96379 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96379 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is Venus's orbital period around the Sun, in Earth days?
Answer
224.7 days
Maat Mons is located in which Venusian region?
Answer
Atla Regio
What is Venus's axial tilt, measured in degrees?
Answer
177.36 degrees
What is Venus's average orbital speed around the Sun?
Answer
35.02 km/s
What is Venus's orbital inclination to the ecliptic?
Answer
3.39 degrees
What is Venus's mean density in grams per cubic centimeter?
Answer
5.24 g/cm3
What is Venus's mean radius in kilometers?
Answer
6051.8 km
Which Soviet mission pair deployed balloons in Venus's atmosphere in 1985?
Answer
Vega 1 and Vega 2
Which NASA mission dropped four probes into Venus's atmosphere in 1978?
Answer
Pioneer Venus Multiprobe
Which Venus highland region contains Maxwell Montes?
Answer
Ishtar Terra
Which Venus highland is the largest on the planet?
Answer
Aphrodite Terra
What is Venus's orbital eccentricity approximately?
Answer
0.007
What type of magnetic field is produced around Venus by the solar wind?
Answer
induced magnetic field
Venus's mass is about what fraction of Earth's mass?
Answer
0.815 Earths
Which physicist visited Mount Wilson Observatory in 1931 and met Edwin Hubble?
Answer
Albert Einstein
Which asteroid was the only one discovered by Edwin Hubble?
Answer
1373 Cincinnati
Alongside extragalactic astronomy, what field did Edwin Hubble help establish?
Answer
observational cosmology
Which interstate includes the Edwin Hubble Highway through Marshfield, Missouri?
Answer
Interstate 44
Which learned society elected Edwin Hubble as a member in 1929?
Answer
American Philosophical Society
What was the occupation of Edwin Hubble's father, John Powell Hubble?
Answer
Insurance executive
Which prize did Edwin Hubble receive in 1924?
Answer
Newcomb Cleveland Prize
After World War I, Hubble spent a year at which English university?
Answer
University of Cambridge
At Oxford, Edwin Hubble studied at which college?
Answer
The Queen's College
For which physicist was Hubble a student laboratory assistant?
Answer
Robert Millikan
Which laboratory did Hubble work for at Aberdeen Proving Ground in World War II?
Answer
Ballistic Research Laboratory
Who offered Hubble a staff position at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919?
Answer
George Ellery Hale
At which observatory did Edwin Hubble do his University of Chicago graduate work?
Answer
Yerkes Observatory
At what Indiana high school did Edwin Hubble teach?
Answer
New Albany High School
What term did Faraday introduce for the curves representing magnetic influence?
Answer
lines of force
What detector was attached to the pail in Faraday's ice pail experiment?
Answer
gold-leaf electroscope
Which 1843 experiment demonstrated electrostatic induction in a conducting container?
Answer
Faraday's ice pail experiment
Which Royal Society medal did Faraday receive in both 1832 and 1838?
Answer
Copley Medal
On what date did Michael Faraday marry Sarah Barnard?
Answer
12 June 1821
What phenomenon describes Faraday inducing current between two coils on an iron ring?
Answer
mutual inductance
Faraday's work around a current-carrying conductor helped establish what field concept?
Answer
electromagnetic field
Which academy elected Faraday a Foreign Honorary Member in 1832?
Answer
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Which university granted Faraday an honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 1832?
Answer
University of Oxford
On what date was Faraday appointed Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution?
Answer
1 March 1813