Time for Time Travel! Trivia Quiz

Answer: It's an excellent conductor of electricity

Copper conducts electricity very well, and is used instead of aluminum in increasingly more places that require electric conductivity. There's probably a little bit of copper in your computer, most likely in its heat sink. It's not particularly lightweight; copper has a density of about nine grams per cubic centimeter (for comparison, lead is about 11.3).

It isn't too incredibly resistant to corrosion; copper used to be used in water pipes, and would often be damaged through erosion from the water flowing through it as well as corrosion from long-term use. Neither can it stand amazing temperatures: it melts at only 1984°F (1084°C), and turns into a gas at 4643°F (2562°C). Copper is element number 29, and can be found between nickel and zinc on the periodic table of elements.

Answer: The French writer Voltaire in 1832

François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, wrote this in 1832 in "Oeuvres de Voltaire, Volume 48", though in French. This was the catchphrase of Uncle Ben in the 2002 movie "Spiderman", although an August 1962 comic book featuring "Spiderman" had the quote "With great power there must also come - great responsibility!"

And, interestingly enough, Franklin Roosevelt was going to deliver the line "Today we have learned in the agony of war that great power involves great responsibility" in a speech, but he died the day before he was going to do so.

Answer: Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam was the greatest loss of human life in 24 hours in all of American history. It is also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, especially in the southern United States. This alternative name comes from the fact that this battle was fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, but was also fought near a creek called Antietam Creek.

This battle was the first major Civil War battle to be fought in the North. The Union suffered about 2,000 more deaths than the Confederacy did.

Answer: Lyre

Nero actually spent the entire five days that this fire raged trying to put it out, at one point even saving a family from a burning building, who, not knowing he was Nero, offered him a reward, which he declined. For a few minutes, he went outside a played a sad song on the lyre (it couldn't have been the violin, as it wasn't even invented yet), and afterwards there were were rumors that he had deliberately set the fire himself to have a dramatic backdrop for his musical abilities (which were limited, as he was only an amateur musician; despite this, he would regularly play concerts that were several hours long where, unbeknownst to Nero, citizens would be paid to attend and applaud).

However, Nero was outside of Rome when the fire started, so he couldn't have started it.

He didn't come immediately when informed of the fire, because small fires would break out in the city all the time do to the poor architecture and proximity of the mostly wooden buildings. Major fires also occurred in ancient Rome in 69 AD and 80 AD, two fires which Nero would never see, as he would later commit assisted suicide in 68 AD due to the Senate of Rome declaring him a public enemy.

Answer: Maltese

Malta does have quite a high population density: with about 3,412 people per square mile in 2011, it was the country with the seventh highest population density in the world. This is, of course, an average of the entire country.

Answer: Zeus

These ancient Greek "temples" were usually not places for prayer, but rather actually homes that were considered to be occupied by the Gods they were dedicated to. Several people would partake in the upkeep in the house in order to have suitable living conditions for the God/Goddess it was dedicated to, and small bits of food were burned to please the deity.

Answer: Half Marathon

Discus Throwing, a sport that was quite popular with the ancient Olympic games in Greece, was brought back to the modern Olympics in 1904, 1908, and 1912, but was discontinued after. The 60m dash (which is approximately 197 feet) was included in both the 1900 and 1904 Olympics.

The shooting of pigeons occurred in the 1900 Olympics, where hundreds of these animals were set free and open fired upon by participants. No animals were harmed purposefully in any modern Olympics after that.

Answer: Saturn V

All of these are names of United States rockets, but the one used for the Apollo 11 mission was Saturn V. The Saturn V rocket was used widely in the NASA Apollo space program as well as the Skylab program. It was actively used between 1967 and 1973. It was 363 feet tall (about 110 meters), and weighed over 6.2 million pounds (2.8 million kilograms).

It outputted 85 times the power of the Hoover Dam in one launch.

Answer: Brachiosaurus

The Brachiosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 150,000,000 years ago. It wasn't discovered by humans until 1903, when fossils found in western Colorado caused Elmer Riggs to describe it, giving it the name it has today. Brachiosaurus is actually a genus of dinosaur (belonging to the family Brachiosauridae), and the one first discovered was of the species Brachiosaurus Altithorax.

At the time of its discovery, it was considered the biggest dinosaur known, being over 80 feet in length.

It lost this distinction as more dinosaur species were discovered, but it is still considered one of the largest.

Answer: Calcium hypochlorite

Calcium hypochlorite is a technical name for bleaching powder, definitely not something you'd want to drink. However, various types of tea are made from the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant, so this could be a good choice for relaxation. A Bos Taurus is nothing more than a cow, so drinking the liquid from its mammary glands, a liquid commonly called milk, should be harmless. Dihydrogen Monoxide, despite sounding like something deadly, is actually just a rarely used technical name for water.