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The Oneironauts has passages on physics, astronomy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, ethology, art, music, poetry, history, and many other topics that are used for this quiz.
Deja reve is a French phrase that means:
to review
prior knowledge
previously dreamed
already seen
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The Oneironauts
discusses the following animals -- which animal has been shown to enjoy learning?
zebra finch
golden shiner
gallus gallus domesticus
cattle
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Leonardo's da Vinci's manuscript "Codex Leicester" and painting "Madonna of the Rocks" describe which physical process?
the human circulatory system
erosion
motion of a projectile
rainbows
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The bright star called Fomalhaut is located in the constellation:
Delphinus
Optimus Prime
Virgo
Pisces Austrinus
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Memory and navigation are processed by the hippocampus in the brain. What does "hippo-campus" mean in Greek?
popular-college
excessive-knowledge
river-beast
horse-curve
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Which one of these quotes from
The Oneironauts
is attributed to Lord Kelvin in 1883?
To measure is to know.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.
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Which ghost frightened Scrooge more than any other?
Ghost of Christmas Eve
Ghost of Christmas Past
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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Which of these people did NOT suffer from epilepsy?
Henry Gustav Molaison
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Feynman
Prince Myshkin
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Dreams are most prominent in which stage of human sleep?
Stage 1
REM sleep
deep sleep
light sleep
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Quantum key distribution is a modern encryption method based on which aspect of physics?
special relativity
entanglement
second law of thermodynamics
entropy
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A German song about falling in love takes place in which city?
Berlin
Munich
Lindau
Heidelberg
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The poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
compares human imagination to:
Mont Blanc
a fading coal
the parting of clouds
a skylark
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One day you have a brilliant new idea, you tell your friend, and then your friend reminds you that they gave you the idea two years ago. This cognitive blunder is known as:
pareidolia
confirmation bias
cryptomnesia
unconditioned response
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Who gave a speech at the Areopagus in Athens that invoked the unknown god?
Socrates
Apostle Paul
Aristotle
Aeschylus
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Which animal has better visual ability than a cat?
jumping spider
bat
rat
chicken
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Which part of the human brain is associated with vision?
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
occipital lobe
temporal lobe
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Physicist Werner Heisenberg established that:
It is impossible to measure both position and momentum to infinite precision.
Nothing can move faster than light.
Entropy is an arrow of time.
Mass bends spacetime.
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