83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which NASA space observatory, launched in 1999, studies the universe in X-rays?
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
Which NASA space telescope launched in 1990 and studies visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared light?
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Hubble Space Telescope
Which NASA spacecraft became the first to fly past Pluto, in July 2015?
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New Horizons
Which Viking-founded settlement became the capital of Iceland?
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Reykjavík
Which Viking king was defeated and killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066?
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Harald Hardrada
What was the full name of SNCC, the student-led civil-rights organization founded in 1960?
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Which 1965 U.S. law prohibited voting discrimination based on race or color?
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which 1867 agreement transferred Alaska from Russia to the United States?
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Alaska Purchase
What was the real name of Wild Bill Hickok, the frontier scout and gunfighter?
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James Butler Hickok
Which 1876 battle saw Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces defeat the U.S. 7th Cavalry?
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
Which 1881 Arizona gunfight lasted about 30 seconds near Tombstone?
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
What device records the human brain’s electrical activity from electrodes placed on the scalp?
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Electroencephalograph
What protective filtering system limits which substances can pass from the blood into the human brain?
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Blood–brain barrier
About how many neurons are estimated to make up the adult human brain?
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86 billion
On which two dates in November 1938 did Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom against Jews, take place?
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9–10 November 1938
Which phrase was displayed at the entrance gate of Auschwitz I concentration camp?
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Arbeit macht frei
Which Nazi extermination camp operated near the village of Sobibór in occupied Poland?
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Sobibór extermination camp
Which 1945 courtroom trial prosecuted major Nazi leaders for crimes against peace and humanity?
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Nuremberg Trials
Which 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews is commonly known as Kristallnacht?
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Kristallnacht
What nickname is most closely associated with Joan of Arc?
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The Maid of Orléans
On what date was Joan of Arc burned at the stake in Rouen?
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30 May 1431
What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi’s South African newspaper?
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Indian Opinion
How old was Mahatma Gandhi when he died?
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78 years old
What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi’s wife, whom he married in 1883?
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Kasturba Gandhi