1 Were Confucius' teachings mainly:
A Ethical
B Esthetical
C Religious
2 All of Plato's writings are of a special form. What?
A Stories
B Dialogues
C Poems
3 Hypatia is mainly considered as a:
A Philosopher
B Mathematician
C Writer
4 What field was not in Avicenna's normal repertoire:
A Logic
B Art
C Music
5 Leonardo da Vinci is born under which century?
A 14th century
B 15th century
C 16th century
6 Maria Gaetana Agnesi is best known from the curve:
A Witch of Agnesi
B Agnesi's logarithmic curve
C Agnesi's Bell-curve
7 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz is recognized as one of the:
A Greatest universal geniuses
B Greatest mathematicians
C Greatest philosophers
8 From which country came John Stuart Mill?
A Scotland
B Ireland
C England
9 Sonja Kovalevskaya was the first woman to receive:
A A professorship in mathematics
B A research stipendium
C A Ph.D. in mathematics
10 Albert Einstein was born in:
A Germany
B U.S.A.
C Austria
11 Marie Curie is best known for her work on:
A X-rays
B Radioactivity
C Gamma-rays
12 From which country came Srinivasa Ramanujan?
A Pakistan
B Afghanistan
C India
13 Stephen W. Hawking has made important contributions to:
A The origin of the universe
B Quantum theory
C The constitution of an atom
14 Which philosophical branch represented Simone de Beauvoir?
A Subjectivism
B Critical realism
C Existentialism
1 Has Confucius written "The Doctrine of the Mean"
A Yes
B No
C Yes, but together with Laotse
2 Plato had a famous pupil. Who?
A Socrates
B Thales
C Aristotle
3 Hypatia authored a treatise. Which?
A Arithmatica
B On the Conics of Apollonius
C Suda Lexicon
4 Avicenna was regarded as one of the main interpreters of:
A Plato
B Aristotle
C Pythagoras
5 Leonardo da Vinci is often called:
A The Master of Arts
B The Ingenious Inventor
C The Master of Both Worlds
6 What is Maria Gaetana Agnesi's most important work?
A Analytical Institutions
B Analytical Methods
C On Mathematical Methods
7 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz's first doctoral thesis was for a degree in:
A Philosophy
B Mathematics
C Law
8 John Stuart Mill is considered the father of:
A Libertinism
B Liberalism
C Socialism
9 Sonja Kovalevskaya is not only remembered as a mathematician and writer.
She was also:
A Very politically active for a certain party
B An advocate of women's rights in the 19th Century
C Active for heighten the level on mathematics education in school
10 A famous quote by Albert Einstein is:
A "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
B "Knowledge is more important than imagination."
C "Knowledge is a wonderful thing"
11 Marie Curie performed pioneering studies with:
A Radium and Selenium
B Curium and Polonium
C Radium and Polonium
12 With especial help of one man it became possible for Srinivasa Ramanujan to enhance his ability.
Who was that man?
A G.H. Hardy
B A.N. Whitehead
C B. Russell
13 Considered as Stephen W. Hawking's most famous book:
A On the Origin of the Universe
B Star Trek - From a physicist's point of view
C A Brief History of Time
14 Simone de Beauvoir's most important non fictional work is:
A The six seconds
B The second Sex
C The first Sex
1 One of these persons do not appear in Confucian Analects:
A Tjang
B Tsang
C Tsze-hsia
2 Parmenides from Plato's famous dialogue Parmenides had one thing in common with Plato.
A Belonged to the Eleates.
B Had a dualistic world picture
C Both had Zenon as pupil
3 What was the main reason why Hypatia was murdered?
A It couldn't be tolerated by some that she "knew too much" for a woman
B She was mistaken for another person
C Hypatia refused to convert to Christianity
4 When testing new medicine Avicenna meant that it could be tested with relevant results on:
A Any mammal, e.g. a horse or a lion
B An ape as it is similar to man in constitution
C Only on a human
5 Leonardo da Vinci made many ingenious sketches on different constructions.
However, one of these were lacking:
A A rotating cylinder instead of sail on ships
B Flying Machine
C Double hull for ships
6 Another name for Maria Gaetana Agnesi's curve "Witch of Agnesi" is:
A Versiera
B Versaria
C Fermat's Miracle Curve
7 In Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz's Monadology; is a monad moralistically:
A Meaningless question
B A Neutral thing
C A Good thing
8 John Stuart Mill refers to this quote in his introduction to Utilitarianism:
"So act, that the rule on which thou actest would admit of being adopted as a law by all rational beings.".
To whom belongs it:
A Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
B Immanuel Kant
C David Hume
9 What deals Sonja Kovalevskaya's doctoral thesis with:
A Differential equations of the first order
B Differential equations of higher order
C Integral calculus
10 In what way differ Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity from classical mechanics:
A Through the postulate of relativity
B Through the dimension of the room
C Through the postulate of the constancy of the velocity of light in vacuo
11 Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize twice. Which years:
A 1903 and 1908
B 1903 and 1911
C 1905 and 1911
12 One of these Srinivasa Ramanujan constants don't exist:
A Hardy-Ramanujan Constant
B Landau-Ramanujan Constant
C Nielsen-Ramanujan Constants
13 Stephen W. Hawking has proposed a theory:
A That space and imaginary time together, are indeed finite in extent, but without boundary
B That space and imaginary time together, are indeed infinite in extent, and without boundary
C That space and imaginary time together, are indeed infinite in extent, but with boundary
14 According to Simone de Beauvoir's letters, her relationship with Sartre:
A Was much love
B Was both deep friendship and love
C Was rather deep friendship than love
