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This study set covers European History through
20 practice questions.
A collection of questions focusing on the history of scientific advancement, discoveries, and intellectual history in Europe. Every question includes the correct answer so you can learn as you go — pick any format above to get started.
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European History: Scientific and Intellectual Milestones study set below.
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1
Which 16th-century astronomer published 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium', mathematically proposing a heliocentric model of the universe?
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A
Nicolaus Copernicus
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B
Johannes Kepler
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C
Tycho Brahe
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D
Galileo Galilei
2
In 1687, Isaac Newton published 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica', which formulated which fundamental physical laws?
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A
Laws of thermodynamics
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B
Laws of motion and universal gravitation
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C
Laws of electromagnetism
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D
Laws of quantum mechanics
3
Which scientist conducted the famous oil drop experiment in 1909 to determine the charge of an electron?
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A
J.J. Thomson
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B
Ernest Rutherford
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C
Robert Millikan
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D
Louis de Broglie
4
Who is credited with discovering the circulation of blood in the human body in his 1628 work 'Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'?
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A
Andreas Vesalius
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B
William Harvey
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C
Paracelsus
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D
Marcello Malpighi
5
Which European scientist is known for developing the germ theory of disease and inventing the process of pasteurization?
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A
Robert Koch
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B
Joseph Lister
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C
Louis Pasteur
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D
Ignaz Semmelweis
6
The 'Great Plague of London' (1665) led scientists to later identify the pathogen responsible for the Bubonic Plague, which is known as:
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A
Yersinia pestis
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B
Bacillus anthracis
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C
Vibrio cholerae
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D
Salmonella typhi
7
Which Italian scientist was the first to use a telescope to observe the craters on the moon and the phases of Venus?
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A
Giordano Bruno
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B
Galileo Galilei
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C
Evangelista Torricelli
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D
Giovanni Cassini
8
What is the primary contribution of Antoine Lavoisier, often called the 'father of modern chemistry', to the field of science?
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A
The discovery of oxygen
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B
The Law of Conservation of Mass
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C
The invention of the periodic table
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D
The theory of atomic structure
9
Which element did Marie Curie isolate while working in Paris, winning her the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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A
Uranium
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B
Polonium
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C
Plutonium
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D
Thorium
10
In 1859, Charles Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species', which introduced the scientific theory of:
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A
Natural selection
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B
Genetic mutation
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C
Spontaneous generation
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D
Mendelian inheritance
11
Which 17th-century scientist developed the barometer, proving that air has weight and creating a vacuum?
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A
Blaise Pascal
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B
Evangelista Torricelli
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C
Robert Boyle
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D
Christiaan Huygens
12
Gregor Mendel, whose work founded the science of genetics, performed his experiments on which organism?
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A
Fruit flies
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B
Pea plants
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C
Mice
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D
Yeast
13
Which English chemist identified the existence of 'dephlogisticated air', later renamed oxygen by Lavoisier?
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A
Joseph Priestley
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B
Humphry Davy
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C
John Dalton
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D
Henry Cavendish
14
The discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick relied heavily on X-ray crystallography data produced by:
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A
Rosalind Franklin
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B
Barbara McClintock
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C
Dorothy Hodgkin
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D
Lise Meitner
15
Which scientist is credited with the discovery of X-rays in 1895 while working in Würzburg, Germany?
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A
Max Planck
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B
Wilhelm Röntgen
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C
Heinrich Hertz
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D
Philipp Lenard
16
Which 18th-century Swedish scientist developed the centigrade temperature scale?
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A
Anders Celsius
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B
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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C
Lord Kelvin
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D
Carl Linnaeus
17
The scientific study of fossils, known as paleontology, was formally established as a discipline by which French scientist?
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A
Georges Cuvier
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B
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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C
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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D
Buffon
18
Which law of physics, formulated by Robert Boyle, describes the inverse relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas?
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A
Boyle's Law
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B
Charles's Law
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C
Dalton's Law
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D
Henry's Law
19
Which Danish astronomer spent years recording precise planetary positions that later enabled Kepler to derive his laws of planetary motion?
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A
Ole Rømer
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B
Tycho Brahe
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C
Hans Christian Ørsted
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D
Niels Bohr
20
Which scientist is famous for his 1927 formulation of the 'Uncertainty Principle' in quantum mechanics?
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A
Werner Heisenberg
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B
Erwin Schrödinger
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C
Max Born
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D
Wolfgang Pauli
