Random
The Great Ones
The Small Stuff
Oh look at the stars
How well can you see
100
The organelle responsible for turning water and glucose into ATP.
What is the mitochondria?
100
The person who determined that the recessional velocity of galaxies is proportional to their distance.
Edwin Hubble
100
The Physical Principle that reads: "The more precisely the position of a particle is known the more uncertain the momentum is and vice versa "
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
100
The radiation that fills all corners of our universe.
Cosmic Microwave Radiation.
100
An optical element (object) which can separate white light into its component wavelengths
What is a prism?
200
The chemical formula for glucose.
What is C₆H₁₂O₆?
200
The person who discovered Radium and Polonium
Who is Marie Curie?
200
The exchange particle that facilitates this interaction:
e+e -> e+e
What is a photon?
200
The mechanisms that maintain the stability of a neutron star.
What is gravity and neutron degeneracy pressure?
200
An image which is formed by real light rays coming from an object and striking your eyes.
What is a real image?
300
The band that wrote "Seven Nation Army"
What are the White Stripes?
300
The author of Principia Mathematica.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
300
The three colors in quantum chromodynamics.
What are red, blue, and green?
300
The plane on which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies
Galactic plane.
300
The part of the camera which controls how much light gets let in.
What is aperture?
400
The most well-known evacuation of 338,000 soldiers in the Second World War from Normandy
What is the Dunkirk Evacuation?
400
The person who came up with the nuclear shell model and "magic numbers" for stability.
Who is Maria Goeppert-Mayer? (also accept who is
J. Hans D. Jensen)?
400
The element with the highest binding energy per nucleon.
What is iron?
400
The name for black holes which are not formed by the collapse of a star and are many thousands of times the mass of the sun.
What are supermassive black holes?
400
The eye condition which is characterized by loss of near vision as one ages
Presbyopia
500
Anakin Skywalker's actor in Episodes 2 and 3 of Star Wars
Who is Hayden Christensen?
500
The first person to calculate the circumference of the earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
500
The theoretical thermal black-body radiation of a black hole.
What is Hawking Radiation?
500
The supercluster that the milky way is located in.
What is the virgo supercluster?
500
A way of mounting a telescope which follows the image below.
What is cassegrian mounting?