34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What Kennedy Space Center runway complex was built for shuttle landings?
Answer
Shuttle Landing Facility
Which ocean received the shuttle's solid rocket boosters after parachute splashdown?
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Atlantic Ocean
Which fuel, paired with liquid oxygen, powered the shuttle's main engines?
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Liquid hydrogen
Which launch complex was used for the first Space Shuttle launch?
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Launch Complex 39A
What Greek name is used for spicy oblong Smyrna meatballs in tomato sauce?
Answer
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika
What Greek pudding is made by boiling grape must with flour?
Answer
Moustalevria
What Greek liqueur is flavored with mastic resin from Chios?
Answer
Mastika
What Greek dish is a savory pie traditionally filled with minced meat?
Answer
Kreatopita
Which Thai table-cooked dish resembles Korean barbecue and hot pot?
Answer
Mu kratha
Which Thai curry is literally “forest curry” or “jungle curry”?
Answer
Kaeng pa
Thai curry pastes are traditionally ground with what kitchen tool?
Answer
Mortar and pestle
Khanom tan is flavored with which palm?
Answer
Toddy palm
Khao mok gai is the Thai version of which rice dish?
Answer
Chicken biryani
Khao kha mu is usually made with which pork cut?
Answer
Pork knuckles
Which ancient Greek astronomer is the earliest known proposer of a heliocentric model?
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Aristarchus of Samos
Which Galilean moon is the largest moon in the Solar System?
Answer
Ganymede
Which Jesuit astronomer disputed Galileo's interpretation of sunspots?
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Christoph Scheiner
Which 1613 Galileo work defended the Copernican view while discussing sunspots?
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Letters on Sunspots
Which 1551 Erasmus Reinhold tables helped spread Copernican calculation methods?
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Prutenic Tables
Which 1627 tables by Kepler improved planetary predictions using Tycho's data?
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Rudolphine Tables
Which 1596 Kepler book was an early published defense of Copernican astronomy?
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Mysterium Cosmographicum
Which cardinal urged Copernicus in 1536 to publish his heliocentric theory?
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Nikolaus von Schönberg
At which Italian university did Copernicus study medicine after Bologna?
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University of Padua
Which university awarded Copernicus a doctorate in canon law in 1503?
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University of Ferrara
Which Newton work gave a mathematical basis for Kepler's laws and heliocentric dynamics?
Answer
Principia Mathematica
Which 1619 Kepler book presented his third law of planetary motion?
Answer
Harmonices Mundi