16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which junior Logroño inquisitor became famous for skepticism in the Basque witch trials?
Answer
Alonso de Salazar Frías
Which Inquisition secretary recorded the accused person's possessions at detention?
Answer
notario de secuestros
Which Archbishop of Seville helped convince Isabella that crypto-Judaism existed in Andalusia?
Answer
Pedro González de Mendoza
What papal bull granted Spain authority to appoint inquisitors in 1478?
Answer
Exigit sincerae devotionis affectus
What is the spacetime symmetry group of special relativity including translations?
Answer
Poincare group
What diagram compactifies spacetime to show its causal structure?
Answer
Penrose diagram
Which lake, also called Golfo Dulce, is Guatemala's largest lake?
Answer
Lake Izabal
Which closed-off freshwater lake is the largest lake in the Netherlands?
Answer
IJsselmeer
Which Austria-Hungary lake is the largest endorheic lake in Central Europe?
Answer
Lake Neusiedl
Which natural freshwater lake is South Africa's largest?
Answer
Lake Sibaya
Which reservoir is the largest body of freshwater in Newfoundland and Labrador?
Answer
Smallwood Reservoir
Which Angara River reservoir is cited as second biggest by reservoir storage capacity?
Answer
Bratsk Reservoir
Which lake is the largest freshwater lake in the Nepalese Himalayas?
Answer
Rara Lake
Which lake is the deepest in the Balkans, reaching 288 meters?
Answer
Lake Ohrid
Which strait connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron at the same water level?
Answer
Straits of Mackinac
About how large is Lake Superior's surface area?
Answer
82,100 km²
Which lake shared by Switzerland and France is the largest Alpine lake?
Answer
Lake Geneva
Which lake is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia?
Answer
Tonle Sap
Which lake is the largest in the world by surface area that drains to the Arctic Ocean?
Answer
Great Bear Lake
In 1911, which academy failed to elect Marie Curie as a member?
Answer
French Academy of Sciences
Which two-field Nobel laureate is paired with Curie in Wikipedia's comparison?
Answer
Linus Pauling
Which scientist tried to stop Curie attending her 1911 Nobel ceremony?
Answer
Svante Arrhenius
Which Polish novelist led a delegation urging Curie to return to Poland?
Answer
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Which League of Nations committee did Curie join in 1922?
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International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
Who alerted Pierre Curie that Marie had been omitted from the 1903 Nobel nomination?
Answer
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Which institute helped create the Radium Institute with the University of Paris?
Answer
Pasteur Institute
In 1900, Curie became the first woman faculty member at which school?
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École normale supérieure de jeunes filles
What did Turing call the randomly connected machine models in his 1948 report Intelligent Machinery?
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unorganized machines
Which London suburb had the blue plaque marking Turing's birthplace?
Answer
Maida Vale
Which theorem did Turing prove in his 1935 King's College dissertation?
Answer
Central limit theorem
Which Cambridge fellowship did Turing win in 1935?
Answer
Fellow of King's College
Which 32 km meltwater stream is the longest river in Antarctica?
Answer
Onyx River
Which river is the longest in both Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory?
Answer
Yukon River
Which river is the longest east-flowing river in Africa?
Answer
Zambezi