Science Quiz Questions

1. What does DNA stand for?

2. How many bones are in the human body?
3. The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?
4. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?
5. Which is the main gas that makes up the Earth's atmosphere?
6. Humans and chimpanzees share roughly how much DNA?
7. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?
8. Roughly how long does it take for the sun's light to reach Earth - 8 minutes, 8
hours or 8 days?
9. Which famous British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?
10. At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
11. What modern-day country was Marie Curie born in?
12. What is the biggest planet in our solar system?
13. What name is given for the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom?
14. How many vertebrae does the average human possess?
15. What was the name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union
in 1957?
16. Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek
physician?
17. What is a material that will not carry an electrical charge called?
18. Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover?
19. How many teeth does an adult human have?
20. What is the study of mushrooms called?
21. How many brains and how many hearts does an octopus have?
22. What is the only letter not to appear on the periodic table?
23. What is the fastest land animal in the world?
24. What is the only even prime number?
25. What do the letters in the word laser stand for?
26. What is the perimeter of a circle called?
27. Sound travels faster in air than in water: true or false?

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 28. Which of the world's oceans in the deepest?
29. What was the name of the first artificial satellite to enter space?
30. Who is credited with the creation of the World Wide Web?
31. Lightning hotter than the surface of the sun: true or false?
32. Where in the human body can the smallest bone be found?
33. How many bones do sharks have?
34. What is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia the scientific term for?
35. What does USB stand for?
36. What is the largest desert on Earth?
37. In which year were the first collisions achieved in the Large Hadron Collider?
38. What is the heaviest organ in the human body?
39. What is the rarest blood type in humans?
40. In which year was Pluto reclassified as a Dwarf Planet?
41. What is the biggest animal in the world?
42. What is the only active volcano on mainland Europe called?
43. What is desquamation the scientific term for?
44. How many days on Earth does it take for Venus to rotate once on its axis?
45. How many states of matter are there?
46. What does a Geiger Counter measure?
47. What are natural satellites colloquially known as?
48. In which year did the Apollo 13 space mission take place?
49. What metal is the best conductor of electricity?
50. What was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease?
Science Quiz Answers

1. Deoxyribonucleic acid
2. 206
3. Sir Isaac Newton
4. Diamond
5. Nitrogen
6. 98 per cent

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7. Nitrogen
8. 8 minutes
9. Stephen Hawking
10. -40
11. Poland
12. Jupiter
13. Atomic number
14. 33
15. Sputnik 1
16. Hippocratic Oath
17. Insulator
18. Apollo 15
19. 32
20. Mycology
21. 9 brains, 3 hearts
22. J
23. Cheetah
24. 2
25. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
26. The circumference
27. False
28. The Pacific
29. Sputnik 1
30. Tim Berners-Lee
31. True
32. The ear
33. Zero
34. Brain freeze
35. Universal Serial Bus
36. Antartica

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 37. 2010
38. The liver
39. AB Negative
40. 2006
41. The Antarctic blue whale
42. Mount Vesuvius
43. Peeling skin
44. 243
45. 4 - solid, liquid, gas and plasma
46. Radiation
47. Moons
48. 1970
49. Silver
50. The smallpox vaccine

Important History of Science Questions with Answers

What is science?

Science is a systematic study of things and phenomena that construct and organise
knowledge in the structure of testable predictions and explanations about everything
that exists in the observable universe.

What are the three important branches of science?

Physical science, life science, and earth science are the three important branches of
science.

What is meant by physical science?

Physical science is the study of the inorganic world which does not include the study of
living things.

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The term _____ was derived from the Latin word scientia, which means
awareness, knowledge, and understanding.

Answer: science

Explanation: The term science was derived from the Latin word scientia, which means
awareness, knowledge, and understanding.

What is the scientific method?

The scientific method is a process by which scientists investigate, verify and construct a
reliable and accurate outlook of any natural phenomenon.

What is meant by the hypothesis?

The hypothesis is a proposition that is deduced from theoretical reasoning and some
evidence. This is the beginning state of any research that transforms theoretical
questions into predictions.

