The Daily Quiz for December 19, 2024

Dolly was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. She was named after singer Dolly Parton because she was cloned from a mammary cell.

Modern parallax measurements are made using space-based telescopes like Gaia, which can measure angles as small as 20 microarcseconds

Beer glass shapes are designed for specific purposes: tulips trap aromatics, pilsner glasses showcase clarity and carbonation, mugs maintain temperature, and snifters concentrate complex aromas.

Oak was renamed to Java in 1995 because Oak was already trademarked by Oak Technologies.

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is about 10 billion light-years across and was discovered in 2013

Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998. The company began in Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California.

Sega’s “Blast Processing” was a marketing term with no technical meaning, used to compete with Nintendo.

Toy Story, released in 1995, was made by Pixar in partnership with Disney. It took 4 years and $30 million to produce.

Phototropism helps plants grow toward light sources

This phenomenon, called stellar scintillation, is caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere distorting incoming starlight