It is the rate that the velocity of an object changes.
What is acceleration?
100
He was the first American to circle the Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
100
Photons took him from patents to prizes.
Who is Einstein?
100
This is the spectral class of our sun.
What is G2?
200
This is the 9th element.
What is Flourine?
200
It is the temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value.
What is absolute zero?
200
Named after the Star Trek ship, this was the name of the first Space Shuttle.
What is the Enterprise?
200
Pumps, tires and hyrdraulic lifts all have this rascal in common.
Who is Pascal?
200
If you were to observe the wavelength of a known spectral line within the Andromeda Galaxy, this is how the wavelength of that spectral line would compare to its rest wavelength.
What is "it would be shorter"?
300
This is the common name for 1 x 10^-15
What is femto?
300
It is the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
What is atomic number?
300
She was the first woman American astronaut.
Who is Sally Ride?
300
He becomes uncertain of what to do when his commute does not work out.
Who is Heisenberg?
300
The first definitive detection of an extrasolar planet was actually the discovery of two planets orbiting this type of star.
What is a pulsar?
400
(1/object + 1/image)^-1
What is focal length?
400
It is the fraction of the light incident on a reflecting surface that is reflected.
What is albedo?
400
In December 1962, the first successful planetary flyby was of this planet. (Done by Mariner 2)
What is Venus?
400
They were quite surprised when their microwave dish discovered static in the attic.
Who are Penzias and Wilson?
400
By physical size, these are the only two objects in our solar that are larger than Mercury, yet smaller than Mars.
What are Ganymede and Titan?
500
This is the element that produces the (blue) Fraunhofer F line at 486.1 nm.
What is hydrogen?
500
It is equivalent to an atom of helium stripped of all its electrons.
What is an alpha particle?
500
This 'old west' word was also the name of the first NASA launch.
What is Pioneer?
500
This Emmy should have won an Emmy for her work with symmetry.
Who is Emmy Noether? (an influential German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics)
500
This man is the discoverer of Pluto, not Percival Lowell as listed in a Trivial Pursuit game.