Science Trivia Test Questions and Answers
What "black metal" gave blacksmiths their name?
A :Iron.
What word describes the physical components of a
computer?
A: Hardware.
What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the
sun and
moon?
A: Venus.
What does a bromidrosiphobic shoe salesman
fear?
A: Smelly feet.
What planet needs 248 years to meander its way around the sun?
A: Pluto.
What did 18th-century astronomer Edmund Halley chart 24 of?
A: Comets.
What's a video cameraman doing when he "juices the brick"?
A: Recharging the battery.
What New York City hospital founded the first school for nursing
in the USA, in 1872?
A: Bellevue.
What type of
telephones did AT&T stop making in the mid-1980s?
A: Rotary phones.
What Entertainment Tonight star's voice did the New England
Journal of Medicine claim triggered a woman's epileptic seizures?
A :Mary Hart's.
What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
A :Uranus.
What home appliance did the U.S. produce seven million of in
1953, up from 6,000 in 946?
A: The television.
What are you forbidden to do in a "snuff zone"?
A: Smoke.
What teenage year does an American first develop phobias in, on
average?
A: Thirteen.
Who would send you an e-mail message with the return address
"billg@microsoft.com"?
A: Bill Gates.
What innovation decreases the odds of hitting the
car in front
of you, but increases the odds of being hit by the car behind you?
A: Anti-lock brakes.
What red-blooded body organ are
vitamins A, B, D, E, and K stored
in?
A: The Liver.
What's the positively charged
particle in the nucleus of an atom
called?
A: A proton.
What cartoonist has had three insect species named after him?
A :Gary Larson.
What did William Stanley
invent in 1885 to transfer the current
of one circuit to another?
A : The transformer.
What is a siderodromophobic hobo afraid to hitch a ride on?
A: Trains.
What country was India ink developed in?
A: China.
What three-letter word denotes the residue of combustion or
incineration?
A: Ash.
What fiber-optic instrument allows surgeons to see and repair
damage within joints?
A: An arthroscope.
What photo company brags that with their products, "there really
are no negatives"?
A: Polaroid.
What high-tech mogul appeared on a
1995 cover of Time headlined
"Master of the Universe"?
A: Bill Gates.
What
time period is sandwiched between the Cretaceous and
Triassic?
A: The Jurassic.
What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in
1944 to
protect pilots who bailed out over the
Pacific?
A: Coppertone.
What colorless, odorless substance is the main constituent of
natural gas?
A: Methane.
What was the first place name uttered by a man on the moon?
A: Houston.
What does an AutoCut VCR automatically cut from TV programs?
A: Commercials.
What early scientist, after being forced to declare the Earth was
motionless, muttered: "Nevertheless, it does move"?
A: Galileo.
What typewriter brand was invented by a man whose
father made a
well-known flintlock rifle?
A: Remington.
