Science Trivia

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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?

4

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

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?

8

The pointed teeth near the front of the mouth have what animal name?

6

The programming language used to prepare documents for the World Wide Web is called HTML, which is the abbreviation for what phrase?

3

For the human animal, who has more influence in determining the sex of a child? The mother, the father, or both equally?

12

What kind of thin, wispy, feathery looking clouds, located four to twelve miles up, are usually the first sign that a weather front is approaching?

1

What name is given to the darkest part of a shadow cast by the earth or moon during an eclipse?

1

Customarily, the primary colors of the visible spectrum were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. However, around 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton found another, situated between blue and violet, and named it what?

2

Name the three bones of the ear.

7

About three-fourths of the mass of the sun consists of which element?

2

BONUS 3: The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word vaccinus which refers to what?