The Scientific Revolution Quiz
The Dark Ages didn’t receive their nickname on a whim. This was nearly a millennium of European history where intellectual and societal progress happened at a snail’s pace. What few major breakthroughs predated the Dark Ages were promptly forgotten as people entered a highly feudal and unenlightened existence.
Those men who ended the Dark Ages did so by moving against the social grain. In essence, they took centuries of assumed knowledge that had led humanity astray and chucked it out during a period we now call the Scientific Revolution. And revolution really is the word for it. Not only were the things that people thought up during this time ground-breaking, but even the ways they thought about certain concepts evolved.
Data became the knew king of human understanding. If something couldn’t be proven, then it was to be doubted until further evidence was garnered. Some of the greatest thinkers in European history rose to prominence during this era. For many, this was a chance for a social rebirth.
Misunderstandings that governed people’s lives could finally be put to rest, and in their place, bold new discoveries could improve all aspects of European society. Medicine, physics, anatomy, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, industry, academia, and even philosophy were all revolutionized by the discoveries of this age’s scientists.
As much as to test, this quiz is meant to inform. So, we hope you come out of it knowing something new. How much do you know about this crucial period in human history?
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The Scientific Revolution is often believed to have been started by what Prussian/Polish astronomer known for his work discovering the center of the solar system?
Nikola Tesla
Galen
Nostradamus
Nicholas Copernicus
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Copernicus introduced the idea that the Earth revolved around what astral body?
Jupiter
The moon
Itself
The sun
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During the Scientific Revolution, researchers began to unknowingly adopt what mode of thinking where experimentation and evidence were the keys to understanding?
The Scientific Method
The Spectral Method
The Corporeal Method
The Brunswick Method
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What Dutch/Flemish scientist revolutionized the world of medicine by dissecting human bodies and creating accurate diagrams of anatomy?
Russo
Galen
Diogenes
Vesalius
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Willia Harvey discovered during the Scientific Revolution that veins carry blood to, and arteries carry blood away from, what organ?
The heart
The brain
The skin
The liver
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What first ever Queen's Consul of England famously outlined parameters for scientific research?
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Hillary
Sir Francis Scott Key
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The Scientific Revolution happened parallel to what artistic period where Europeans rediscovered the classics and began to make new art based on the old masters'?
The Baroque Period
The Purgatory
The Renaissance
The Reformation
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What Italian astronomer proved that Copernicus was right in claiming that the Earth revolved around the sun?
Galileo
Hegel
Vespucci
Otressa
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What religious authority placed Galileo under house arrest for the remainder of his life because he refused to denounce his scientific proof that the Earth revolved around the sun?
The Spanish Inquisition
The Roman Inquisition
The Genoese Inquisition
The Parisian Inquisition
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Galileo also discovered that what planet in our solar system has rings surrounding it?
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
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Much of the early Scientific Revolution was occupied with disproving the theories of what famous Greek polymath who claimed that matter was made up of the four classical elements and that the Earth was the center of the universe?
Archimedes
Agrippa
Socrates
Aristotle
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Fill in the blank to complete the following Sir Francis Bacon quote that accurately described the philosophy of many researchers during the Scientific Revolution, "Knowledge and (BLANK) are synonymous."
Human power
Decency
Arrogance
A pained heart
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During the Scientific Revolution, William Gilbert discovered the reason why compasses point north. What is that reason?
There is always less air density in the north.
The Earth is magnetic.
The north is so cold that it attracts compass needles.
There are large cobalt deposits in the Arctic.
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What man applied the new scientific method to philosophy, stating that one of the only things he had evidence for relating to the human mind was "I think, therefore, I am"?
Friedrich Nietzche
Blaise Pascal
Rene Descartes
Sore Kierkegaard
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What astronomer vastly improved the design of the refracting telescope and used it to chart the motion of the planets?
James Hargreaves
Emmanuel Kant
Diedrich Khan
Johannes Kepler
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The Scientific Revolution was only able to kick off because what famous man invented the printing press in the 15th Century?
Pitt the Elder
Johannes Gutenberg
Vier Plimpton
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Thinker John Locke asserted that all human beings learn through their personal experiences. To elaborate on this point, he said that every newborn's brain is a tabula rasa. What does tabula rasa mean?
Author's signature
Fresh clay
Blank slate
Filled vault
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John Napier invented what logarithmic contraption that could mechanically calculate the answers to multiplication problems?
Napier's fingers
Napier's heart
Napier's kidneys
Napier's bones
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What collection of accredited scholars was founded by Britain's monarch during the Scientific Revolution to improve the country's overall understanding of the world?
The Graceport Institute
Scotland Yard
Cosby Downs
The Royal Society
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Galileo figured out that projectiles travel in what shape before hitting the ground, thus setting the stage for the discovery of gravity?
A parabola
A square
A perfect circle
A triangle
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Edmond Halley used the new scientific theories of planetary motion to calculate how much time would need to pass between periods when a certain comet would become visible from Earth. How much time passes between each appearance of Halley's Comet?
About 30 months.
About 76 years.
About 291 Years.
About 414 Years.
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Georgius Agricola's scientific texts removed the mysticism from mining and smithing metals. Previously, such processes were considered part of what mystic art?
Alchemy
Phrenology
Astrology
Syrcanism
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Robert Boyle is considered by some to be the "Father" of what science?
Chemistry
Astronomy
Physics
Anatomy
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What King of England founded the Royal Society by supporting local researchers monetarily and vesting them with authority on his behalf?
King Louis I of England
King John I
King Lawrence II
King Charles II
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Francois Viete created the field of math called New Algebra by representing unknown quantities in equations with what?
Letters
Animal names
The Latin word "Owe"
Angle values
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What English scientist capped off the Scientific Revolution by, among other things, discovering gravity?
James Watt
Michael Faraday
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
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Newton is especially known for conceptualizing three laws of motion. His first law of motion coined what physical concept where an object in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force?
Magnetism
Inertia
Density
Amplitude
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Newton's Second Law stated that what quality of matter is dependent upon both the mass and acceleration of an object?
Range
Force
Center of gravity
Freezing point
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Newton's Third Law states that for every action, there is what?
A resulting noise
A production of heat
An equal and opposite reaction
A destruction of molecules
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One final example of Sir Isaac Newton's genius was his invention of what device that split visible light into a spectrum of colors?
The Bunson burner
The wringer
The gyroscope
The prism
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