Explain the earliest notions of science in world history.

The earliest practice of science can be found in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
(around 3000 to 1200 BC). Their practices in medicine, astronomy, and mathematics
shaped the classical Greek philosophy of antiquity, whereby attempts were made to
develop explanations of phenomena in the world based on natural causes. Even though
concepts and words of “nature” and “science” were not part of the culture, the ancient
Mesopotamians and Egyptians made significant contributions that later became the
foundations of Greek and medieval astronomy, medicine, and mathematics. From the
third 3rd millennium BCE, the Egyptians constructed a decimal counting system. They
solved physical problems employing geometry. They also developed a detailed calendar
system. Egyptian healing techniques consisted of drug usage as well as metaphysical
activities like rituals, prayers, and incantations.

What are the contributions of ancient Mesopotamians and Egyptians to the

development of science?

The ancient Mesopotamians utilised the knowledge of various natural chemicals for
creating glass, pottery, metals, soap, and lime plaster. They studied animal anatomy,
physiology, astrology, and behaviour for divine purposes. The Mesopotamian civilisation

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also had extensive interests in medicine. During the Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian
civilisation), the earliest medical documents appeared. They studied subjects which
have religious or practical applications and have a meagre interest in fulfilling curiosity.

Starting from 3000 BCE, the Egyptians developed a fairly capable numbering system
that was based on decimals. They applied their knowledge of geometry to solve
practical physical problems (helped builders and surveyors). They even constructed a
fully functional calendar that had twelve months, 30 days each and five days at the
year-end. The development of geometry was a crucial advancement to preserve
ownership and layout of agricultural land, which was flooded periodically by the river
Nile. The right angle and other laws of geometry were applied to construct rectilinear
buildings and bodies.

What are the important works of Aristotle?

Aristotle was a student of Plato; he put forward empiricism and the concept that
universal laws can be deduced through induction and observation. He laid the
foundation of the scientific method. He also developed numerous biological theses that
were very much empirical and analytical in nature. It was focused on the diversity of life
and biological causation. He made many observations on nature, especially the
attributes and habits of animals and plants. He classified around 540 animal species
and physically dissected around fifty species. The writings of Aristotle directly influenced
European and Islamic scholarship. They were then ultimately superseded in the
scientific revolution.

Explain the main works of Aryabhatta.

In 499 AD, Aryabhata put forward a heliocentric model of the solar system along with
basic concepts similar to gravitation. He developed mathematical and astronomical
theories in which the planet Earth was considered to be spinning on its own axis, and
the planets’ periods were described as elliptical paths with respect to the Sun. He also
considered that the planets and the Moon shine by reflecting sunlight, and planetary
orbits are ellipses. He had done precise calculations of astronomical quantities based
on his system, such as the Earth’s circumference, periods of planets, lunar eclipse, and
solar eclipse, the time required for one rotation of the Earth on its own axis, the length of
the revolution of the Earth, etc. He also put forward many trigonometric functions

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(versine, sine, inverse sine, and cosine), algorithms and techniques of algebra, and
trigonometric tables. His works were translated into Arabic versions, and those were
available in the Islamic region by the 8th–10th centuries.

How did Islamic Golden Age contribute to the development of science?

After the disintegration of the Roman Empire, the Greek knowledge system also
deteriorated (during the early centuries of the Middle Ages). In the Middle East, it was
preserved during the Islamic Golden Age. The assimilation and recovery of Greek and
Islamic works into Western Europe from the period between the tenth and thirteenth
centuries revived the European “natural philosophy”.

What is the main contribution of Brahmagupta?

In the seventh century, Indian scholar Brahmagupta briefly explained the law of
gravitation and considered gravity as an attraction force. He also showed the application
of zero as both a decimal digit and placeholder with the Hindu-Arabic number system
currently used globally. Arabic translations of Brahmagupta’s text introduced this
numeral system to the Arabic region, where it was taken as Arabic numerals.

Who developed the first systematic analysis of natural philosophy?

