On what date did Spirit last communicate with Earth?
Answer
March 22, 2010
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who coined the phrase contagium vivum fluidum for the tobacco mosaic virus in 1898?
Answer
Martinus Beijerinck
Which German zoologist coined the word 'bacterium' in 1828?
Answer
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Which German botanist classified bacteria into genera such as Bacillus in 1872?
Answer
Ferdinand Cohn
Which Scottish surgeon discovered Staphylococcus in pus from surgical abscesses?
Answer
Alexander Ogston
Which physician wrote the 1546 work De Contagione on contagious disease?
Answer
Girolamo Fracastoro
What is the name for a process that can be reversed without increasing total entropy?
Answer
reversible process
Who introduced the term 'thermodynamics' in an 1849 paper?
Answer
William Thomson
Which thermodynamic identity relates internal energy changes to entropy, volume, and particle number?
Answer
fundamental thermodynamic relation
What is Hubble's satellite catalog number?
Answer
20580
What is Hubble's COSPAR ID?
Answer
1990-037B
Which Goodall children's book won a UNICEF award for best children's book of 1989?
Answer
The Chimpanzee Family Book
Goodall was the eighth Cambridge PhD student admitted without first earning what?
Answer
Bachelor's degree
Which Stevie Nicks album includes the Goodall-inspired song Jane?
Answer
Street Angel
Which cartoonist created the 1987 Far Side cartoon involving Jane Goodall?
Answer
Gary Larson
Which university was announced in 2011 as the new home of Goodall's archives?
Answer
Duke University
Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots began in which Tanzanian city?
Answer
Dar es Salaam
Which Apollo astronaut orbited the Moon alone during Apollo 17?
Answer
Ronald Evans
Who was the chief designer of the Apollo Lunar Module?
Answer
Thomas J. Kelly
What computer guided both the Apollo command and lunar modules?
Answer
Apollo Guidance Computer
In what lunar valley did Apollo 17 land?
Answer
Taurus-Littrow
Which astronaut performed the first deep-space EVA during Apollo 15?
Answer
Alfred Worden
Which small Saturn moon occupies Dione's trailing Lagrange point L5?
Answer
Polydeuces
What is the name of Titan's second-largest known liquid body?
Answer
Ligeia Mare
What launch vehicle sent Cassini-Huygens toward Saturn in 1997?
Answer
Titan IVB/Centaur
What is the large crater on Saturn's moon Mimas called?
Answer
Herschel
Which small moon shares the same orbit as Janus around Saturn?
Answer
Epimetheus
Which Saturn ring lies just outside the A ring?
Answer
F ring
Which Soviet orbiters first identified Venusian coronae with radar images in 1983?
Answer
Venera 15 and 16
What is the largest corona on Venus?
Answer
Artemis Corona
Which NASA spacecraft used a Venus flyby to reach Mercury in 1974?
Answer
Mariner 10