Which bacterium is the causative agent of tuberculosis?
Answer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
98686 Intermediate Trivia Questions
98686 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which space shuttle conducted the first spacewalk from a shuttle?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle carried the first married couple into space?
Answer
Endeavour
Which space shuttle was the first to land at Kennedy Space Center?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle completed the most orbital missions?
Answer
Discovery
Which space shuttle performed NASA's first night launch?
Answer
Challenger
Which space shuttle launched the Hubble Space Telescope?
Answer
Discovery
Which exoplanet was the first discovered via the microlensing method?
Answer
OGLE-2003-BLG-235L b
What is the name of the first exoplanet discovered by the TESS mission?
Answer
Pi Mensae c
Who first isolated radium chloride?
Answer
Marie Curie
Which device did Pierre and Jacques Curie invent to measure small electric charges?
Answer
Piezoelectric electrometer
What is the half-life of uranium-238?
Answer
4.468 billion years
Who discovered gamma radiation in 1900?
Answer
Paul Villard
Who identified two distinct types of radioactivity, alpha and beta?
Answer
Ernest Rutherford
What property did Becquerel originally believe caused uranium to emit rays?
Answer
Phosphorescence
Which element was the first to be discovered by the Curies?
Answer
Polonium
From what disease did Marie Curie die in 1934?
Answer
Aplastic anemia
What is the most penetrating type of ionizing radiation?
Answer
Gamma radiation
Which radiation consists of high-speed electrons?
Answer
Beta radiation
What type of star did Hubble use to measure the expansion rate of the universe?
Answer
Cepheid variables
Which instrument was primarily used for the Hubble Deep Field observations?
Answer
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
Which Hubble instrument replaced the COSTAR system in 2009?
Answer
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
How long did the Hubble Ultra Deep Field exposure take?
Answer
1 million seconds
What type of celestial object did Hubble observe to discover cosmic acceleration?
Answer
Type Ia supernovae
Which Hubble instrument made the first exoplanet atmosphere detection in 2001?
Answer
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
Which instrument replaced the Faint Object Camera on Hubble?
Answer
Advanced Camera for Surveys
What is the pointing accuracy of Hubble in arcseconds?
Answer
0.007 arcseconds
What is the power consumption of Hubble in watts?
Answer
2,800 watts
What was Hubble's major optical flaw discovered after launch?
Answer
Spherical aberration
What is the name of the most distant star observed by JWST?
Answer
Earendel