Science and Geography Quiz

Question 1

The official national flags of Georgia, Bahrain, Monaco, Singapore and Turkey all share what two colours?

Accepted Answer

White, Red

Question 2

What is the derivative of 10x2 + 6x + 7 ?

Accepted Answer

20x + 6

Question 3

What is the name of the process where a substance goes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid?

Accepted Answer

Sublimination

Question 4

What country is home to Mount Everest?

Accepted Answer

Nepal

Question 5

Which Canadian province is the smallest?

Accepted Answer

Prince Edward Island

Question 6

What is known as the master gland in the human body?

Accepted Answer

Pituitary

Question 7

Space travelers from the US are called astronauts. From Russia, they’re called cosmonauts. Where are taikonauts from?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 8

An Algonquin or Ojibwe word meaning "where the river narrows" became the name of what province?

Accepted Answer

Quebec

Question 9

Many of us believe that the average human has 5 senses, but that’s not actually true. What other senses do we have?

Accepted Answer

Vestibular, Nociception, Proprioceptive

Question 10

What is the most electronegative element on the periodic table?

Accepted Answer

Fluorine

Question 11

What is the other autonomous territory, besides Greenland, that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark?

Accepted Answer

Faroe Islands

Question 12

Ninety percent of the Earth’s population lives in which hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Northern

Question 13

At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

Accepted Answer

-40

Question 14

How many countries are member states of the United Nations?

Accepted Answer

193

Question 15

What Canadian province did the Titianic sink near?

Accepted Answer

Newfoundland

Question 16

What Asian country changed its capital in 1868 to its current city? Both capitals are anagrams of each other.

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 17

What is the quadratic formula?

Accepted Answer

(-b2 ± √b2 -4ac)/2a

Question 18

In 1953, the United States of America conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test. Where was the test held?

Accepted Answer

Nevada

Question 19

What is the name of the largest ocean on Earth?

Accepted Answer

Pacific

Question 20

This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between different atoms. What do you call this bond?

Accepted Answer

Covalent bond

Question 21

Along with Spanish, Guaraní is the official language of which landlocked South American country?

Accepted Answer

Paraguay

Question 22

Which country has the longest coastline?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 23

The idea that continents slowly move over Earth's surface is called

Accepted Answer

Continental Drift

Question 24

Which Indian city on banks of Yamuna River in state of Uttar Pradesh is the location of the Taj Mahal?

Accepted Answer

Agra

Question 25

Which blood type is a universal donor?

Accepted Answer

O Negative

Question 26

The oldest living tree is 4,843 years old and can be found where?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 27

What is the only liquid layer of the Earth?

Accepted Answer

Outer Core

Question 28

What is the capital city of New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

Wellington

Question 29

What type of cell division results in four-daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as parent cells?

Accepted Answer

Meiosis

Question 30

How many moons does Neptune have?

Accepted Answer

16

Question 31

What percentage of the total number of known animals are invertebrates?

Accepted Answer

97%

Question 32

What is the largest capital city in North America?

Accepted Answer

Mexico City

Question 33

What stretches 3,000 miles from British Columbia to New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Rocky Mountains

Question 34

Alexander Fleming discovered _______ which is considered one of the most important discoveries in medical science.

Accepted Answer

Penicilin

Question 35

What lobe of the brain is responsible for vision?

Accepted Answer

Occipital

Question 36

What's the name of the first animal that was launched into space on the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on November 3, 1957?

Accepted Answer

Laika

Question 37

Who proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe and that the sun was instead at the center?

Accepted Answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 38

What is the term for the measure of disorder or randomness in a system?

Accepted Answer

Entropy

Question 39

What are the names of South Africa’s three capital cities?

Accepted Answer

Cape Town, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein

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