Which DeepMind AI reached Grandmaster level in StarCraft II in 2019?
Answer
AlphaStar
92191 Intermediate Trivia Questions
92191 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who created the perceptron, an early artificial neural network, in 1957?
Answer
Frank Rosenblatt
At which 1956 workshop was the term “artificial intelligence” formally introduced as a field name?
Answer
Dartmouth workshop
Which robotic system performed the first fully autonomous docking of two spacecraft in orbit in 1967?
Answer
Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188
Which renewable-energy technology uses organic waste to produce both biogas and digestate?
Answer
Anaerobic digestion
What is the name of the process that turns used cooking oil into biodiesel?
Answer
Transesterification
Which solar power station in Morocco uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight and store heat in molten salt?
Answer
Noor Ouarzazate Solar Complex
Which named wind blows down the Rhône Valley toward the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer
The mistral
What is the temperature scale whose absolute zero is 0 kelvins?
Answer
The Kelvin scale
What is the name of the boundary between Earth’s sunlit and dark sides?
Answer
Terminator
Which weather scale rates tropical cyclones from Category 1 to Category 5 by wind speed?
Answer
Saffir–Simpson scale
What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?
Answer
Wind force
What underwater breathing apparatus did Leonardo da Vinci design for divers?
Answer
Diving suit
What was Leonardo da Vinci’s self-propelled cart designed to do?
Answer
Move without being pushed
What did Leonardo da Vinci call his screw-shaped flying-machine concept?
Answer
The aerial screw
What phenomenon did Thomas Edison observe in a vacuum lamp in 1883?
Answer
Edison effect
What company was formed in 1892 from Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston?
Answer
General Electric
What type of filament did Thomas Edison use in a successful 1879 incandescent lamp?
Answer
Carbonized cotton thread
Which New York power station, opened in 1882, supplied electricity to Edison’s first commercial system?
Answer
Pearl Street Station