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1. Issac Newton was born on ...
January 2, 1642
March 25, 1642
January 4, 1643
October 24, 1643


2. Where was Isaac Newton born?
Grantham
Woolsthrope
Lincolnshire
Philadelphia


3. What were his parents' names?
Isaac & Hannah
Isaac & Mary
John & Margery
John & Hannah


4. How did he threaten his mother and step-father?
Said he would kill them
Said he would run away
Said he would burn them and their house
Tried to hit them


5. What school did he attend during his childhood?
Free Grammar School of Woolsthrope
Grantham Elementary
Harvard
Free Grammar School of Grantham


6. Who was the oldest child in Isaac's family?
His Half-Brother
Isaac
His Half-Sister
His brother


7. He left the Free Grammar School of Grantham but returned in ...
1660
1659
1661
1663


8. What college did he attend in 1661?
Harvard
Yale
Trinity College Cambridge
Free College of Woolsthrope


9. What did Isaac Newton wish to be?
Doctor
Mathematician
Lawyer
Archeologist


10. Isaac studied philosophy of...
Boyle
Descartes
Aristotle
All of the Above


11. When did Isaac Newton get interested in Mathematics?
Winter of 1663
Autumn of 1663
Summer of 1664
Spring of 1666


12. Isaac made advances in all except...
Mathematics
Physics
Anatomy
Astronomy


13. Isaac laid foundations for...
Calculus
Lawyers
Astrology
Basic Food Chain


14. What did Issac discover independently?
Heliocentric Theory
Basis of Algebra
Geocentric Theory
Leibniz


15. In what year did Isaac publish first scientific paper?
1684
1703
1667
1672


16. What was this publication about?
Three Laws of Motion
Light & Color
Inertia
Gravity


17. What year was the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica published?
1692
1687
1678
1708


18. Isaac's Three Laws of Motion are the basic principles of...
Modern Physics
General Science
Ecology
Astronomy


19. Isaac was the first to explore the connection between...
The Moon and Sun
The Earth and its Rotation
Celestial mechanics and Terrestrial dynamics
Motion and Speed


20. Isaac was all except a(n)...
English physicist
Mathematician
Architect
Scientist


*BONUS*

What is stated in Newton's Third Law?
Force is equal to Mass times Acceleration
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
Mass times Force equals Speed
Energy is equal to Mass times Distance squared


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