83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the photoelectric effect?
Answer
Albert Einstein
Which astronaut was the first person to orbit Earth?
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Yuri Gagarin
What is the name of NASA’s space telescope launched in 1990 that transformed visible-light astronomy?
Answer
Hubble Space Telescope
What was the name of Thomas Edison’s nickel–iron rechargeable battery?
Answer
Edison battery
Which New Jersey town did Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory occupy?
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Menlo Park
What stock-market device did Thomas Edison improve while working for Gold and Stock Telegraph?
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Universal stock ticker
What was Thomas Edison’s first patented invention?
Answer
Electric vote recorder
Which scientist gives his name to the SI unit of capacitance, the farad?
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Michael Faraday
Who sent the first transatlantic radio signal in 1901?
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Guglielmo Marconi
What is the name of the region around a magnet where magnetic forces can be detected?
Answer
Magnetic field
Which particle carries electric current through a metal wire?
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Electrons
What is the name of the current produced when a conductor moves through a magnetic field?
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Induced current
Who invented the piano in Florence around 1700, creating an instrument with both soft and loud dynamics?
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
Which inventor built the first successful phonograph, publicly demonstrated in 1877?
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Thomas Edison
Who invented the World Wide Web and proposed it at CERN in 1989?
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Tim Berners-Lee
Which renewable-energy process uses microorganisms to break down waste without oxygen?
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Anaerobic digestion
Which gas makes up most of the energy content in biogas?
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Methane
Which renewable fuel is made by fermenting cellulose-rich plant material into alcohol?
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Cellulosic ethanol
Which device converts sunlight into heat for hot water without first producing electricity?
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Solar thermal collector
Which 1859 book by Charles Darwin presented evolution by natural selection to a wide audience?
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On the Origin of Species
Which mass extinction, about 66 million years ago, eliminated all non-avian dinosaurs?
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction
Which pirate captain commanded the Royal Fortune when he died in 1722?
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Bartholomew Roberts
Which island became the main base of Nassau’s pirate community in the Bahamas?
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New Providence
What nickname was given to Stede Bonnet, the Barbados planter who became a pirate captain?
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The Gentleman Pirate
Which pirate was commonly known by the name Edward Low?
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Ned Low
Which pirate captain led the English attack that sacked Panama City in 1671?
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Henry Morgan
What was the name of Blackbeard’s flagship, the captured French ship he refitted in 1717?
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Queen Anne’s Revenge