- 1. When did Blaise Pascal pass away?
A) 1735
B) 1662
C) 1700
D) 1799
- 2. In what year was Blaise Pascal born?
A) 1600
B) 1688
C) 1645
D) 1623
- 3. Blaise Pascal was a famous mathematician and ____________.
A) biologist
B) astronomer
C) philosopher
D) musician
- 4. What is the title of the famous book written by Blaise Pascal?
A) Pensées
B) Discourse on the Method
C) The Prince
D) Critique of Pure Reason
- 5. Where was Blaise Pascal born?
A) Germany
B) England
C) Italy
D) France
- 6. What was the cause of Blaise Pascal's death?
A) pneumonia
B) heart attack
C) stroke
D) stomach cancer
- 7. Blaise Pascal's father was a ____________.
A) tax collector
B) clergyman
C) merchant
D) physician
- 8. Which one of the following is a Pascaline?
A) mechanical calculator
B) telescope
C) compass
D) barometer
- 9. Blaise Pascal is known for Pascal's Triangle in ____________.
A) mathematics
B) chemistry
C) physics
D) biology
- 10. In what city did Blaise Pascal spend the last years of his life?
A) Paris
B) Vienna
C) London
D) Rome
- 11. Which famous mathematician corresponded with Blaise Pascal on probability theory?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Archimedes
C) Pierre de Fermat
D) Euclid
- 12. Blaise Pascal's work in geometry led to the development of ____________.
A) trigonometry
B) projective geometry
C) analytic geometry
D) differential geometry
- 13. Blaise Pascal's famous principle that 'The truth is obscured by the thickness of custom' pertains to the domain of:
A) aesthetics
B) ontology
C) logic
D) epistemology
- 14. Blaise Pascal's early interest in mathematics was influenced by his father's fascination with ____________.
A) calculus
B) algebra
C) trigonometry
D) geometry
- 15. What was the title of the work by Blaise Pascal that criticized the Jesuits and the state of the Catholic Church?
A) The Provincial Letters
B) The Wealth of Nations
C) The Social Contract
D) The Prince
- 16. Blaise Pascal's experiments with hydrodynamics contributed to the field of ____________.
A) fluid mechanics
B) general relativity
C) stellar astrophysics
D) quantum mechanics
- 17. Which of the following concepts is Pascal famous for?
A) Pascal's Wager
B) Darwin's Theory of Evolution
C) Einstein's Theory of Relativity
D) Newton's Laws of Motion
- 18. In which field did Blaise Pascal make significant contributions?
A) Engineering
B) Chemistry
C) Music
D) Philosophy
- 19. At what age did Blaise Pascal pass away?
A) 50
B) 39
C) 45
D) 55
- 20. Which famous mathematical triangle is named after Blaise Pascal?
A) Fibonacci Triangle
B) Euclidean Triangle
C) Pascal's Triangle
D) Pythagorean Triangle
- 21. What religious order influenced Pascal's later philosophical and theological works?
A) Jansenism
B) Judaism
C) Zen Buddhism
D) Hinduism
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