Question: Where did the first atomic blast test take place?
Answer: Alamogordo Army Airfield,

Question: What was the power of the first atomic blast?
Answer: between 20 and 22 kilotons

Question: With whom did von Neumann collaborate for further development of the hydrogen bomb?
Answer: Klaus Fuchs

Question: What improvement did von Neumann see in the nuclear weaponry?
Answer: using a fission bomb to compress fusion fuel to initiate nuclear fusion

Question: What country was afforded access to design of improved nuclear weapon through espionage?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: In 1950 von Neumann became a consultant for what organization?
Answer: Weapons Systems Evaluation Group

Question: What military organization did von NEumann also consult with for military aspect of nuclear weapons?
Answer: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project

Question: What committee did von Neumann serve on within the Atomic Energy Commission?
Answer: General Advisory Committee

Question: In what year did von Neumann become commissioner of the AEC?
Answer: 1955

Question: What were compact hydrogen bombs useful for?
Answer: Intercontinental ballistic missile delivery

Question: What was the concern with longer range ICBM with Hbomb?
Answer: relative inaccuracy of the missile

Question: Von Neumann testified at whose hearing about loyalty and help?
Answer: Oppenheimer

Question: What was the purpose of top secret ICBM committee?
Answer: decide on the feasibility of building an ICBM large enough to carry a thermonuclear weapon

Question: What argument did von Neumann make about ICBMs?
Answer: while the technical obstacles were sizable, they could be overcome in time

Question: In what year did SM-65 Atlas pass its first fully functional test? 
Answer: 1959

Question: What was MAD?
Answer: mutual assured destruction

Question: What was the goal of MAD?
Answer: quickly develop ICBMs and the compact hydrogen bombs that they could deliver to the USSR

Question: What were Russians opinions of future weaponry?
Answer: Russians believed that bombers would soon be vulnerable, and they shared von Neumann's view that an H-bomb in an ICBM was the ne plus ultra of weapons

Question: What was the concern of a missile gap?
Answer: keeping up with the Soviets

Question: Why did von Neumann join government work?
Answer: felt that, if freedom and civilization were to survive, it would have to be because the US would triumph over totalitarianism

Question: How did von Neumaan describe his political ideology?
Answer: violently anti-communist, and much more militaristic than the norm

Question: What was the project that von Neumann first participated in government?
Answer: Manhattan Project

Question: Who was the inventor of the merge-sort algorithm?
Answer: Von Neumann

Question: With whom did von Neumann work on the philosophy of artificial intelligence?
Answer: Alan Turing

Question: What does a merge sort algorithm do?
Answer: the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged

Question: Where were the computations for hydrogen bomb worked out?
Answer: von Neumann's digital computers

Question: What was the Monte Carlo method?
Answer: allowed solutions to complicated problems to be approximated using random numbers

Question: Due to slow use of random numbers what was developed?
Answer: pseudorandom numbers

Question: What nullified patent claims of EDVAC designers?
Answer: von Neumann wrote an incomplete First Draft of a Report

Question: What was the significance of EDVAC?
Answer: architecture is to this day the basis of modern computer design,

Question: Where was ENIAC located?
Answer: University of Pennsylvania

Question: What was the speed difference with new ENIAC?
Answer: new ENIAC ran at one-sixth the speed

Question: What were advantages for programming new ENIAC?
Answer: programs could be developed and debugged in days rather than the weeks

Question: After the design of IAS, who built the computer?
Answer: RCA Research Laboratory

Question: When was stochastic computing introduced?
Answer: 1953

Question: How long before stochastic computing could be implemented?
Answer: advances in computing of the 1960s.

Question: When did von NEumann develop first self reproducing computer program?
Answer: 1949

Question: What is another name for the first self reproducing computer program?
Answer: computer virus

Question: On what computer was the first numerical weather forecast produced?
Answer: ENIAC

Question: In what year did von Neumann publish the paper Numerical Integration of the Barotropic Vorticity Equation
Answer: 1950

Question: How much colder was world in last glacial age?
Answer: 6 °F (3.3 °C) colder

Question: How quickly was von Neumann able to complete math in his head?
Answer: stunned other mathematicians

Question: Were other mathematicians amazed by von Neumann?
Answer: Paul Halmos states that "von Neumann's speed was awe-inspiring."

Question: Did von Neumann enjoy thinking?
Answer: Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

Question: How did Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim describe von Neumann? 
Answer: "fastest mind I ever met",

Question: What did Jacob Bronowski think of von Neumann?
Answer: He was the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception. He was a genius.

Question: What did Lecturer Polya think about von Nuemann?
Answer: Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of.

Question: What did Herman Goldstone write about von NEumann?
Answer: One of his remarkable abilities was his power of absolute recall.

Question: Could von Neumann recall written text much later?
Answer: he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes.

Question: What did Ulam think of von Nuemann's cognitive ability?
Answer: von Neumann's way of thinking might not be visual, but more of an aural one.

Question: What did Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe think of von NEumann's ability?
Answer: I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man

Question: What did James Glimm have to say about von Nuemann?
Answer: he is regarded as one of the giants of modern mathematics

Question: What description did Peter Lax use for von Neumann?
Answer: most scintillating intellect of this century

Question: In what year was von Neumann diagnosed with cancer?
Answer: 1955

Question: From when his mother was diagnosed with cancer, how long did she live?
Answer: died within two weeks

Question: How long did von Neumann survive with cancer?
Answer: eighteen months

Question: Who administered the last sacrament to von Neumann?
Answer: Father Strittmatter

Question: Did the last sacrament ease von Neumann?
Answer: did not receive much peace or comfort from it, as he still remained terrified of death

Question: Was there conflict of faith and beliefs at the end of von NEumann's life?
Answer: he suddenly turned Catholic—it doesn't agree with anything whatsoever in his attitude, outlook and thinking when he was healthy

Question: What did Oskar Morgenstern feel about von Neumann's beliefs?
Answer: always believed him to be "completely agnostic."

Question: The agreement between the Nazis and the Soviets split what countries up?
Answer: Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland

Question: Who invaded Poland after the Nazi’s?
Answer: Soviet

Question: Which countries were taken over by the Soviets?
Answer: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania

Question: Who broke the agreement with the invasion of Bukovina?
Answer: Stalin

Question: Salla is located in what country?
Answer: Finland

Question: The regions of Białystok, Galicia and Przemyśl were returned to what country after world war II?
Answer: Polish state

Question: What regions remained part of the Soviet Union?
Answer: (Karelia, Petsamo), Estonia (Ingrian area and Petseri County) and Latvia (Abrene) remained part of the Russian Federation