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Charles R. Darwin was born in what year? |
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1809 |
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1819 |
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1824 |
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1829 |
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Charles Darwin was born in the village of ______, some 160 miles northwest of London. |
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Oxford |
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Northampton |
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Shrewsbury |
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Edinburgh |
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Born into a relatively wealthy family, Charles Darwin was well-educated (Edinburgh and Cambridge) and took a trip around the world that changed his life on board ______ |
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the HMS Titanic. |
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HMS Beagle. |
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HMS Discovery. |
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HMS Challenger. |
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When Charles Darwin began his trip around the world (going as _______) he was a young man of twenty-two and he considered himself to be quite a religious individual. |
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an intelligent observer |
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a paid geographer |
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unpaid naturalist |
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a geologist |
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While healthy as a youth, after his 1831-1836 round-the-world voyage, Charles Darwin was chronically ill, having contracted what was eventually termed termed ______. |
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Lou Gherig's Disease |
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Chronic Emphysema |
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Poliomyletis |
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Chagas Disease |
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On the 26th of March 1835, in _______, Darwin was bitten by what has been called "the Great Black Bug" or Triatoma infestans, giving him a disease, not diagnosed by the medical profession until the 20th century. |
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Costa Rica |
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The Gálapagos Islands |
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South America |
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Mexico |
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_________ (1797-1875) was an important individual whose words were an inspiration to Darwin on his circumnavigation of the globe for he gave Darwin (and others who read his works) the gift of time. |
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Sir Herbert Spencer |
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Sir Charles Lyell |
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Charles Darwin started out the voyage with the first volume of Principles of Geology (1830), presented to him by ________ and the second volume of the three-volume magnum opus reached Darwin in Montevideo, South America. |
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Sir Charles Lyell |
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Erasmus Darwin |
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Captain FitzRoy |
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Returning to England in 1836, Charles Darwin proposed to his cousin ________ (1808-1896) and in 1839 they married. Living in London at first, in 1842 they left London and moved to Down, 16 miles away. |
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Fanny Owen |
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Allison Wallace |
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Lauren Huxley |
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Emma Wedgwood |
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In July of 1837, Charles Darwin opened his first notebook and started gathering facts on variations in plants and animals. By 1844 he had enlarged the notes into a sketch which he thought probable and those notes resulted in the ____ publication of On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. |
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1849 |
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1858 |
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1859 |
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1863 |
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In the 5th edition of Origin, published in 1869, Darwin used (for the first time) the famous phrase (borrowed from _______ [1820-1903]): "Survival of the Fittest." |
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Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Sir Joseph Hooker |
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Herbert Spencer |
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In the ______ Darwin wrote of "the Creator" as follows: "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." |
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1st edition of 1859 |
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2nd edition of 1860 |
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5th edition of 1872 |
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6th edition of 1879 |
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In his Autobiography of 1876 Darwin wrote: "it has very gradually with many fluctuations become weaker. ... I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems [as the existence of God and]. The mystery of the beginning of all things is impossible by us; and I for one must be content to remain ______." |
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an atheist |
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an agnostic |
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a skeptic |
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a disbeliever |
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Emma and Charles Darwin had ___ children, but only seven reached their age of maturity. |
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twelve |
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ten |
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nine |
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eight |
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The remains of Charles R. Darwin are not buried in the village where he lived most of his life but in _______. |
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Paris, France. |
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Westminster Abbey, London. |
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St. Pancras, Shrewsbury |
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None-of-the-above. |
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