Science Trivia

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

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What's the biological name for the part of the body that contains the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, and pancreas?

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Name the three bones of the ear.

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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?

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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) ?

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

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In physics, what unit of measure is defined as the ratio of the mass of a substance to its volume, expressed in grams per cubic centimeter or pounds per cubic foot?

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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?

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

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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?

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This chemical element makes up about 1/4 of the earth's crust; it is the main ingredient of sand, is the main ingredient of glass, is used in the making of computers, and can also be made into synthetic rubber. What is this element?

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NM: This killer first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and Zaire. It reemerged in 1987 in a group of monkeys in a test lab near Washington D.C. What is it?

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What do you call curved lines on a weather map connecting regions of equal atmospheric pressure?

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Common table sugar comes primarily from which two plants?

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Can you name four materials, considered almost as valuable as gems, and frequently used as jewelry, that come from plants and animals?