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1
What is the only letter in the alphabet that does NOT appear on the Periodic Table?
Z
K
J
Q
2
Babies have more bones than adult humans
true
false
3
What did Alfred Nobel invent...you know, the guy they name the annual "Peace" Prize after?
the printing press
the steam locomotive
plastic
dynamite
4
The coldest state of matter, the Bose-Einstein Condensate, defies gravity. That's why it
is in suspended animation
flows up
sinks down
oozes like snot
5
It takes a little over ____________ for light to travel from the sun to Earth's surface
1 minute
1 hour
8 minutes
10 seconds
6
What is the only food that does not spoil (unlike the image shown below)?
rice
honey
beef jerky
spam
7
Atoms mostly consist of
protons
electrons
empty space
neutrons
8
This gemstone is named after the Greek word "adamas", meaning
invincible
greenstone
diamond
emerald
ruby
9
This metal element is naturally anti-bacterial
platinum
copper
gold
silver
10
Which animal (male only) has a venomous spur on its hind foot capable of dispensing poison?
beaver
rooster
echidna
platypus
11
What was the name of Mr. Smith's science teacher when he was in 8th grade?
Mr. Beavis
Mr. Enerson
Mr. Newton
Mr. Trick
12
The average human will shed 40 pounds of _________ during his or her lifetime
skin
tears
sweat
hair
13
Dragonflies can travel up to _________ mph!
50
20
30
10
14
This animal marks its territory in the most disgusting manner
hippopotamus
hippapotomus
hippopotomus
hippopatamus
15
Men are more likely to be colorblind than women.
False
True
16
The
Mpemba
effect is the observation that, under specific circumstances,
people are distracted by shiny objects
hot water freezes faster than cold water
girls mature at an earlier age than boys
middle school teachers die at an early age
17
Most of Earth's oxygen is from the oceans
true, produced by algae
false, most comes from rain forests
18
On a hot summer day, the Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller because heat expands metal
true
false
19
The deepest part of any ocean is 35,797 feet. It's located in the Pacific Ocean and called
the bottom
the Cousteau Chasm
the Mariana Trench
Aaron's Abyss
20
A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs the same as __________ elephants
1
40
10
80
21
The average human carries 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells
false
true
22
Which of the following will attract mosquitoes to you?
wearing dark clothing
being Blood Type O
All of these
being pregnant
23
Which color of light has the most energy, based on its frequency?
Green
Yellow
Red
Violet
24
Girls have more ___________ than boys.
taste buds
neurons
eyelashes
issues
25
Grown by the PuckerButt Pepper company, one of the hottest peppers in the world is the
Quetzalcoatl Insanity Pepper
Habanero
Carolina Reaper
The Moruga Scorpion
26
Astronauts cannot _________ in space because there is no gravity to separate gas from liquid
fart
hawk a loogy
belch
eat
27
There is about 13 billionths of a gram of ________ in each liter of ocean water.
gold
brass
silver
copper
28
This continent gets the LESS precipitation per year than any other on Earth
Asia
Africa
South America
Antarctica
29
One inch of rain is equal to about _________ inches of snow.
1
10
100
5
30
What is the most expensive element in the world?
Californium
Americium
Platinum
Francium
31
How many bones does an adult skeleton have?
309
187
206
272
32
Which invertebrate animal can sleep for three straight years?
urchin
snail
worm
bear
33
Which animal's eyeball can get up to 15 inches in diameter?
giant squid
blue tuna
blue whale
whale shark
34
A team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins Univ have concluded that the color of our universe is
cosmic latte
indigo blue
greenish white
jet black
35
Which male animal can carry developing baby?
sea horse
sea star
All of these
sea urchin
36
Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of ocean
clams
algae
plankton
urchins
37
Prosopagnosia is a disorder in which people struggle to recognize
stupidity
danger
faces
humor
38
According the University of Sydney, most belly button lint is from fibers off your
towel
socks
underwear
shirt
39
The maximum speed of a falling raindrop is
5 mph
18 mph
100 mph
27 mph
40
For the first time in history, European scientists (in 2014) successfully landed on a
comet
meteor
asteroid
moon
41
What is the most common element in the Earth's crust?
Oxygen
Silicon
Aluminium
Iron
42
A red blood cell takes how long to complete a circuit around the circulatory system?
3 hours
60 seconds
60 minutes
1 day
43
Clip art images of raindrops are wrong! Because of air friction, raindrops at full speed are shaped
in a dodecahedron
in a perfect sphere
in random shapes
like a hamburger bun