83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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What nickname did pirate Samuel Bellamy use during his career?
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Black Sam
What was the name of the ship that carried pirate William Kidd to the Indian Ocean in 1696?
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Adventure Galley
What type of tectonic plate boundary forms where two plates move apart?
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Divergent boundary
Which earthquake is generally considered the deadliest in recorded history?
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1556 Shaanxi earthquake
What was the name of the 1995 earthquake that devastated Kobe, Japan?
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Great Hanshin earthquake
Which 2004 earthquake off Sumatra triggered a devastating Indian Ocean tsunami?
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Sumatra–Andaman earthquake
Which 2010 earthquake caused catastrophic damage in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince?
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2010 Haiti earthquake
Which earthquake struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906?
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
What technique amplifies a chosen DNA region through repeated heating and cooling cycles?
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Polymerase chain reaction
Which base pairs with cytosine in a DNA double helix?
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Guanine
Which experiment showed that DNA, rather than protein, is the hereditary material in bacteriophages?
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Hershey–Chase experiment
What is the name of the hypothetical middle-weight class of black holes between stellar and supermassive black holes?
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Intermediate-mass black hole
What process describes a star being torn apart when it passes too close to a supermassive black hole?
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Tidal disruption event
What term describes the stretching of an object into a long strand by a black hole’s tidal forces?
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Spaghettification
What type of black hole is thought to power most active galactic nuclei?
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Supermassive black hole
Who coined the modern astronomical use of the term “black hole” in 1967?
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John Archibald Wheeler
How many ventricles are in the human brain?
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Four
In the human brain, what is the outer layer of gray matter covering the cerebrum called?
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Cerebral cortex
Which brain region contains the primary motor cortex that controls voluntary movement?
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Precentral gyrus
Which groove separates the human brain’s frontal and parietal lobes?
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Central sulcus
Which brain region contains the primary auditory cortex for processing sound?
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Temporal lobe
What is the largest major division of the human brain?
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Cerebrum
On which island was pirate Blackbeard killed in 1718?
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Ocracoke Island
Which pirate surrendered to Governor Woodes Rogers in 1718 and later became a pirate hunter?
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Benjamin Hornigold
What was the 1889 Oklahoma event in which settlers raced to claim free land?
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Oklahoma Land Run