Science Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What term for "bipolar disorder" has fallen out of general use?
A: Manic depression.
What planet has a storm system called the Great Red Spot?
A: Jupiter.
What will not be back to entice astronomers until 2061?
A: Halley's Comet.
Where did Bill Clinton urge U.S. scientists to look for more
signs of life, in 1996?
A: Mars.
What office image transmitter did Bell Labs demonstrate as early
as 1924?
A: A fax machine.
What direction did cartographers usually place at the top of maps
when they believed the Earth was flat?
A: East.
What U.S. agency is considered by e-mail users to deliver "snail
mail"?
A: The U.S. Postal Service.
What N-word describes a cloud of dust and gas in space.
A: Nebula.
What car model was developed in
1938 by Dr. Ferdinand
Porsche?
A: The Volkswagen Beetle.
What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear
power wags?
A: Chernobyl's.
What Internet search utility was named for the mascot of the
University of Minnesota, where it was developed?
A: Gopher.
What type of power is defined as the generation of
electricity
from water?
A: Hydroelectric power.
What type of pills are known in the pharmacy biz as "pillows:?
A: Sleeping pills.
What organ was operated on in the first microsurgical procedure,
in 1921?
A: The ear.
What transparent material is produced by heating lime, sand and
soda?
A: Glass.
What does the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom
determine?
A: Its Atomic number.
What unit of
time, when measured by an atomic
clock, equals
9,192,631,770 energy changes of a cesium atom?
A: One second.
What heat-resistant element replaced
cotton as the filament of
choice in electric light bulbs in 1910?
A: Tungsten.
What now-extinct bird's gizzard, when stewed in milk, was once
thought to cure gallstones?
A: The passenger pigeon's.
What unit of power did James Watt coin to help market his steam
engines?
A: Horsepower.
What comes in Bibb, oak leaf and escarole varieties?
A: Lettuce.
What treatment for cavities was first recommended by a
10th-century physician name Rhazes?
A: Fillings.
What did the EPA once refer to as "poorly buffered
precipitation"?
A: Acid Rain.
What car parts require alignment in toe, camber and caster?
A: Wheels.
What car of the 1940s featured a central "Cyclops-eye" headlight
that turned with the wheels"?
A: The Tucker.
What could Harrison's chronometer accurately measure during
18th-century voyages?
A: Longitude.
What's short for "binary digit"?
A: Bit.
Who licensed the MS-DOS operating system to IBM in 1980?
A: Bill Gates.
How many 1990s cigarettes must you smoke to get the toxic effect
of one 1950s cigarette.?
A: Three.