What was the name of the ship on which Marie Curie sailed to the US in 1921?
Answer
RMS Olympic
98548 Intermediate Trivia Questions
98548 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the profession of Marie Curie's father?
Answer
Physics teacher
At which Cambridge college was Stephen Hawking a fellow?
Answer
Gonville and Caius College
Which enzyme introduces negative supercoils into bacterial DNA?
Answer
DNA gyrase
What is the name of the Maya god of death?
Answer
Ah Puch
Which modern country holds the Maya site of Altun Ha?
Answer
Belize
What is the name of the Maya ruler who reigned at Tikal during its greatest power?
Answer
Jasaw Chan K'awiil I
What was the emblem glyph for the city of Tikal?
Answer
Mutul
What is the name of Leonardo's design for a self-propelled cart?
Answer
Self-propelled cart
In which painting by Verrocchio did Leonardo paint an angel?
Answer
The Baptism of Christ
What is the name of Leonardo's codex dedicated to the flight of birds?
Answer
Codex on the Flight of Birds
What cape did Columbus name 'Gracias a Dios' on his fourth voyage?
Answer
Cape Gracias a Dios
What was the name of the monastery where Gregor Mendel conducted his pea plant experiments?
Answer
St. Thomas Monastery in Brno
What was the name of the first university where Einstein became a professor?
Answer
University of Zurich
What was the name of the hospital where Albert Einstein died?
Answer
Princeton Hospital
What was the name of Francis Drake's ship during his circumnavigation?
Answer
Golden Hind
Which Dutch explorer first sighted Tasmania in 1642?
Answer
Abel Tasman
Which Spanish conquistador founded the city of Lima in 1535?
Answer
Francisco Pizarro
What object discovered in Babylon is often called the first charter of human rights?
Answer
Cyrus Cylinder
How long (in kilometers) was the Achaemenid Royal Road from Susa to Sardis?
Answer
2,700 kilometers
Which Sassanid king was known as 'the Just'?
Answer
Khosrow I
What is the name of the Persian festival of fire celebrated on the last Wednesday of the year?
Answer
Chaharshanbe Suri
In what year did the Sassanid Empire fall?
Answer
651 AD
What was the title of Charles Darwin's 1880 book on plant movement?
Answer
The Power of Movement in Plants
What was the name of the new royal dynasty after the Norman Conquest?
Answer
House of Normandy
What tactic involving a pretended retreat did the Normans use at Hastings?
Answer
feigned flight
Which two brothers of Harold Godwinson were killed at the Battle of Hastings?
Answer
Gyrth and Leofwine
How long after landing did the Apollo 11 moonwalk begin?
Answer
6 hours, 39 minutes
Which launch pad was used for Apollo 11?
Answer
Launch Complex 39A
How many people watched the Apollo 11 moonwalk live on TV?
Answer
600 million
What is Australia's largest lake when full?
Answer
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
Which East African lake is the world's largest permanent desert lake?
Answer
Lake Turkana
Who built the first successful internal combustion engine?
Answer
Étienne Lenoir