89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What British dish uses leftover potatoes and vegetables, frying them together until browned?
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Bubble and squeak
What was the title of Alan Turing’s 1950 paper that introduced his famous machine-intelligence test?
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
What is the name of the 2017 Google research paper that introduced the Transformer architecture?
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Attention Is All You Need
What is the name of the surgical robot system made by Intuitive Surgical?
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da Vinci Surgical System
In sea stars, what is the free-swimming larval stage called?
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Bipinnaria
Which reef system is the world's largest structure built by living organisms?
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Great Barrier Reef
Which animal is the largest invertebrate ever recorded by mass?
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Colossal squid
Which ocean current circles Antarctica without meeting a continent?
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current
What structure do sea urchins use to scrape algae from rocks?
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Aristotle's lantern
Which marine animal has the largest brain by mass?
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Sperm whale
What is the narwhal's famous tusk actually made from?
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An elongated tooth
What is the main mineral component of most mollusc shells?
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Calcium carbonate
Who developed the oral polio vaccine used in mass immunization campaigns?
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Albert Sabin
Which strain provided the basis for the first licensed mumps vaccine in 1967?
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Jeryl Lynn strain
Which scientist identified the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882?
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Robert Koch
Who introduced antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid in the 1860s?
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Joseph Lister
What was the first mRNA vaccine to receive full FDA approval?
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Comirnaty
Who was the first person treated with insulin for diabetes in 1922?
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Leonard Thompson
Who performed the first successful human kidney transplant between identical twins?
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Joseph Murray
Which compound is produced when carbon dioxide reacts with water to form H₂CO₃?
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Carbonic acid
Which compound is the mineral fluorite, with the chemical formula CaF₂?
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Calcium fluoride
Which compound is the main active ingredient in many antacid tablets and has the formula Mg(OH)₂?
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Magnesium hydroxide