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Trivia Questions

After World War II, the U.S. used these captured German rockets as atmospheric probes

One of Goddard's early inventions was developed into this anti-tank rocket gun

They're fired to slow down the movement of a space vehicle

A hydrate contains this compound weakly bound in its crystals

Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types

The IRAS telescope, which discovered 5 comets, made its observations in this spectrum of light

This branch of medicine is concerned with the care & diseases of the elderly

Electrum is an alloy of these 2 precious metals

In 1982 the Jarvik-7, the first permanent one of these, was implanted in patient Barney Clark

Using a kite antenna, he received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, the letter S