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.



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.



Space facts trivia questions answers and facts.

How old is the universe?
A: In a study published in the journal Science, a team of researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old.

What is a black hole?
A: A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape, even light.

How far is the nearest black hole?
A: As of now the closest known one is thought to lie at about 1,600 light years from Earth.

What is a supernova?
A: A supernova is a stellar explosion which produces an extremely bright object made of plasma that declines to invisibility over weeks or months.

What is a quasar?
A: The scientific consensus is that quasars are powered by material falling into super massive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies.

What is a neutron star?
A: Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars.

What is a brown dwarf?
A: Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects with a mass below that necessary to maintain hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in their cores.

What is a red giant?
A: They are stars of 0.4 - 10 times the mass of the Sun which have exhausted their supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to fusing hydrogen in a shell outside the core.

How hot is the sun?
A: The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface of the Sun, is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

What is a solar flare?
A: A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released.

What are cosmic rays?
A: Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in outer space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the Earth from all directions.

What is the Van Allen belt?
A: The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.

What is the most common element found in the universe?
A: Hydrogen

What is Jupiter made of?
A: Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock"

How many moons does Jupiter have?
A: Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Feb 2004): the four large Galilean moons plus many more small ones some of which have not yet been named.

How long is a day on Mercury?
A: Mercury rotates three times in two of its years.

How many stars are there in in the big dipper?
A: The Big Dipper is a group of seven bright stars, 3 which form a handle and 4 which form a bowl.

How many stars are in the little dipper?
A: The little dipper has 6 stars.

What is a constellation?
A: A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern.

How many named constellations are there?
A: There are 88 constellations.

What is the big red spot on Jupiter?
A: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it.

Where is the element gold come from?
A: Gold only comes from Super Novae.

What is a parsec?
A: The parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately equal to 3.261 light years.