Aristotle and Plato developed the first systematic analysis of natural philosophy, which
paved the way for the later complex investigations of the physical world. The
development of reasoning was of particular significance for the evolution of scientific
inquiry.

When did the scientific revolution begin in Europe?

The scientific revolution is considered a transition point in history, from where science
started to change its form from ancient thought and philosophy to classical physics,
which is dominated by mechanics. It is considered to have started in 1543 when the
books De revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus and De humani corporis fabrica by
Andreas Vesalius were first published. In 1687, this period culminated with the release
of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. This period marked
an unprecedented surge of scientific publications all over Europe.

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Practice Questions

1) What is meant by pseudoscience?

2) What is the difference between life science and physical science?

3) Who invented the concept of zero?

4) Who is the father of modern science?

1. Who was hit on the head by a falling apple and so discovered Gravity?

2. Who proposed his theory of Relativity?

3. Whose theory placed the sun at the centre of the solar system?

4. Who first developed the theory of Evolution by natural selection?

5. Who turned a telescope on the stars, saw sunspots, and spent his final years under
house arrest?

6. Robert Oppenheimer is best remembered for his work on what?

7. Which metaphysician developed the theory of calculus at the same time as did
Newton?

8. Who developed the modern system of classifying plants and animals?

9. Who discovered X-rays?

10. Who proposed the periodic table of chemical elements?

ANSWERS

1. Issac Newton

2. Albert Einstein

3. Copernicus

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4. Charles Darwin

5. Galileo

6. The Atomic Bomb

7. Leibniz

8. Linnaeus

9. Roentgen

10. Mendelev

. Who was hit on the head by a falling apple and so discovered Gravity?
Who proposed his theory of Relativity?
3. Whose theory placed the sun at the centre of the solar system?
4. Who first developed the theory of Evolution by natural selection?
5. Who turned a telescope on the stars, saw sunspots, and spent his final years under
house arrest?
6. Robert Oppenheimer is best remembered for his work on what?
7. Which metaphysician developed the theory of calculus at the same time as did Newton?
8. Who developed the modern system of classifying plants and animals?
9. Who discovered X-rays?
10. Who proposed the periodic table of chemical elements?

ANSWERS
1. Issac Newton
2. Albert Einstein
3. Copernicus
4. Charles Darwin
5. Galileo
6. The Atomic Bomb
7. Leibniz
8. Linnaeus
9. Roentgen
10. Mendelev

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A SCIENCE HISTORY QUIZby Donald E. SimanekThis quiz has answers below, but
please don't look at them too soon. I've used these questions in history of science seminars
atLock Haven University to give students practice in library research

1. Who first described Newton's rings?

2. Who first successfully explained Newton's rings?
3. Who first gave a correct physical explanation of why the sky is blue?
4. Who invented the Wheatstone bridge?
5. Who first patented the telegraph?
6. Who invented Morse code?
7. Who first experimentally verified Coulomb's law of electric attraction?
8. Who first performed Faraday's ice pail experiment demonstrating electrostatic shielding?
9. Who invented the decimal point notation in mathematics?
10. Who invented the drip coffee pot?
11. Who first made carbonated water?
12. What chemist was the first to discover and describe color blindness?
13. Who first formulated L'Hospital's rule for evaluating indeterminate algebraic forms?
14. Who first made a 'Galilean' (non-inverting) type telescope consisting of a positive objective
lens and a negative eyelens at oppositeends of a tube?
15. Who invented the microscope?
16. Who fist made the 'Keplerian' (astronomical, inverting) type telescope consisting of a
positive objective lens and a positive eyelensat opposite ends of a tube?
17. Who first made a `Newtonian' reflecting telescope with a concave objective mirror?
18. Who first proposed and performed the experiment of dropping two balls of different weight
from a high tower to test Aristotle'sassertion that they'd fall at different speeds?
19. Who first performed the experiment of flying a kite to `draw down the 'electric fluid' of
lightning?
20. Who does lie buried in Grant's tomb? Where is Grant's tomb? How many bricks are in
Grant's tomb?Are you beginning to think that much of what you were taught in school,
and expected to regurgitate on exams, is wrong? If so, you are getting the picture. If you want
to find out more examples of how many of the things `everybody knows' are actually wrong,
this short bibliography should provide a good start:
1.

