Question 1: Which physicist wrote the best-selling book "A Brief History of Time"?
Question 2: What is the term for a word that is the same forwards and backwards?
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequences of characters that reads the same forward and backward, with general disregard to capitals, punctuation, and word boundaries. Classic examples include "madam" and "racecar".
Question 3: If referred to as "The Fab Four," which band is being talked about?
The Beatles, formed in Liverpool in 1960, were famously dubbed "The Fab Four," referring to the band members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
Question 4: How many films make up the original "Star Wars" trilogy?
The original "Star Wars" trilogy consists of "Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977), "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), and "Episode VI: Return of the Jedi" (1983). They were the first set of films released in the Star Wars franchise by George Lucas.
Question 5: Where can you find the highest average annual precipitation?
Mawsynram, a village in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya state in India, receives an annual rainfall of about 467 inches (11,871 mm), making it the wettest place on Earth in terms of average annual precipitation. Cherrapunji, also in Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in a calendar month and in a year.
Question 6: Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is the longest-running show on Broadway?
"The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway in 1988 and became the longest-running show in Broadway history. It surpassed "Cats," another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which previously held the record.
Question 7: Which bone is the longest bone in the human body?
The femur, or thigh bone, is both the longest and strongest bone in the human body. The average length of an adult femur is about 18 inches (45 centimeters). It bears the weight of the body and allows for a wide range of motion at the hip and knee joints.
Question 8: What mythical creature is rumored to reside in the Scottish Highlands?
The Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, is a cryptid alleged to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water. Nessie is one of the most famous creatures of modern folklore and has inspired numerous theories and expeditions to uncover its existence.
Question 9: The period of rotation of a geostationary satellite is?
A geostationary satellite is positioned in the Earth's equatorial plane at a distance that allows it to orbit the Earth once in the same time the Earth completes one rotation; this period is 24 hours. This makes the satellite appear stationary with respect to an observer on the ground.
Question 10: What is the name given to a polygon with five sides?
In geometry, a pentagon is a five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The name is derived from Greek words "pente" meaning five and "gonia" meaning angle. Pentagons can be regular (with equal side lengths and angles) or irregular.
Stephen Hawking was a brilliant physicist known for his work on black holes and relativity. "A Brief History of Time," published in 1988, made complex scientific ideas accessible to a general audience and sold more than 10 million copies. It stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.