Scientists
Scientists Guglielmo Marconi, Alessandro Volta, and Enrico Fermi were all born in
what modern-day European country?
Italy
Olympus Mons, the highest peak in our Solar System, is located on what planet,
the fourth planet from the sun?
Mars
What type of simple machine consists only of a flat surface tilted at an
angle?
inclined plane
What group of chemical elements, including helium and neon, line the far
right side of the Periodic Table and are known for their low reactivity?
noble gases
What mathematical term describes the largest number by which two or
more numbers are evenly divisible?
Greatest common factor
Which British physicist and mathematician developed three laws of motion and
probably never had an apple fall on his head?
Isaac Newton
What regions of spacetime possess gravity so strong that no particles, even light,
can escape their pull?
Black holes
What type of simple machine is a wheel and axle designed to support the
movement of a taut rope, and is often used to lift heavy objects?
pulley
Baking soda is the bicarbonate form of what chemical element, which
combines with chloride to form table salt?
Sodium
What mathematical field, outlined in Euclid's Elements, is the study of shapes and
figures?
geometry
Physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed a thought experiment about what kind of
common pet that may be dead or alive in a quantum state?
a hypothetical cat
Andromeda, Pinwheel, and Sombrero are all types of what systems of
stars, gas, dust, and matter bound together by gravity, often seen in
spiral varieties?
A galaxy
In classical mechanics, what type of stored energy is converted to kinetic energy
as soon as it is used?
Potential energy
What compound of Nitrogen and Hydrogen, with chemical
formula NH3, is a major precursor for fertilizers,
pharmaceuticals, and cleaning products used worldwide?
ammonia
What shape's internal angles always add up to 180 degrees?
a triangle
Which Austrian physicist names an effect describing the change in frequency of a
wave in relation to an observer, as well as a commonly-used "Weather Radar"?
Christian Andreas Doppler
What is the name of the enormous anticyclonic storm present near the equator
of Jupiter?
Great Red Spot
What controversial method of oil and natural gas production uses a
high-pressure liquid to break up bedrock?
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking
What type of proteins catalyse, or speed up, chemical reactions?
An enzyme
Contrasted with the x-axis and y-axis, what letter is used to denote the third axis
in a 3D graph?
z-axis
Which English scientist and "father of evolutionary biology" published his
seminal book On the Origin of Species in 1859?
Charles Darwin
Which American astronaut and developer of a namesake "cycler" was the second
man on the moon, after Neil Armstrong?
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Hooke's Law describes the relationship between force and
distance as it concerns what elastic objects that are often found
in watches and mattresses?
spring
What type of laboratory equipment, named for a German chemist, is used to
create a single open flame for use in experiments?
Bunsen burner
Which ancient Greek mathematician developed a theorem for right triangles often
simplified to "A squared plus B squared equals C squared"?
Pythagoras