Science Trivia Questions and Answers
What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic
bomb?
A: Nagasaki.
What high-level computer language was named after a
French
mathematician and philosopher?
A: PASCAL.
What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John
Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom?
A: Gus Grissom.
What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when
first used in combat in 1176?
A: A submarine.
What creature proved to be much faster than a
horse in a
1927
race
in Sydney, Australia?
A: The Kangaroo.
What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and
pitchblende?
A: Uranium.
What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make
yellow
paint?
A: The gallbladder.
What optical aids was nearsighted model Grace Robin the first to
show off in 1930?
A: Contact lenses.
What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red
blood cells in, in
1993?
A: A tyrannosaurus rex's.
What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic
ointment for cuts and burns?
A: Honey.
What computer was introduced in 1984
Super Bowl ads?
A: The Macintosh.
What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the
favorite of most women?
A: Eyes.
What planet is named after the
Greek god who personified the sky?
A: Uranus.
What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack
foods,
despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
A: Olestra.
What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by
nuclear power wags?
A: Chernobyl's.
What is a single unit of quanta called?
A: A quantum.
What will fall off of the
Great Sphinx in 200 years due to
pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
A: It's head.
What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in
1944 to
protect pilots who bailed out over the
Pacific?
A: Coppertone.
What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and
use as a pain reliever?
A: Morphine.
What substance nets recyclers the most money?
A: Aluminum.
What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
A: Shoes.
What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to
toboggan on its belly on land?
A: The penguin.
What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
A: Athlete's foot.
What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home
in?
A: Pork.
How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die
in two days?
A: Nine.
What computer company was named after a founder's memories of
spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
A: Apple.
What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the
windpipe?
A: The Thyroid.
What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation"?
A: Laser.
What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the
sun and
moon?
A: Venus.
What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the
world
in 1520?
A: The rifle.
What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal
invent to help his dad do taxes in 1642?
A: An adding machine.
What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.
What Benjamin Holt
invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
A: The tractor.
What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?
A: Wind.
What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
sorry they came into contact with?
A: Poison Ivy.
What drupaceous fruit were
Hawaiian women once forbidden by
law to
eat?
A: The coconut.
