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Warren Gamaliel Harding Quiz | Questions with Answers

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Warren Gamaliel Harding Quiz Questions with Answers

1) When was Warren Gamaliel Harding sworn in as President of USA?
Answer: 4 March 1921

2) When was Warren Gamaliel Harding born?
Answer: 2 November 1865

3) Where was Warren Gamaliel Harding born?
Answer: Corsica, France

4) Which college did Warren Gamaliel Harding attend?
Answer: Ohio Central College

5) Which state had Warren Gamaliel Harding as its Lieutenant Governor?
Answer: Ohio

6) Which of the following Acts was passed to reduce tariffs when Warren Gamaliel Harding was President?
Answer: Underwood Act

7) Which scandal occurred during the Presidency of Warren Gamaliel Harding?
Answer: Teapot Dome

8) Which of the following is false about Warren Gamaliel Harding?
Answer: First President of USA to appear on television

9) When did Warren Gamaliel Harding die?
Answer: 2 August 1923

10) Where did Warren Gamaliel Harding die?
Answer: San Francisco

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Planet Mercury Quiz – The innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System

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Mercury Quiz Questions

1) Who is Mercury in mythology?
a) God of justice
b) God of war
c) God of wind
d) God of commerce (Correct)

2) What is the minimum surface temperature of Mercury?
a) 72?C
b) 0?C
c) -10?C
d) -173?C (Correct)

3) What is the maximum surface temperature of Mercury?
a) 122?C
b) 427?C (Correct)
c) 285?C
d) 576?C

4) What is the tilt of axis (degrees) of Mercury?
a) One
b) Two
c) Zero (Correct)
d) Three

5) Which spacecraft first visited Mercury?
a) Pioneer 4
b) Mariner 8
c) Ulysses
d) Mariner 10 (Correct)

6) Which theory correctly predicted the motions of Mercury?
a) Gravitational Theory
b) General Theory of Relativity (Correct)
c) Theory of Evolution
d) Heliocentric Theory

English: Mercury 10 diagram of Mercury 3 Encou... — English: Mercury 10 diagram of Mercury 3 Encounter. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

7) Who determined that Mercury must be tidally locked to the Sun? (This was proved wrong later on.)
a) John Dyce
b) Albert Goldstein
c) Giovanni Schiaparelli (Correct)
d) James Pettengill

8) Who of the following believed that Mercury orbited the Sun?
a) Aristotle
b) Heraclitus (Correct)
c) Plato
d) Socrates

9) What is Mercury’ rotation period around axis?
a) 31.25 days
b) 44.75 days
c) 58.65 days (Correct)
d) 71.29 days

10) What is the length of a year of Mercury?
a) 92.245 days
b) 87.969 days (Correct)
c) 47.701 days
d) 164.321 days

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Michael Faraday Quiz Questions Answers

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Michael Faraday Quiz Questions with Answers

1. When was Michael Faraday born?
Answer: 22 September 1791

2. Where was Michael Faraday born?
Answer: Newington

3. Who offered Michael Faraday the job of laboratory assistant?
Answer: Humphry Davy

4. When did Michael Faraday produce the first known compounds of carbon and chlorine?
Answer: 1820

5. What did Michael Faraday discover in 1825?
Answer: Benzene

6. When did Michael Faraday discover electromagnetic induction?
Answer: 1831

7. When was Michael Faraday Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain?
Answer: 1833-1867

8. What did Michael Faraday discover in 1845?
Answer: Diamagnetism

9. When did Michael Faraday die?
Answer: 25 August 1867

10. Where did Michael Faraday die?
Answer: Hampton Court

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Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane Quiz

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Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane Quiz Questions with Answers

1. When was Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane born?
Answer: 27 May 1862

2. Where was Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane born?
Answer: Edinburgh

3. Who influenced Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane to found an organization for slum reconstruction?
Answer: Octavia Hill

4. Which book did Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane translate with Frances Simson?
Answer: Hegel’s History of Philosophy

5. When did Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane become the first woman Justice of the Peace in Scotland?
Answer: 1920

6. When did Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane write The British Nurse in War and Peace?
Answer: 1923

7. Which college had Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane as its governor?
Answer: Birkbeck College

8. Which book is Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane’s autobiography?
Answer: From One Century to Another

9. When did Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane die?
Answer: 24 December 1937

10. Where did Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane die?
Answer: Auchterarder

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1908 London Olympic Games Quiz – Summer Olympics

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London Olympics 1908 Quiz Questions with Answers

1) Who declared the opening of London Olympics 1908?
Answer: Edward VII

2) Which was the opening date of London Olympics 1908?
Answer: 27 April 1908

3) Which city was originally chosen for Olympics 1904?
Answer: Rome

4) Which country got the highest medals in London Olympics 1908?
Answer: UK

5) What was the name of the delegation representing Australia and New Zealand in London Olympics 1908?
Answer: Australasia

6) Who refused to dip his country’s flag during the parade in London Olympics 1908?
Answer: Martin Sheridan

7) Which country’s athletes participated without the national flag in London Olympics 1908?
Answer: Finland

8) How old was Oscar Swahn when he won his first Olympic gold medal?Answer: 60 years

9) How the Olympic Stadium built for London Olympics 1908 came to be known?
Answer: White City

