34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the title of the 2014 biographical film about Stephen Hawking?
Answer
The Theory of Everything
What is the name of Stephen Hawking's PhD supervisor?
Answer
Dennis Sciama
What honor did Stephen Hawking receive from the Queen in 1982?
Answer
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
On which Star Trek series did Stephen Hawking appear playing poker?
Answer
The Next Generation
With whom did Stephen Hawking co-author 'The Grand Design'?
Answer
Leonard Mlodinow
What did Hawking use as his speech synthesizer?
Answer
DECtalk
What is the name of the book series co-authored by Hawking and his daughter Lucy?
Answer
George's Secret Key to the Universe
What position did Hawking hold at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009?
Answer
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
What was the title of Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis?
Answer
Properties of Expanding Universes
What award did Stephen Hawking receive from President Obama in 2009?
Answer
Presidential Medal of Freedom
What did Galileo use to demonstrate the relativity of motion?
Answer
a moving ship
What was Galileo's punishment after the trial?
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house arrest for life
What work argued heliocentrism is compatible with the Bible?
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Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Who observed sunspots at the same time as Galileo, leading to dispute?
Answer
Christoph Scheiner
What did Galileo first think the protrusions of Saturn were?
Answer
two companion stars
Which Medici grand duke was Galileo's patron?
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Cosimo II de' Medici
What was the title of Galileo's last major work?
Answer
Two New Sciences
What temperature-measuring device did Galileo invent?
Answer
thermoscope
What name did Galileo give the four largest moons of Jupiter?
Answer
Medicean stars
Who was the Pope who condemned Galileo in 1633?
Answer
Urban VIII
At which university did Galileo teach for 18 years?
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University of Padua
Which book by Galileo led to his trial by the Inquisition?
Answer
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
What was the name of the company Tesla founded in 1885 to manufacture arc lamps?
Answer
Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing Company
Which New York hotel did Tesla live in for many years before moving to the New Yorker?
Answer
Waldorf-Astoria
What did Tesla call his concept of a global wireless communication and power transmission system?
Answer
World Wireless System
Which university awarded Nikola Tesla an honorary doctorate in 1926?
Answer
University of Zagreb
What did Tesla call his remote-controlled boat demonstrated in 1898?
Answer
Teleautomaton
What type of turbine did Nikola Tesla invent that has no blades?
Answer
Tesla turbine
Where are Nikola Tesla's ashes displayed?
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Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
How tall was Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower?
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187 feet
What did Tesla call the X-ray images he produced in 1896?
Answer
Shadowgraphs
What was the name of the New York hotel where Tesla lived from 1934 until his death?
Answer
The New Yorker Hotel
In which city did Tesla work for Thomas Edison after arriving in the US?
Answer
New York City
What was the name of the biographer who wrote 'Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla'?
Answer
John J. O'Neill
Which world's fair in 1893 featured Tesla's alternating current lighting system?
Answer
World's Columbian Exposition
What was the ethnic background of Nikola Tesla's mother?
Answer
Serbian
What was the name of Tesla's wireless transmission tower on Long Island?
Answer
Wardenclyffe Tower