Q: How many years was Newton the president of the Royal Society?

1. 14 years
2. 4 years
3. 34 years
4. 24 years

Q: Which of these is the most commonly believed theory on Shakespeare's "lost years"?

1. He was a journalist.
2. He was a lawyer.
3. He was a doctor.
4. He was a schoolmaster.

Q: What is Thomas Edison's middle name?

1. Adam
2. Alva
3. Allen
4. Robert

Q: Even though Shakespeare continued his theatrical career in London, he invested a considerable amount in property in which English town?

1. Stratford upon Avon
2. Bath
3. Newcastle under Lyme
4. Ely

Q: When was Thomas Edison born?

1. Aug. 27, 1848
2. Feb. 11, 1847
3. Dec. 30, 1846
4. May 6, 1847

Q: What was the name of the woman whom William married in November 1582?(eight years his senior)

1. Mary Arden
2. Catherine Milford
3. Eliza Graham
4. Anne Hathaway

Q: How many of Shakespeare's plays were published in his lifetime?

1. About a quarter of them
2. None of them
3. About half of them
4. All of them

Q: Where was Sir Isaac Newton born?

1. Southampton, Hampshire
2. Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire
3. Wolverhampton, West Midlands
4. Kings Lynn, Norfolk

Q: At what age did Edison become a telegraph operator?

1. 14
2. 13
3. 15
4. 17

Q: Which one of these inventions did Edison not discover or help improve?

1. Radio
2. Telephone
3. Phonogragh
4. Light bulb

Q: How old was Newton when he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge?

1. 35 years old
2. 40 years old
3. 47 years old
4. 27 years old

Q: Which Pythagorean thinker held that the heart was the special seat of life based on its central placement in the circulatory system?

1. Hippocrates
2. Empedocles
3. Heracleides
4. Galen

Q: Which activity did Newton not enjoy doing as a child?

1. Sketching and drawing
2. Building sundials, water clocks& windmills
3. Making and flying paper kites
4. Singing and playing a harp

Q: Which Pythagorean gave the first coherent account of the blood vessel system in our bodies?

1. Diogenes
2. Strato
3. Sylvius
4. Posidonius