What sensitive compound injured Davy and Faraday in an explosion?
Answer
nitrogen trichloride
96379 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96379 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who gave Faraday many tickets to Humphry Davy's lectures in 1812?
Answer
William Dance
Which discussion society did young Faraday attend for lectures on science?
Answer
City Philosophical Society
Who was Faraday's bookbinder and bookseller master in Blandford Street?
Answer
George Riebau
In which year did Faraday discover benzene?
Answer
1825
At which London road junction is the Michael Faraday Memorial located?
Answer
Elephant and Castle
Which spacecraft became the first to orbit Jupiter in 1995?
Answer
Galileo
On what UTC date did Juno enter orbit around Jupiter?
Answer
July 5, 2016
What term describes Jupiter's flattened shape caused by rapid rotation?
Answer
Oblate spheroid
What term names Jupiter's lighter atmospheric bands?
Answer
Zones
Which Jupiter moon is its largest irregular satellite?
Answer
Himalia
What was Galileo's atmospheric entry probe called?
Answer
Galileo Probe
What is the name of Juno's visible-light camera?
Answer
JunoCam
What is Jupiter's mean radius in kilometers?
Answer
69,911 km
Which King's College physicist showed Watson an X-ray image of DNA in January 1953?
Answer
Maurice Wilkins
Who drew the diagram for Watson and Crick's 1953 DNA paper?
Answer
Odile Crick
In which English village, now part of Northampton, was Francis Crick born?
Answer
Weston Favell
Which London research institute is named after Francis Crick?
Answer
Francis Crick Institute
What 1994 book by Francis Crick argued about consciousness?
Answer
The Astonishing Hypothesis
Who supervised Francis Crick's PhD work at Cambridge?
Answer
Max Perutz
Who supervised James Watson's PhD research at Indiana University?
Answer
Salvador Luria
What incorrect DNA model did Linus Pauling publish in early 1953?
Answer
Triple helix
What radio quiz show featured James Watson as a child?
Answer
Quiz Kids
Which 1944 book helped shift Watson's interest toward genetics?
Answer
What Is Life?
What childhood hobby fascinated James Watson?
Answer
Bird watching
Which Nobel category honored Watson and Crick in 1962?
Answer
Physiology or Medicine
Which institute did Francis Crick join in California in 1977?
Answer
Salk Institute
Which institution was James Watson president of from 1994 to 2003?
Answer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Which award did James Watson receive in 1977 for public service?
Answer
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Which royal medal did Francis Crick receive in 1972?
Answer
Royal Medal
Which college at Cambridge was Francis Crick affiliated with as a graduate student?
Answer
Gonville and Caius
Which wartime organization did Francis Crick work for during World War II?
Answer
Admiralty Research Laboratory
Who was Rosalind Franklin's graduate student who produced Photo 51?
Answer
Raymond Gosling
Which King's College physicist worked with Rosalind Franklin on DNA X-ray studies?
Answer
Maurice Wilkins
Which King's College scientist's unpublished DNA data influenced Watson and Crick's model?
Answer
Rosalind Franklin
What asteroid in the Asteroid Belt is named after Alexander Fleming?
Answer
91006 Fleming
Which bacterium causing gonorrhoea did Fleming find was affected by penicillin?
Answer
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Fleming's 1917 antiseptics article appeared in which medical journal?
Answer
The Lancet