Pub quiz questions for the term Physics.
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Terms: |Physics|
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Lenses are shaped pieces of glass or another transparent material that gather or spread light. Among spherical lenses, some are concave, some are plane, and some bulge outward. What are these outward-curving lenses called?
Convex Lenses
Terms: |Physics|
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
What is the name for the emission of light caused by mechanically crushing, scratching, or rubbing a material, a phenomenon often observed in certain non-metallic minerals such as fluorite and calcite?
Triboluminescence
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
What name connects the Canadian film director Egoyan with a particle made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons?
Atom
Terms: |Physics| |Stephen Hawking|
Published: 6. 5. 2026.
Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist known for his work in cosmology, quantum gravity, and especially black holes. He also wrote popular science books explaining his ideas about the universe, including a bestseller that topped the British Sunday Times list and remained there for a record 237 weeks. What is the title of this book that mentions time?
A Brief History of Time
Terms: |Philosophy| |Physics|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
The earliest ideas about atoms and the first model of matter reach back to antiquity and are usually linked to a Greek philosopher whose theory Aristotle referred to as atomism. Who was he?
Democritus
Terms: |Physics|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
Which physical quantity expresses a conductor’s resistance to changes in the strength of electric current, especially in inductive coils?
Inductance
Terms: |Physics|
Published: 30. 4. 2026.
What is the name of the vector physical quantity that describes a magnetic field and determines the Lorentz force exerted by that field on a moving charged particle?
Magnetic Flux Density, or Magnetic Induction
Terms: |Biology| |Luigi Galvani| |Physics|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Luigi Galvani made his famous discovery when he noticed that the prepared legs of a certain animal jerked when touched by two different metals. He mistakenly connected this with animal electricity. Which animal helped him reach this finding?
Frog
Terms: |Physics|
Published: 6. 4. 2026.
What kind of energy is possessed by a body due to its position within a system?
Potential energy
Terms: |Nobel Prize| |Physics|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
The physicist Niels Bohr, whose name is inseparably linked with early quantum theory and the study of atomic structure, was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. In which country was he born?
Denmark