Popular Trivia
The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of this country.
What is Australia?
In soccer, this term refers to scoring three goals in a single game.
What is a hat trick?
This U.S. state, nicknamed “The Last Frontier,” is the largest by area.
What is Alaska?
Regulated utilities like those in Southern Company operate under the oversight of this type of state-level commission that sets rates.
What is a Public Service Commission (PSC)?
This type of power plant can start quickly and is often used for peak demand.
What is a simple cycle gas turbine (peaking plant)?
This ratio, abbreviated CF, compares a plant’s actual output over time to its maximum possible output.
What is capacity factor?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals in history.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This European country touches both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and borders Denmark to the north.
What is Germany?
These four operating companies became the original core subsidiaries of Southern Company in the 1940s.
What are Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power?
This fuel source is commonly used in baseload nuclear plants.
What is Uranium-235?
In nuclear plants, this term describes the gradual reduction in reactivity caused by fuel depletion and fission product buildup.
What is burnup (or fuel burnup / reactivity loss)?
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This track star, nicknamed “Lightning Bolt,” won 8 Olympic gold medals.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, stretches across much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
Southern Company expanded into natural gas with its 2016 acquisition of this major utility company headquartered in Atlanta.
What is AGL Resources?
This dam on the Colorado River is a major source of hydroelectric power for the southwestern U.S.
What is Hoover Dam?
This stability type involves maintaining synchronism among generators following disturbances like faults.
What is transient stability?
This Physicist developed the theory of relativity and won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
This boxer, known as “The Greatest,” famously said, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This river forms part of the border between the U.S. and Mexico and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The approximate total generating capacity of Southern Company’s fleet as of 2026.
What is about 46,000 megawatts (46 GW)?
This metric measures efficiency by comparing fuel energy input to electrical output.
What is heat rate?
This electrical phenomenon occurs when current and voltage waveforms are out of phase, reducing efficiency in AC systems.
What is power factor?
This 1969 event saw humans land on the Moon for the first time.
What is the Apollo 11 mission?
In 1974, this player broke Babe Ruth’s career home run record with his 715th.
Who is Hank Aaron?
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, is located in this country.
What is Tanzania?
This early 1900s holding company was one of the first steps toward what became Southern Company.
What is Alabama Traction, Light & Power Company?
This thermodynamic cycle is used in most traditional STEAM power plants.
What is the Rankine cycle?
This limit, named for a German physicist, describes the maximum theoretical efficiency of a wind turbine at about 59%.
What is the Betz limit?