What building did King's College London open in 2000 to honor Franklin and Wilkins?
Answer
Franklin-Wilkins Building
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which chemical group did Franklin place near the outside of DNA?
Answer
Phosphate groups
What did Franklin originally call the drier form of DNA?
Answer
Crystalline
Which Swiss chemist prepared the highly purified Signer DNA sample?
Answer
Rudolf Signer
What wartime device did Franklin's coal research help improve?
Answer
Gas masks
Which organization inaugurated the Ada Lovelace Award in 1981?
Answer
Association for Women in Computing
Which BBC Radio 4 biography program devoted a 2013 episode to Ada Lovelace?
Answer
Great Lives
Which birthday marked the first time Ada saw the family portrait of her father?
Answer
20th birthday
Where did Ada and William King spend their honeymoon?
Answer
Ashley Combe
What Surrey home was one of Ada and William King's three homes?
Answer
Ockham Park
Which Geneva journal published Menabrea's French transcript in 1842?
Answer
Bibliothèque universelle de Genève
Which scientist described himself as a supporter of Lovelace's writing?
Answer
Michael Faraday
About how much longer were Lovelace's notes than her translation?
Answer
Three times longer
How long did Lovelace spend translating Menabrea's article?
Answer
Nine months
In which month and year were Lovelace's translation and notes published?
Answer
September 1843
Which university hosted Babbage's 1840 seminar on the Analytical Engine?
Answer
University of Turin
Which nonprofit named after Ada supported women in open technology?
Answer
Ada Initiative
Which U.S. department initially developed the Ada programming language?
Answer
Department of Defense
Which British organization awards the Lovelace Medal?
Answer
British Computer Society
Who founded Ada Lovelace Day in 2009?
Answer
Suw Charman-Anderson
What was Ada Lovelace's family's main house from 1845?
Answer
Horsley Towers
Which NASA program sent uncrewed Surveyor landers to the Moon before Apollo?
Answer
Surveyor program
What is the name of the largest near-side lunar basin, often called the Ocean of Storms?
Answer
Oceanus Procellarum
Which Apollo 15 astronaut dropped a hammer and feather on the Moon?
Answer
David Scott
Which NASA spacecraft has orbited and mapped the Moon since 2009?
Answer
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
What is the name for the Moon's apparent wobble as seen from Earth?
Answer
Libration
Which lunar phase follows a new moon?
Answer
Waxing crescent
What is the Moon's equatorial circumference?
Answer
10,921 km
What is the Moon's mean radius in kilometers?
Answer
1,737.4 km
Which religious order adopted the Decree de genere in 1593?
Answer
Jesuits
Which pope approved a blood-purity statute for the Hieronymites in 1496?
Answer
Alexander VI
Which monastery library kept many banned texts collected by Philip II and Philip III?
Answer
Monasterio del Escorial
Which Navarre village was central to the 1609-1614 Basque witch accusations?
Answer
Zugarramurdi
Which witch prosecutions became the biggest series of witch trials in Spanish history?
Answer
Basque witch trials
Whose regency government finally suppressed the Inquisition in 1834?
Answer
Maria Christina of Bourbon
Which 1820 uprising forced Ferdinand VII to abolish the Inquisition again?
Answer
Riego uprising