SCIENCE TRIVIAS

What is the fastest bird which can fly at speed of 168-217 miles per hour?
-Peregrine Falcon
How many stomachs does a cow have?
-Four (4)
In its basic form, this substance is a kind of soap, but when mixed with gasoline, it forms a
deadly material used in flame throwers and incendiary bombs. What is it?
-Napalm
What is the hardest substance in the human body?
-Tooth enamel
Which chemical causes the burning taste sensation when eating chilies?
- Capcaicin
What is the strongest known magnet in the Universe?
- A Neutron Star
What is the collective name of animals and plants that live on a lake bottom?
- Benthos
What substance that causes fever?
- Pyrogen
Which is the hottest planet in the solar system?

- Venus, surface temperature 460oC

What is the name given to planets outside our solar system?

- Extrasolar planets

What formation on Earth can have the names tabular, blocky, wedge, dome, pinnacle, dry
dock, growler or bergy bit?

- Icebergs

What is the hollow woody tissue in plants that carries water and minerals from the roots
to throughout the entire plant?

- Xylem

What is A long tube of glass usually marked in 0.1mL units that's equipped with a stopcock
for the controlled addition of a liquid to a receiving flask?
-Buret

Which is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?

-Mercury

What is 'fool’s gold'?

- Iron pyrite crystals

Which crystalline formations are on cave ceilings; stalagmites or stalactites?

- Stalactites

What is opposite to matter?

- Antimatter

How many separate patents did Thomas Edison file?

- 1093

What is the largest living structure on Earth?

- The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

What is the scientific name of a Sydney Blue Gum?

- Eucalyptus saligna

Which is the only Australian mammal restricted to alpine environments?

- The Mountain Pygmy Possum

What Australian timber made the London docks?

- Turpentine

What is the longest type of cell in the body?

-Neuron

In terms of attributed human deaths which are more dangerous; snakes, bees, sharks or house
flies?

-House flies

What's the lifespan of a human red blood cell?

- Around 120 days.

Who has more hair follicles, blondes or brunettes?

-blonde

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The most recognized model of how the universe begun is known as the?
-Big Bang
What is the name of the world’s largest reef system?
- Great Barrier Reef
Ayers Rock in Australia is also know as what?
- Uluru
What is the name of the first satellite sent into space?
- Sputnik
Ganymede is a moon of which planet?
- Jupiter
What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?
-Titan
Atoms of the same chemical element that have different atomic mass are known as?

-Isotopes

What is the name given to substances that are initially involved in a chemical reaction?

- Reactants

Which famous scientist introduced the idea of natural selection?

-Charles Darwin

The area of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as?

- Mycology

'Cascade', 'horsetail', 'plunge' and 'tiered' are types of what?

-Waterfall

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