83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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Which wave property is measured in hertz?
Answer
frequency
A sound source moving faster than sound produces what loud phenomenon?
Answer
sonic boom
In which Austrian city was Christian Doppler born?
Answer
Salzburg
What was Christian Doppler's nationality?
Answer
Austrian
Which sushi roll is a California roll topped with multiple types of fish?
Answer
Rainbow roll
What vegetable fills kappamaki, the classic cucumber sushi roll?
Answer
Cucumber
What Japanese word names scallop as a sushi topping?
Answer
Hotate
What condiment is commonly used for dipping sushi?
Answer
Soy sauce
What mollusk is called tako when served as sushi?
Answer
Octopus
In 1906, Marie Curie became the first woman professor at which university?
Answer
University of Paris
At which Canadian university did Rutherford and Soddy study thorium radioactivity?
Answer
McGill University
What did uranium rays cause the air around Marie Curie's samples to conduct?
Answer
electricity
What name is given to the spontaneous breakup of an unstable atomic nucleus?
Answer
radioactive decay
Which country was Henri Becquerel from?
Answer
France
What was Marie Curie's birth surname?
Answer
Skłodowska
What object left the cross-shaped shadow on Becquerel's famous radioactivity plate?
Answer
Maltese cross
What kind of wrapped plate was fogged by Becquerel's uranium salts in 1896?
Answer
photographic plate
Which German physicist's discovery of X-rays inspired Becquerel's uranium-salt experiments?
Answer
Wilhelm Röntgen