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| Science and Nature Trivia for June 12, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which of these is an alloy? When did the European Space Agency launch its first successful rocket, Ariane I? After discovering a new planet, Herschel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of King George III. The scientific community did not like the name, and decided to call it what? What mineral takes its name from the Greek word for "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable"? Which of these speeds up chemical reactions? The phrase "Stokes drift" might be used in a discussion about what subject? Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for June 5, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! A clown fish creates a home for itself inside what? Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from? Which of these is a species of antelope? What is another name for bilharzia? Which of these is an alternative medicine that means, in Japanese, "mysterious atmosphere"? Someone who is frightened of blood is suffering from what? What is the average of 1, 2, 2, 5, 9 and 17? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for May 29, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! If A = 1, B = 2 and so on, what number would represent BEECH? What type of creature is a katydid? The letters "G I", when applied to dietary matters, stand for what? The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city? Which of these is recognised as an astronomer? Starting on Christmas Day, which is the last of these astrological signs to be reached? The "venae cavae" are found in what part of the body? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for May 22, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which planet comes closest to the earth in its orbit around the sun? What is a koi? What compound in the human body acts as a neurotransmitter and helps to regulate temperature? The white fumes that form when hydrogen chloride dissolves in water consist of what? What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium? Which planet is closest to Neptune in size and composition? What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for May 15, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! What is a goby? What are SMS messages sent by? What are alternative names for "typhus"? What is the name for a hare's nest? Which of these is the oldest known complex scientific calculator, sometimes called the first analog computer? What is the common name for Anagallis known for the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions? Oil from oil wells was first used for what? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for May 8, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! What is the Mars rover, Curiosity, investigating in its first ever drilling operation in 2013? Which South American water rat is the world's largest rodent, growing to over 4 feet long? Besides their meat, whales have been hunted from the 1600s for three main items. Which of these is not one of them? What is another name for egg white? What is the process of decreasing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field, a term first used by Commander Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter German mines? Which of these is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity? A function whose logarithm is a quadratic equation is represented graphically as what? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for May 1, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which part of the body would be treated if a patient was suffering from myopia? Darwin, Cottage, May and Parrot are varieties of what? What is the transparent front part of the eye which, while contributing most of the eye's focusing power, has a fixed focus? What does an icthyologist study? What name is given to the neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person holds a belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs? What pigment found in plant leaves uses energy from sunlight to provide food? The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Günther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for April 24, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Who was killed on 4 January 1967 when his jet propelled boat, Bluebird K7, somersaulted and disintegrated on Coniston Water? In which decade was the hovercraft invented? The sum of the internal angles of a polygon are how many degrees more than that of a triangle? Which of these is the word for groups of sheep? The Mohs scale measures what? What ore is the chief source of aluminium? What is referred to as earth's sister planet due to its similar size and mass? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for April 17, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which of these is a graph of a function showing smooth repetitive oscillation? What is the staple diet of the panda? A logarithmic spiral, frequently seen in natural phenomena and called spira mirabilis by Jacob Bernoulli in the 17th century, is characterised by what? The Tarantula is named after a town in which country? A species of elk is named after which of these US presidents? What substance in the human body causes blood vessels to dilate when released as part of an allergic reaction? What gas is the main component of the atmosphere of the planet Mars? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for April 10, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! The humerus bone connects what other bones? What makes soft drinks fizzy? What does the chemical symbol Au stand for? The tough fibrous membrane called the dura covers what? What name is given to a set of noncommunicable diseases brought on by consumption of junk food, to which Native Americans and the indigenous people of Oceania are particularly susceptible, characterised by obesity, heart disease, diabetes and a shortened life span? How many planets orbit the sun between it and earth? Where is Husband Hill? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for April 3, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which of these is type of pheasant? Which of these is an alternative medicine based on examining the condition of the eyes? Which of these is an example of an "anthropoid"? Found in the human body, what are the "venae cavae"? Fingerprints come in three basic patterns. Which of these is not one of them? What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt? What number, on the Ph scale, represents "neutral"? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for March 27, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action? How heavy is a megagram? Iron is the main component of which of these? What is a "briard"? Why was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, so named? The young female animal called a filly is what type of animal? What type of rock is formed by the solidification of molten magma? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for March 20, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! In 1846, using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe which planet? Castoreum, which comes from a beaver, is used as an ingredient in what? What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA? What is a lemniscate? Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Janský and William Moss worked on the classification of what? What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others? What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for March 13, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Mastitis affects what part of the body? What is traditionally added to sulphur and saltpetre to make gunpowder? Which of these is part of a television set? What is another name for oedema? A group of what is usually called a "parliament"? Where do arboreal animals live? In 1961 Alan Shephard made the first manned flight into space aboard what vehicle? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for March 6, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Something formed to resemble glass is known as what? What is the base for the common logarithm? Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the moon? Which of these numbers is not a square? The New Stone Age was in what period? What was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth? Which of these is not a rodent? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for February 27, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which of these ailments affects the throat? What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta? Which of these is a type of bat? Which of these is a migratory bird? What is the only geometric shape that has infinite lines of symmetry? Which of these is an organ that, in humans, are in pairs behind the abdominal cavity, in the retroperitoneum, on top of each of which is an adrenal gland (also called the suprarenal gland)? What is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, which are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for February 20, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Taking 0 BC as a point in time, what is the last day of the first decade of the second millenium? Which of these is a nickname for the kookaburra? Which of these is most commonly found in apples? What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper? Silkworms feed mainly on the leaves of what tree? In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what? What species of spiny lobster is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world, growing to lengths of up to 60 centimetres (24 in)? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for February 13, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Which of these is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, which uses reference books known as "repertories"? What word is used to mean the dead skin at the base of a fingernail? What is the name of the vertical groove above the upper lip that connects the top lip to the bottom of the nose? Which of these is a type of sheep? What sort of creature is a coypu? What is the engineering term for a shallow masonry construction used to carry the supports of a timber superstructure? Serotonin is a hormone that mainly affects what in the human body? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for February 6, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Graphic representation of a formula containing two variables one of which is the reciprocal of the other, is a what? Who would use an inkblot or Rorschach Test? The mandrill is the word's largest what? What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA? What type of computer uses three possible values in its calculations: the digits -1, 0, and +1? Quicksilver is the alternative name for what? What is the engineering term for the slope of a structure, slightly out of the vertical? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for January 30, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! What branch of anthropology compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity? On the Cartesian Plane where is the unit usually represented as i or j? What name is given to a person or animal with a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair? What is a Thompson seedless? What device measures its the proper acceleration relative to freefall, and is increasingly used in portable electronic devices and video game controllers to detect the orientation of the device or provide game input? Improved well being and fitness is sought at what kind of establishment? What does the parotid gland produce? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for January 23, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! In the acronym NTSC, used in the television industry, what does the "N" stand for? What fluid results from lachrymation? What is the lightest noble gas? What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide? What is an inflamed swelling on the skin? How many faces are there on a cube? Which of these is a qualitative research method often used in the social sciences to write about human societies/cultures through observation, interviews, questionnaires, etc. and to describe the nature and cultural systems of the group being studied? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for January 16, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Bigfoot, a supposedly large, hairy, bipedal humanoid which lives in forests in the Northwest of North America, is also known as what? What is the common name of the chemical NH3, which is found in cleaning products? Which of these is a learned society based in the UK, founded in 1807 partly from a previous club known as the Askesian Society, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1825 from George IV ? How many ounces are there in 8 lbs? What is the name of the condition where the sufferer can fall asleep at any time? Which of these animals has the most northerly natural habitat? How many decades are there in a millenium? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for January 9, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! The discovery of what Earth-like planet with the greatest potential for harbouring life found so far, was announced in late September 2010? What is the name of a family of satellites launched since 1995 and operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator (orbital position) with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East? In July 2009, why did Russian physicists begin trying to synthesize Ununseptium? Which of these is commonly removed by a dentist? Which of these is a name for a fear of flying? What is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep? Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from lumbago? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for January 2, 2013 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! The symptoms for which poisoning include seizures, a "sawhorse" stance, rigid extension of all four limbs and respiratory paralysis? Which of these is a herb? When did people last walk on the moon? What is the medical description of the loss of hair from the head or body, sometimes to the extent of baldness? What chemical element with atomic number 55 is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 °C (83 °F), and one of only five metals that are liquid at or near room temperature? Which of these is not an "angora"? Which planet is named after the Greek god of the sky? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for December 26, 2012 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! What name is given to 7 mathematics problems stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000, for which a US$1,000,000 prize will be awarded for a correct solution to any of them? The series of numbers that is obtained by adding the previous two together is named after whom? An aster is a type of what? Mescaline comes from what plant? What was the Giotto spacecraft sent to investigate in 1985? Where is the Sea of Smyth? What is the name for the five long bones in the foot that are numbered from the big toe (the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth) and are analogous to the metacarpal bones of the hand? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
| Science and Nature Trivia for December 19, 2012 | Test yourself with today's science quiz questions. Visit the quiz page once you're ready to take the challenge. Good luck! Neophobia is the fear of what? Which island is the home to a breed of tailless cat? Which of these is an ape that occurs in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java, and differs from great apes in being smaller and pair-bonded, in not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which it more closely resembles a monkey than great apes do? Ranidaphobia is the irrational fear of what? Which of these animals attacks its food with a "death roll"? Where are the Huygens Gap and the Maxwell Gap? Tianhe-1A, the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China which in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, uses what operating system? Ready for the challenge? Visit the quiz page to take the test and find our your score! |
