Science Trivia

27

What element does the symbol Fe represent?

14

What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

29

What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere during photosynthesis?

29

What is the chemical symbol for gold?

10

3 kinds of acids: a. Aspirin is known as what kind of acid? b. Vitamin C is known as what kind of acid? c. LSD is known as what kind of acid?

9

Does light travel more quickly through water or through air?

12

What do we call an organism that lives on a host which it usually injures?

5

The length of one earth day is approximately 24 hours (actually 23'56). Which planet in our solar system has the longest day, equivalent to about 244 earth days?

2

What common item contains a hammer, an anvil, and a stirrup?

12

Of the chemical elements between #95 and 100, three are named for humans. Name the three.

18

In the Atlantic or East Pacific Oceans they are called hurricanes. What are they called in a. The western Pacific Ocean? b. The Indian Ocean?

4

What company in the 1970's developed the high-tech concept of a mouse clicking graphical icons to open programs, but dropped the idea, allowing Apple to adopt it as the basis of the Macintosh?

15

What is the name of the organic molecule that carries oxygen in the blood, and gives blood its red color?

8

If you drop an object from the top of a tower, how many feet will it fall in the first second?

11

German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit, in the early 18th century, called 32 degrees the freezing point of water. And 0 degrees on his scale represented the freezing point of what mixture?