96484 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96484 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the second-largest moon in the Solar System?
Answer
Titan
Which dwarf planet orbits in the main asteroid belt?
Answer
Ceres
Which spacecraft was first to enter interstellar space?
Answer
Voyager 1
Which NASA mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu?
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OSIRIS-REx
Which ESA spacecraft orbited comet 67P?
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Rosetta
What is the point in an orbit closest to the Sun called?
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Perihelion
What is the Sun's visible surface called?
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Photosphere
Which public lectures were the original basis for Feynman's book "QED"?
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Sir Douglas Robb lectures
Which theorem arose from Feynman's MIT thesis, 'Forces in Molecules'?
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Hellmann-Feynman theorem
Which weak-interaction theory did Feynman and Gell-Mann develop in 1958?
Answer
V-A theory
With whom did Feynman develop a weak-decay model?
Answer
Murray Gell-Mann
Which formula did Feynman and Hans Bethe develop for fission-bomb yield?
Answer
Bethe-Feynman formula
Feynman was sent to which Tennessee Manhattan Project site for uranium safety work?
Answer
Clinton Engineer Works
At Los Alamos, whose Theoretical Division was Feynman assigned to?
Answer
Hans Bethe
What was the name of Richard Feynman's adopted daughter?
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Michelle
Which university's Math Championship did Feynman win in high school?
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New York University
Feynman's father worked as a sales manager for what product?
Answer
Uniforms
What was the full name of Richard Feynman's father?
Answer
Melville Arthur Feynman
Which lanthanide has atomic number 58?
Answer
Cerium
Which element is named after the U.S. state of California?
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Californium
Which element is named after the continent Europe?
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Europium
Which element has atomic number 1 but is not an alkali metal?
Answer
Hydrogen
Which element is named after Albert Einstein?
Answer
Einsteinium
The modern periodic table is ordered by which property?
Answer
Atomic number
Which element is named after chemist Glenn T. Seaborg?
Answer
Seaborgium
Which element with atomic number 104 is named after Ernest Rutherford?
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Rutherfordium
Which element is named after Dmitri Mendeleev?
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Mendelevium
Carl Sagan's 1980 book Cosmos won which award in 1981?
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Hugo Award
Which university hosted Sagan's 1985 Gifford Lectures?
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University of Glasgow
What is the subtitle of Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World?
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Science as a Candle in the Dark
Which Locus Award did Contact win in 1986?
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Best First Novel
In 1976, Carl Sagan became the David Duncan Professor of what field?
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Astronomy and Space Sciences
Who founded the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell?
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Lisa Kaltenegger
Which Greek composer is credited in Cosmos: A Personal Voyage?
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Vangelis
On what date was the Arecibo message broadcast into space?
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16 November 1974
At which cemetery is Carl Sagan buried?
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Lake View Cemetery