Quiz: How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

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1. Question
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1. What did Richard Feynman’s father tell him about the ball in the wagon?
- That moving air pushed the ball towards the back.
- That this movement is called inertia, but nobody knows why it happens.
- That heavy objects always resist being pulled by lighter ones.
- That the ball rolled back because the wagon was not flat.
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2. Which fact from the letter made Eratosthenes’ calculation possible?
- The sun shone straight down a well in Swenet on the solstice.
- The stars looked different from the two cities.
- The well in Swenet was deeper than the wells in Alexandria.
- The journey between the two cities took exactly ten days.
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3. How did Fizeau know that he had the measurement he needed?
- He timed the light as it reached a lamp on a far hill.
- He compared how bright the light was going out and coming back.
- He counted the teeth on the wheel while it was still.
- He spun the wheel faster until the returning light was fully blocked.
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4. Why did Armand Fizeau want to confirm the results of other scientists?
- Because Galileo had asked him to finish the work.
- Because repeating a test removes every possible mistake.
- Because a fact must be corroborated by other people before it is true.
- Because laboratories in Paris always needed two stations.
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5. Eratosthenes’ answer for the circumference of the Earth was within one percent of the value we use today.
- True
- False
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6. The lesson says that science is a closed black box that only a few people can open.
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7. Question
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word or phrase.
- 7. Eratosthenes is remembered as the man who invented the word Fill in the blank 1 of 1 to describe the study of the Earth.
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9-letter word, starts with “Ge”
Question 8 of 10

8. Question
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word or phrase.
- 8. Galileo tried to measure the speed of light between two Fill in the blank 1 of 1 with lamps, but light was too fast for his tools.
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5-letter word, starts with “Hi”
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9. Question
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word or phrase.
- 9. To test Galileo’s idea, Fizeau set up two Fill in the blank 1 of 1 in Paris that were several miles apart.
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8-letter word, starts with “ST”

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1. Question

1. What did Richard Feynman’s father tell him about the ball in the wagon?

2. Question

2. Which fact from the letter made Eratosthenes’ calculation possible?

3. Question

3. How did Fizeau know that he had the measurement he needed?

4. Question

4. Why did Armand Fizeau want to confirm the results of other scientists?

5. Question

5. Eratosthenes’ answer for the circumference of the Earth was within one percent of the value we use today.

6. Question

6. The lesson says that science is a closed black box that only a few people can open.

7. Question

7. Eratosthenes is remembered as the man who invented the word Fill in the blank 1 of 1 to describe the study of the Earth.

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8. Question

8. Galileo tried to measure the speed of light between two Fill in the blank 1 of 1 with lamps, but light was too fast for his tools.

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9. Question

9. To test Galileo’s idea, Fizeau set up two Fill in the blank 1 of 1 in Paris that were several miles apart.

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