Which accused woman was John Proctor's wife?
Answer
Elizabeth Proctor
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who served as clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer?
Answer
Stephen Sewall
Who prosecuted cases for the Court of Oyer and Terminer?
Answer
Thomas Newton
Which court handled Salem witchcraft cases in 1693?
Answer
Superior Court of Judicature
Which magistrate co-signed John Hathorne's Salem examinations?
Answer
Jonathan Corwin
Who directed John Indian to make a witch cake?
Answer
Mary Sibley
What was the name of the four-year-old girl accused of witchcraft?
Answer
Dorothy Good
Which governor dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer?
Answer
William Phips
Which accuser publicly apologized in 1706 for her role in the trials?
Answer
Ann Putnam Jr.
What was the name of the book written by Cotton Mather about the trials?
Answer
Wonders of the Invisible World
Which former minister of Salem Village was executed as a witch?
Answer
George Burroughs
What type of evidence was banned after the trials?
Answer
Spectral evidence
Which family was the most prominent family of accusers?
Answer
Putnam
In which month of 1692 were the last executions held?
Answer
September
What was the name of the special court established for the trials?
Answer
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Which minister wrote "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits"?
Answer
Increase Mather
What was the name of the man pressed to death for refusing to plead?
Answer
Giles Corey
Which judge later publicly apologized for his role in the trials?
Answer
Samuel Sewall
What criminal did Isaac Newton help prosecute as Warden of the Mint?
Answer
William Chaloner
What is the full Latin title of Isaac Newton's magnum opus?
Answer
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
During which two-year period did Isaac Newton develop calculus?
Answer
1665–1666
What phenomenon did Newton observe when pressing a lens against glass?
Answer
Newton's rings
What theological doctrine did Isaac Newton reject?
Answer
Trinity
What was the name of Newton's birthplace farm?
Answer
Woolsthorpe Manor
What was the name of the comet Newton studied in 1680?
Answer
Great Comet of 1680
What was the surname of Isaac Newton's stepfather?
Answer
Smith
What notation did Newton use for differentiation in calculus?
Answer
Dot notation
Who preceded Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor at Cambridge?
Answer
Isaac Barrow
What was the subject of Isaac Newton's first scientific paper in 1672?
Answer
Light and colors
What did Isaac Newton call his version of calculus?
Answer
Method of fluxions
What theory of light did Isaac Newton advocate?
Answer
Corpuscular theory
What optical aberration did Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope avoid?
Answer
Chromatic aberration
Which of Newton's laws is also known as the law of inertia?
Answer
First law
How long was Isaac Newton's first reflecting telescope?
Answer
6 inches
How old was Isaac Newton when he died?
Answer
84
What professorship did Newton hold at Cambridge?
Answer
Lucasian Professor
What is the name of Newton's reflecting telescope design?
Answer
Newtonian telescope
Who was Newton's rival in the invention of calculus?
Answer
Gottfried Leibniz
What did Newton prove with a prism experiment?
Answer
White light is composed of colors
What mathematical field did Newton co-develop with Leibniz?
Answer
Calculus
What unit of force is named after Isaac Newton?
Answer
Newton
What 1917 paper by Einstein introduced the concept of stimulated emission?
Answer
On the Quantum Theory of Radiation