Science & Nature Quiz - 113 Questions
Question What sort of animal is a Rhodesian ridgeback?
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Question From which well-known type of flower are Vanilla pods obtained?
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Question Anteaters prefer what to ants?
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Question Which is the only insect that can turn its head to look directly behind itself?
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Question What sort of substances are adrenaline, cortisone, insulin, and oestrogens?
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Question What is inflamed when you suffer from nephritis?
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Question How many noble gases are there?
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Question Which is the SI unit of force?
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Question Pencil lead is made out what?
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Question What did Foucault's pendulum prove?
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Question Which is the densest planet in our Solar System?
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Question There are three types of nuclear radiation. What are they called?
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Question Freud published his most influential book in 1900. What was it called?
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Question For fans of Mad magazine: what is an axolotl?
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Question What is the antimatter equivalent of the electron?
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Question What are Sodium Thiopental, Pancuronium Bromide, and Potassium Chloride taken in that order?
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Question What kind of animal is a blue-fronted parrot?
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Question What is the name of the alloy made of 95% aluminium, 4% copper and small amounts of magnesium and manganese?
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Question Who wrote the book 'The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA'?
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Question Who invented natural logarithms?
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Question Which is the main protein in milk?
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Question What part of the body is affected by Otitis?
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Question Which branch of physics deals with sound?
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Question Which law states that, at a constant temperature, the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume?
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Question Where is the hypocentre of an earthquake in relation to its epicentre?
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Question Which is the only muscle in your body that is only attached at one end?
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Question What would you use Archimede's Screw for?
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Question Whats the the name for the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another?
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Question What is the three-dimensional image created with laser beams called?
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Question What type of animal are Belugas?
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Question What were (and still are) 'Skyscrapers' before the term was applied to tall buildings?
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Question What is the angle between the hands of a clock at 1 o'clock?
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Question What is the chemical symbol for Ozone?
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Question What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?
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Question What extinct creature got its name from the Portuguese word for stupid?
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Question In the physical world (as opposed to art) what are the primary colours?
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Question Solid carbon dioxide is known by what name?
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Question Which element has the chemical symbol Rf?
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Question Which is the heaviest organ in the human body?
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Question Which temperature has the same value in Fahrenheit and Celsius?
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Question In which organ would you find the pineal gland?
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Question How many noble gases are there?
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Question Which planet has an orbital period of 687 days?
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Question What is inflamed if you suffer from Nephritis?
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Question Aquaculture is the correct term for what?
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Question What kind of animal is a basilisk?
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Question What shape is the DNA molecule?
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Question Who discovered that all objects, heavy or light, fall at the same velocity?
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Question Which planet in our solar system has an orbital period of 687 days?
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Question BASIC, Perl, and Python are types of what?
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Question By what name is "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" now known?
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Question Disgusting-sounding ailments no.1: What is Borborygmus?
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Question Evaporation is changing from a liquid to gas. What is changing from a solid to a gas called?
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Question How many astronauts crewed the Gemini series of spacecraft?
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Question How many astronauts crewed the Mercury series of spacecraft?
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Question How much does a cubic meter of water weigh?
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Question If 8 bits make a byte, what do 4 bits constitute?
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Question In photography, what does SLR stand for?
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Question In which US state did the Wright brothers first fly?
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Question Litmus paper turns what colour when in contact with an acid?
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Question Many of us use CDROMs these days, but what does the acronym mean?
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Question Mrs. Thomas Smith of Ryde, NSW, Australia, produced a new variety of fruit in 1868. What is it called?
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Question Name anything that happened in Britain on September 3rd, 1752.
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Question On the Moh Hardness scale, what has a hardness of 10?
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Question Pony, Shot, and Jigger are units of measure of what?
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Question Referring to internet connections, what does ADSL mean?
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Question The prefix mega- is a millionfold in the SI units and giga- is a billion. Tera is a trillion but what is the quadrillionfold (10 to the power of 15) prefix?
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Question The winter solstice occurs when the sun is furthest from the equator (on December 22nd). What do we call the days the sun crosses the equator in March and September?
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Question To the nearest whole number, how many revolutions does the moon make around the earth in a calendar year?
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Question Truth, beauty, strange, charm, up and down are types of what?
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Question What are the two types of camel called?
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Question What colour is caffeine?
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Question What colour is the 'Black Box' found in commercial planes?
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Question What did Einstein get the Nobel prize for?
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Question What did John Logie Baird invent in 1925?
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Question What does CAT stand for in a CAT-scan?
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Question What does Cytology study?
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Question What does DVD stand for?
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Question What does MG in the car brand stand for?
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Question What does VTOL mean when applied to an aircraft?
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Question What in radio is FM?
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Question What is -459.7ºF also know as?
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Question What is 0º Fahrenheit in centigrade?
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Question What is a camel's hump made of? Water, fat or muscle?
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Question What is a googol?
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Question What is a rhinoceros' horn made of?
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Question What is an eolic power station?
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Question What is an Ishihara test used for?
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Question What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
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Question What is measured in Amperes?
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Question What is panophobia or pantophobia?
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Question What is the fundamental difference between an autogyro and a helicopter?
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Question What is the Macintosh computer named after?
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Question What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol?
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Question What is the more common name of Ascorbic Acid?
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Question What is the only venomous mammal in the world?
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Question What is Zulu time?
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Question What lies between Mars and Jupiter?
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Question What was the first man-made object to move faster than the speed of sound?
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Question What was the gin in the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in the US in 1793?
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Question What was the name of the first spacecraft to land softly on the moon?
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Question What would a Conchologist be interested in?
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Question Where, in a household, would you find a magnetron?
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Question Which common animal is properly known as Mus Musculus?
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Question Which computer operating system has a penguin as its logo?
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Question Which crop is attacked by the boll weevil?
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Question Which element has atomic number 2?
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Question Which element has the highest melting point?
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Question Which German architect who designed the Seagram Building in New York said "Less is more, God is in the details"?
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Question Which hangs from the ceiling, a stalactite or a stalagmite?
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Question Which is now the world's tallest building? (May 2004)
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Question Which is the closest galaxy to our own?
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Question Which is the densest planet in our solar system?
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Question Which is the first chemical element in alphabetical order?
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Question Which is the largest organ in the human body?
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Question Which is the last chemical element (in alphabetical order)?
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Question Which is the main component of Brass and Bronze?
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Question Which is the opposite point to the Zenith?
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Question Which metal do you get from bauxite?
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Question Which metal do you get out of Hematite?
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Question Which Nobel Prize is awarded by the Caroline Institute of Stockholm?
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Question Which period came after the Triassic?
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Question Which unit of measurement was defined by Henry III of England by placing three barleycorns in a line?
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Question Which vitamin is thiamine?
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Question Which was the first jet airliner to enter commercial service?
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Question What two time Nobel prize winner was a proponent of Vitamin C?
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Question Who invented the centigrade scale?
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Question Who was the scientist who measured, on his honeymoon, the amount of heat produced by a local waterfall? (He never had children).
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Question Which chemical element gets it's name from a greek word meaning 'stranger'?
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Question Which two planets do not have moons?
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Question Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize?
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Question Is the sun denser than water?
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Question What's the difference between a venom and a poison?
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