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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Isaac Newton.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do researchers want to find black holes?
(a) To prevent space travelers from entering them.
(b) To prevent the orbits of earth and other possible earth-like worlds from entering them.
(c) To explain strage gravitational orbits of planets in bianary star systems.
(d) To explain gravitational forces that the mass of the universe cannot explain.

2. Einstein proposed who should have control over nuclear weaponry?
(a) Only states with democracies.
(b) The civilians in each state.
(c) There should be international control.
(d) The military of each state.

3. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?
(a) Gamma.
(b) Gluons.
(c) Quarks.
(d) Virtual.

4. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?
(a) Good-Bye Bad Science - Einstein remains in America.
(b) Good News from Einstein - He's Not Coming Back.
(c) We Lost the Greatest Mathematician of our Time.
(d) Professor Einstein Stays Away to Save His Life.

5. Who said, "Physics as we know it will be over in six months."
(a) Stephen Hawking.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Max Born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is entropy?

2. How does Hawking define scientific theory?

3. Galileo wrote about Copernicus' theory in which language?

4. Light moves along what sort of lines?

5. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?

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