A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

Abbott, B. P., et al., 2016, Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger, Physical Review Letters, 116, 061102–1.

Alvarez, L. W., et al., 1980, Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, Science, 208, 1095.

Batygin, K. and Brown, M. E., 2016, Evidence for a distant giant planet in the solar system, The Astronomical Journal, 151, 22.

BBC, 1949, The Listener, 41, 567.

Bell, E. A., Boehnke, P., Harrison, M. T., and Mao, W. L., 2015, Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 14518.

Berger, A. and Loutre, M. F., 2002, Climate: an exceptionally long interglacial ahead?, Science, 297, 1287.

Bernstein, M., 2006, Prebiotic materials form on and off the early Earth, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 361, 1689.

Bidle, K. D., Lee, S., Marchant, D. R., and Falkowski, P. G., 2007, Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 13455.

Brohan, P., et al., 2006, Uncertainty estimates in regional and global observed temperature changes: a new dataset from 1850, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, 1.

Butikov, E. I., 2002, A dynamical picture of the oceanic tides, American Journal of Physics, 70, 1001.

Caputi, K. I., et al., 2015, Spitzer bright, UltraVISTA faint sources in cosmos: the contribution to the overall population of massive galaxies at z = 3–7, The Astrophysical Journal, 810, 73.

Christian, C. A., 2015, Citizen science with Hubble Space Telescope data, Computing in Science and Engineering, 17, 12: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2015.42.

Dercourt, J., 2003, Le temps de la Terre, une aventure scientifique, Discours à l’Académiedes Sciences.

Diehl, R., et al., 2006, Radioactive Al-26 and massive stars in the Galaxy, Nature, 439, 45.

Dohrn-van Rossum, G., 1996, History of the Hour Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Douglas, B. C., Kearney, M. S., and Leatherman, S. P., 2001, Sea Level Rise: History and Consequences, New York: Academic Press.

Espenak, F. and Meeus, J., 2006, Five millennium canon of solar eclipses: –1999 to +3000, NASA Technical Publication, TP-2006-214141.

England, P., Molnar, P., and Richter, F., 2007, John Perry’s neglected critique of Kelvin’s age for the Earth: a missed opportunity in geodynamics, GSA Today, 17, 4.

Frebel, A., et al., 2007, Discovery of HE 1523–0901, a strongly r-process enhanced metal-poor star with detected uranium, The Astrophysical Journal, 660, L117.

Glazebrook, K., et al., 2004, The Gemini Deep Deep Survey: III. The abundance of massive galaxies 3–6 billion years after the Big Bang, Nature, 430, 181.

Goldsmith, D. and Owen, T., 2002, The Search for Life in the Universe, Sausalito, CA: University Science Books.

Grealy, A., Macken, A., Allentoft, M., et al., 2016. An exam of ancient DNA preservation in Holocene–Pleistocene fossil bone excavated from the world heritage Naracoorte Caves, South Australia, Journal of Quaternary Science, 31, 33–45.

Gribbin, J. R. and Plageman, S. H., 1976, Jupiter Effect: The Planets as Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes, London: Random House.

Hawking, S., 2001, The Universe in a Nutshell, New York: Bantam.

Hoyt, D. V. and Schatten, K. H., 1998, Group sunspot numbers: a new solar activity reconstruction, Part I, Solar Physics, 179, 189; Part 2, 181, 491.

Hubble, E., 1947, The 200 inch telescope and some problems it may solve, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 59, 349.

Imbrie, J. and Imbrie, J. Z., 1980, Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations, Science, 207, 943.

Johnson, A. P., et al., 2008, The Miller volcanic spark discharge experiment, Science, 322, 404.

Kopp, R. E., et al., 2016, Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10, 1073.

Kring, D. A. and Durda, D. D., 2002, Trajectories and distribution of material ejected from the Chicxulub impact crater: implications for post-impact wildfires, Journal Geophysical Research, 107, 6–1.

Lachièze-Rey, M. and Luminet, J.-P., 1998, Figures du ciel, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 286.

Lu, E. T. and Love, S. G., 2005, Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids, Nature, 438, 177.

Navarro-González, R., et al., 2003, Mars-like soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the dry limit of microbial life, Science, 302, 1018.

Planck Collaboration, 2015, Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters, arXiv:1502.01589. Bibcode:2015arXiv150201589P.

Racine, R., 2004, The historical growth of telescope aperture, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 116, 77.

Reber, G., 1944, Cosmic static, The Astrophysical Journal, 100, 279.

Schaefer, B. E., 1988, The astrophysics of suntanning, Sky & Telescope (June issue), 596.

