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Science Quiz Questions I
- What is the oldest science?
- What are the ends of a magnet called?
- What name is given to a two terminal device that varies electrical resistance?
- What element was named after the Greek word for green?
- Diamonds are formed of which element?
- What tissues connect muscles to bones??
- Name the semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power?
- Which planet in the solar system is the hottest?
- Pulmonary refers to which part of the human body?
- Which law states 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'? (the answer needs both a name and number)
- Which country accounts for 70% of the world's platinum production?
- Whose law states that the force needed to extend a spring by some distance is proportional to that distance?
- What word in geology comes from the Greek for 'mountain' and 'origin'?
- What are animals that eat both plants and meat called?
- Which scientist was the decibel named after?
- What is the only rock that floats on water?
- The name of which branch of mathematics comes from the Latin for pebble?
- What type of number has a real and imaginary part?
- What elementary particle can be up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top - and is a word that comes from James Joyce's 1939 book Finnegans Wake?
- What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?
Answers:
- Astronomy
- Poles
- A Rheostat (a potentiometer has 3-terminals, so is not the answer we are looking for here)
- Chlorine
- Carbon
- Tendons
- Transistor
- Venus
- Lungs
- Newton's Third Law
- South Africa
- Hooke's Law
- Orogeny
- Omnivores
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Pumice
- Calculus
- Complex number
- A quark
- W
Quiz II
- What type of acid is normally used in car batteries?
- Which element is the sun mostly composed of?
- What is the primary earthquake measuring instrument?
- Who discovered and first isolated both potassium and sodium?
- Starting with the letter 'r' what is vitamin B2 also known as?
- Nitrous oxide is commonly called what?
- What is the SI unit of frequency?
- Which noble gas, that occurs naturally, is radioactive?
- Typically consisting of a stalk and an anther, what is the name given to the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower?
- Which chemical element, with the atomic number 23, was discovered in 1801 and used in the chassis of Ford's Model T?
- What is the process called when light bends when passing through a traditional lens?
- Who was the first ever British Prime Minister with a science degree?
- Which 'father of science' died one year before Sir Isaac Newton was born?
- Which science deals with the motion of projectiles?
- If lightning activity was one kilometre away, how many seconds would it take to hear the thunder after the flash?
- In which American state was the first ever atomic bomb test carried out?
- In water it has a value of 72.8 millinewtons per meter at 20 degree centigrade - what are we talking about?
- What soft brown combustible sedimentary rock that is formed from naturally compressed peat is often referred to as brown coal?
- What is the largest living species of lizard?
- Which popular pet belongs to the biological family felidae?
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
- What is the more common name given to iron pyrites?
Answers:
- Sulphuric
- Hydrogen
- A seismograph
- Humphry Davy
- Riboflavin
- Laughing gas
- Hertz
- Radon
- Stamen
- Vanadium
- Refraction
- Margaret Thatcher
- Galileo Galilei
- Ballistics
- 3 seconds (the speed of sound is 343.2 metres per second and the flash is almost instant)
- New Mexico
- Surface tension
- Lignite
- Komodo dragon
- Cats
- Three
- Fool's gold
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