SCIENCE QUIZ 32

Question: What is the name given to a succession of involuntary spasms of the diaphragm causing a characeristic sound?
Answer: Hiccup

Question: Which device measures the density of liquids?
Answer: Hydrometer

Question: What word describes an objects ability to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed?
Answer: Elasticity or Elastic constant

Question: How many teeth should a normal healthy adult have?
Answer: 32

Question: What word is used to describe an angle between 90 and 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

Question: How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 20?
Answer: Four (11, 13, 17 and 19)

Question: How many notes are there in a musical scale?
Answer: 8

Question: Seismograph
Answer: Seismograph

Question: What is the name given to a triangle where all the sides are of different length?
Answer: Scalene

Question: How is 120% expressed as a Fraction in lowest common denominator?
Answer: 6/5

Question: Where is the only place that the American flag flies 24 hours a day - never raised, never lowered, and never saluted?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Before the terrorist attack how many stories high were the World Trade Centre’s twin towers?
Answer: 110

Question: What speed were the 1st records played at
Answer: 78 rpm

Question: Who's 3rd law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?
Answer: Newton’s law of motion

Question: What is the name of the flap of cartilage which prevents food from entering your windpipe?
Answer: Epiglottis

Question: What was Apollo 11's landing module called?
Answer: Eagle

Question: In which galaxy is the Earth?
Answer: The Milky Way

Question: What would you suffer from if you had dichromatic vision?
Answer: Colour Blindness

Question: What is manufactured by (red) bone marrow? Yellow marrow is just fat.
Answer: Blood Cells - red, white and platelets (clotting agents

Question: What is or was Breitling Orbiter 3?
Answer: The name of the balloon which circumnavigated the Earth in 1999