SCIENCE QUIZ 31

Question: What creature is said to the have the most legs?
Answer: Millipede

Question: What kind of nut grows on an oak tree?
Answer: An Acorn

Question: Which branch of Medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: Which maritime measure of speed is equal to one nautical mile per hour?
Answer: Knot

Question: What is the medical term for German Measles?
Answer: Rubella

Question: What are the young of Whales called?
Answer: Calves

Question: How many old pennies are there in a guinea?
Answer: 252

Question: Who said, *If I have seen further than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants*?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: What are the three primary colours of light? (For pigments it’s Yellow not Green).
Answer: Red, Blue and Green. If light of these primary colours is added together in roughly equal intensities, the sensation of white light is produced.

Question: What is acclaimed to be the most ferocious fresh water fish?
Answer: Piranha

Question: There are 3 types of adult honeybee, Queen and worker are two. What's the other?
Answer: Drone

Question: What is a Marmoset?
Answer: A type of monkey

Question: What is the name given to the imaginary line of 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: International Date Line

Question: What is the name for a stationary electrical charge, which builds up on an insulated object?
Answer: Static

Question: In the animal kingdom, which large rodent is also known as the ‘Quill Pig’?
Answer: Porcupine

Question: What is the smallest living unit called?
Answer: A Cell

Question: In nature, the earth is composed of 3 main parts, the Crust, the mantle and what?
Answer: The Core

Question: What is the next number in the sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,)?
Answer: 13 (Sum of previous 2 numbers)

Question: What is special about the feet of a 'Palmiped'?
Answer: Webbed

Question: A molecule of water contains how many atoms of Oxygen?
Answer: 1