1. Who first described Newton's rings? Newton's rings are the colored rings one sees in thin oil
or soap films, and when two pieces of glass are placed in contact, with a slightgap of varying
thickness between them. Since they are easily observed, we have no idea who first saw them. I've
found no clearevidence of these being described in print before Newton did so.2. Who
first successfully explained Newton's rings?Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618-1663) is credited as
the discoverer of diffraction. He held the view that colors are a `modification' oflight. Hooke and
Newton were both familiar with Grimaldi's work. Grimaldi's one book was published
posthumously in1665. [1] Newton's experiments with prisms supported the view that white light

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contains all colors, the prism merely separates(disperses) them spatially. Newton gave a series of
lectures on optics at Cambridge around 1670, and later published them under thetitle
Optiks: or, a Treatise on the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light.
Newton's particle theory of light wascomplicated and unsuccessful in many ways, especially his
explanation of interference colors such as Newton's rings. Thomas Young(1773-1829) explained
them using the wave theory of light. Young was not noted for giving clear, understandable
explanations, but hiswave theory did work, and became the accepted model of light.3. Who first
gave a correct physical explanation of why the sky appears blue?John Tyndall (1820-1893)
proposed that the blueness of the sky is due to light scattering by atmospheric particles. He
showed in thelaboratory that scattered light from small particles appears bluish. This is called the
"Tyndall effect". John William Strutt [LordRayleigh] (1842-1919) was somewhat more
successful in arguing for that explanation, and is usually the one credited with the law thatlight
scattering depends on the inverse fourth power of the wavelength. So it is now called "Rayleigh
scattering." Both Tyndall andRayleigh thought that dust particles were doing the atmospheric
scattering. But it is primarily the gas molecules in the atmosphere thatare responsible for the
apparent sky color. Dewar wrongly thought the blue sky was due to oxygen in the atmosphere,
because liquidoxygen appears bluish in color.So the sky appears blue because we are seeing only
the predominantly short wavelength (violet and blue) end of the spectrum ofscattered sunlight.
The setting sun appears reddish because in our line of sight the violet and blue spectral colors
are scattered and donot reach our eyes. Though looking directly at the sun can cause serious eye
damage, sunlight appears yellow, again because the violetand blue part of its spectrum is reduced
by scattering out of the line of sight. Clouds appear white because their vapor droplets
are largeenough to scatter all colors of the spectrum of sunlight. If there were no atmosphere the
sun would appear white.Then why do white painted houses appear white? They receive light
from both sun and sky, and scatter it all. However, if a whitesurface, such as a clean winter
snowbank is in a place shaded from the sun, but not from the blue sky light, the snow appears
bluish.And in photographs it may seem "too" blue because the film (or the digital camera sensor)
is also sensitive to ultraviolet light,rendering it as blue.For a more complete explanation see John
Baez's website Blue Sky.[2]

4. Who invented the Wheatstone bridge?The Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit for the
precise comparison of resistances. Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) never claimed to have
invented it, but he did more than anyone else to invent uses for it. The first description of the
bridge was by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865) in 1833. Christie also showed that
conductivity of wires varies directly with their diameter and inverselyto their length, a law often
credited to Ohm. [3]Wheatstone did invent the telegraph (patented in 1837), and the concertina
(a small

musical instrument like the accordion).

