89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the approximate atmospheric pressure at Mars’s surface?
Answer
About 0.6 kilopascals
Which Edison company manufactured Portland cement?
Answer
Edison Portland Cement Company
Where is Thomas Edison buried?
Answer
Glenmont, West Orange
Which French honor did Thomas Edison receive in 1881?
Answer
Legion of Honour
Which telegraph system did Thomas Edison develop to send four messages on one wire?
Answer
Quadruplex telegraph
On what date was Thomas Edison’s phonograph patent issued?
Answer
February 19, 1878
What was the name of Thomas Edison’s cement company, founded in 1899?
Answer
Edison Portland Cement Company
Which device earned Fritz Zernike the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Answer
Phase-contrast microscope
Which astronomer won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical studies of stellar structure and evolution?
Answer
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Which scientist won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the cochlea?
Answer
Georg von Békésy
What effect earned Pieter Zeeman the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics?
Answer
Zeeman effect
Which Danish wind turbine, built in 1957, influenced the design of modern three-bladed turbines?
Answer
Gedser wind turbine
Who patented the first commercial solar water heater, the Climax, in 1891?
Answer
Clarence Kemp
Which renewable-energy project was the first offshore wind farm in the United States?
Answer
Block Island Wind Farm
Which solar power station in Spain was the first commercial solar-thermal tower plant?
Answer
PS10 solar power tower
What instrument combining a keyboard and bowed strings did Leonardo da Vinci invent?
Answer
Viola organista
What self-moving machine did Leonardo da Vinci design around 1478?
Answer
Self-propelled cart
Which mission was the first international crewed spaceflight?
Answer
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
Which spacecraft made the first soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region?
Answer
Chandrayaan-3
Who invented the computer mouse, first publicly demonstrated in 1968?
Answer
Douglas Engelbart
Which inventor demonstrated the first working laser in 1960?
Answer
Theodore Maiman
Which inventor developed frequency modulation, the radio technology known as FM, patented in 1933?
Answer
Edwin Howard Armstrong