SCIENCE QUIZ 15

Question: Which is the fourth-nearest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mars

Question: In Geometry which term is applied to 2 triangles having both the same shape and size?
Answer: Congruent triangles

Question: What gas poisons you when you commit suicide by breathing car exhaust fumes?
Answer: Carbon Monoxide

Question: What fruit is also known as a Chinese Gooseberry?
Answer: Kiwi fruit

Question: What is the name of the large diamond found in the Queen's Sceptre?
Answer: (Great) Star of Africa or Cullinan 1

Question: Which bone in the human body is most frequently broken?
Answer: Collar bone

Question: In which city did the Queen officially launch The Queen Mary II?
Answer: Southampton

Question: Which country was the first to use rockets in warfare?
Answer: China

Question: What form of hunting is regulated by the I.W.C.?
Answer: Whaling

Question: What did Martin Stone invent in 1888 that millions of suckers use every day?
Answer: Drinking Straw

Question: What sort of creature is a Chester White?
Answer: Pig

Question: In which organ of the body is the Aqueous Humour found?
Answer: The eye

Question: What 2 dances are used in the radio communications alphabet that starts Alpha, Beta, Charlie?
Answer: Tango and Foxtrot

Question: What is the unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?
Answer: Equilibrium

Question: What do you call a group of squirrels?
Answer: A dray

Question: What kind of animal named 'Ham' did the U.S. first send into space?
Answer: Chimpanzee

Question: Where are the pyramids of Malpighi and the pyramids of Ferrein?
Answer: In the kidneys

Question: What percentage of the earths land surface has a temperate climate?
Answer: 7%

Question: What is a high altitude treeless region subject to permafrost known as?
Answer: Tundra

Question: What percentage of whole milk is water?
Answer: 87