96379 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which constellation contains the Tarantula Nebula?
Answer
Dorado
Which constellation is represented by a little horse?
Answer
Equuleus
On which plain inside Gale crater did Curiosity land?
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Aeolis Palus
What is Curiosity's dry mass?
Answer
899 kilograms
Which Mars rover set a one-day drive record of 220 meters in 2005?
Answer
Opportunity
What was Opportunity's final odometer distance on Mars?
Answer
45.16 kilometers
What was Spirit's total distance traveled on Mars?
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7.73 kilometers
What was the Pathfinder lander renamed after landing on Mars?
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Carl Sagan Memorial Station
What is the official name of Mount Sharp, Curiosity's main mountain target?
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Aeolis Mons
Which launch vehicle sent Curiosity toward Mars in 2011?
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Atlas V 541
What was the dry mass of NASA's Spirit rover?
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185 kg
Which Norwegian physician identified the leprosy bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873?
Answer
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Which disease is caused by Bordetella pertussis?
Answer
Pertussis
Which disease is caused by Shigella bacteria?
Answer
Shigellosis
What is the study of how diseases spread in populations called?
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Epidemiology
Which physician wrote the 1843 essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever?
Answer
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Which German scientist identified the diphtheria bacillus in 1884?
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Friedrich Loeffler
Which German physician discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhea?
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Albert Neisser
Which bacterium is commonly called the pneumococcus?
Answer
Streptococcus pneumoniae
At constant entropy and volume, which thermodynamic potential is minimized at equilibrium?
Answer
internal energy
Which thermodynamic potential is usually denoted by G?
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Gibbs free energy
What theorem is the historical basis of the third law of thermodynamics?
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Nernst heat theorem
Which 1824 book by Sadi Carnot founded the theory of heat engines?
Answer
Reflections on Motive Power of Fire
What is the ratio of work output to heat input called for a heat engine?
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thermal efficiency
The relation dS = δQrev/T defines entropy change for what kind of process?
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reversible process
Which theorem states that the cyclic integral of δQ/T is never positive?
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Clausius theorem
Which galaxy is the subject of Hubble's 2015 image 'Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy'?
Answer
Andromeda Galaxy
What STScI archive contains data from the Hubble Space Telescope?
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Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
Which Hubble camera was installed during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002?
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Advanced Camera for Surveys