Schopf, J. W., 2006, Fossil evidence of archaean life, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 361, 869.

Schrödinger, E., 1944, What is Life?, reprinted Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Smith, I. B., et al., 2016, An ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars, Science, 352, 1075.

Sobral, D., et al., 2015, Evidence for Pop III-like stellar populations in the most luminous Ly α emitters at the epoch of reionization: spectroscopic confirmation, The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 139.

Trehub, A., 1991, The Cognitive Brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

van Dishoeck, E. F., et al., 2014, Water: from clouds to planets, in Protostars and Planets VI, Beuther, Henrik, Klessen, Ralf S., Dullemond, Cornelis P., and Henning, Thomas (eds.), Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 835.

Vreeland, R. H., et al., 2000, Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal, Nature, 407, 897.

Ward, P. D. and Brownlee, D., 2000, Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, New York: Copernicus Books.

Wright, E. L., 2006, A cosmology calculator for the World Wide Web, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118, 1711.

171 Best Trivia Questions (and Answers) to Stump Your Friends With

Answer: The Lion King

12. Who is commonly credited with throwing the first brick at Stonewall in 1969, beginning an uprising that became a major turning point for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S.?

Answer: Marsha P. Johnson

13. What are the first 22 cards in a tarot deck called?

Answer: The Major Arcana

14. What was the name of the possessed hotel in Steven King’s novel (and movie) The Shining, based on the real-life Stanley Hotel in Colorado?

Answer: The Overlook Hotel

15. What is the capital of India?

Answer: New Delhi

16. Which two states in the U.S. share the most borders with other states?

Answer: Tennessee and Missouri

17. At a restaurant, you’ll see deer meat on the menu under what name?

Answer: Venison

18. What country has the national language with the longest alphabet?

Answer: Cambodia (their national language, Khmer, has 74 characters!)

19. What is the pseudonym for the author of the best-selling, four-part book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, now an HBO series?

Answer: Elana Ferante

20. What is the name of the ship that rescued Titanic passengers hours after the ship went down?

Answer: The Carpathia

21. Where is recognized as the location of the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, per the World Meteorological Organization?

Answer: Death Valley, California

22. On what network did RuPaul’s Drag Race premiere in 2009?

Answer: Logo TV

23. What was the first book published by Jane Austen?

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

24. Which two countries have the longest shared international border?

Answer: Canada and the U.S.

25. What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?

Answer: Sochi, Russia

26. What is the longest running Broadway show?

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera

27. What is the human body’s largest organ?

Answer: Skin

28. What year was the first iPhone released?

Answer: 2007

29. What’s the (extremely metal) name for a group of crows?

Answer: A murder of crows

30. What are the first names of the four main characters in Golden Girls?

Answer: Sophia, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche

31. What is the longest above-water mountain range?

The Andes

32. What year did Netflix, previously a DVD rental business, introduce streaming services?

Answer: 2007

33. How many feet are in a yard?

Answer: Three

34. How many bones do sharks have?

Answer: Zero!

35. What is the deadliest mammal?

Answer: The hippo

36. What is the deadliest insect?

Answer: The mosquito

37. What country was the Marxist revolutionary figure Che Guevara born in?

Answer: Argentina

38. What is the capital of Singapore?

Answer: Singapore (it’s an island city-state)

39. What is the word for the weather event also called a winter hurricane?

Answer: A bomb cyclone

40. What was the first country to give women the right to vote?

Answer: New Zealand (in 1893)

41. What year was the landmark civil and LGBTQ+ rights case Obergefell v. Hodges ruled on?

Answer: 2015

42. The Hawaiian Islands archipelago is made up of what number of major islands?

Every Classroom And Exam Question And Answer For Persona 5 Royal

As if stealing the hearts of Tokyo’s most corrupt in Persona 5 Royal wasn’t a big enough task on its own, you’ll also have to contend with all the worries of a normal high schooler, and that includes your schoolwork. Throughout your year at Shujin Academy, you’ll be asked a number of questions both in-class and on exams, and the perks for doing well are numerous.

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The questions you’ll get can be a little tough, though, but that’s where we come in. Below, you’ll find every classroom and exam question and answer for Persona 5 Royal. Good luck in school!

This answer guide is only for Persona 5 Royal. If you're playing vanilla P5, your answers will be different.

This guide contains slight spoilers for Persona 5 Royal.

Date

Question

Correct Answer

4/12

Tell me what the Devil’s Dictionary defined as the chief factor in the progress of the human race.

Villains

4/19

Between A and B… which line seems longer…?

They’re the same.

4/23

Between music, theatre and chariot racing, which sport did Nero win when he participated in the Olympics?

