Scribd
Upload
10 views

Science Quiz Questions

The document contains a list of 60 science quiz questions along with their corresponding answers. Topics covered include biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and environmental science. It serves as a resource for testing knowledge in various scientific fields.

Uploaded by

borasesharyu
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
10 views

Science Quiz Questions

The document contains a list of 60 science quiz questions along with their corresponding answers. Topics covered include biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and environmental science. It serves as a resource for testing knowledge in various scientific fields.

Uploaded by

borasesharyu
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

Science Quiz Questions

1. What does DNA stand for?

2. How many bones are in the human body?

3. The concept of gravity was discovered by which famous physicist?

4. What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

5. Which is the main gas that makes up the Earth's atmosphere?

6. Humans and chimpanzees share roughly how much DNA?

7. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?

8. Roughly how long does it take for the sun's light to reach Earth - 8 minutes, 8 hours or 8 days?

9. Which famous British physicist wrote A Brief History of Time?

10. At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

11. What modern-day country was Marie Curie born in?

12. What is the biggest planet in our solar system?

13. What name is given for the number of protons found in the nucleus of an atom?

14. How many vertebrae does the average human possess?

15. What was the name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?

16. Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician?

17. What is a material that will not carry an electrical charge called?

18. Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover?

19. How many teeth does an adult human have?

20. What is the study of mushrooms called?

21. How many brains and how many hearts does an octopus have?

22. What is the only letter not to appear on the periodic table?

23. What is the fastest land animal in the world?

24. What is the only even prime number?


25. What do the letters in the word laser stand for?

26. What is the perimeter of a circle called?

27. Sound travels faster in air than in water: true or false?

28. Which of the world's oceans in the deepest?

29. What was the name of the first artificial satellite to enter space?

30. Who is credited with the creation of the World Wide Web?

31. Lightning hotter than the surface of the sun: true or false?

32. Where in the human body can the smallest bone be found?

33. How many bones do sharks have?

34. What is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia the scientific term for?

35. What does USB stand for?

36. What is the largest desert on Earth?

37. In which year were the first collisions achieved in the Large Hadron Collider?

38. What is the heaviest organ in the human body?

39. What is the rarest blood type in humans?

40. In which year was Pluto reclassified as a Dwarf Planet?

41. What is the biggest animal in the world?

42. What is the only active volcano on mainland Europe called?

43. What is desquamation the scientific term for?

44. How many days on Earth does it take for Venus to rotate once on its axis?

45. How many states of matter are there?

46. What does a Geiger Counter measure?

47. What are natural satellites colloquially known as?

48. In which year did the Apollo 13 space mission take place?

49. What metal is the best conductor of electricity?


50. What was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease?

Answers

1. Deoxyribonucleic acid

2. 206

3. Sir Isaac Newton

4. Diamond

5. Nitrogen

6. 98 per cent

7. Nitrogen

8. 8 minutes

9. Stephen Hawking

10. -40

11. Poland

12. Jupiter

13. Atomic number

14. 33

15. Sputnik 1

16. Hippocratic Oath

17. Insulator

18. Apollo 15

19. 32

20. Mycology

21. 9 brains, 3 hearts

22. J
23. Cheetah

24. 2

25. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

26. The circumference

27. False

28. The Pacific

29. Sputnik 1

30. Tim Berners-Lee

31. True

32. The ear

33. Zero

34. Brain freeze

35. Universal Serial Bus

36. Antarctica

37. 2010

38. The liver

39. AB Negative

40. 2006

41. The Antarctic blue whale

42. Mount Vesuvius

43. Peeling skin

44. 243

45. 4 - solid, liquid, gas and plasma

46. Radiation

47. Moons
48. 1970

49. Silver

50. The smallpox vaccine

51. What is the name of the component of blood that fights infection?
52. In which Indian state is Chauri Chaura village located?
53. What do you mean by "Proxima d"?
54. The Crimson Rose belongs to which species?
55. Where is the headquarter of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) located?
56. When was the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) established?
57. Which of the following wildlife sanctuary is located in Andhra Pradesh?
58. In which of the following states of India is Bellandur Lake situated?
59. In which of the following years was the Environment Protection Act enacted?
60. What is Light?

ANSWERS

51. WBC
52. UTTAR PRADESH
53. A NEW EXOPLANET
54. BUTTERFLY
55. NAIROBI, KENYA
56. 1972
57. MAHAO WILDLIFE SANTUCUARY
58. BENGALURU
59. 1986
60. TRANVERSE WAVE

You might also like