Science Trivia

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In 1943, French underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau helped create an invention designed for underwater breathing, and 60's British rock group Jethro Tull named an album after it. What is it?

2

The fastest growing plant can increase up to 35 inches (or 90 cm) in one day. What is it?

2

The name of what disease means, in Italian, bad air?

17

What is the maximum jail time an offender can get for a misdemeanor, if any?

13

What are two common references to students named after parts of our head:

10

Which inventor in 1793 developed a cotton gin that could do the work of 50 people?

7

In computer terminology, a "bit" is a single unit of digital data consisting of how many different possible values?

3

By what simpler name is deoxyribonucleic acid known?

4

What is the common name for the temperature 273 degrees below zero, centigrade (460 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit)?

12

Why do children in southern Marin County have fewer cavities than children in northern Marin County?

2

Emoticons, or smileys, are a series of typed characters frequently used in e-mails that resemble a face and express the writer's emotion. What does the following represent :-) (colon-dash-right parenthesis) ?

17

Which two chemical elements are most commonly used as disinfectant or antiseptic?

1

Of all the organs in the human body, which is the only one that can be completely removed without a loss of life? if organ divided into two parts, both must be removed

12

As you travel around the earth, each one-hour change in time zone occurs, on the average, after how many degrees of longitude?

12

What do we call those cells in the retina that respond to low levels of light and allow seeing in the dark?