Trivia questions and answers, drawn fresh from the well

• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Which inventors made the first sustained, controlled flight of a powered airplane in 1903?

Answer

The Wright brothers

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Famous Inventors And Inventions

Which inventor is credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe around 1440?

Answer

Johannes Gutenberg

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• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft made the first close flyby of Uranus in January 1986?

Answer

Voyager 2

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• Space Exploration

What was the name of the first spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface, crashing there in 1959?

Answer

Luna 2

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• Space Exploration

Which Japanese spacecraft returned the first samples from an asteroid to Earth in 2010?

Answer

Hayabusa

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• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft became the first to orbit another planet when it reached Mars in 1971?

Answer

Mariner 9

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• Space Exploration

Which mission first carried astronauts into orbit around the Moon?

Answer

Apollo 8

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• Space Exploration

Which astronaut became the first American in space during NASA’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961?

Answer

Alan Shepard

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• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft became the first to land on a comet’s nucleus?

Answer

Philae

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• Space Exploration

Which mission first returned rock and soil samples from the Moon to Earth?

Answer

Apollo 11

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• Space Exploration

Which spacecraft performed the first flyby of Pluto in 2015?

Answer

New Horizons

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• Space Exploration

What was the first space station launched into orbit?

Answer

Salyut 1

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