Trivia questions and answers, drawn fresh from the well

• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft became the first successful interplanetary probe when NASA’s Mariner 2 flew past Venus in 1962?

Answer

Mariner 2

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which mission carried the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, touching down on 433 Eros in 2001?

Answer

NEAR Shoemaker

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft made the first successful flyby of Mercury during NASA’s Mariner 10 mission in 1974?

Answer

Mariner 10

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Who performed the first spacewalk during the Soviet Union’s Voskhod 2 mission in 1965?

Answer

Alexey Leonov

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft achieved the first successful soft landing on Mars in 1976?

Answer

Viking 1

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft became the first to orbit Jupiter when NASA’s Galileo entered orbit in 1995?

Answer

Galileo

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which Mars rover operated on the Red Planet from 2004 until 2018, far beyond its planned mission?

Answer

Opportunity

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Space Exploration

Which NASA space shuttle made the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981?

Answer

Columbia

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• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Who invented the first practical mechanical calculator, the Pascaline, in 1642?

Answer

Blaise Pascal

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Which inventor sent the first successful long-distance telegraph message in 1844 using his code system?

Answer

Samuel Morse

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• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Which inventor created the spinning jenny, a multi-spindle textile machine patented in 1770?

Answer

James Hargreaves

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Who invented Braille, the raised-dot reading and writing system published in 1829?

Answer

Louis Braille

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