SCIENCE QUIZ 16

Question: What did Hyman Lipman do in 1958 that made life easier for students?
Answer: Put a rubber on the end of a pencil.

Question: How hot is the (tungsten) filament in a normal (incandescent) electric light bulb?
Answer: 3000 centigrade or 5400 Fahrenheit. Tungsten melts at about 3410° C (6170° F) and boils at about 5660° C (10,220° F)

Question: What day is the middle day of the year in non leap years?
Answer: July 2

Question: In degrees centigrade, what is the normal body temperature of humans?
Answer: 37. (98.6 Fahrenheit)

Question: What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978?
Answer: She was the first test-tube baby

Question: If you divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
Answer: 70 - 30 divided by 1/2 is the same as 30 x 2, or 60, plus 10, making 70.

Question: What is the worlds tallest growing Grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: What is the computer term Bit short for?
Answer: Binary Digit

Question: What was the 1st Plastic ever made?
Answer: Bakerlite

Question: Long haul air travellers are in danger of developing which condition commonly known as DVT?
Answer: Deep vein thrombosis

Question: How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?
Answer: 23

Question: What colour Traffic Light follows amber?
Answer: Red

Question: What sort of creature is a Falabella?
Answer: Horse

Question: What is the oldest living plant species?
Answer: Fern

Question: In which Country is the World's largest Pyramid?
Answer: Peru.The largest pyramid is the Huaca del Sol, built by the Moche, in the Moche Valley, Northern Peru.

Question: What name is given to an elephant's incisor tooth?
Answer: Tusk

Question: Which Cosmonaut was called the 'Columbus of the Cosmos'?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: In computer terminology how many bytes in a kilobyte?
Answer: 1024