QUIZ

This quiz will test you on 10 famous mathematicians (Archimedes, Euclid, Galileo, Johann Carl Gauss, Sophie Germain, Evelyn Granville, Sonya Kovalevskaya, Isaac Newton, John Forbes Nash and Pythagoras). Good luck!
  1. She hid candles in her shoes so she could study Maths at night.
    [A] Sonya Kovalevskaya
    [B] Euclid
    [C] Evelyn Granville
    [D] Sophie Germain


  2. He was a Greek Mathematician known for shouting "Eureka!" in his bathtub
    [A] Galileo
    [B] Pythagoras
    [C] Archimedes
    [D] Euclid

  3. His theorem helps modern day sandwich makers
    [A] Galileo
    [B] Pythagoras
    [C] Euclid
    [D] Isaac Newton

  4. He dropped different weight balls from the tower of Pisa to show that they would hit the ground at the same time
    [A] Isaac Newton
    [B] Galileo
    [C] Pythagoras
    [D] Euclid


  5. He is known as the "Father of Geometry".
    [A] Isaac Newton
    [B] Galileo
    [C] Pythagoras
    [D] Euclid


  6. Famous for his "beautiful mind"
    [A] Pythagoras
    [B] John Forbes Nash
    [C] Euclid
    [D] Johann Carl Gauss


  7. This mathematician is famous for experiments involving light, prisms and the eye.
    [A] John Forbes Nash
    [B] Isaac Newton
    [C] Johann Carl Gauss
    [D] Sonya Kovalevsky


  8. This mathematician had to get married in order to leave Russia to study Maths
    [A] Sonya Kovalevskaya
    [B] Pythagoras
    [C] Evelyn Granville
    [D] Sophie Germain

  9. This "Prince of Mathematicians" once quickly solved a problem where he was asked to add the first 100 numbers together.
    [A] Johann Carl Gauss
    [B] John Forbes Nash
    [C] Isaac Newton
    [D] Galileo


  10. This Italian mathematician made telescopes to look at the moon.
    [A] Johann Carl Gauss
    [B] Isaac Newton
    [C] Pythagoras
    [D] Galileo

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