34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which pope tried in 1484 to allow appeals to Rome against the Spanish Inquisition?
Answer
Innocent VIII
Who was the first official inquisitor of the Mexican Inquisition?
Answer
Pedro Moya de Contreras
Without a defined budget, what did the Spanish Inquisition mainly use to finance itself?
Answer
confiscated goods
What did the notario del secreto record during Spanish Inquisition trials?
Answer
testimonies
On what date was the first auto de fé execution in Seville held?
Answer
6 February 1481
Which two Dominicans were appointed as the first Spanish inquisitors in 1480?
Answer
Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín
What dimensionless factor equals 1/sqrt(1−v²/c²) in special relativity?
Answer
Lorentz factor
What is the relativistic four-vector version of ordinary velocity called?
Answer
Four-velocity
Which tensor represents matter and energy in Einstein's field equations?
Answer
Stress-energy tensor
What tensor is used to describe spacetime curvature in the Einstein field equations?
Answer
Einstein tensor
Which American physicist proposed the Shapiro time delay in 1964?
Answer
Irwin Shapiro
What general-relativity effect delays radar signals passing near the Sun?
Answer
Shapiro time delay
Which effect shifts light frequency because of relative motion in special relativity?
Answer
relativistic Doppler effect
What invariant quantity separates events in Minkowski spacetime?
Answer
spacetime interval
Who gave the 1908 lecture titled Space and Time?
Answer
Hermann Minkowski
What 1905 paper introduced Einstein's special relativity?
Answer
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
Which lake on Zealand is Denmark's largest lake by area?
Answer
Arresø
Which lake in Aetolia-Acarnania is Greece's largest natural lake?
Answer
Lake Trichonida
Which lough is the largest lake within the Republic of Ireland?
Answer
Lough Corrib
Which Mongolian lake is the country's largest freshwater lake by volume?
Answer
Lake Khövsgöl
Which Patagonian lake is Argentina's largest freshwater lake?
Answer
Argentino Lake
Which Patagonia lake is the biggest lake in Chile?
Answer
General Carrera Lake
Which loch is Scotland's largest by surface area?
Answer
Loch Lomond
Which lake in the Masurian Lake District is Poland's largest?
Answer
Śniardwy
Which liman is Romania's largest?
Answer
Lake Razelm
Which Kerala lake is India's longest lake?
Answer
Vembanad
Which lake on the Estonia-Russia border is Europe's fifth-largest lake?
Answer
Lake Peipus
Which large Manitoba lake is the eleventh-largest freshwater lake on Earth by area?
Answer
Lake Winnipeg
Which African Great Lake is also widely known as Lake Nyasa?
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Lake Malawi
Which lake is the largest lake in the Caribbean region?
Answer
Lake Enriquillo
Which lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer
Great Salt Lake
Which natural lake is Spain's largest?
Answer
Lake Sanabria
Which Great Lake is the smallest by water volume?
Answer
Lake Erie
Which Northern Irish lough is the largest lake in the British Isles?
Answer
Lough Neagh
Which Russian lake is Europe's second-largest lake, after Lake Ladoga?
Answer
Lake Onega
Which Ethiopian lake is the largest lake in Ethiopia?
Answer
Lake Tana
In 1922, Marie Curie became a fellow of which French medical academy?
Answer
French Academy of Medicine