5. Who first patented a telegraph?The first known suggestion for using electrical currents to
transmit messages was made in an anonymous letter to a Scottish magazinein 1753. [4]Sir Francis
Ronalds set up a telegraph demonstration in his garden in London in 1816. It sent a message by
turning a wheel

with letters around its rim (a somewhat slow method!). [5]William Fothergill Cooke and Charles
Wheatstone (physicist) took out the first patent, in England, in 1837. Their device used

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fivemagnetic needles arranged to point at different letters, and it required five wires. By 1838
they had reduced it to two needles by use ofa code. Wheatstone acknowledged his debt to
American Joseph Henry (1897-1878), with whom he had helpful discussions about theidea.
Wheatstone was not so gracious in acknowledging Cooke's contributions. [6]

Joseph Henry developed a system of electric telegraphy a decade before Morse. [7]He could
have patented the idea, had he cared about

such trivial things as fame and wealth. [8]Samuel Morse (1791-1872) got the idea from Henry,
but he wasn't gracious enough to admit

it
—
even at the court trial in which a number of others challenged Morse's priority. At this trial
Morse clearly demonstrated that hedidn't understand electricity well enough to have invented the
telegraph all by himself. Yet Morse won the court battle anyway! Morsefought many patent suits
over his inventions, and won them. Morse had also gotten some of his ideas for the telegraph
from second-hand accounts of the work of Faraday. Leonard Gale looked at Morse's inept early
models, "took pity on him", and gave help andadvice. [9]Gale knew physics and had read (and
understood) Joseph Henry's papers on the subject of electricity. Morse's first private

demonstrations were in 1837, his first commercial installation in 1844. [10]The successful
telegraph owes more to Gale and Henry

than to Morse. [11]When Morse attempted to secure patent protection in England, he learned to
his dismay that Wheatstone had

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invented the telegraph, and it was already in use by the Post Office. In continental Europe he
found that Steinhill had invented thetelegraph, and it was in use in railroad stations.

6. Who invented Morse code? No, not Morse. The code was the invention of Morse's assistant
Alfred Vail. Vail perfected the final form of the code and simplifiedthe whole process by
introducing the telegraph key. Vail is responsible for the efficiency of the code, using
the principle that the mostfrequently sent letters should have the shortest code. He also invented
a printing telegraph which Morse patented in his own name, ashe was entitled to do under
the terms of Vail's contract with Morse. Though Morse wasn't very impressive as a scientist or
inventor, hewas a good artist (painter and sculptor).
7. Who first experimentally verified Coulomb's law of electric attraction?See question

8. Who first performed Faraday's ice pail experiment demonstrating electrostatic

shielding?Henry Cavendish in both cases. Cavendish's early work, on the experimental
determination of the gravitational constant, was reportedto the Royal Society. But his later work
was recorded in notebooks and not published until after his death. He spent 60 years inexclusive
preoccupation with research, caring nothing about fame, credit, or money. That attitude is really
"doing science for its ownsake.''Cavendish made many important discoveries in electrostatics,
but since the world didn't hear of them, others got the credit. Thus wesee in textbooks `Faraday's
ice pail experiment,' and `Coulomb's law,' but Cavendish did them first.

9. Who invented the decimal point?The decimal point goes along with place-value notation.
According to Edward deBono's very comprehensive book
Eureka
, [12] place-value notation goes back at least to the Sumerians in Babylonia in the 18th century
BCE, who wrote numbers in base 60 withcuneiform script. They had no zero symbol, however,
merely leaving a space where a zero should be. This source claims that Indianmathematicians
picked up the Babylonian place-value idea and adapted it to decimal notation. Quoting
deBono:Indian mathematicians simplified the Babylonian number notation and changed from
base 60 to base 10, thus creating the moderndecimal system. Very little evidence exists of
the chronology of Indian number symbols but it seems that, like the Babylonians, theIndians for
a long time saw no need to write a symbol for zero. The earliest example of Indian use of the
decimal system with a zerodates from AD 595.The earliest definite reference to the Hindu
numerals beyond the borders of India is in a note written by a Mesopotamian bishop,Severus
Sebokht, about AD 650, which speaks of `nine signs', not mentioning the zero. By the end of the
8th century, some Indianastronomical tables had been translated at Baghdad and these signs
became known to Arabian scholars of the time. In 824, the scholaral-Khwarizmi wrote a small
book on numerals, and 300 years later it was translated into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Some
historians believe that these number symbols came to Europe even before they arrived in
Baghdad, but the oldest European manuscript containingthem dates from AD 976 in Spain.From
the same source:Far away from the mainstream of Western history, the Mayan culture of Central
America, which died out at the end of the 9th century,developed a place-value system of notation
with a symbol for zero. Mayan numbers were written vertically and are read from
bottomupwards. The Mayans worked in base 20... It is conjectured that the Mayans first used
their zero symbols at about the same time as theBabylonians used theirs on the other side of

