Redemption
What is the name of the first human to walk on the Moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11 mission, 1969)?
Which scientist was born the year Galileo died?
Who is Isaac Newton?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is the skin?
In the movie Gravity, Sandra Bullock’s character is floating in space. What is the technical term for the condition she experiences when everything around her is weightless?
What is Microgravity or zero gravity?
Jupiter has 95 moons as of December 2023. How many of them were discovered by Galileo?
Four
What is the most common gas in Earth's atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
This astronomer discovered that bound planets moved in elliptical orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
What is the main energy source for the brain?
What is glucose?
If the universe were to end with a "Big Crunch," this means it would collapse into what big, sucky space object?
What is black hole?
This physicist, who created the first nuclear reactor, also reasoned that we should be contacted by aliens.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
Which physicist is known for his famous thought experiment where a cat is both alive and dead, illustrating the weirdness of quantum mechanics?
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
Which muscle in the human body can produce the most force for its size?
What is masseter in your jaw? When an adult bites down hard, they can exert a force of 90N on their back teeth. That’s like sitting a 90kg weight on your molars!
Percy Bridgman, who received his PhD in physics from Harvard in 1908, won a Nobel Prize in 1946 for work on the physics during processes with high levels of what “P” force? It is measured as the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object, per unit area of distribution.
what is pressure?
What is the largest planet in our Solar System?
What is Jupiter?
This physicist is famous for his work on the uncertainty principle, which states that you cannot know both the position and the momentum of a particle exactly at the same time. Who is he?
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40
The first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and published for Microsoft Windows in 1998 launched a globally successful franchise. The game shares its name with a scientific term frequently used in nuclear physics to describe the stability of atoms.
What is half life?
Known for his work on nuclear physics, this physicist was also the head of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb. Who was he?
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Which organ in your body uses the most chemical energy?
Brain! About 20%!
Subatomic particle has its name taken from the James Joyce work "Finnegans Wake"? Varieties of this particle include strange and charmed.
What is quark?