Trivia Flashcards

1
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Father of Chemical Engineering

A

George Edward Davis

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2
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Father of Modern Chemical Engineering

A

Warren Lewis

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3
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the strongest material in the universe

A

carbyne

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4
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color of Fe(III) in a flame test

A

gold

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5
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the circumstance when warmer water freezes faster than colder water

A

Mpemba Effect

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6
Q

Amount of salt in an average human body

A

250 grams

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7
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Lack of salt in body is called

A

hyponatremia

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8
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most abundant protein in the human body

A

collagen

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9
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what trace metal is found in Vitamin B12

A

Cobalt

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10
Q

A cucumber is ___ %water

A

96

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11
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Herb wormwood is a licorise-anise-flavored green liquor with 68% alcohol content or 132 proof. herb wormwood’s other name is

A

Absinthe

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12
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a boiler explosion killed 23 workers in Gazipur, Bangladesh. the boiler triggered a fire that spread to the surrounding areas and collapsed part of a four-storey building. when did this occur

A

September 10, 2016

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13
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Hydroquinone is used to/in

A

Lighten skin

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14
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the material invented by Charles Goodyear in 1839 by making natural elastomer more durable by the addition of sulfur or other curatives or accelerators

A

Vulcanized rubber

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15
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the pressure needed to produce snow from a snowmaking machine

A

20 atm

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16
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First known LASER

A

Ruby Laser

17
Q

an egg is __% calcium

18
Q

acts as a kind of cement to keep ocean floor sediments together

A

Methane hydrate

19
Q

the time it takes for light from the sun to reach the earth

A

8 min 20 sec

20
Q

the country (and its territories) with the most timezones

A

France (12 timezones)

21
Q

1 eon is equivalent to

A

1 billion years

22
Q

who discovered phenolphthalein

A

Adolf von Baeyer

23
Q

due to thermal expansion, the Eiffel tower expands in summer by how much?

24
Q

the average weight of an iceberg

A

10 million tons

25
the only rock that floats in water
pumice
26
the coldest known place in the universe (-458 degF)
Boomerang Nebula
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the average time it takes for blood to circulate around the human body
20 seconds
28
a human brain is _% water
75
29
phosphorus fertilizers are derived from
fluorapatite
30
it is a technique in which laser light is directed at a beam of atoms, hitting them head-on dramatically slowing them down
laser cooling
31
Sunspots appear in the
photosphere
32
magnetic fields in sunspots are
stronger than the rest the sun
33
who discovered that sunspots vary in a cycle of 11 years
Heinrich Schwabe
34
Who was the first astronomer to observe sunspots?
Thomas Harriot
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what is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse?
Sun, Moon, Earth
36
the moon's mass is about
1/8 of Earth's mass
37
a person weighing 60 kg on the earth would weight,
10 kg on the moon
38
Who discovered positron?
Anderson