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What is the largest body of fresh water in the world?
Caspian Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
Lake Superior
How many ounces are in a pound?
14
16
10
12
What is essential to combustion?
All three of these
Oxygen
Fuel
Heat
How do mushrooms multiply?
Split in half
Failing to use protection
Spores
Rhythm method
If you are an entomologist what are you studying?
Rocks
Insects
Atmosphere
Cancer
What do you measure with a barometer?
Water depth
Time
Atmospheric pressure
Number of drinks served
If your potato has starch and is tested with iodine what color will it turn?
Red
Purple
Orange
Blue
At one time all of the continents were connected as one, called Panagea. When was this?
Late Jurassic/early Triassic eras
Late Mesozoic/early Paleozoic eras
Late Jurassic/early Cambrian eras
Late Paleozoic/early Mesozoic eras
Leonardo DaVinci sketched many ideas. Which of these was NOT one of his?
Parachute
Helicopter
Tank
Skateboard
What phenomenon explains the colors of the rainbow?
Infatuation
Refraction
Reflection
Radiation
What is the proper name for tree-ring dating?
Rungology
Arborology
Seasonology
Dendrochronology
What household item did Archimedes reportedly use to establish the density of an item?
Toaster
Microwave
Scale
Bathtub
What kind of radar is often used to predict weather?
Doppler
Dewey
Donner
Doppelganger
What is the proper name for what we call ”laughing gas”?
Davious
Helium
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
The coelacanth was long considered a ”living fossil” but what is it really?
Bird
Insect
Fish
Tree
What is the epidermus?
Your buttocks in Latin.
A spot on your back where you would be given a shot.
The outer layer of human's skin.
A spell Harry Potter would cast.
Which of these women has won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Marie Curie
Agnetta Levinovitz
Mary Lou Retton
Wilhemina Rontgen
Which of these happens to astronauts living on the International Space Station?
They get hungry more often.
They sleep better.
They grow taller.
They lose 20 pounds on average.
In what field of science would you encounter Bell's Theorem?
Calculus
Chemistry
Quantum Mechanics
Kinetics
Which of these is not a phase in cell mitosis?
Anaphase
Cellophase
Prometaphase
Metaphase
A visit to which island prompted Charles Darwin's view of evolution?
Japan
Maui
Galapagos
Manhattan
Which planet has two moons?
Saturn
Mars
Earth
Jupiter
What is the largest of the Earth's seven major tectonic plates?
Pacific
Indian
Antarctic
African
What type of plates make up the Earth's lithosphere?
Basalic
Continentium
Denby
Tectonic
Which element takes the form of a liquid at normal room temperature?
Helium
Mercury
Barium
Oxygen
Which illness is not caused by a virus?
Measles
Chicken Pox
Whooping cough
Polio
What title is Antoine Levoisier often given?
Father of Modern Chemistry
Father of Biology
Father of Physics
Father of Evolutionism
What scientist is credited with first discovering infrared radiation?
Faraday
Volta
Herschel
Curie
What is Louis Pasteur best known for?
Technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination
Discovery of first vaccine for anthrax
Created the first vaccines for rabies
Being addicted to eating mushrooms
What element is in the No. 2 spot on the periodic table?
Helium
Oxygen
Radium
Hydrogen
What keeps a plane in the air?
Answers 1 & 2
Positive Thoughts
Lift & Weight
Thrust & Drag
Who is credited with coming up with the universal law of gravity?
Newton
Einstein
Brahe
Galileo
What country put the first man in space?
USA
USSR
Jamaica
China
Galileo Galilei used a primitive telescope to first spot moons in orbit around which planet?
Venus
Pluto
Uranus
Jupiter
How many feet are in a yard?
4
3
1
2
What kind of energy does an unlit match have?
Kinetic
Thermal
Chemical Potential
Magnetic
What are the earth's oldest fossils?
Velocorapters
Kilobytes
Trilobytes
Bacteria
Which time period came first?
Gelasian
1980s
Proterozoic
Jurassic
Humans and Dinosaurs never existed on Earth at the same time.
"true"
"false"
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