10) Which was the closing date of London Olympics 1908?
Answer: 31 October 1908

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Girolamo Savonarola Quiz

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Girolamo Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar, Scholastic, religious and political reformer and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence from 1494 until his execution in 1498

Girolamo Savonarola Quiz Questions

1. When was Girolamo Savonarola born?
a) 4 February 1444
b) 15 April 1442
c) 21 September 1452
d) 30 November 1455

2. Where was Girolamo Savonarola born?
a) Ferrara
b) Pisa
c) Lepanto
d) Genoa

3. Which order did Girolamo Savonarola join?
a) Augustinian
b) Capuchin
c) Dominican
d) Benedictine

4. Who invaded Florence and overthrew Medici rule in 1494 as predicted by Girolamo Savonarola?
a) Charles VIII
b) Philip IV
c) Henry VI
d) Edward VI

5. Which party opposed Girolamo Savonarola?
a) Jacobin
b) Conservative
c) Labour
d) Arrabbiati
6. Who ordered Girolamo Savonarola to go to Bologna under pain of excommunication?
a) Julius II
b) Leo X
c) Alexander VI
d) Urban VIII

7. Which coalition against France Girolamo Savonarola did not want Florence to join?
a) Triple Alliance
b) Holy League
c) Grand Alliance
d) Catholic League

8. Who accepted the challenge of a Franciscan to ordeal by fire on the invalidity of Girolamo Savonarola’s excommunication?
a) Domenico da Pescia
b) Giordano Bruno
c) Lorenzo de Medici
d) Cesare Borgia

9. When did Girolamo Savonarola die?
a) 26 January 1499
b) 23 May 1498
c) 11 July 1503
d) 12 December 1515

10. Where did Girolamo Savonarola die?
a) Turin
b) Berne
c) Pavia
d) Florence

Girolamo Savonarola Quiz Questions with Answers

1. When was Girolamo Savonarola born?
c) 21 September 1452

2. Where was Girolamo Savonarola born?
a) Ferrara

3. Which order did Girolamo Savonarola join?
c) Dominican

4. Who invaded Florence and overthrew Medici rule in 1494 as predicted by Girolamo Savonarola?
a) Charles VIII

5. Which party opposed Girolamo Savonarola?
d) Arrabbiati

6. Who ordered Girolamo Savonarola to go to Bologna under pain of excommunication?
c) Alexander VI

7. Which coalition against France Girolamo Savonarola did not want Florence to join?
b) Holy League

8. Who accepted the challenge of a Franciscan to ordeal by fire on the invalidity of Girolamo Savonarola’s excommunication?
a) Domenico da Pescia

9. When did Girolamo Savonarola die?
b) 23 May 1498

10. Where did Girolamo Savonarola die?
d) Florence

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Francisco Pizarro Quiz Questions Answers

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Francisco Pizarro Quiz Questions

1. Where was Francisco Pizarro born?
a) Trujillo
b) Barcelona
c) Madrid
d) Casablanca

2. When did Francisco Pizarro first set sail from Spain?
a) 12 August 1492
b) 17 June 1536
c) 22 January 1538
d) 10 November 1509

3. Whom did Francisco Pizarro accompany in the discovery of the Pacific?
a) Christopher Columbus
b) Ferdinand Magellan
c) Vasco Nunez de Balboa
d) Vasco da Gama

4. What was Hernando de Luque, a partner of Francisco Pizarro?
a) Doctor
b) Merchant
c) Priest
d) Cobbler

5. Of which province was Francisco Pizarro made governor and captain general on 26 July 1529?
a) Catalonia
b) Galicia
c) Basques
d) New Castile

6. When did Francisco Pizarro capture Atahualpa?
a) 15 March 1526
b) 26 April 1548
c) 2 July 1524
d) 16 November 1532

7. Which empire was destroyed by Francisco Pizarro?
a) Mayan
b) Incan
c) Mughal
d) Roman

8. What did Francisco Pizarro call the city he founded on 18 January 1535?
a) City of Joy
b) City of the Kings
c) City of Misery
d) City of Hope

9. When did Francisco Pizarro die?
a) 4 January 1548
b) 26 June 1541
c) 6 August 1545
d) 9 December 1563

10. Where did Francisco Pizarro die?
a) Lima
b) San Sebastian
c) Los Alamos
d) San Domingo

Francisco Pizarro Quiz Questions with Answers

1. Where was Francisco Pizarro born?
a) Trujillo

2. When did Francisco Pizarro first set sail from Spain?
d) 10 November 1509

3. Whom did Francisco Pizarro accompany in the discovery of the Pacific?
c) Vasco Nunez de Balboa

4. What was Hernando de Luque, a partner of Francisco Pizarro?
c) Priest

5. Of which province was Francisco Pizarro made governor and captain general on 26 July 1529?
d) New Castile

6. When did Francisco Pizarro capture Atahualpa?
d) 16 November 1532

7. Which empire was destroyed by Francisco Pizarro?
b) Incan

8. What did Francisco Pizarro call the city he founded on 18 January 1535?
b) City of the Kings

9. When did Francisco Pizarro die?
b) 26 June 1541

10. Where did Francisco Pizarro die?
a) Lima.

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