83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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What Babbage machine prototype fascinated Lovelace in 1833?
Answer
Difference Engine
Which London district is listed as the place where Ada Lovelace died?
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Marylebone
What phrase did Ada Lovelace use for her approach to science?
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Poetical science
Ada Lovelace Day falls on which date pattern?
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Second Tuesday of October
Which title was Ada's husband given in 1838?
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Earl of Lovelace
Which disease paralyzed Ada Lovelace in June 1829?
Answer
Measles
Where was Ada Lovelace buried?
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Church of St Mary Magdalene
Who was Ada Lovelace's mother?
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Anne Isabella Milbanke
Which lunar mare's Latin name means Sea of Tranquility?
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Mare Tranquillitatis
What was the first U.S. crewed space program to land people on the Moon?
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Apollo program
Which Apollo astronaut hit golf balls on the Moon?
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Alan Shepard
What is the Moon's extremely thin atmosphere called?
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Exosphere
What is the name for the line dividing day and night on the Moon?
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Terminator
What name is given to the Moon's dark basalt plains?
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Lunar maria
What type of natural object is the Moon?
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Natural satellite
Which planet does the Moon orbit?
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Earth
What is the Moon's Latin name?
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Luna
The Spanish Inquisition replaced which earlier papal-controlled institution?
Answer
Medieval Inquisition
Which Colombian port city received a Spanish Inquisition tribunal in 1610?
Answer
Cartagena de Indias
Which French emperor suppressed the Spanish Inquisition through the 1808 Chamartín Decrees?
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Which island group had a Spanish Inquisition tribunal established at Las Palmas in 1505?
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Canary Islands
Which Spanish king decreed the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609?
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Philip III
What 1492 edict ordered unconverted Jews to leave Castile and Aragon?
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Alhambra Decree
Which city was the meeting place of the Mexican Inquisition tribunal?
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Mexico City
Which earlier church inquisition did the Spanish Inquisition replace in Spain?
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Medieval Inquisition
On what date was the Spanish Inquisition definitively disbanded?
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15 July 1834
Which effect makes a clock lower in a gravitational field tick more slowly than one higher up?
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Gravitational time dilation
What diagram shows events in special relativity with time and space axes?
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Minkowski diagram
What spacetime is the flat, gravity-free model used in special relativity?
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Minkowski spacetime
What term means the energy an object has because of its rest mass?
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rest energy
What compact object has gravity so strong that light cannot escape?
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black hole