From which university did Feynman earn his PhD?
Answer
Princeton University
98743 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Who was Richard Feynman's PhD advisor?
Answer
John Archibald Wheeler
What medal did Edwin Hubble receive from the Franklin Institute in 1939?
Answer
Franklin Medal
What telescope did Edwin Hubble use for his later work on supernovae?
Answer
Hale Telescope
During World War II, what field of research did Edwin Hubble work in?
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ballistics
What was the name of the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson that Hubble used?
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Hooker Telescope
What was the name of the telescope Hubble used to discover Cepheids in Andromeda?
Answer
Hooker Telescope
What university awarded Edwin Hubble an honorary doctorate in 1931?
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University of Oxford
What was the title of Hubble's 1929 paper on the velocity-distance relation?
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A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
What was Edwin Hubble's academic major (or degree) from the University of Chicago?
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Mathematics and astronomy
What prestigious scholarship did Hubble win to study at Oxford?
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Rhodes Scholarship
Who collaborated with Hubble to measure galaxy redshifts at Mount Wilson?
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Milton Humason
What was the approximate value of the Hubble constant originally calculated by Hubble?
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500 km/s per Mpc
What is the name of the galaxy classification system created by Edwin Hubble?
Answer
Hubble sequence
What phrase did Carl Sagan popularize as a criterion for extraordinary claims?
Answer
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
What 1966 book did Carl Sagan co-author with I.S. Shklovskii?
Answer
Intelligent Life in the Universe
What was the name of Carl Sagan's 1995 book promoting scientific skepticism?
Answer
The Demon-Haunted World
What equation for estimating extraterrestrial civilizations did Carl Sagan popularize?
Answer
Drake equation
Who was Carl Sagan's doctoral advisor?
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Gerard Kuiper
What was the title of Carl Sagan's final book, published posthumously?
Answer
Billions and Billions
What was the name of the laboratory Carl Sagan directed at Cornell University?
Answer
Laboratory for Planetary Studies
What is the name of the asteroid named after Carl Sagan?
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2709 Sagan
In 1990, at Sagan's suggestion, Voyager 1 took a portrait of Earth from how many billion kilometers away?
Answer
6 billion kilometers
What does the acronym SETI stand for, a field Sagan championed?
Answer
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Which university did Carl Sagan teach at for most of his career?
Answer
Cornell University
What is the name of natural selection that favors a single extreme phenotype over others?
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directional selection
What is the name of the theory that evolution proceeds in rapid bursts separated by long stable periods?
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Punctuated equilibrium
Which English biologist wrote 'The Selfish Gene'?
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Richard Dawkins
What is the name of the oldest known hominid fossil, dated to 7 million years ago?
Answer
Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Which type of selection reduces variation by eliminating extreme phenotypes?
Answer
Stabilizing selection
Which experiment simulated early Earth conditions to produce amino acids?
Answer
Miller-Urey experiment
What is the name of the process by which eukaryotic cells acquired mitochondria?
Answer
Endosymbiosis
Which fossil fish is a transitional form between fish and tetrapods?
Answer
Tiktaalik
What is the name of the extinct "hobbit" hominid found in Indonesia?
Answer
Homo floresiensis
What type of selection is based on mate choice?
Answer
Sexual selection
What is the term for speciation due to a geographic barrier?
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Allopatric speciation
What species does the fossil "Lucy" belong to?
Answer
Australopithecus afarensis
What is the term for using mutation rates to estimate evolutionary divergence times?
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Molecular clock