always equal to:

The Black Death of the 14th century infected humans via:

Scurvy is a disease caused by a deficiency of:

What is the bond called in which electrons are shared by atoms?

In what year did the first humans walk on the moon?

What was the earliest form of the wheel?

The sun is composed mainly of hydrogen and:

What is the gravitational force acting on 1 kilogram, on Earth?

What numbers are divisible only by one and themselves?

Eli Whitney, in 1794, invented the:

What is Edward Jenner associated with?

How many crystalline forms of carbon are there?

What does pasteurization not involve?

In the periodic table of elements, what does the atomic number represent?

In what year did the Trinity Test, in which the first atomic bomb was tested by the US Army, occur?

What has one surface and one continuous edge?

Capella established seven liberal arts, which of the following was not one of them?

How long does it take for light produced by the sun to reach the Earth?

Who first described capillary action?

The Cartesian coordinate system, which linked algebra and geometry, was realized, independently, by de Fermat and:

The first manned flight in 1783 involved a hot-air balloon, which was the invention of which two brothers?

Who is responsible for creating the first table of elements, and known as the father of chemistry?

What is the 17th century machine, which involves a series of inscribed rods, used for calculating or dividing numbers called?

The science of genetics began with Gregor Mendel’s experiments involving:

Who, in 1882, isolated tubercle bacillus, the organism that causes tuberculosis?

Who was responsible for the idea of eugenics?

How many types of nuclear radiation are there?

Who launched the first liquid-filled rocket and is known as the father of rocketry?

What was the first man-made plastic, commonly used to make buttons, called?

The Sieve of Eratosthenes is:

Who is credited with being the first to perform a clinical trial?

Who proposed that vision was produced by light entering the eye, in the Book of Optics?

What was the first machine that used gears?

Who was the German astronomer who attempted to prove Copernicus’s theory?

John Kay’s invention to weave cotton, which kicked off the machine age, was known as the:

Thomas Young, in 1801, using the double slit experiment, demonstrated:

What substance, isolated from opium by Friedrich Sertürner, came to be important in surgery?

Which is not a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere?

What was the cipher machine, invented in 1918 and used by the Germans in World War II, called?

Which element is not man-made?

What was the first digital computer called?

What is chaos theory associated with?