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