All of them

4/25

What’s that phrase meant to convey? “My country, right or wrong?”

You unquestioningly support it

But the original meaning was different? So I guess it’d be something like…

You have a duty to correct them

4/27

Do you know the name of the theorem named after this number?

Four color theorem

4/30

First off, the "wunder" part probably means...

Wonder

Next, the "kind" part. That's probably...

Child

So a "wunderkind" would be...

Prodigy

Date

Question

Correct Answer

5/7

So what’s the literal translation of the phrase “femme fatale?”

Fatal Woman

5/10

You know the time period Yoshitsune was active in, don’t you?

The Heian Period

Exam Period: 5/11-5/14

5/16

What do we call the phenomenon where believing in a treatment’s power is enough to improve your condition?

The placebo effect

5/19

Which famous ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period is said to have moved residence over 100 times?

Katsushika Hokusai.

5/21

The golden ratio is 1:1.618, but do you know the silver ratio?

1:1.414

5/23

If we think about what these words have in common, then maybe “syn” means…

Together

And “aisthesis,” huh? That’s a little like the word aesthetics. I wonder if it means…

Senses

So that means the full word basically means…

Senses coming together

5/26

Do you know which author Leblanc borrowed from?

Arthur Conan Doyle

5/31

Do you know which peg-legged, parrot toting historical figure’s appearance became a visual shorthand for pirates?

John Silver

Date

Question

Correct Answer

5/11

What historical figure inspired the term of “favoring the magistrate?"

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Yoshitune had a brother, right? Oh, I think his name was…

Minamoto no Yoritomo

But they ended up coming into conflict. And in the end, when they had to oppose each other…

Yoritomo won

That’s probably because people tend to sympathize less with figures in power, and sympathize more with…

The weak

5/12

Which brain function is responsible for the phenomenon of seeing an illusion in this figure?

Cognition

Which of the following maps can you paint without any adjacent areas being the same color?

Both

5/13

Name the book that defined malefactors as the chief factor in the progress of the human race.

The Devil's Dictionary

What character archetype refers to a mysterious and seductive woman, typically with ulterior motives?

Femme Fatale

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Date

Question

Correct Answer

6/4

What do you think the name for this phenomenon is?

The Halo Effect

6/7

The red king crab is biologically related to the hermit crab. So how is it different from a crab...? Do you know?

The number of legs

6/8

Where does totalitarianism take things a step further than authoritarianism?

Controlling public thought

6/13

... What color do you think it turns?

Green

6/15

Between paper bills and coins, which one is issued by the government?

Coins

6/20

What do you think? One of these has minor metals in it, right?

Smartphone

6/23

Now, do you know what this woman’s position was?

A pope

6/27

Which of these animals is involved in an English idiom about the weather?

Dogs

6/29

What do you think it says on the back of this piece?

Gold

Date

Question

Correct Answer

7/1

What’s the meaning of the original Chinese phrase that these dumplings’ name came from?

Barbarian's head

7/4

Two people are responsible for July and August having 31 days. Do you know who those people are?

Julius and Augustus

7/7

So Tanabata's about gods crossing a starry sky to reunite once every year. It might have something to do with...

The Milky Way

What's the traditional food of Tanabata?

Soumen

7/9

Do you know what shape it is?

A triangle

7/11

What is long-term memory, anyway?

Memories that last a long time

Maruki mentioned something about the amount of memories you could store, right? Something like…

Infinite

If you have theoretically infinite space for them… then theoretically, you’d be able to retain them for…

Forever

7/12

Do you know what he did?

Thievery

Exam Period: 7/13-7/16

Date

Question

Correct Answer

7/13

If angle C is 28 degrees, and angles A and D are 88 degrees, what is the angle of B and E?

64 degrees

I think this came up in class. They were invented by that famous guy from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?

Zhuge Liang

And they were offering something to quell the river…

Barbarian's heads

This master strategist came up with the baozi to…

To offer them instead of heads

7/14

Write the name and biological classification of this creature.

Red King Crab (Paralithodes)

What happened when the government issued paper and hard currencies in Japan for the first time?

It caused confusion in the economy

7/15

What is the English equivalent of the Norwegian idiom ‘raining witches’?

Raining cats and dogs

Which of the following is another name for the soumen noodles traditionally eaten on Tanabata?

Demon guts

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Date

Question

Correct Answer

9/3

Each hand in this famous statue means something, but… do you know what the right represents?

Prosperity

9/6

Do you know the name of that phenomenon where the second hand looks like it’s stopped moving?

Chronostasis

9/13

What does a pawn shop offer that a secondhand shop doesn’t?

