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Who is the author of the book ‘A Brief History of Nearly Everything’?

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Bill Bryson

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What is the main focus of chapter 1 in ‘A Brief History of Nearly Everything’?

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The birth of the universe

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What is the name of the theory that explains the origin of the universe?

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The Big Bang Theory

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True or False: The universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old.

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True

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Fill in the blank: The universe began as a ________ point roughly 13.8 billion years ago.

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singularity

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What elements were created in the first few minutes after the Big Bang?

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Hydrogen and helium

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What is the name of the force that caused the universe to expand rapidly shortly after the Big Bang?

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Inflation

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What is the term for the study of the large-scale structure and history of the universe?

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Cosmology

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Who proposed the Big Bang Theory in the 1920s?

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Georges Lemaître

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What is the name of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang?

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Cosmic microwave background radiation

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What is the estimated temperature of the universe right after the Big Bang?

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Trillions of degrees

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What is the term for the time when the universe was so hot that matter could not form?

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The Quark Era

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What is the term for the period when the universe cooled enough for protons and neutrons to form?

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The Hadron Era

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What is the name of the particle that interacts with matter through gravity and makes up dark matter?

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WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)

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What is the name of the hypothetical substance that makes up approximately 27% of the universe’s mass-energy content?

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Dark matter

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What term is used to describe the unknown substance that makes up about 68% of the universe’s mass-energy content?

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Dark energy

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What is the term for the process by which heavier elements are formed in stars?

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Nucleosynthesis

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What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?

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The Milky Way

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True or False: The Milky Way is the only galaxy in the universe.

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False

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What is the name of the galaxy closest to the Milky Way?

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Andromeda

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What is the term for a group of galaxies bound together by gravity?

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Galaxy cluster

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Fill in the blank: Our solar system is located in the ________ galaxy.

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Milky Way

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What is the name of the galaxy supercluster that contains the Milky Way?

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Laniakea

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What is the name of the largest known galaxy supercluster?

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Sloan Great Wall

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What is the term for the theory that explains the expansion of the universe?

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The Big Bang Theory

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What is the name of the scientist who discovered that the universe is expanding?

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Edwin Hubble

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What is the name of the space telescope launched by NASA in 1990?

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Hubble Space Telescope

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What is the name of the satellite launched by NASA in 2001 to study cosmic microwave background radiation?

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WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

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What is the name of the European Space Agency’s mission to map the cosmic microwave background radiation?

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Planck

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What is the term for the study of the origins and evolution of the universe?

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Cosmogony

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What is the term for the process by which stars create energy?

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Nuclear fusion

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What is the name of the process that powers the sun and other stars?

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Thermonuclear fusion

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What is the name of the element that stars like the sun primarily fuse?

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Hydrogen

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True or False: The sun is a giant ball of burning gas.

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False

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What is the name of the process by which stars like the sun will eventually exhaust their nuclear fuel?

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Red giant phase

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What is the term for the remnants of a massive star that has exploded?

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Supernova

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What is the name of the dense core left behind after a supernova explosion?

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Neutron star

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What is the term for the remnants of a massive star that has undergone a supernova explosion?

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Black hole

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