Fun science trivia questions answers and facts.

Science trivia questions answers and facts.

What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic bomb?

A: Nagasaki.

What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?
A: PASCAL.

What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus
Grissom?
A: Gus Grissom.

What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when first used in combat in
1176?
A: A submarine.

What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney, Australia?
A: The Kangaroo.

Science trivia questions answers and facts.

What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?

A: Uranium.

What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make yellow paint?
A: The gallbladder.

What optical aids was nearsighted model Grace Robin the first to show off in 1930?
A: Contact lenses.

Funny pictures of animals doing human activities and printed on mugs, t shirts and other
products. Incredibly Funny Animals! Cat Wrestling, Thinking Elephants Fire Breathing Dragons,
and crazy animal antics!

What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red blood cells in, in 1993?
A: A tyrannosaurus rex's.

What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
A: Honey.

What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?

A: The Macintosh.

What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the favorite of most women?
A: Eyes.

What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
A: Uranus.
What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and
cramps?
A: Olestra.

What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear power wags?
A: Chernobyl's.

What is a single unit of quanta called?

A: A quantum.

What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion, according to
scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
A: It's head.

What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over
the Pacific?
A: Coppertone.

What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
A: Morphine.

What substance nets recyclers the most money?

A: Aluminum.

What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
A: Shoes.

What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land?
A: The penguin.

What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
A: Athlete's foot.

What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
A: Pork.

How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
A: Nine.

What computer company was named after a founder's memories of spending a summer in an
Oregon orchard?
A: Apple.

What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the windpipe?

A: The Thyroid.

What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?

A: Laser.

What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?
A: Venus.
What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world in 1520?
A: The rifle.

What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal invent to help his dad do
taxes in 1642?
A: An adding machine.

What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?

A: White blood cells, or leukocytes.

What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?

A: The tractor.

What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?

A: Wind.

What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with?
A: Poison Ivy.

What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?
A: The coconut.

Collection Of Useless Science Trivia

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• The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other
gases.

• Eighty-five percent of all the plants and animals live in the sea.

• Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.

• Evidently, your kidneys use more energy that your heart. The kidneys use 12
percent of your oxygen, yet the heart only requires 7 percent.

• Joseph Priestly is credited with discovering oxygen, ammonia, carbon

monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also
the first to isolate chlorine.

• A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two
hour light bulbs, to operate.

• There are plants with a body temperature just like birds and mammals.
Skunk cabbages can have an internal temperature 25 degrees higher than
their surroundings.

• Balneology is the science of swimming pools. Balneologists study problems of

 heating, cleaning, maintenance, and construction.

• The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called
a contrail.

• The angle of the branches from the trunk of a tree is constant from one
member to another of the same species. Furthermore, that same angle is
represented in the veins of that tree's leaves.

• The first plastic ever invented was celluloid in 1868. It's still used today to
make billiard balls.

• Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice
can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it
originated.

• Only 13.5 percent of scientists are women.

• Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.

• Ten per cent of the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the
roads in America.

• Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance.

• If you put a chemical into the water in the deepest parts of the oceans, it
would take more than a thousand years for any traces of the chemical to rise
to the surface.

• If you slowly pour a handful of salt into a totally full glass of water it will not
overflow. In fact, the water level will go down.

• You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The
growth rings are wider on the south side.

• Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the brain has been proven to revive
long-lost memories.

• A US ton is equivalent to 900 kg (2000 pounds). A British ton is 1008 kg (2240

pounds), called a gross ton.

• Trees sweat. Up to 1,680 gallons of water evaporate off a large oak tree per
day. If you decide to water your trees with a garden hose, it will take over five
hours to make up one tree's daily water use.

• It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as

50,000 years.
• The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute
during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.

• Russia spends 4.6 percent of their gross national product on scientific

research. In the United States the figure is only 2.5 percent.

• Water expands by about 10% as it freezes.

• Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

• The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD

Western civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827.

• Aspirin was the first drug offered as a water-soluble tablet in 1900.

• Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.

• The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

• Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.

• Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same temperature as minus forty
degrees Fahrenheit.

• The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.

• Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

• A teaspoonful of soil may contain 100 million bacteria.

• Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more
per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.

• Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

• If you took a glass of iced tea and magnified it until it was as large as the
whole earth, each molecule of water would be about the size of a baseball.

• The drug thiopentone can kill a human being in one second if it's injected
directly into the blood stream.

• The word "biology" was coined in 1805 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

• How big is a molecule? If you were to make a pile of 10,000 average-size

molecules, you could just barely see it as a tiny speck.

• German chemist Hennig Brand discovered phosphorus while he was

examining urine for a way to turn baser metals into gold.
• The familiar Einsteinian formula of E=Mc2 was actually L/MV2 as he first
proposed it. Two years later he corrected it to the form we know now.

• The first flight of the Wright Brothers was a distance less than the wing span
of a Jumbo Jet.

• Mineral deposits in caves: The ones growing upward are stalagmites, the ones
growing downward are stalactites.

• In a scientific study, children were told to imagine that they were wearing
heavy mittens. The temperature of their fingertips went up.

• The wind must be below one mile an hour in order for the National Weather
Service to rate the weather as "calm."

• Prussic acid, in a crystalline powder called Zyklon B, was used to kill in

Germany's gas chambers. The gas would paralyze the victim's lungs, causing
them to suffocate.

• Industrial hemp contains less than 1% of THC, the psychoactive component

of marijuana.

• The telegraph plant has leaves that move themselves continuously in calm
weather as if they were fluttering in the breeze.

• Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be
detected.

• Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.

• Since space is essentially empty it cannot carry sound. Therefor there is no

sound in space, at least not the sort of sound that we are used to.

• An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.

• Mosquitoes like the scent of estrogen, hence, women get bitten by mosquitoes
more than men do. Only female mosquitoes bite people.

• James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the

Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.

• If an item moves very, very fast, it becomes smaller and heavier.

• The Space Shuttle always rolls over after launch to alleviate structural
loading, allowing the shuttle to carry more mass into orbit.

• All snow crystals are hexagonal.

• Putty is a cement compound of fine powdered chalk or oxide of lead mixed

 with linseed oil.

• Of all the non-biodegradable trash buried in American landfills, 30% of it is

disposable diapers. It takes five centuries for these to disintegrate.

• 1/25 of the energy put out by a light bulb is light. The rest is heat.

• The name of the Russian space station, Mir, means "peace."

• The fastest-growing plant, the giant sea kelp, grows 1-1/2" per hour.

• Lobster shells and mushrooms are made out of the same thing, chitin.

• Waldo Hanchett invented the modern dentist's chair in 1848.

Science Trivia
Have a Heart
If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance
would increase by 9.78 years.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics

Pillow Talk
A new survey of pillow primping practices indicates that 23% of people consider
themselves stackers; 20% plumpers; 16% are rollers; 16% cuddlers; while the
reminder are smashers and crunchers.
SOURCE: Survey by DuPont Co.

TB or Not TB?
Treatment-resistant tuberculosis has been reported in 42 states and Washington,
D.C., up from 13 states during the tuberculosis epidemic of the late 1980s and early
1990s.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

DID YOU KNOW?

The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television,
3,000 times in a row
SOURCE: Grossology: The science of Really Gross Things

DID YOU KNOW?

The typical American child watches 1,680 minutes of television per week (about two
months a year). The same youth spends 38 minutes a week in meaningful
conversation with his or her parents.
SOURCE: A.C. Nielson Co.
 DID YOU KNOW?
. . . that a cricket's ears are on its knees? That a fly has tastebuds on its feet.
SOURCE: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences

DID YOU KNOW?

Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the
water table for human consumption.
SOURCE: National Water Commission

DID YOU KNOW?

The aqualung, a device for breathing under water was invented by Jacques
Cousteau and Emile Gagnan of the French Navy in 1943 so that "frogmen" could
put mines under enemy ships.

STRANGE BUT TRUE--

In 1994, scientists in Australia invented a way of removing fleece from sheep
without shearing. They injected the sheep with a special hormone, then wrapped
them in lightweight hairnets. Three weeks later, the fleece could be peeled off the
sheep by hand.