Science Quiz Questions VIII

1.

What soft brown combustible sedimentary rock that is formed from

naturally compressed peat is often referred to as brown coal?

2.

What is the largest living species of lizard?

3.

Which popular pet belongs to the biological family felidae?

4.

How many hearts does an octopus have?

5.

Most of Russias gas exports to Europe are sent by pipeline through which
country?

6.

What is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic

signals and electrical power?

7.

Which planet in the solar system is the hotest?

8.

Pulmonary refers to which part of the human body?

9.

Which law states 'for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction'? (give a name and number)

10.

Which country accounts for 70% of the world's platinum production?

Answers:
1.

Lignite

2.

Komodo dragon

3.

Cats

4.

Three

5.

Ukraine

6.

Transistor

7.

Venus

8.

Lungs

9.

Newton's Third Law

10.

South Africa

Science Quiz Questions VII

1.

Whose law states that the force needed to extend a spring by some
distance is proportional to that distance?

2.

What word in geology is formed from the Greek for 'mountain' and
'origin'?

3.

What has the chemical formula H2O2?

4.

Who was the decibel named after?

5.

What is the only rock that floats in water?

6.

What word in mathematics is Latin for pebble?

7.

What type of number has a real and imaginary part?

8.

What elementary particle can be up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and
top?

9.

What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?

10.

What is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of

electromagnetic radiation?

Answers:
1.

Hooke's law

2.

Orogeny

3.

Hydrogen Peroxide

4.

Alexander Graham Bell

5.

Pumice

6.

Calculus

7.

Complex number

8.

A quark

9.

10.

A pulsar

Science Quiz Questions VI

1.

Which element has the chemical symbol Pb?

2.

What is the S.I. unit for electrical resistance?

3.

How many laws of thermodynamics are there?

4.

What is the reciprocal of 2?

5.

What nationaliy was Galileo Galilei?

6.

Who discovered sodium in 1807 and strontium in 1808?

7.

Which scientist and mathematician would you associate with Syracuse?

8.

What figure is a parallelogram with four equal sides and no right angles?

9.

What animal gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich?

10.

What number comes next in the Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5?

Answers:
1.

Lead

2.

Ohm

3.

Three

4.

Half

5.

Italian

6.

Humphry Davy

7.

Archimedes

8.

Rhombus

9.

Emu

10.

Science Quiz Questions V

1.

Scientist Marie Curie was born in which country?

2.

Which science branch covers animals and animal life?

3.

Sir Isaac Newton was born in which English county?

4.

Roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists, star

in which American sitcom?

5.

Which famous scientist introduced the idea of natural selection?

6.

What planet in the Solar System is closest in size to Earth?

7.

At what temperature is Centigrade equal to Fahrenheit?

8.

Pure water has a pH level of a around what number?

9.

Kelvin is a unit to measure what?

10.

Triton is the largest moon of what planet?

Answers:
1.

Poland

2.

Zoology

3.

Lincolnshire

4.

The Big Bang Theory

5.

Charles Darwin

6.

Venus

7.

-40 degrees

8.

9.

Temperature

10.

Neptune

Science Quiz Questions IV

1.

Which scientific word when translated means 'anything that can produce
disease'?

2.

Which scientist is said to have shouted out 'Eureka!'?

3.

What science fiction writer wrote the three laws of robotics?

4.

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

5.

Which chemical element has the symbol 'V'?

6.

Deimos and Phobos are moons of what planet?

7.

What is the second most common gas found in the air we breathe?

8.

Electric power is typically measured in what units?

9.

What is the human bodys biggest organ?

10.

Who was the third person to walk on the moon?

Answers:
1.

Pathogen

2.

Archimedes

3.

Isaac Asimov

4.

Au

5.

Vanadium

6.

Mars

7.

Oxygen

8.

Watts

9.

The skin

10.

Pete Conrad

Science Quiz Questions III

1.

Which field of science is related with the study of 'Nephrology'?

2.

Which black and white bird of the crow family has the scientific name Pica
pica?

3.

What is the name of the second biggest planet in our solar system?

4.

What facet of human anatomy did William Harvey discover?

5.

Atoms of the same chemical element that have different atomic mass are
known as what?

6.

If igneous and sedimentary are two of the three main rock types, what is
the third?

7.

What is the more common name for the patella?

8.

Of what is a Positron an antiparticle?

9.

Electric resistance is typically measured in what units?

10.

'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction' is which number

of Newton's Laws?

Answers:
1.

Kidneys

2.

Magpie

3.

Saturn

4.

Circulation

5.

Isotopes

6.

Metamorphic

7.

Kneecap

8.

Electron

9.

Ohms

10.

Third

Science Quiz Questions II

1.

Which science comprises of the study of the solid Earth and the rocks of
which it is composed?

2.

Which scientist discovered the neutron?

3.

Which supermodel impressed Brian Cox with her knowledge of quantum

physics at a showbiz soiree?

4.

What gas is commonly used to fill floating Birthday balloons?

5.

What do we call a straight line which touches a curve but continues

without crossing it?

6.

The deficiency of which vitamin is associated with the disease Rickets?

7.

Which chemical element is represented by the symbol 'W'?

8.

Who won the 1921 Nobel Physics Prize for his work on the photolectric
cell?

9.

How many years does a quinquennium last?

10.

What biblical measurement was approximately 18 inches?

Answers:
1.

Geology

2.

James Chadwick

3.

Kate Moss

4.

Helium

5.

A tangent

6.

Vitamin D

7.

Tungsten

8.

Albert Einstein

9.

10.

A cubit

Science Quiz Questions I

1.

What energy powers the world's four largest power plants: nuclear, water,
gas or coal?

2.

Persons with which blood group are called universal donors?

3.

What is nitrous oxide commonly called?

4.

Which university town houses the Cavendish Laboratory?

5.

What is measured by a Geiger-Muller counter?

6.

Who in 1660 discovered the law of elasticity?

7.

Which food is to blame for most cases of salmonella?

8.

What do we call a straight line which touches a curve but continues

without crossing it?

9.

What gas is used as a disinfectant in drinking water?

10.

Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869 published and devised the first what?

Answers:
1.

Water

2.

Group O

3.

Laughing Gas

4.

Cambridge

5.

Radioactivity

6.

Robert Hooke

7.

Chicken

8.

A tangent

9.

Chlorine

10.

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