89732 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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Which African wind farm, opened in 2018, is Kenya’s largest wind-power project?
Answer
Lake Turkana Wind Power
Which solar park in India has a planned capacity of about 2.25 gigawatts?
Answer
Bhadla Solar Park
Which tidal barrage in France began generating electricity in 1966 and was then the world's largest tidal power station?
Answer
Rance Tidal Power Station
Who became the first woman to perform a spacewalk during the Soviet Salyut 7 mission in 1984?
Answer
Svetlana Savitskaya
Which spacecraft became the first to orbit an asteroid when it reached 433 Eros in 2000?
Answer
NEAR Shoemaker
Which spacecraft became the first to orbit Mercury in 2011?
Answer
MESSENGER
Which mission was the first to use a sky crane to land a rover on Mars?
Answer
Mars Science Laboratory
Which inventor created the spinning jenny, a multi-spindle textile machine patented in 1770?
Answer
James Hargreaves
Which inventor patented the first successful mechanical dishwasher in 1886?
Answer
Josephine Cochrane
Which inventor created the first commercially successful typewriter, patented in 1868?
Answer
Christopher Latham Sholes
Which inventor patented the first practical sewing machine in 1846?
Answer
Elias Howe
What type of rainfall occurs when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain range?
Answer
Orographic precipitation
What phenomenon causes heavy snowfall downwind of a large lake?
Answer
Lake-effect snow
What boundary forms when a warm air mass slides over a colder air mass?
Answer
Warm front
In quantum physics, which effect produces a two-dimensional electron system with Hall resistance quantized in fractional values?
Answer
Fractional quantum Hall effect
Which physicist introduced the term “quantum entanglement” in a 1935 paper?
Answer
Erwin Schrödinger
What effect quantizes the Hall conductance into integer multiples of e²/h?
Answer
Integer quantum Hall effect
What name is given to the quantum rule that identical bosons can occupy one shared state?
Answer
Bose–Einstein statistics
What is the anatomical name for the human voice box?
Answer
Larynx
Which hormone raises blood calcium levels in the human body?
Answer
Parathyroid hormone
What is the outermost layer of human skin called?
Answer
Epidermis
Which human bone forms the forehead and roof of the eye sockets?
Answer
Frontal bone
Which human heart chamber pumps blood into the aorta?
Answer
Left ventricle