Science

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At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

-40

Roughly how long does it take for the sun's light to reach Earth - 8 minutes, 8 hours or 8 days?

8 minutes

What is the only even prime number?

2

What is the fastest land animal in the world?

Cheetah

Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician?

Hippocratic Oath

What was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease?

The smallpox vaccine

Who is credited with the creation of the World Wide Web?

Tim Berners-Lee

Humans and chimpanzees share roughly how much DNA?

98 per cent

What is the rarest blood type in humans?

AB Negative

What is the largest desert on Earth?

Antarctica

Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover?

Apollo 15

What name is given for the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom?

Atomic number

What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

Diamond

Where in the human body can the smallest bone be found?

Ear

Sound travels faster in air than in water: true or false?

False

What is the biggest animal in the world?

The Antarctic blue whale

Which of the world's oceans in the deepest?

The Pacific

What is the perimeter of a circle called?

The circumference

What is the heaviest organ in the human body?

The liver

Lightning hotter than the surface of the sun: true or false?

True

What does USB stand for?

Universal Serial Bus

In which year did the Apollo 13 space mission take place?

1970

What does a Geiger Counter measure?

Radiation

What does DNA stand for?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

What is the biggest planet in our solar system?

Jupiter

In which year was Pluto reclassified as a Dwarf Planet?

2006

In which year were the first collisions achieved in the Large Hadron Collider?

2010

How many bones are in the human body?

206

How many days on Earth does it take for Venus to rotate once on its axis?

243

How many teeth does an adult human have?

32

How many vertebrae does the average human possess?

33

How many states of matter are there?

4 - solid, liquid, gas and plasma

How many brains and how many hearts does an octopus have?

9 brains, 3 hearts

What is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia the scientific term for?

Brain freeze

What is a material that will not carry an electrical charge called?

Insulator

What is the only letter not to appear on the periodic table?

J

What do the letters in the word laser stand for?

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

What are natural satellites colloquially known as?

Moons

What is the only active volcano on mainland Europe called?

Mount Vesuvius

What is the study of mushrooms called?

Mycology

What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?

Nitrogen

Which is the main gas that makes up the Earth's atmosphere?

Nitrogen

What is desquamation the scientific term for?

Peeling skin

What modern-day country was Marie Curie born in?

Poland

What metal is the best conductor of electricity?

Silver

The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?

Sir Isaac Newton

What was the name of the first artificial satellite to enter space?

Sputnik 1

What was the name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?

Sputnik 1

Which famous British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?

Stephen Hawking

How many bones do sharks have?

Zero


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