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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Tex-Mex Cuisine

Which Tex-Mex dish combines ground beef, beans, cheese, and tortilla chips in a layered casserole?

Answer

Frito pie

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Tex-Mex Cuisine

In Tex-Mex cuisine, what is chile con queso primarily served as?

Answer

A dip

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Tex-Mex Cuisine

Which San Antonio restaurant is credited with popularizing the puffy taco?

Answer

Ray’s Drive Inn

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1849 Fizeau experiment, what did Hippolyte Fizeau measure using a rotating toothed wheel?

Answer

The speed of light

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1938 Hahn–Strassmann experiment, which element was found among the products of bombarded uranium?

Answer

Barium

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In Alain Aspect’s 1982 Bell-test experiment, what did the measurements violate?

Answer

Bell’s inequality

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In Henry Cavendish’s 1798 experiment, what property of Earth did he calculate by measuring the attraction between lead spheres?

Answer

Earth’s density

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1911 Rutherford gold-foil experiment, what did most alpha particles do when fired at thin gold foil?

Answer

Passed straight through

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the Pound–Rebka experiment of 1959, which effect on gamma rays was measured in Earth’s gravitational field?

Answer

Gravitational redshift

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1959 Wu experiment, which fundamental symmetry of the weak interaction was shown to be violated?

Answer

Parity symmetry

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1952 Hershey–Chase experiment, which radioactive label tracked DNA inside bacteria?

Answer

Phosphorus-32

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Scientific Experiments

In the 1913 Franck–Hertz experiment, what did collisions between electrons and mercury atoms reveal about atomic energy?

Answer

Quantized energy levels

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