Science Trivia Questions and Answers
What delta-winged supersonic transport is the fastest passenger plane?
A: The Concorde.
What comet was first sighted by the Chinese in 240 B.C.?
A: Halley's Comet.
What does "SPF" mean on sunscreen containers?
A: Sun Protection factor.
What M-word is defined as "a device that changes sound into electric current"?
A: Microphone.
What colorless gas is essential in the production of fertilizers and light bulbs?
A: Nitrogen.
What explosive jelly is combined with gasoline to make incendiary bombs?
A: Napalm.
What did the Nimbus-7 satellite monitor changes in the depth of?
A: The ozone layer.
What body part is low-density lipoprotein most likely to clog?
A: Arteries.
What was the short word for "Infantile Paralysis" on 1950s March of Dimes posters?
A: Polio.
What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?
A: The Bible.
What are you shopping for if you're sized up by a Brannock Device?
A: Shoes.
What's the most common automotive essential that is measured in terms of its viscosity?
A: Oil.
What did 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier prove was a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?
A: Water.
What objects are studied in what enthusiasts call "ufology"?
A: Unidentified flying objects.
Who's known in the shrink biz as "Weird Beard"?
A: Sigmund Freud.
What's the English title of Freud's book Traumdeutung?
A: The Interpretation of Dreams.
What celestial objects were once referred to as "hairy stars"?
A: Comets.
What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is "fundamentally altering our view of the universe"?
A: The Hubble telescope.
What constellation points to the south celestial pole?
A: The Southern Cross.
What's the study of materials at very low temperatures?
A: Cryogenics.
What unit of length is derived from the Latin word uncia?
A: The inch.
What country launched Europe's first super-high-speed passenger train, in 1981?
A: France.
What's believed by many to be a satellite of Neptune that escaped its primary orbit?
A: Pluto.
What planet is circled by only two moons?
A: Mars.
What artillery weapon was launched upon the world in 400 B.C.?
A: The catapult.
What procedure is performed on an abscess if the dentist thinks the tooth can be saved?
A: Root canal.
What Greek advised: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine by your food"?
A: Hippocrates.
What does an anthropophagic census-taker fear?
A: People.
What "black metal" gave blacksmiths their name?
A: Iron.
What word describes the physical components of a computer?
A: Hardware.
What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?
A: Venus.
What does a bromidrosiphobic shoe salesman fear?
A: Smelly feet.
What planet needs 248 years to meander its way around the sun?
A: Pluto.
What did 18th-century astronomer Edmund Halley chart 24 of?
A: Comets.
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