2. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?
(a) The Berber Calendar.
(b) The Julian Calendar.
(c) The Hipparchus’ Calendar.
(d) The Aristotelian Calendar.

3. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Pavarti.
(b) Kartikeya.
(c) Ganesha.
(d) Shiva.

4. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?
(a) A geocentric calendar.
(b) A lunar calendar.
(c) A solar calendar.
(d) A plexus calendar.

5. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Subatomic program.
(b) The Drone program.
(c) The Eastern Invasion program.
(d) The Smart Ship program.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?

2. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?

3. Where did Copernicus live?

4. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?

5. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

(see the answer key)

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