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Capra Social Night Quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where was the first Capra held?

a)

California

b)

Ireland

c)

Florida

d)

United Kingdom

e)

Chicago

2.

When was the first Capra held?

a)

1995

b)

1996

c)

1997

d)

1998

e)

1999

3.

The Matched Expansions method was first suggested at a discussion session during a Capra meeting by whom?

a)

Detweiler and Whiting

b)

Poisson and Wiseman

c)

Ottewill and Whiting

d)

Barack and Ori

e)

Detweiler and Wiseman

4.

The 3 breakthrough 2nd order papers by Pound, Gralla and Detweiler appeared in what year?

a)

2009

b)

2010

c)

2011

d)

2012

e)

2013

5.

Which was the first region to host Capra for a second time?

a)

California

b)

Dublin

c)

Southampton

d)

Paris

e)

Ithaca

6.

What is the current launch date for LISA?

a)

2030

b)

2031

c)

2032

d)

2033

e)

2034

7.

What polarisation mode is associated with a massless scalar-tensor gravity (and not GR)?

a)

cross

b)

breathing

c)

plus

d)

crossing

e)

longitudinal stretching

8.

In what year did Eddington confirm that curvature of light by a gravitational field agrees with Einstein's relativity?

a)

1916

b)

1917

c)

1918

d)

1919

e)

1920

9.

Which of these solutions to Einstein's field equations has a closed timelike curve allowing time travel?

a)

Gödel

b)

Kasner

c)

Taub-NUT

d)

Lemaître–Tolman

e)

Kerr-Newman

10.

In what year did the Hulse and Taylor pulsar win the Nobel Prize for Physics with their discovery of the binary pulsar?

a)

1991

b)

1992

c)

1993

d)

1994

e)

1995

11.

Which planet was discovered by noticing the perturbations or irregularities it caused in another planet's orbit?

a)

Jupiter

b)

Saturn

c)

Neptune

d)

Uranus

e)

Pluto

12.

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:

a)

Apollo

b)

Vulcan

c)

Titania

d)

Juno

e)

Charon

13.

To whom was Newton writing when he is quoted "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"?

a)

Robert Hooke

b)

George Herbert

c)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

d)

Edmond Halley

e)

John Locke

14.

Which law of Kepler's is "A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time"?

a)

1st

b)

2nd

c)

3rd

d)

4th

15.

On which of Saturn's moons did the Cassini-Huygens mission have a lander?

a)

Enceladus

b)

Iapetus

c)

Titan

d)

Rhea

e)

Dione

16.

Which of these is not a Galilean Moon of Jupiter?

a)

Europa

b)

Callisto

c)

Io

d)

Amalthea

e)

Ganymede

17.

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?

a)

1970

b)

1971

c)

1972

d)

1973

e)

1974

18.

In what year was Perimeter Institute officially launched?

a)

1997

b)

1998

c)

1999

d)

2000

e)

2001

19.

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?

a)

50 km

b)

100 km

c)

150 km

d)

200 km

e)

250 km

20.

In solving the "solar neutrino problem", which experiment was sensitive to all 3 types of neutrinos AND could distinguish between the different varieties?

a)

Kamiokande

b)

GALLEX

c)

Sage

d)

SNO

e)

super-Kamiokande

21.

If one does not take relativity into consideration, GPS over a day would build up an error of approximately how many seconds?

a)

26.4 micro seconds

b)

38.6 micro seconds

c)

43.6 milli seconds

d)

35.4 milli seconds

e)

24.2 nano seconds

22.

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?

a)

Nathan Rosen

b)

Leopold Infeld

c)

Howard P. Robertson

d)

Boris Podolsky

e)

Arthur Geoffrey Walker

23.

Which mission deployed the first retroflector on the moon, enabling lunar laser ranging?

a)

Surveyor 7

b)

Apollo 14

c)

Luna 13

d)

Apollo 11

e)

Luna 21

24.

Who gave the opening plenary talk on Monday of this year's Capra?

a)

Maarten van de Meent

b)

Eric Poisson

c)

Justin Vines

d)

Anna Heffernan

e)

Eva Hackmann

25.

What was Britney Spear's second single?

a)

Hit me baby one more time

b)

Sometimes

c)

You drive me crazy

d)

Oops I did it again

e)

Lucky