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Earth Facts
100
His famous principle addresses restoration of disturbed equilibria.
Who is Henry Louis Le Chatelier?
100
Commonly used spreadsheet program
What is Excel?
100
He was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
Who is John Charles Fields (or Fields)?
100
The most prevalent social phobia is the fear of_______.
What is public speaking?
100
9.8 m/s2
What is free-fall acceleration on Earth (acceleration of gravity; gravitational field strength)?
200
The guillotined Frenchman often called “the father of chemistry”
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
200
The company that Larry Ellison built.
What is Oracle?
200
It is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
What is Geometry?
200
In Pavlov's classical conditioning procedure, the stimulus that originally elicits the reflexive (naturally occurring) behavior is called the ________ stimulus.
What is unconditioned?
200
5.972 &#10799 1024 kg
What is the Mass of Earth?
300
The Anglo-Irish philosopher and theologian credited with the law PV = constant for gases
Who is Robert Boyle?
300
One of the first of these was called "Spacewar".
What is a computer or video game?
300
The notion was introduced by ancient mathematicians to represent straight objects (i.e., having no curvature) with negligible width and depth.
What is a straight line (or line)?
300
Stimulation of the amygdala in non-human animals produces _____.
What is fear?
300
6.37 &#10799 106 m
What is the Radius of Earth?
400
She was the first scientist ever awarded a second Nobel Prize
Who is Marie Curie?
400
Uniquely distinguishes all records in a database table
What is a primary key?
400
The remainder of 19 divided by 5.
What is 4.
400
Which personality disorder is most strongly linked to aggressive and violent behaviors?
What is antisocial personality disorder?
400
8,848 m
What is the Highest point on Earth above sea-level (Mt. Everest)?
500
Her X-ray crystallography data won Watson and Crick the Nobel Prize for the elucidation of the structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
500
Term that describes a function that calls itself.
What is recursion? [or recursive]
500
The number of ways to arrange the four letters ABCD.
What is factorial(4)=4*3*2*1=24?
500
The presence of two or more disorders or diseases occurring in a person at the same time is referred to as ____.
What is comorbidity?
500
4.178 &#10799 10-3 deg/s
What is the Rotation rate of Earth (~once per day)?
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