It's the least guessed answer. I would reword it "Planetary motion contrary to the majority of other objects," but I think the current clue should be fine.
I hadn’t a clue on that one, but when I saw the answer I wasn’t quite sure how I would have worded it to make it more obvious. As a non physicist that’s not a word I encounter very often. Not that I have a problem with that. If QM wants to change the word it may make it easier for people to get but the quiz is probably set at about the right difficulty level as is.
Can you accept "solar eclipse"? I only answered it right because I got an E from the quote. After all, a solar eclipse is the precise event the hint suggests.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is my hero...i wish our leaders would listen to him more often. Not only is he incredibly smart but he has a great sense of humor and is quite funny.
I kept forgetting how to spell the Kuiper Belt, kept spelling it as "Kupier" and getting super frustrated about how it wasn't letting me get it correct... *sigh*
Good questions good amount of time. I knew the quote but didnt get it quite right. I thought i was "A giant..etc" that obviously didnt fit so I figured they altered the quote and made it THE giant etc (I had . . E, so that made me look for answers starting with a T and a H for the first two :/ that took up my last minute in which I otherwise might ve gotten some more answers. Silly enough I couldnt remember the name isaac, I thought damn what was his name again, DID I even know his first name... pff)
In regards to the quote, I wrote the whole sentence (One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind) and it wasn't accepted. I recommend to accept the whole sentence.
Good quiz! I will say that Newton wasn't a philosopher, he was a mathematician and a physicist. Back then he would have been called a "natural philosopher" but not today.
He actually spent most of his life "studying" alchemy and theology. For the sake of all his other contributions, let's respectfully group these under the term "philosophy", because it feels wrong to say that Newton spent most of his life pursuing crackpot theories on the lunatic fringe.
"First name of the philosopher that defined the Theory of Gravity" - the correct answer must be Plutarch. Isaac Newton was not a philosopher, and his "definition" of gravity was likely plagiarized from Robert Hooke's papers on universal gravitation from 4 or 5 years prior. Not to mention that the word "gravity" in regard to universal attraction to the Earth was in use in the English language for hundreds of years before Newton, borrowed from Latin, who likely borrowed the idea from Plutarch, simply eschewing the original Greek term for it in favour of a Latin term.
If you want to stick with the answer, maybe "first name of 'the father of classical mechanics'" or, even better IMO, "the first name of the inventor of the reflecting telescope."
As an astrophotograph nerd I kept typing "Guide" for guidescope, since thats what im so used to using but then i remembered back to my visual astronomy days of finderscope issues
When an object moves in the reverse sense of “normal” motion.
Is it possible to re-word it?
I thought this was one of the easier ones.
If you want to stick with the answer, maybe "first name of 'the father of classical mechanics'" or, even better IMO, "the first name of the inventor of the reflecting telescope."