99182 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which Confederate general was mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge?
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Lewis Armistead
Which Union general was killed on the first day of the battle?
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John F. Reynolds
What was the name of the solar wind experiment deployed by Apollo 11?
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Solar Wind Composition experiment
Which company manufactured the TV camera that broadcast the first moonwalk?
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Westinghouse
Who was the capcom for the Apollo 11 lunar landing?
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Charlie Duke
Who was the flight director for the Apollo 11 landing?
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Gene Kranz
Who was the backup lunar module pilot of Apollo 11?
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Fred Haise
What device did Apollo 11 leave on the Moon to reflect lasers?
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Retroreflector
Who remained in lunar orbit during Apollo 11?
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Michael Collins
What was the name of the Apollo 11 launch vehicle?
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Saturn V
In which lunar mare did Apollo 11 land?
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Mare Tranquillitatis
Which Enlightenment thinker wrote 'Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men'?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Which French philosopher wrote 'D'Alembert's Dream'?
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Denis Diderot
Which French philosopher wrote the novel 'Julie, or the New Heloise'?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Which French philosopher wrote the 'Philosophical Dictionary'?
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Voltaire
Which French activist wrote the 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen'?
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Olympe de Gouges
Which Parisian café was a popular gathering spot for Enlightenment philosophers?
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Café Procope
Which Enlightenment-era book by Thomas Paine criticized organized religion and advocated deism?
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The Age of Reason
Which posthumously published work by David Hume challenges the arguments for the existence of God?
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Which philosopher was nicknamed the 'German Socrates'?
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Moses Mendelssohn
Which German writer authored the Enlightenment play 'Nathan the Wise'?
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Which French writer translated Newton's 'Principia' into French?
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Emilie du Chatelet
Which French mathematician wrote the 'Preliminary Discourse' to the Encyclopedie?
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Who wrote 'An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation'?
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Jeremy Bentham
Who wrote 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'?
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Immanuel Kant
Who wrote 'A Treatise of Human Nature'?
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David Hume
Who wrote 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
What Latin phrase does Kant use to define Enlightenment?
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Sapere aude
Which French philosopher wrote 'Dictionnaire philosophique'?
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Voltaire
Which Prussian general commanded the IV Corps that first reinforced Wellington at Waterloo?
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Bülow
Which unit defended the farm of La Haye Sainte at Waterloo?
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King's German Legion
Which French corps attacked the farm of Hougoumont at Waterloo?
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II Corps