What main-belt asteroid is named after Dmitri Mendeleev?
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2769 Mendeleev
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
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In 1902, Mendeleev placed helium and argon in which group?
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Group 0
What is the diameter of the lunar crater Mendeleev?
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313 km
Who proposed Henri Moissan over Mendeleev for the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Peter Klason
What provisional name was used for rhenium before its discovery?
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dvi-manganese
Which Sanskritist friend of Mendeleev was preparing a second edition of a book on Panini?
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Otto von Bohtlingk
Which model extended Bohr's atomic model by allowing elliptical electron orbits?
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Bohr–Sommerfeld model
Which theorem from Bohr's thesis was later independently derived by Hendrika van Leeuwen?
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Bohr–Van Leeuwen theorem
Which device did Oppenheimer credit Bohr with clarifying in early 1945?
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Modulated neutron initiators
What book by Kierkegaard did Bohr send his brother as a birthday gift in 1909?
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Stages on Life's Way
What type of aircraft carried Bohr from Sweden to Scotland in 1943?
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de Havilland Mosquito
What Latin motto appeared on Niels Bohr's coat of arms?
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contraria sunt complementa
Which Dutch physicist later rediscovered the theorem found in Bohr's 1911 thesis?
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Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
In Bohr's 1905 prize experiments, what liquid property did he investigate?
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Surface tension
Which ESA test lander crashed on Mars during the ExoMars 2016 mission?
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Schiaparelli EDM
What name is given to the hypothesized ancient ocean in Mars's northern hemisphere?
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Oceanus Borealis
What is the Martian equivalent of Earth's geoid called?
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Areoid
Which Martian crater contains the layered mound Aeolis Mons?
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Gale crater
Which crater is the landing site of NASA's Opportunity rover?
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Eagle crater
Which dark albedo feature on Mars was once thought to be a sea?
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Syrtis Major Planum
What is the name for Mars's boundary between northern lowlands and southern highlands?
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Martian dichotomy
What was the Belarusian unauthorized remake of The Big Bang Theory called?
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The Theorists
What is Leonard Hofstadter's middle name?
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Leakey
Which Apple co-founder guest-starred as himself on The Big Bang Theory?
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Steve Wozniak
Who played Sheldon's twin sister Missy in The Big Bang Theory?
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Courtney Henggeler
Who directed the first aired episode of The Big Bang Theory?
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James Burrows
Which art school did Stuart Bloom graduate from?
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Rhode Island School of Design
Which UCLA professor served as the show's science consultant?
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David Saltzberg
What is Sheldon's favorite number?
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73
What is the largest irregular moon of Neptune?
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Triton
Which asteroid did NASA's DART spacecraft impact in 2022?
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Dimorphos
At the 1948 Pocono Conference, what title did Feynman give his QED presentation?
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Alternative Formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics
Feynman and Albert Hibbs coauthored which standard path-integral textbook?
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Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals
What model represents Dirac-equation solutions as discrete sums on a checkerboard?
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Feynman checkerboard