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This Canadian telescope, which looks like 4 skateboard halfpipes, is most commonly referred to as CHIME
What is the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment?
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This mathematician's calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
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The environmental scientist who wrote "Silent Spring"
Who is Rachel Carson?
100
This country consumes the most chocolate per capita
What is Switzerland?
200
In the 1994 movie Contact, detection of a radio signal from an extraterrestrial technological civilization is made at this facility in New Mexico
VLA (Very Large Array)
200
First Black American to go to space
Who is Guion S. Bluford?
200
This Chinese-American physicist worked on the Manhattan project and made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.
Who is Chien-Shiung Wu?
200
These planets in our solar system do not have moons
What is Venus and Mercury?
300
The acronym for this proposed telescope in Chile
What is ELT (Extremely Large Telescope)?
300
Black mathematician whose extremely detailed model of the Earth became the foundation of GPS.
Who is Gladys West?
300
This chemist developed the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century and was the first woman to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii.
Who is Alice Ball?
300
This year was the first time that the New Year's Eve ball dropped in Times Square.
When is 1907?
400
One of these is just an animal and not an astronomy acronym: WOMBAT, SPIDERS, SQUID, PENGUINS, WASP, ZEBRA
What is PENGUINS?
400
This physicist was the first Black American to receive a PhD in physics from an American University.
Who is Edward Alexander Bouchet?
400
First woman to obtain a PhD in physics from McGill in 1928.
Who is Laura Rowles (née Chalk)?
400
Before it was a called a mouse that computer accessory was named after this animal.
What is a turtle?
500
The International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory is referred to by this acronym
What is INTEGRAL?
500
This entomologist had the nickname "Termite Lady" for her work but was also a fierce advocate for racial equality.
Who is Margaret Collins?
500
This Indigenous engineer contributed to space exploration efforts with her work relating to the Apollo program, the Polaris reentry vehicle, and interplanetary space probes.
Who is Mary G. Ross?
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The song "Drops Of Jupiter" by Train mentions "the best" one of these espresso drinks "you ever had."
What is a soy latte?