34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What large African lake borders Gombe Stream National Park?
Answer
Lake Tanganyika
What honorific title did Queen Elizabeth II bestow upon Jane Goodall?
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Dame Commander of the British Empire
Which book is Jane Goodall's first major publication about her chimpanzee observations?
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In the Shadow of Man
What was the name of the first chimpanzee Goodall observed using a tool?
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David Greybeard
Who co-authored The Feynman Lectures on Physics with Richard Feynman?
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Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands
What was the name of the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster?
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Rogers Commission
What award did Richard Feynman receive in 1972 for his teaching?
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Oersted Medal
What book contains Richard Feynman's 1964 Cornell lectures on physics?
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The Character of Physical Law
What was the maiden name of Richard Feynman's mother?
Answer
Phillips
What alternative formulation of quantum mechanics did Feynman develop?
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Path integral formulation
What mathematical technique for solving integrals did Feynman popularize?
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Differentiation under the integral sign
What was the name of Richard Feynman's first wife?
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Arline Greenbaum
What principle did Feynman use as the title of his PhD thesis?
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The principle of least action
From which university did Feynman earn his PhD?
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Princeton University
Who was Richard Feynman's PhD advisor?
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John Archibald Wheeler
What medal did Edwin Hubble receive from the Franklin Institute in 1939?
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Franklin Medal
What telescope did Edwin Hubble use for his later work on supernovae?
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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?
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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?
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
What 1966 book did Carl Sagan co-author with I.S. Shklovskii?
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
What was the name of Carl Sagan's 1995 book promoting scientific skepticism?
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The Demon-Haunted World
What equation for estimating extraterrestrial civilizations did Carl Sagan popularize?
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Drake equation