16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Ottoman sultan awarded Pasteur the Order of the Medjidie in 1886?
Answer
Abdul Hamid II
What prize did Pasteur win in 1862 for his refutation of spontaneous generation?
Answer
Alhumbert Prize
Which veterinarian proposed the public Melun test of Pasteur's anthrax vaccine?
Answer
Hippolyte Rossignol
What corpuscles characterized silkworm pébrine in Pasteur's work?
Answer
Cornalia corpuscles
Which scientist formulated laws of motion for rigid bodies that extend Newton's laws?
Answer
Leonhard Euler
In Newtonian mechanics, what derivative of acceleration is called jerk?
Answer
Time derivative
What name is given to a force pair described by Newton's third law?
Answer
Action-reaction pair
Which of Newton's laws is often written in modern form as F = dp/dt?
Answer
Second law
In the Principia, Newton's laws appear under what heading?
Answer
Axioms, or Laws of Motion
Which Montenegrin order lists Nikola Tesla among its notable recipients?
Answer
Order of Prince Danilo I
In 1960, which body named the SI unit tesla?
Answer
General Conference on Weights and Measures
On what date did a fire destroy Tesla's South Fifth Avenue laboratory?
Answer
13 March 1895
What scholarship helped Tesla enroll at the Imperial-Royal Technical College in Graz?
Answer
Military Frontier scholarship
At Graz, which professor's electricity lectures fascinated Tesla?
Answer
Jakob Pöschl
In which New York county was Wardenclyffe Tower located?
Answer
Suffolk County
Which 1891 lecture venue in New York hosted Tesla's high-frequency demonstrations?
Answer
Columbia College
What was Tesla's first U.S. patent issued in 1886 for?
Answer
Commutator for dynamo electric machines
Which French island colony was restored to France by the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
Answer
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Which French commander won the 1758 Battle of Carillon?
Answer
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Which 1758 battle saw Montcalm defeat a much larger British force near Lake Champlain?
Answer
Battle of Carillon
Which British general led the Forbes Expedition toward Fort Duquesne?
Answer
John Forbes
Which French fort at Crown Point was blown up by its garrison in 1759?
Answer
Fort Saint-Frédéric
Who commanded the French defenders at Fort Lévis in 1760?
Answer
Pierre Pouchot
What paradox compares positive integers with their square numbers?
Answer
Galileo's paradox
What was the family name of Galileo's brother Michelagnolo?
Answer
Galilei
Which list of banned books included Galileo's Dialogue after his trial?
Answer
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
What name is given to Galileo's coordinate change between inertial reference frames?
Answer
Galilean transformation
Which conjecture did Stephen Hawking propose about laws preventing time travel?
Answer
Chronology protection conjecture
The Gibbons-Hawking effect is named for Stephen Hawking and which physicist?
Answer
Gary Gibbons
What was the title of Stephen Hawking's 1966 Adams Prize essay?
Answer
Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time
Cotton Mather reported that the devil promised Martha Carrier what title?
Answer
Queen of Hell
Which son of Mayflower passengers was accused of witchcraft in Salem?
Answer
John Alden Jr.
Which accused man was released when accusers said he was not the right specter?
Answer
Nehemiah Abbott Jr.