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This sugary snack is named after Earth’s only natural satellite.
What is a Moon Pie?
100
This atmospheric event can be five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
What is lightning? (It can heat air to around 50,000 °F.)
100
These are human made objects which have been sent into orbit around Earth to relay communications, take pictures, and perform other tasks.
What are satellites?
100
This was the first scientist to win two Nobel prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
What is the most terrifying word in nuclear physics?
Oops.
200
This brand of beer shares the same name as the outermost part of a star.
What is Corona?
200
This fundamental force is the weakest of the four.
What is gravity? (Despite its name, the weak force is roughly 10³³ times stronger than gravity.)
200
This fortress orbiting the earth is where many astronauts and researchers live. It was built by the efforts combined by many countries around the world and often has space shuttles dock with it to drop off supplies and exchange crew members.
What is the International Space Station?
200
In 1861, Louis Pasteur developed this theory that eventually revolutionized public health.
What the germ theory of disease?
200
What happens if someone slaps you at a high frequency?
It Hertz.
300
This hypothetical megastructure draws power by completely surrounding a star.
What is a Dyson sphere?
300
This branch of physics deals with the properties of solids and liquids.
What is condensed matter physics?
300
This giant mechanism orbits the earth and can see things and places very far away in space. It also takes pictures which are sent back to Earth for scientists to research.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
300
Isaac Newton was born on this ‘famous’ day of the year.
What is Christmas?
300
Where does bad light go?
To prism.
400
On average, this is the hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus? (Mercury doesn’t have an atmosphere, so, when it rotates to nightside, this heat gets lost into space as there is no atmosphere to retain the heat.)
400
In special relativity, a moving clock is said to do this.
What is run slow?
400
These are the two rovers that are currently exploring and observing the surface of Mars.
What is Spirit and Opportunity?
400
This astronomer was the first to discover moons around other planets.
Galileo Galilei
400
What do astronomers have in common with paparazzi?
They both photograph stars.
500
This is the only planet that rotates clockwise with respect to Earth.
What is Venus? (Uranus rolls on its side.)
500
The disagreement between experimental and theory of blackbody radiation was summarized by this.
What is the ultraviolet catastrophe?
500
This is the lander craft that within the last decade brought two rovers to Mars to investigate.
What is The Phoenix?
500
When he was 73, Albert Einstein was given the opportunity to be the president of this country.
What is Israel? (He did turn down the position, though.)
500
What is Saturn’s favorite movie?
Lord of the Rings