STS QUIZ #1

Who is credited with the invention of the ancient wheel?

• Greeks

• Sumerians

• Romans

• Egyptians

Who accidentally invented gunpowder around 850 A.D.?

• Romans

• Greeks

• Chinese

• Persians

Who invented the medical incubator?

• Rolando Dela Cruz

• Maria Y. Orosa

• Fe Del Mundo

• Abelardo Aguilar

Is the systematic knowledge based on facts, nature, formulated through careful observation, experimentation, and research.

• Society

• Technology

• Science

• Theology

Machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific and theoretical knowledge.

• Mathematics

• Science

• Society

• Technology

Who discovered a telescope by stepping up the magnification of a spyglass at 30 times?

• Euclid

• Galilei

• Newton

• Einstein

Heliocentric model of the universe is rediscovered by ____________.

• Newton

• Einstein

• Copernicus

• Galielei

It is the period known as the "rebirth of knowledge".

• Classical period

• Dark Age

• Bronze Age

• Renaissance

Who helped define the laws of gravity and planetary motion , as well as explained the laws of light and color?

• Einstein

• Newton

• Archimedes

• Galilei

The oldest university in the Philippines and Asia is the University of Santo Tomas which was built during the colonization of _____________.

• Japanese

• Koreans

• Americans

• Spaniards