Trivia Questions About Science with Answers
What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in
1781?
A: Uranus.
What V-word is defined as "the ability of a liquid to resist
flowing".
A: Viscosity.
What unit of measure was originally designed to be one
forty-millionth of the Earth's circumference?
A: The meter.
What's sometimes dubbed Biosphere I?
A: Earth.
What are "human incubation chambers" heated to before Gillette's
odor judges test deodorants by smelling human armpits?
A: 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
What antidepressant is most often referred to by snide shrinks as
"Slo Mo"?
A: Valium.
What gardeners' aid is identified by numbers indicating its
percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium?
A: Fertilizer.
What facial features flank your glabella?
A: The eyebrows.
What organ of the body leads all others with 3,195 distinct
genes?
A: The brain.
What Cool Whip ingredient outweighs all the others?
A: Water.
What does a kit-flying linonophobic
fear?
A: String.
What's the common name for the eye inflammation doctors call
conjunctivits?
A: Pink eye.
What country flew the first supersonic airliner in
1968 but saw
it crash in 1973?
A: The Soviet Union.
What two-word term is defined as "the lowest possible
temperature"?
A: Absolute zero.
What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the
pocket calculator made the scene in the
1970s?
A: The slide rule's.
What boxcar-sized instrument was repaired by the crew of the
shuttle Endeavor in 1993?
A: The Hubble telescope.
What name for a bone
disease translates as "porous bone"?
A: Osteoporosis.
What earthenware ceramic was produced in ancient
China from
feldspar and china clay?
A: Porcelain.
What's the U.S. military acronym for liquid oxygen?
A: LOX.
What's one-tenth of a bel?
A: A decibel.
What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when
first used in combat in 1776?
A: A submarine.
What type of machine do the French call a telecopie?
A: A fax machine.
What unit of measure was once defined as the length of three
grains of barley laid end to end?
A: The inch.
What are the two main constituents of bronze.
A: Copper and tin.
What Greek was the first physician to record case histories of
patients?
A: Hippocrates.
What four planets have a smaller diameter than Earth?
A: Mars,
Mercury, Pluto,
Venus.
What word was coined when a trapped moth caused an early
computer
to crash?
A: Bug.
What technological revolution was credited with the large
increase in paper use in the
1980s and
1990s?
A: The computer revolution.
What name for an automaton came from the Czech word meaning
"forced labor"?
A: Robot.