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The Ultimate Charles Darwin Quiz - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 13 times
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- The average score is 10 of 31
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| When was he born? | 12 February 1809 | 100%
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| When did he die? | 19 April 1882 | 100%
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| When did Darwin return to England? | 2 October 1836 | 100%
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| How many children did he have with above that survived to adulthood? | 7 | 100%
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| What archipelago is Darwin most famous for studying? | Galapagos islands | 100%
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| What animal did Darwin famously eat on this archipelago? | Galapagos tortoise | 100%
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| What ship did Darwin famously sail in on his first voyage? | HMS Beagle | 100%
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| What book was written by Darwin, published on 22 November 1859, that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology? | On the Origin of Species | 100%
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| What famous institution was he elected into? | Royal Society | 100%
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| Where was he buried? | Westminster Abbey | 100%
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| What year did Darwin pass his exams? | 1831 | 0%
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| What did natural disaster did Darwin experience while in Chile? | an earthquake (1835 Concepción earthquake) | 0%
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| What was diagnosed of that led to his death? | "angina pectoris" (coronary thrombosis) | 0%
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| What was the ship's purpose? | chart the coastline of South America | 0%
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| Who did Darwin marry in 1839? | Emma Wedgwood | 0%
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| What was the theory Darwin proposed in above, which is what he is most famous for? | evolution | 0%
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| What book written by Darwin, published on 15 May 1862, gave his first detailed demonstration of the power of natural selection to explain complex ecological relationships? | Fertilisation of Orchids | 0%
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| What indigenous people did he call, "good-humoured & pleasant"? | Indigenous Australians | 0%
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| What extinct slow moving animal with long claws did he famously identify while in Patagonia? | megatherium (ground sloth) | 0%
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| What museum did he learn of the classification of plants? | National Museum of Scotland | 0%
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| What organism did he first write about in his zoology notes? | plankton | 0%
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| Who was the captain of the ship? | Robert FitzRoy | 0%
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| What post did he take on in March 1838? | Secretary of the Geology Society | 0%
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| Where was he born? | Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England | 0%
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| What issue did Darwin hate and dispute his captain over in Brazil? | slavery | 0%
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| What 1868 book, was one of the first books to feature printed photographs, which discussed the evolution of human psychology and its continuity with the behaviour of animals? | The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | 0%
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| What was the first part of his planned 'big book' published in 1868? | The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication | 0%
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| What did he discover in 1827 regarding black spores found in oyster shells? | they were the eggs of a skate leech | 0%
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| What university was Darwin sent to because of his neglect of medical studies? | University of Cambridge | 0%
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| What university did he attend in 1825? | University of Edinburgh (Medical School) | 0%
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| Who was his second cousin, who introduced Darwin to entomology and influenced him to pursue beetle collecting? | William Darwin Fox | 0%
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