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the earth, but the oldest Mayan numerical inscription dates from no earlier than the end ofthe 3rd
century AD.But there's still the question of the
decimal point
. Francesco Pellos (or Pelizzati) of Nice used a decimal point to indicate division of anumber by
a power of 10, in his 1492 book on commercial arithmetic. The 16th century German
mathematician Bartholomäus Pitiscus(or Petiscus) (1561-1613) uses a decimal point in his book
on trigonometry. [13]

10.Who invented the drip coffee pot?Physicist Benjamin Thompson [Count Rumford] (1754-
1814). He tried to find out why boiled coffee tasted so bad, and concluded that volatile oils were
the source of the flavor, and were being evaporated by boiling the coffee. So he designed the drip
coffee pot to preserve the flavor.

11. Who first made carbonated water?Chemist Joseph Priestly (1733-1804). Priestly discovered
carbon dioxide (fixed air) as one of the components of air. He used it to makecarbonated water.
Think of this next time you have a soda pop.
12. What chemist was the first to discover and describe color blindness?The English chemist
John Dalton (1766-1844). He noticed that his description of the colors of chemical reactions did
not agree withother people's descriptions. So he investigated, and discovered that he had
color blindness. He shunned honors and awards because ofhis Quaker beliefs that one should not
seek personal glory. Late in life he was to receive a doctor's degree from Oxford,
and colleagueschose the occasion to present him to King William IV. Dalton would not wear
court dress, and Oxford's academic robes were scarlet(not an appropriate color for a Quaker!).
Quakers shunned ostentatious clothing and bright colors. But Dalton, being color-blind, said

Question: Who wrote the science law 'for every action there is an equal
and opposite reaction'?
Answer: Newton
Question: Which mathematician first said the world wasn't flat, but a
sphere?
Answer: Pythagoras
Question: What is the name for a pivot on which a lever turns?
Answer: Fulcrum
Question: What is the name of the change of state from solid to liquid?
Answer: Melting
Question: Which science term means an observation which differs from
expectations?
Answer: Anomaly
Question: What is the name of the fundamental unit of temperature?
Answer: Kelvin
Question: What is the name for the bones which make up the spine?

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Answer: Vertebrae
Question: Which biological term means without a spine?
Answer: Invertebrate
Question: What does the Beaufort Scale measure?
Answer: Wind Speed
Question: How many Laws of Thermodynamics are there?
Answer: 3

Question: Which is the lightest of all the metallic elements?

Answer: Lithium
Question: What is the chemical symbol Na, from the Latin Natrium, for
which element?
Answer: Sodium
Question: Aqua Regia is used to dissolve which metal?
Answer: Gold
Question: Which element is also known as quicksilver?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which chemical is also known as quicksilver?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Which element, originally called hydragyrum, has the symbol
Hg?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What is the addictive chemical in tobacco?
Answer: Nicotine
Question: What substance are nails made from?
Answer: Keratin

Question: Waxing Gibbous refers to which celestial body?

Answer: Moon
Question: How many fundamental states of matter are there?
Answer: 3
Question: Isaac Newton was born in which century?

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Answer: 17th
Question: Which layer of the earth is under the crust but above the core?
Answer: Mantle
Question: In which year did man last land on the moon?
Answer: 1972
Question: What is the name of the yellow-green digestive fluid produced
by your liver?
Answer: Bile
Question: Which animal has the longest gestation period?
Answer: Elephant
Question: What word means the wearing away of land by water or wind?
Answer: Erosion
Question: What type of rock is formed under huge amounts of heat or
pressure?
Answer: Metamorphic
Question: Where in the body would you find alveoli?
Answer: Lungs

Question: Which science term means the rate of change of velocity?