Money loans for collateral

9/17

What’s one of the origins for the phrase “cat got your tongue?"

Cats eating human tongues

9/21

Robot comes from a word in Czech. But where in Europe is the Czech Republic located?

Central Europe

9/24

How many white and black shapes are there respectively on a soccer ball?

20 white, 12 black

9/28

So “PVS”, referring to when you mistakenly think your phone is going off...

Phantom

The next part is the V part. That means it’d be “phantom…” what?

Vibrating

Last is the S. So if we have “phantom vibration” so far...

Syndrome

9/29

But the fishermen of Nagaragawa are actually civil servants as well. So, tell me which sector they belong to.

Imperial Household Agency

Date

Question

Correct Answer

10/3

If we use “three watermelons in the sun” to visualize a certain matter’s size against the universe’s, what are the melons?

Stars

10/6

Now, do you know who invented this instrument?

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

10/11

Which name was most commonly ascribed to shape B

Bouba

Exam Period: 10/17-10/20

Date

Question

Correct Answer

10/17

Counting both black and white surfaces, how many surfaces are there in total on a soccer ball?

32 surfaces

Didn’t the teacher say that the number of colors used to be different? Do you remember?

It used to be one color

Oh yeah, I remember. I think she said that unlike now, soccer games were broadcasted with…

Black and white picture

10/18

Who conducted executions using this device?

Charles-Henri Sanson

What is the reason that most people cannot become a cormorant fisherman of Nagarasawa?

It’s a hereditary profession

10/19

What is the meaning of “robota,” the etymological root of “robot?"

Slave labor

Which of the following describes the density of stars in outer space?

3 bees in all of Europe

Now, tell me the total count for each column in this magic square.

15

From a psychological standpoint, what is a key reason our memories can differ from reality?

Memory bias

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Date

Question

Correct Answer

11/2

Can you tell me the meaning of the word “wack” in the Thieves’ Cant?

A share of stolen goods

11/4

Clubs is a club, diamonds is a gem… So, what does a spade represent?

A sword

11/8

Tell me how old you have to be to listen in on a trial.

Any age

11/10

Do you know why it’s missing in the character for “crow?"

Crow eyes are hard to see

11/12

I wonder. Do you know why our voices sound so different over the phone?

Because the voice is synthetic

11/14

Tell me why that is.

Because of high altitude

11/15

How was he punished?

His head was put on display.

11/17

Do you know the name for this graph? Your hint is “snails”...

Cochleoid

Date

Question

Correct Answer

12/20

Choose the graph that became the origin for the name for the Chinese yoyo known as a diabolo.

D

He was a really famous thief from the Edo period, right? How much money did he steal, in the end?

Over one billion yen

As a result, he was sentenced to…

Having is head displayed

Criminals, especially famous criminals being paraded around, was mostly done for…

Public performance

12/21

Which suit of cards represents the Holy Grail?

Hearts

According to Japanese judicial law, what is possible for even an infant to do in court?

Attend

12/22

What country refers to a person who controls politics behind the scenes as a “prime minister in black?"

Japan

The Japanese word “dokyuu” translates to “massive.” What English word inspired the initial “do” in dokyuu?

Dreadnought

Date

Question

Correct Answer

1/11

What’s this phrase supposed to illustrate about the gods of Shinto?

How numerous they are

What’s that phrase again? The one about how many gods there are in Shinto…

The Eight Million Gods

1/14

Where do you think the fictional land of “Ihatov” is modeled after?

Iwate

1/18

What did the word “awful” originally mean?

Impressive

1/21

Do you know what she’s stepping on?

A snake

1/24

What does that mean when describing a person?

Kind-hearted

So what kind of connotation would “salty” have in that context?

Negative

So with all that in mind, “salty” probably means…

Resentful

1/27

How far did this study suggest personal happiness can spread?

To friends of friends of friends

Sometime throughout the year, if you're studying and following our guide to get all the questions in P5R right, you'll unlock the achievement or trophy, "A Most Studious Disguise" for placing first on an exam.

It requires not only a maxed Knowledge stat, but also getting all questions correctly on said exam.

Additionally, be sure to tell Sojiro Sakura that you've done well on your exams - he rewards you for doing well by offering Joker a handful of accessories.

Month

Accessory Reward

Skill

May (Midterms)

Tough Belt

Defense Master

July (Finals)

Dandy Mirror

Counterstrike

October (Midterms)

Leblanc Charm

Null Sleep

December (Finals)

Boss Undies

Endure

Be sure to check in with your Coffee Dad after getting your scores to let him know how well you did! You need to manually talk to Sojiro to get the rewards, but it's worth doing so.

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