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