Answer: Acceleration
Question: What is haematology the study of?
Answer: Blood
Question: Which term in math means without end or limits?
Answer: Infinity
Question: What is the name for the product of a combustion reaction?
Answer: Oxide
Question: How is hydropower generated?
Answer: Water
Question: What is measured with a Geiger counter?
Answer: Radioactivity
Question: Which word means how heavy something is, given its volume?
Answer: Density
Question: What type of energy is possessed by a body in motion?

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Answer: Kinetic
Question: Capillary action refers to the movement of which substance?
Answer: Liquids
Question: What does the P stand for in the chemical PVC?
Answer: Poly

Question: How many officially recognized constellations are there?

Answer: 88
Question: Lobate Scarps are a feature of which planet?
Answer: Mercury
Question: How many years is it said to take Jupiter to orbit the Sun?
Answer: 11
Question: Waxing Gibbous refers to which celestial body?
Answer: Moon
Question: Which term means heat transfer through the movement of a
fluid?
Answer: Convection
Question: The Cassini-Huygens probe was sent to visit which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: In 1693 Giovanni Zupi observed that which planet actually
orbited the Sun?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Atlas is a moon of which planet?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Callisto and Io are moons that orbit which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Ganymede is a moon which orbits which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Which planet boasts the largest moon in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
Question: Triton orbits which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which planet is best known for its rings?
Answer: Saturn

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Question: Which planet is referred to as being Cronian?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet takes around 668 days to orbit the Sun?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which planet is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Which planet shares its name with a popular chocolate bar?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which planet is named after the Roman God of the Sea?
Answer: Neptune
Question: Which planet in our solar system takes about 225 days to orbit
the sun?
Answer: Venus
Question: Which of these is known as the Red Planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Which plant is orbited by the moon of Proteus?
Answer: Neptune
Question: What is the name of the largest mountain on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons
Question: Which name is given to the collection of Jupiter's 4 largest
moons?
Answer: Galilean Moons
Question: Which space probe landed on Mars in June 1999?
Answer: Pathfinder
Question: The Rover Spirit was sent to which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: What was the first artificial satellite to be launched into space
by the USSR?
Answer: Sputnik 1
Question: Who made the first spacewalk ever?
Answer: Alexei Leonov

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Question: Sedimentary rocks like limestone and chalk are largely
composed of which element?
Answer: Calcium
Question: What is the name given to the outer layer of the earth?
Answer: Crust
Question: Electrolysis is the process of getting hydrogen and oxygen
from which substance?
Answer: Water
Question: The Cerberus Fossae is found on which planet?
Answer: Mars
Question: Noachis Terra is a period of which planet's history?
Answer: Mars
Question: The Borealis Basin can be found on which planet?
Answer: Mars

Question: Which theory says that the most simplest explanation is

properly the right one?
Answer: Occam's Razor
Question: Thermal decomposition means breaking down using what?
Answer: Heat
Question: What word means the relative reactivity of an element?
Answer: Valency
Question: What is mass multiplied by acceleration?
Answer: Force
Question: What was the surname of Michael, a British scientist who
developed the laws of electrolysis?
Answer: Faraday
Question: Johann Schroter spotted 20km Mountains on which planet in
1800?
Answer: Mercury
Question: Galileo first observed the rings of which planet in 1610?
Answer: Saturn
Question: Kepler came up with his three laws of planetary motion in
which century?

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Answer: 17th

Question: What is somnology the study of?

Answer: Sleep
Question: How many pairs of chromosomes do most people have?
Answer: 23
Question: Which living creature is the constellation Aquila named after?
Answer: Eagle
Question: What is the name of the sugar stored in the body for energy?
Answer: Glucose
Question: Which organ is located at the top of the neck?
Answer: Larynx
Question: What is the side of the triangle opposite the right angle,
according to Pythagoras?
Answer: Hypotenuse
Question: What is the outermost layer of skin called?
Answer: Epidermis
Question: Enzymes in the body assist with which process?
Answer: Digestion

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