SPS trivia night

Question 1

What is the purpose of the Turning Test?

Accepted Answer

To determine if the subject is human or a machine

Question 2

Which of the following killers went to Harvard at 16 and earned a BA in Math, and went on to teach math at UC Berkeley?

Accepted Answer

Ted Kaczynski (The Unibomber

Question 3

What year were the Nobel Prizes first awarded?

Accepted Answer

1901

Question 4

What are the synthetic humans in Blade Runner called?

Accepted Answer

Replicants

Question 5

Who won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on the structure and evolution of stars?

Accepted Answer

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Question 6

What color is the sunset of Mars?

Accepted Answer

Blue

Question 7

How long is a Light Year?

Accepted Answer

9.46 x 1012 Km

Question 8

Isaac Newton came up with three extremely important laws, which are known as Newton's laws of _?

Accepted Answer

Motion

Question 9

Who gave the first public demonstration of the radio?

Accepted Answer

Nikola Tesla

Question 10

In Marvel Comics, what is Bruce Banner's (The Hulk) Ph.D. in?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Physics

Question 11

Who was the mathematician other than Issac Newton who discovered Calculus?

Accepted Answer

Leibniz

Question 12

What serial killer, known as the Ogre of Aptos, was known to frequent a Santa Cruz bar called The Jury Room?

Accepted Answer

Edmund Kemper

Question 13

Who of the following did NOT have a unit measurement named after him

Accepted Answer

Jon Watts

Question 14

Which of these theories was proposed by UCSC researchers

Accepted Answer

Cold Dark Matter

Question 15

In the 1940’s, Betty Holberton was one of the six original programmers of ENIAC. What did she major in?

Accepted Answer

Journalism

Question 16

How many times has Dune been made into a live-action film/tv show?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 17

What is the UC motto?

Accepted Answer

Fait lux (Let there be light)

Question 18

Where did the word "Terraform" come from?

Accepted Answer

Star Trek

Question 19

Approximately how much would you weigh on Mars, compared to your current weight?

Accepted Answer

1/3

Question 20

Which of these was briefly the Mascot of UC Santa Cruz

Accepted Answer

The Sea Lion

Question 21

Which of these works did Abraham Lincon keep with him?

Accepted Answer

Euclid's The Elements

Question 22

Which of the following is not a show that takes place in space?

Accepted Answer

Aeon Flux

Question 23

How many elements are listed on the Periodic Table

Accepted Answer

118

Question 24

Where was Albert Einstein Born?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 25

What was Leonhard Euler doing when he died?

Accepted Answer

Disscussing the newly discovered planet Uranus

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SPS trivia night

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