32309 Easy Trivia Questions
32309 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the maximum speed limit in the universe?
Answer
Speed of light
What is the name of the theory that describes gravity as curvature of spacetime?
Answer
General relativity
What effect causes time to pass slower for a moving observer?
Answer
Time dilation
What is the constant speed of light in a vacuum?
Answer
299,792,458 m/s
Who developed the theory of relativity?
Answer
Albert Einstein
What is the name of the diagram used to show all forces acting on a single object?
Answer
free-body diagram
What is the SI unit of mass used in Newton's second law?
Answer
kilogram
How many laws of motion did Isaac Newton formulate?
Answer
three
What is the perpendicular force exerted by a surface on an object?
Answer
Normal force
Which of Newton's laws explains why a passenger lurches forward when a car stops suddenly?
Answer
First law of motion
What is the product of force and time called?
Answer
Impulse
What is the SI unit of momentum?
Answer
kg·m/s
What quantity, represented by 'a', appears in Newton's second law?
Answer
acceleration
Which law states that force equals mass times acceleration?
Answer
second law
What is the SI unit of force named after Newton?
Answer
newton
What is the title of Jane Goodall's 1999 autobiography?
Answer
Reason for Hope
What was the name of Jane Goodall's first husband?
Answer
Hugo van Lawick
In what year was Jane Goodall born?
Answer
1934
What is the name of Goodall's global youth program?
Answer
Roots & Shoots
Jane Goodall founded which organization to support chimpanzee research and conservation?
Answer
Jane Goodall Institute
Who was the British-Kenyan paleoanthropologist who mentored Jane Goodall?
Answer
Louis Leakey
What is the name of the national park where Goodall conducted her research?
Answer
Gombe Stream National Park
What species did Jane Goodall famously study?
Answer
chimpanzees
What book by Richard Feynman explains quantum electrodynamics for a general audience?
Answer
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
What is the term for the sequence of six 9s in pi that Richard Feynman noted?
Answer
Feynman point
In what year did Richard Feynman die?
Answer
1988
What graphical representation of particle interactions did Feynman invent?
Answer
Feynman diagrams
What is the name of Feynman's best-known autobiographical book?
Answer
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
What city was Richard Feynman born in?
Answer
New York City
What phenomenon did Feynman demonstrate at the Challenger disaster inquiry using a glass of ice water?
Answer
O-rings become brittle in cold