83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which scientist won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure?
Answer
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Which renewable source produced the most electricity worldwide in 2023?
Answer
Hydropower
What Leonardo da Vinci design used a helical rotor to rise into the air?
Answer
Aerial screw
Which spacecraft became the first to land on the Moon’s far side?
Answer
Chang’e 4 lander
What was the name of the rocket that launched Apollo 11?
Answer
Saturn V
Which rocket carried a Tesla Roadster on the first Falcon Heavy launch?
Answer
Falcon Heavy
Which spacecraft carried the first American woman into space in 1983?
Answer
Challenger
What was the name of China’s first crewed spacecraft?
Answer
Shenzhou 5
Which NASA mission first flew a spacecraft past the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015?
Answer
New Horizons
Which inventor patented the first pneumatic tire for bicycles in 1888?
Answer
John Boyd Dunlop
Which electromagnetic phenomenon makes a compass align with Earth’s magnetic field?
Answer
Magnetic torque
What component converts alternating current into direct current?
Answer
Rectifier
Which 1820 experiment showed that a current-carrying wire can deflect a compass needle?
Answer
Ørsted’s experiment
What evolutionary process creates an extra copy of a gene that may later gain a new function?
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Gene duplication
Which hominin species is represented by the 3.2-million-year-old fossil skeleton known as Lucy?
Answer
Australopithecus afarensis
Which evolutionary process reduces genetic variation when a population passes through a severe temporary decline?
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Population bottleneck
Which South Carolina port did Blackbeard blockade in 1718?
Answer
Charleston
At which London execution site was pirate William Kidd hanged in 1701?
Answer
Execution Dock
What was Stede Bonnet’s occupation before he became a pirate?
Answer
Barbados planter
Which English pirate captain became governor of the Bahamas in 1718?
Answer
Woodes Rogers