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Fact or Fiction
100
This English naturalist and geologist is known for his work and contribution to the evolutionary theory. His most famous work is the Origin of Species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This woman was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She is known for winning to Nobel Peace prizes and is the first person to receive two in Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
This nearest star is 92.96 million miles away.
What is the sun?
100
This type of planet is a planet that orbits a star other than our sun.
What is an exoplanet?
100
All of the gas giant planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) have rings.
Fact
200
This German-born theoretical physicist developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two modern pillars of physics.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
This woman is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
This unit of measurement does not measure time but measures how far light travels in a year.
What is a light-year?
200
This gas giant is the second largest planet in our solar system. The upper atmosphere has layers of clouds, in which the top layers are mostly ammonia ice. Below them, the clouds are largely water ice and below are layers of cold hydrogen and sulfur ice mixtures.
What is Saturn?
200
Humans have 21 senses
Fact
300
This Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. His infamous rival was Thomas Edison.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
300
This British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace is best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
300
This spiral galaxy known as M31 is 2.537 million light years from us and is our closest neighbjoring major galaxy.
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
300
This planet in our solar system has 63 moons or natural satellites. Some are known are named Europa, Io, Callisto, and Thebe.
What is Jupiter?
300
The tastebuds of the tongue are divided into four areas upon certain tastes.
Fiction