16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What Italian cheese is soaked in red wine during aging?
Answer
Ubriaco
What Italian stuffed pasta from Emilia-Romagna is shaped like a little hat?
Answer
Cappelletti
What Tuscan soup is made from bread, vegetables, and beans?
Answer
Ribollita
What is the name of the traditional Tuscan bread made without salt?
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Pane toscano
What is the name of the principle that states that the equilibrium state of a closed system is the one with maximum entropy?
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maximum entropy principle
What is the name of the equation dU = T dS - P dV?
Answer
fundamental thermodynamic relation
Who first named the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
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Ralph Fowler
What is the exact defined value of the Boltzmann constant in J/K (as of 2019)?
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1.380649 × 10^-23 J/K
What is the exact value of absolute zero in degrees Celsius?
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-273.15 °C
What is the title of Rheticus's 1540 summary of Copernicus's heliocentric theory?
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Narratio Prima
Who was the first astronomer to measure stellar parallax?
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Friedrich Bessel
Which philosopher was burned at the stake in 1600 partly for advocating heliocentrism?
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Giordano Bruno
In what month and year did the first human trial of penicillin begin?
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February 1941
From what fruit was the high-yielding Penicillium strain isolated?
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Cantaloupe
At which US laboratory was the high-yield penicillin strain discovered?
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Northern Regional Research Laboratory
What did Fleming initially call the penicillin extract?
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Mould juice
Who first demonstrated that a bacterium causes a plant disease?
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Thomas J. Burrill
Who proposed the contagium vivum theory before the germ theory was established?
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Which scientist first observed the transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by ticks?
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Howard Taylor Ricketts
Who discovered the bacterium that causes bubonic plague?
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Alexandre Yersin
What is the scientific name for the bacterium that causes cholera?
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Vibrio cholerae
Which space shuttle was the first to be equipped with a drag chute?
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Endeavour