Which global conveyor-belt sushi chain was founded in 1977 in Japan?
Answer
Kura Sushi
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Tokyo sushi restaurant was the first sushi restaurant awarded three Michelin stars?
Answer
Sukiyabashi Jiro
Who suggested the word isotope to Frederick Soddy?
Answer
Margaret Todd
What is the English title of Marie Curie's 1903 doctoral thesis?
Answer
Research on Radioactive Substances
Who presented Marie Curie's April 1898 paper on uranium rays to the Académie des Sciences?
Answer
Gabriel Lippmann
Which Beqaa Valley winery was founded by Jesuit priests in 1857?
Answer
Château Ksara
Which Lebanese sweet is a syrup-soaked rolled pastry filled with clotted cream?
Answer
Znoud el-sit
Which two astronomers discovered Sagittarius A* in 1974?
Answer
Bruce Balick and Robert Brown
What supernova remnant is one component of the Sagittarius A radio source?
Answer
Sagittarius A East
Which dense cluster near the Galactic Center is named for five infrared sources?
Answer
Quintuplet Cluster
Which giant molecular cloud lies about 120 parsecs from the Milky Way's center?
Answer
Sagittarius B2
Which telescope network produced the first image of Sagittarius A*?
Answer
Event Horizon Telescope
Who coined the name Sgr A* in 1982?
Answer
Robert L. Brown
In galactic coordinates, what longitude marks the Galactic Center?
Answer
0 degrees
What constellation contains the north galactic pole?
Answer
Coma Berenices
What was the name of NASA's simulator used to train Space Shuttle crews?
Answer
Shuttle Mission Simulator
Which Saudi payload specialist on STS-51-G became the first Arab in space?
Answer
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Which mission launched the only eight-person Space Shuttle crew?
Answer
STS-61-A
At which NASA facility were Space Shuttle external tanks manufactured?
Answer
Michoud Assembly Facility
What astronaut propulsion backpack enabled untethered shuttle spacewalks in 1984?
Answer
Manned Maneuvering Unit
Which stranded satellite, also called Intelsat VI F-3, was captured on STS-49?
Answer
Intelsat 603
What was Enterprise's NASA orbiter vehicle designation?
Answer
OV-101
Which Greek chef's surname is used in Greece as a synonym for 'cookbook'?
Answer
Nikolaos Tselementes
Which Thai dessert is also called gold egg-yolks drops?
Answer
Thong yot
Which bishop and friend of Copernicus encouraged him to publish De revolutionibus?
Answer
Tiedemann Giese
Which papal secretary gave a 1533 Rome lecture on Copernicus's heliocentric theory?
Answer
Johann Widmannstetter
Which 1651 Riccioli book assessed many arguments about Earth's motion?
Answer
Almagestum Novum
Which Hellenistic astronomer is known as a follower of Aristarchus's heliocentrism?
Answer
Seleucus of Seleucia
Which work by Archimedes preserves a report of Aristarchus's Sun-centered hypothesis?
Answer
The Sand Reckoner
Which named principle says Earth is not in a specially favored central position?
Answer
Copernican principle
Which 1728 discovery by James Bradley gave direct evidence for Earth's motion around the Sun?
Answer
Aberration of light
Which Neptune ring contains the bright arcs imaged by Voyager 2 in 1989?
Answer
Adams ring