Relativity & Time
Which scientist developed the theory of relativity?
Albert Einstein
Which philosopher was executed by drinking hemlock?
Socrates
The chicken-or-egg problem is a classic example of what kind of dilemma?
Causality dilemma
What one-atom-thick sheet of carbon is known for strength and conductivity?
Graphene
What art movement is associated with dream logic and melting clocks?
Surrealism
What is often described as the universe's ultimate speed limit?
Speed of light
What school did Aristotle found in Athens?
Lyceum
What infinite-room thought experiment was created by David Hilbert?
Hilbert's hotel
What metal is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
Dada emerged partly as an anti-art reaction to which conflict?
World War I
What effect makes time pass differently near very massive objects?
Gravitational time dilation
Who wrote the famous idea often phrased as 'I think, therefore I am'?
Rene Descartes
What paradox asks about a barber who shaves everyone who does not shave themselves?
Barber paradox
What scale ranks minerals by scratch hardness?
Mohs scale
Which artist signed a urinal as the artwork Fountain?
Marcel Duchamp
The twin paradox usually involves travel at what kind of speed?
Near-light-speed travel
Who founded Stoicism in ancient Athens?
Zeno of Citium
Which Zeno paradox argues that a flying projectile is motionless at each instant?
Arrow paradox
What alloy is mainly copper and tin?
Bronze
What Japanese repair art uses lacquer and powdered precious metal?
Kintsugi
What theory describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime?
General relativity
What Buddhist doctrine means there is no permanent, unchanging self?
Anatman
What paradox involves a prisoner surprised by the day of an announced execution?
Unexpected hanging paradox
What cornstarch-and-water mixture behaves as a non-Newtonian fluid?
Oobleck
What movement used mass-media imagery, advertising style, and irony?
Pop art