Big Bang Project Quiz
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- 1.What did Martin Ryle create?
- A.
Radio Astronomy
- B.
Radio Telescope
- C.
Radio Antennas
- D.
Radio background
- 2.What type of stars did Henrietta Leavitt discover?
- A.
Red dwarf stars.
- B.
Variable stars
- C.
Giant blue stars.
- 3.Ralph Alpher was a big supporter of which theory.
- A.
Theory of relativity.
- B.
Big Bang Theory
- C.
Steady State Theory
- D.
Theory of evolution.
- 4.What did Walter Baade find out that supported the Big Bang Theory?
- A.
Found out that the universe was double the size and age compared to what was originally thought.
- B.
He discovered the planet Uranus while looking out with a telescope.
- C.
He discovered that our galaxy was simply one of many.
- D.
He discovered that atomic spectra could be used to determine the composition of the stars.
- 5.What does the Big Bang theory say the universe did first?
- A.
Cooled and expanded
- B.
Cooled and contracted
- C.
Warmed and expanded
- D.
Warmed and contracted.
- 6.What is a Pulsar?
- A.
Interactive star chart
- B.
Asteroid
- C.
Neutron star
- D.
Proton star
- 7.What did William Fowler win the Nobel Prize for?
- A.
Composition of an auditory experience that moved the masses.
- B.
Discovering chemicals that cured polio.
- C.
Studying nuclear reaction that lead to the present elemental composition.
- D.
Discovering radioactive isotopes allowing us to date the age of the world.
- 8.What was Christian Doppler's Theory?
- A.
A sun centered universe.
- B.
Stellar nucleosis
- C.
Thermal expansion of rheostatic polymerase
- D.
Apparant chage of freqency of a wave emitted by a moving source.
- 9.Who did Milton Humason work with for many years?
- A.
Albert Michelson
- B.
Margaret Huggins
- C.
Edwin Hubble
- 10.What did James Peebles work on along with Robert Dicke?
- A.
Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- B.
Searching for dark matter.
- C.
Classifying stars
- D.
Classifying galaxies.
- 11.Lemaitre was pleased by the discovery of galactic redshifts that showed that galaxies were....
- A.
Not moving at all
- B.
Moving away from the Earth
- C.
Moving towards the Earth
- D.
On top of the Earth in a different dimension
- 12.What experiment was Ernest Marsden famous for?
- A.
Brass Model
- B.
Silver Cup.
- C.
Gold Foil.
- D.
Metal Spoon
- 13.William and Margaret Huggins...
- A.
Introduced the idea of Hubble Law
- B.
Worked with spectroscopy
- C.
Invented the two-piece jet thrust motor
- 14.What are two things that Stephen Hawking is known for working on?
- A.
Black holes and Quantum gravity
- B.
Discovering planets and inventing telescopes
- C.
Cyborgs and speech recognition
- D.
Improved literacy and grammar
- 15.What was Albert Einstein's new theory about?
- A.
Brownian Motion
- B.
Quantum Uncertainty
- C.
Cosmic Either
- D.
Relativistic Motion
- 16.What are the four projects George f. smoot working on?
- A.
Berkeley Center for Cosmology Physics,Dark Energy Probes,Galactic Emission Mapping or (GEM),CMB data analysis.
- B.
To make the world smaller, To make the human race be dogs, To make a better Truck
- C.
To make schools know about the big bang, To make Peterbilt a Space ship, to make the first semi truck to be sihoed out in space
- 17.Who did Arno and Robert share the nobel prize with?
- A.
Sergey Mikail Gorbachev
- B.
Jimminy Bolshevik Crichev
- C.
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
- D.
Vladimir Ivonovich Kruschchev
- 18.In 1922 what did Alexander Friedman Disover?
- A.
Change in his couch cushion
- B.
The expanding-universe solution
- C.
Relationship between pulsar period and brightness
- D.
Dark energy and matter
- 19.George Gamow made a number of contributions to many feilds, what feild didn't he make a contribution to?
- A.
Radioactivity
- B.
Cosmology
- C.
Nuclear pyhsics
- D.
Radiation
- 20.Williamina Fleming is known for:
- A.
The Dopler Effect
- B.
Discovering CMB Radiation
- C.
Discovering the Horsehead Nebula.
- D.
Assisting Albert Eistein
- 21.Marie and Pierre discovered two radioactive elements. What are they?
- A.
Indium and Lead
- B.
Polonium and Radium
- C.
Bismuth and Thallium
- 22.How many process(es) did Hans Bethe believe there were to the source of energy of stars?
- A.
One
- B.
Two.
- C.
Three.
- D.
Four.
- 23.What did robert dicke first discover?
- A.
The radio telescope
- B.
The improved clothes dyer
- C.
Doppler radar
- D.
Radio isometric dating
- 24.When Arno and Bob found the CBR where did they find it?1)2)3)4)
- A.
Around stars
- B.
In nebulas
- C.
In between galaxys and stars
- D.
EVERY WHERE
- 25.Why was Solon Bailey forced to move his Observatory.
- A.
He had built it by a Volcano, which endangered the workers
- B.
He hadn’t moved it, just built another one.
- C.
The weather conditions made it difficult for them
- D.
Astronomers forced him to for their study on the Milky Way
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