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WorksheetsCapra Social Night Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
Where was the first Capra held?
California
Ireland
Florida
United Kingdom
Chicago
When was the first Capra held?
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
The Matched Expansions method was first suggested at a discussion session during a Capra meeting by whom?
Detweiler and Whiting
Poisson and Wiseman
Ottewill and Whiting
Barack and Ori
Detweiler and Wiseman
The 3 breakthrough 2nd order papers by Pound, Gralla and Detweiler appeared in what year?
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Which was the first region to host Capra for a second time?
California
Dublin
Southampton
Paris
Ithaca
What is the current launch date for LISA?
2030
2031
2032
2033
2034
What polarisation mode is associated with a massless scalar-tensor gravity (and not GR)?
cross
breathing
plus
crossing
longitudinal stretching
In what year did Eddington confirm that curvature of light by a gravitational field agrees with Einstein's relativity?
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
Which of these solutions to Einstein's field equations has a closed timelike curve allowing time travel?
Gödel
Kasner
Taub-NUT
Lemaître–Tolman
Kerr-Newman
In what year did the Hulse and Taylor pulsar win the Nobel Prize for Physics with their discovery of the binary pulsar?
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
Which planet was discovered by noticing the perturbations or irregularities it caused in another planet's orbit?
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Uranus
Pluto
In the search for an explanation of the perihelion advance in Mercury's orbit, it was hypnotised that another planet orbited in between the Sun and Mercury, this planet was named:
Apollo
Vulcan
Titania
Juno
Charon
To whom was Newton writing when he is quoted "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"?
Robert Hooke
George Herbert
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Edmond Halley
John Locke
Which law of Kepler's is "A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time"?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
On which of Saturn's moons did the Cassini-Huygens mission have a lander?
Enceladus
Iapetus
Titan
Rhea
Dione
Which of these is not a Galilean Moon of Jupiter?
Europa
Callisto
Io
Amalthea
Ganymede
In Ab Harte's talk on Tuesday morning, he talked about killing fields restricting motion of extended bodies based on Dixon's paper of what year?
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
In what year was Perimeter Institute officially launched?
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
Current Satellites measure the Earth's multipole moments to ell ~ 360, this corresponds to variations in the Earth's surface gravity of how many km?
50 km
100 km
150 km
200 km
250 km
In solving the "solar neutrino problem", which experiment was sensitive to all 3 types of neutrinos AND could distinguish between the different varieties?
Kamiokande
GALLEX
Sage
SNO
super-Kamiokande
If one does not take relativity into consideration, GPS over a day would build up an error of approximately how many seconds?
26.4 micro seconds
38.6 micro seconds
43.6 milli seconds
35.4 milli seconds
24.2 nano seconds
Einstein's 1936 paper "Do gravitational waves exist?" declared they did not, however an anonymous referee pointed out an error leading to the eventual acceptance of gravitational waves. Who was the anonymous referee?
Nathan Rosen
Leopold Infeld
Howard P. Robertson
Boris Podolsky
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Which mission deployed the first retroflector on the moon, enabling lunar laser ranging?
Surveyor 7
Apollo 14
Luna 13
Apollo 11
Luna 21
Who gave the opening plenary talk on Monday of this year's Capra?
Maarten van de Meent
Eric Poisson
Justin Vines
Anna Heffernan
Eva Hackmann
What was Britney Spear's second single?
Hit me baby one more time
Sometimes
You drive me crazy
Oops I did it again
Lucky
