Benjamin Franklin and Galileo Galilei: General Knowledge USA Quiz.
By knowledgeterminal - January 11, 2019
Section 1: USA neighbors
Section 2: World map (rivers of the continent of Africa)
Section 3: USA incident
1788–89
The first quadrennial presidential election in USA. (from Monday, December 15, 1788)
The first quadrennial presidential election in USA. (from Monday, December 15, 1788)
Section 4: world incident
Fifth century BC
First known democracy in the world: Athenian democracy developed around the in the Greek city-state of Athens
First known democracy in the world: Athenian democracy developed around the in the Greek city-state of Athens
Section 5: Benjamin Franklin and Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Franklin Facts
1
1.
Born in Boston, 1706.
2.
He invented bifocals lightning rod and the
Franklin stove swimmy flipper, and mapped the Gulf Stream and studyed the link
between volcanoes climate change
3.
Franklin proposed that the attraction and
repulsion were properties of electricity. His work laid the groundwork for
scientists like Allessandro Volta, Michael Faraday and Nikola Tesla.
4.
Franklin thought that lightning might be a form
of electricity and did experiment using a long metal rod attached to a Leyden
jar.
5.
He served as Postmaster General from 1753
6.
After that, he was a little busy, what with the
Revolutionary War and helping found the United States and everything.
7.
He persuaded the French to help the colonies
fight Britain in the American Revolution.
8.
He is one of the Founding Fathers of the United
States signing the Declaration of Independence
9. Mozart and Beethoven wrote music for the harmonica that Benjamin Franklin created.
10.
Benjamin Franklin was the richest person in the
United States
11.
In 1790, at age 84 he died
Galileo Galilei Facts
1.
Born in Italy in 1564
2.
It is believed that Galileo dropped two cannon
balls of different masses from the leaning tower of Pisa to prove that speed of
falling objects were independent of their mass
3.
Galileo was a skillful lutenist
4.
Galileo believed in Copernicus’s theory laid out
in 1543 that the Earth was not the center of the universe
5.
He did not agree with Kepler’s theory that the
moon caused the tides
6.
In the last year of his life, when he was
totally blind, Galileo designed an escapement mechanism for a pendulum clock
called Galileo’s escapement
7.
German dramatist Bertolt Brecht wrote a play
about Galileo entitled Life of Galileo, which was first performed on Broadway in
1947
8.
The middle finger of Galileo’s right hand has
been displayed at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
9.
He was a college dropout.
10. German-Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey is generally
credited with its creation but many believe that Galileo invented telescope but Galileo only improved the device
11.
he spent part of his life under house arrest
because he offended the church with his heliocentric views
12.
Died in 1642
Section 6: quiz
Q: Who is the father of sociology?
A: August Comte
