SPACE
GLOBAL WARMING & NOBEL PRIZES
COLOURS AND PIGMENTS
TIME
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
100
What's the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut?
An astronaut is American/ A cosmonaut is Russian.
100
Give 2 examples of fossil fuels.
oil, gas and coal.
100
Name all the colours of the spectrum.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet
100
How many days are there in one year?
365 1/4
100
How is climate change produced?
The heat from the sun is blocked and doesn't go back into the atmosphere.
200
What do the letters NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
200
What impact does the rise of temperature have in the Arctic?
The ice caps melt.
200
Where was lapis-lazuli discovered?
in Afghanistan
200
Which element is used to define the second?
Caesium (133)
200
Why can't you hear sounds in space?
Sounds need air to propagate. There's no air in space.
ALIEN
300
Why is space junk move around our planet? (2 reasons)
Because of gravity and the energy the objects have because of the speed they're travelling at.
300
Name the scientist who was awarded 2 Nobel Prizes in 2 different fields.
Marie Curie
300
What's the other name of Prussian blue?
ferric-ferrocyanide
300
Which God embodies Thursday on the astronomical clock in Strasbourg's cathedral?
Jupiter
300
Which element has 79 as its atomic number?
Silver
400
How many European states are there at ESA?
22
400
Why is the Nobel Peace Prize different from the others?
It's awarded in Oslo, Norway whereas the others are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
400
How was Prussian blue discovered?
It was a chance discovery. There was a contaminated red pigment.
400
What are the 3 different conceptions of time?
1) non-relativistic spacetime
2) relativistic spacetime
3) the arrow of time
400
What does an ounce correspond to in the International system? (+/- 2 grammes)
28.35 gr
500
Name the actor who went on a space trip with Blue Origin.
Clue # 1: He's the official oldest person to have travelled in space
Clue # 2: He played Captain Kirk in Star Trek
William Shatner
500
Name one of the 3 Nobel Prize for Physics laureates.
Syukoro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi
500
Where does Narayan Khandekar, the colour detective work? (Name the museum)
At the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, MA
500
What does the perpetual calender on the astronomical clock in Strasbourg's cathedral indicate? (3)
The months, the days, the saints, the fixed and moveable Catholic feasts
500
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his "discovery of the newton"?
James Chadwick