General Science Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What oil was first used as a laxative by
Egyptians in 1600 B.C.?
A: Castor oil.
Who was amazed to see the moons of
Jupiter through a
telescope on
January 7, 1610?
A: Galileo.
What geographic term describes a hill with sharply sloping sides
and a flat top?
A: Butte.
What serious underwater ailment was named after a Victorian
notion of chic posture?
A: The bends.
What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off--John
Glenn, Alan Shepard, or Gus Grissom?
A :Gus Grissom.
What U.S. coin weighs five grams?
A: A nickel.
Who spent more
time in space than any woman or any U.S.
astronaut, after NASA delayed her ride home by six weeks in
1996?
A: Shannon Lucid.
How many Russian cosmonauts have walked on the
moon?
A: Zero.
What staple of Sigmund's profession lies in state at the Freud
Museum in London?
A: His couch.
What wattage of incandescent light bulb typically produces 1,700
lumens?
A: 100 watts.
What 20th-century decade saw the introduction of the felt-tip
pen?
A: The 1960s.
What needle-stickers use the word "Qi" to describe the energy
that flows through the body's pathways?
A: Acupuncturists.
What continent has yielded the largest trove of meteorites?
A: Antarctica.
What letter did NASA decide to preface "Okay" with, due to radio
static problems?
A: A.
What L-word is the proprietary name of the tranquilizer
chlordiazepoxide?
A: Librium.
What are "newbies," who tend to attract scorn from Internet
flamers?
A: Newcomers.
What's the smallest
time interval -- a microsecond, a nanosecond
or a picosecond?
A: A picosecond.
What sterilization process can kill 99.9 percent of salmonella
organisms in poultry?
A: Irradiation.
Which Smithsonian museum attracted a record 118,437 people on
April 14,1984?
A: The National Air and Space Museum.
Who saw the dies used to stamp out bodies of his stainless-steel
cars end up as anchors for salmon traps?
A: John DeLorean.
What's the largest and densest of the four rocky planets?
A: Earth.
What branch of biology deals with the nature of aging?
A: Gerontology.
What tropical
disease were mental patients intentionally
infected with in the early 1900s as a treatment for insanity?
A: Malaria.
What's a detective studying if he's staring at arches loops,
whorls, islands and dots?
A: Fingerprints.
What unit of measurement has a fluid volume of three teaspoons?
A: A tablespoon.
What creature's
heart kept Baby Fae alive for 21 of her 33 days
in 1984?
A: A baboon's.
What country was home of 153 of the first 400 Nobel Prize-winning scientists?
What chemical compound comes from the
Greek word for "primary"?
A: Protein.
What number, a one followed by 100 zeroes, was first used by
nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in
1940?
A: Googol.
What's the most common computer acronym for a "Picture element"?
A: Pixel.
What's the most common cause of cirrhosis?
A: Alcohol abuse.
