16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which library holds the bulk of Edwin Hubble's correspondence, photos, notebooks and observing logs?
Answer
Huntington Library
Which Hubble-named law models the surface brightness of elliptical galaxies?
Answer
Hubble-Reynolds law
What device did Hubble develop for studying bombs and low-velocity projectiles in flight?
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high-speed clock camera
Which branch did Hubble lead at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in World War II?
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External Ballistics Branch
Who proposed the velocity-distance relation two years before Hubble's 1929 confirmation?
Answer
Georges Lemaitre
Who discovered the Cepheid period-luminosity relation that Hubble used for distance scaling?
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
What numbered asteroid is named for Edwin Hubble?
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2069 Hubble
On what date did Hubble present his galaxy findings to the American Astronomical Society?
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January 1, 1925
Which newspaper reported Hubble's galaxy findings on November 23, 1924?
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The New York Times
What material was Faraday's original ice pail made of?
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pewter
Whose suggestions largely supplied Faraday's electrolysis terms such as anode and ion?
Answer
William Whewell
Which later-named compound did Faraday obtain by decomposing hexachloroethane?
Answer
tetrachloroethylene
Which carbon-chlorine compound did Faraday make by chlorinating ethylene?
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hexachloroethane
Which London bridge approach features a statue of Faraday by John Henry Foley?
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Waterloo Bridge
What official residence did Queen Victoria grant Faraday in Hampton Court?
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Grace and favour house
Which architect designed the Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle?
Answer
Rodney Gordon
Which asteroid is generally considered the largest Jupiter trojan?
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624 Hektor
Which group of Jupiter trojans occupies the Sun-Jupiter L4 point?
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Greek camp
Which astronomer proposed the names Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?
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Simon Marius
What is the doughnut-shaped plasma region linked to Io called?
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Io plasma torus
Who discovered Jupiter's moon Himalia in 1904?
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Charles Dillon Perrine
Which Galilean moon has the lowest density?
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Callisto
What is the DOI of Watson and Crick's first DNA-structure paper?
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10.1038/171737a0
Which DNA crystal feature told Crick the two strands were antiparallel?
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Space group
Which Oxford chemist was among the first to see Watson and Crick's DNA model?
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Dorothy Hodgkin
How long is the Watson-Crick DNA double helix's pitch in angstroms?
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34 angstroms
Which 1953 Nature paper by Wilkins, Stokes, and Wilson accompanied Watson and Crick's DNA paper?
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Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids
In 1966, the penicillin contaminant was traced to whose room below Fleming's lab?
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Charles J. La Touche
Which laboratory skill helped Fleming conduct his 1917 antiseptics experiment?
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glassblowing
Which institution acquired Fleming's Nobel Prize medal in 1989?
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National Museums of Scotland
Which surgeon received some of Fleming's original penicillin samples in 1928?
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Arthur Dickson Wright
Which Oxford scientist first proposed the correct structure of penicillin?
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Edward Abraham
What bacterium did Fleming name Micrococcus lysodeikticus?
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Micrococcus luteus
What was the name of Fleming's Suffolk country home?
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The Dhoon
Which mycologist first identified Fleming's mould as Penicillium rubrum?
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Charles J. La Touche
Which Irish physician's work on Staphylococcus aureus influenced Fleming's 1928 study?
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Joseph Warwick Bigger
What military unit was Fleming a private in from 1900 to 1914?
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London Scottish Regiment