Science Trivia

What does a light-year measure?

Denver, Colorado, is at a higher altitude than Los Angeles, California. Which is correct?

In NY you can keep the females as pets, but it’s illegal to keep the males because of noise.

The majority of the mass (more than 99%) of our solar system is contained in:

What is the approximate distance from the surface of the earth to the center of the earth?

Which is the deepest ocean? 

Which element is most common in an average star?

A black hole's boundary in spacetime through which matter or light cannot escape

What are the three most common elements in the human body?

What element is in the picture?

This space object has an icy core with a tail of gas and dust that extends millions of miles.

Which best illustrates what happens when light passes through a magnifying glass?

Which kind of waves are used to make and receive cellphone calls?

Which of these people developed the polio vaccine?

Which of these is needed to make nuclear energy and nuclear weapons?

The subject of algebra was invented around the 9th century by which people?

The olfactory system in our body is related to which sense?

The polluted Gowanus canal contains toxic levels of arsenic, copper, carcinogens and

This picture shows three layers of the Earth. Which layer is the hottest?

What is the most popular college major?

Which blood type is the universal donor?

Where would you weigh the most? 

The loudness of a sound is determined by what property of a sound wave?

On the electromagnetic spectrum, what has the shortest wavelength?

How long does it take blood to circulate throughout your body? 

Which of these is the main way that ocean tides are created?

More than any other languages, scientific material has been printed in which two languages?

What is this picture of?

What bedrock lies under Manhattan, allowing the island to support so many skyscrapers?

If a person were to cross an event horizon of a black hole, the person would take the shape of

What lies at the center of our galaxy?

What is the name of the transparent outer covering of the front of the eye?

How long does it take the light from the sun to reach us? 

What is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?

Who discovered that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure?