Alfred Lothar Wegener Quiz Questions
1. When was Alfred Lothar Wegener born?
a) 3 March 1888
b) 1 May 1884
c) 2 July 1882
d) 1 November 1880
2. Where was Alfred Lothar Wegener born?
a) Innsbruck
b) Berlin
c) Hamburg
d) Dresden
3. From which university did Alfred Lothar Wegener get doctorate in astronomy?
a) Ruperto-Carola
b) Loughborough
c) Johann Wolfgang Goethe
d) Friedrich Wilhelms
4. When was Alfred Lothar Wegener’s first expedition to Greenland?
a) 1906-1908
b) 1896-1900
c) 1902-1904
d) 1914-1918
5. What did Alfred Lothar Wegener build near Danmarkshavn?
a) Planetarium
b) Observatory
c) Meteorological station
d) College
6. At which university did Alfred Lothar Wegener teach in 1908-1914?
a) Heidelberg
b) Marburg
c) Dusseldorf
d) Danzig
7. When did Alfred Lothar Wegener publish Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans)?
a) 1910
b) 1905
c) 1915
d) 1908
8. What did Alfred Lothar Wegener call the single large continent that broke up?
a) Urkontinent
b) Laurasia
c) Gondwana
d) Azania
9. Which theory did Alfred Lothar Wegener propose?
a) Evolution
b) Relativity
c) Continental drift
d) Dark matter
10. When was Alfred Lothar Wegener professor of meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz?
a) 1932-1938
b) 1924-1930
c) 1940-1944
d) 1936-1940