How tall was Nikola Tesla?
Answer
6 feet 2 inches
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of the magazine that serialized Tesla's autobiography 'My Inventions'?
Answer
Electrical Experimenter
What is the patent number for Tesla's basic radio patent?
Answer
U.S. Patent 645,576
What is the name of the one-way fluid valve invented by Nikola Tesla?
Answer
Tesla valve
What is the half-life of radium-226?
Answer
1600 years
Approximately how many miles did the HMS Beagle travel during its voyage?
Answer
40,000 miles
On which Galápagos island did Charles Darwin first land in 1835?
Answer
San Cristóbal Island
What was the name of the path at Down House where Darwin took daily walks?
Answer
the Sandwalk
Who was Charles Darwin's maternal grandfather?
Answer
Josiah Wedgwood
Which fox species is named after Charles Darwin?
Answer
Darwin's fox
In which London church is Charles Darwin buried?
Answer
Westminster Abbey
Who was the captain of HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyage?
Answer
Robert FitzRoy
What was Darwin's first published book, based on his Beagle voyage?
Answer
Journal of Researches
Which convicted woman was officially exonerated in 2022?
Answer
Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
Which project identified Proctor's Ledge as the execution site?
Answer
Gallows Hill Project
What body declared the Salem witch trials unlawful in 1702?
Answer
General Court of Massachusetts
What was the exact date of the first execution during the Salem witch trials?
Answer
June 10, 1692
Who was the sheriff of Essex County who carried out the executions?
Answer
George Corwin
Approximately how many words did Isaac Newton write on alchemy?
Answer
1,000,000
Who was the headmaster who convinced Newton's mother to send him to Cambridge?
Answer
Henry Stokes
What Latin term did Newton use for the force of inertia?
Answer
Vis inertiae
What was the title of Newton's work on biblical chronology?
Answer
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
To what exponents did Isaac Newton extend the binomial theorem?
Answer
Fractional and negative exponents
What shape did Isaac Newton predict for the Earth?
Answer
Oblate spheroid
What concept did Isaac Newton derive for a projectile to leave Earth's gravity?
Answer
Escape velocity
What value did Isaac Newton calculate for the speed of sound in air?
Answer
298 meters per second
What was the maiden name of Newton's mother?
Answer
Ayscough
What alchemical pseudonym did Newton use?
Answer
Jehovah Sanctus Unus
Which effect co-discovered by Einstein demonstrates the link between magnetism and rotation?
Answer
Einstein-de Haas effect
Which Polish physicist co-authored 'The Evolution of Physics' with Einstein?
Answer
Leopold Infeld
Which mathematician independently derived the Einstein field equations in 1915?
Answer
David Hilbert
What constant did Albert Einstein call his 'biggest blunder'?
Answer
Cosmological constant
What is the title of Albert Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity?
Answer
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies