SCIENCE QUIZ 13

Question: What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol?
Answer: Antifreeze.

Question: What continent have the oldest fossils been found on?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is the only member of the cat family that does not have retractable claws?
Answer: Cheetah

Question: What is the second lightest chemical element?
Answer: Helium

Question: How many teeth are usually found in a set of temporary or 'baby' human teeth?
Answer: 20

Question: Out of all the animals that make up the Chinese horoscope, which comes first alphabetically?
Answer: Dog

Question: Hermit, spider and blue are all types of which creature?
Answer: Crab

Question: The binary system of numbers uses which two numerical digits?
Answer: 0 and 1

Question: What are the main four blood groups?
Answer: A, B, AB and O

Question: What family are elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses all members of?
Answer: Pachyderm

Question: Which synthetic material was named by combining the French words for velvet and hook?
Answer: Velcro

Question: In Jules Verne's "from Earth to the Moon" 3 men are blasted to the moon by cannon. Their speed of departure has proven to be the earth's escape velocity. What is it?
Answer: 7 miles per second.

Question: What does “C” represent in the equation E = MC squared?
Answer: The speed of light

Question: How many astronauts walked on the moon during each Apollo moon-landing?
Answer: 2

Question: A treatment of rubber which strengthens it and gives it greater elasticity is named after the roman god of fire. What is this process called?
Answer: Vulcanisation

Question: What is a female peacock called?
Answer: Peahen

Question: Which animals name literally means 'earth pig'?
Answer: Aardvark

Question: What is a cross between a Female Horse and a Male Ass called?
Answer: A mule.

Question: From which plant do we obtain Linseed Oil?
Answer: Flax

Question: Why is the Funny bone so called?
Answer: Because it's the Humerous