BH1 The Big Bang: Crash Course Big History #1 Quiz

Who are the main presenters of Crash Course Big History?

• John Green and Hank Green

• John Green and Katherine Green

• John Green and Emily Graslie

• Hank Green and Emily Graslie

What is the main topic of the first episode of Crash Course Big History?

• Ancient Egypt

• The Big Bang

• The Cold War

• The Industrial Revolution

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How old is the universe according to the video?

• 13.8 billion years

• 4.5 billion years

• 5,000 years

• 10 billion years

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What famous photograph taken by William Anders is mentioned in the video?

• The Hubble Deep Field

• The Blue Marble

• Earthrise

• Pale Blue Dot

What is the first law of thermodynamics mentioned in the video?

• Energy can be destroyed but not created

• Matter can be created but not destroyed

• Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed

• Energy can be created and destroyed

What is the Cosmic Background Radiation referred to in the video?

• The sound of the big bang

• The fingerprint of the universe

• The radiation from the sun

• The light from the first stars

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Who realized that galaxies and stars moving away from us have their light stretched out, making it more red?

• Henrietta Leavitt

• Albert Einstein

• Edwin Hubble

• Isaac Newton

What is the term used to describe the universe's expansion from an unimaginably tiny point?

• The Big Bang

• The Big Crunch

• The Big Rip

• The Big Freeze

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What is the name of the project at the South Pole that provided new support for the inflation theory?

• Hubble

• BICEP

• LIGO

• CERN

What did the universe inflate to in the barest fraction of the first second?

• The size of a basketball

• The size of a grapefruit

• The size of a football

• The size of a tennis ball

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