Science Olympiad Southview Invitational 2018

Question 1

True or False: Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Accepted Answer

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 3

T or F: The Ebola virus kills 5 out of every 5 humans it infects

Accepted Answer

False, The number should be lower

Question 4

What is the smallest bone in the human body?

Accepted Answer

Stapes

Question 5

What is the suborder of crickets?

Accepted Answer

Ensifera

Question 6

True or False: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Each rubber molecule is made of ___ individual atoms

Accepted Answer

65,000

Question 8

Can the amount of Oreos made in a year (stacked together) circle around the Earth 5 times?

Accepted Answer

Yaasss

Question 9

Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve ___

Accepted Answer

Razor blades

Question 10

Who created the first organized periodic table?

Accepted Answer

Dmitry Medvedev

Question 11

What is the hump of a camel meant for?

Accepted Answer

Fat storage (When food is low)

Question 12

What is Utopia?

Accepted Answer

Large, smooth lying area of Mars

Question 13

True or False: The world’s smallest winged insect is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over ___ million tons

Accepted Answer

100

Question 15

10% of Europeans are immune to ______, thought to be a result of The Black Death and The Pox.

Accepted Answer

HIV

Question 16

Which famous scientist developed the plum pudding model of the atom?

Accepted Answer

J. J. Thomson

Question 17

What does Helium do when it reaches almost an absolute zero temperature?

Accepted Answer

Works against gravity force and rises up

Question 18

How many hearts does an octopus have?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 19

By which method are most germs transferred?

Accepted Answer

Holding Hands

Question 20

Who was the first astronaut to walk on the moon?

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

Question 21

Long ago, people of _______ thought that solar eclipse was a dragon swallowing the Sun.

Accepted Answer

China

Question 22

True or False: 10% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

What two planets of our solar system are known as ice giants?

Accepted Answer

Uranus and Neptune

Question 24

What are the 3 things needed for the process of photosynthesis?

Accepted Answer

CO2, H20, Sunlight

Question 25

How many bones does a human body have at birth?

Accepted Answer

270

Question 26

What type of shark is this?

Accepted Answer

Edustus

Question 27

How long does it take for light to travel from Sun's surface to the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Around 8-10 minutes

Question 28

One in every __ babies are born with a tooth

Accepted Answer

2000

Question 29

T or F: 0.000000001 of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a___

Accepted Answer

Pea

Question 30

To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket needs to travel at __ miles per second

Accepted Answer

7

Question 31

What city in Libya is considered to be the hottest place on Earth?

Accepted Answer

El Azizia

Question 32

___ chemical reactions occur every second in our brains

Accepted Answer

100,000

Question 33

A human eye can distinguish up to __ million different colors, but can't remember all of them

Accepted Answer

10

Question 34

True or False: An average person walks the equivalent of 5 times around the world in a lifetime

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Why do golf balls have dimples?

Accepted Answer

To reduce drag, To fly farther

Question 36

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is __times that of the space shuttle during launch

Accepted Answer

20

Question 37

T or F: The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

T or F: Eiffel tower can be 15 cm lower during the summer

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

How many chromosomes do peas have?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 40

How much did the largest hailstone weight that fell in Bangladesh in 1986?

Accepted Answer

1 Kilogram (kg)

Question 41

True or False: Water can boil and freeze at the same time

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

What letter is not included on the periodic table?

Accepted Answer

J, Q

Question 43

T or F: If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour

Accepted Answer

True, Depends on the speed

Question 44

Some metals are so strong that they react with ___

Accepted Answer

Water

Question 45

The ___ frequency call of the humpback is the loudest noise made by a living creature

Accepted Answer

Low

Question 46

In what year was DNA first discovered?

Accepted Answer

1869

Question 47

T or F: 65% of those with autism are left handed

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

40 years ago, where was an all female species of lizard found?

Accepted Answer

Armenia

Question 49

When substance has a pH of 7, it is considered a(n) _____________

Accepted Answer

Neutral

Question 50

T or F: 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon forest

Accepted Answer

Yep, that's definitely true.

Question 51

Which noble gas violates the octet rule?

Accepted Answer

Helium

Question 52

What type of plant did Gregor Mendel experiment with? Hint: Genetics

Accepted Answer

Pea Plants

Question 53

True or False: Earth's rotation is gradually slowing

Accepted Answer

True

Question 54

True or False: Every year one million earthquakes shake the Earth

Accepted Answer

True

Question 55

Every year, lighting kills _____ people

Accepted Answer

1000

Question 56

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt, where the annual average rainfall is _

Accepted Answer

.02 inches

Question 57

Who has more taste buds on their tongue ?

Accepted Answer

Girls

Question 58

How many breaths does an average adult take a day?

Accepted Answer

Over 20,000

Question 59

True or False: The term ecology was coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866

Accepted Answer

True

Question 60

Light would take ___ to travel around the Earth

Accepted Answer

.13 seconds

Question 61

What is the name of the planet closest to Earth?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Question 62

A male platypus can shoot venom from its ______

Accepted Answer

Foot

Question 63

Stegosauruses could grow up to 30 ft long, but their brains were the size of _____

Accepted Answer

Walnuts

Question 64

T or F:The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 100 feet

Accepted Answer

False

Science Olympiad Southview Invitational 2018

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Science Olympiad Southview Invitational 2018

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