83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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Which bacterium causes botulism by producing botulinum neurotoxin?
Answer
Clostridium botulinum
Which microorganism is used to make bread rise and ferment alcoholic drinks?
Answer
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Which bacterium supplies the heat-stable Taq polymerase used in PCR?
Answer
Thermus aquaticus
Which bacterium is the usual cause of tuberculosis, one of history’s deadliest infectious diseases?
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Which Tex-Mex dish is made by filling a tortilla and then deep-frying it?
Answer
Chimichanga
What is the main cooking method behind Tex-Mex barbacoa?
Answer
Slow cooking
In the 1849 Fizeau experiment, what did Hippolyte Fizeau measure using a rotating toothed wheel?
Answer
The speed of light
In the 1911 Rutherford gold-foil experiment, what did most alpha particles do when fired at thin gold foil?
Answer
Passed straight through
What is the name of the meteorite crater in Arizona formed about 50,000 years ago?
Answer
Meteor Crater
What is the deepest artificial hole ever drilled into Earth?
Answer
Kola Superdeep Borehole
What is Earth’s thickest major internal layer?
Answer
Mantle
Which company arranged Dennis Tito’s 2001 trip to the International Space Station?
Answer
Space Adventures
Which company developed the Peregrine lunar lander?
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Astrobotic Technology
What was the name of the inflatable module attached to the International Space Station in 2016?
Answer
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
Who founded SpaceX in 2002?
Answer
Elon Musk
What was the name of SpaceX’s first orbital rocket?
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Falcon 1
Which British takeaway dish combines battered fish with thick-cut fried potatoes?
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Fish and chips
What does the acronym NLP mean in artificial intelligence?
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Natural language processing
Which 2014 neural-network model introduced by Ian Goodfellow generates images by pitting a generator against a discriminator?
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Generative adversarial network