SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 26. What is the perimeter of a circle called?

27. Sound travels faster in air than in water: true

1. What does DNA stand for?
or false?
2. How many bones are in the human body?
28. Which of the world's oceans in the deepest?
3. The concept of gravity was discovered by
29. What was the name of the first artificial
which famous physicist?
satellite to enter space?
4. What is the hardest natural substance on
30. Who is credited with the creation of the
Earth?
World Wide Web?
5. Which is the main gas that makes up the
31. Lightning hotter than the surface of the sun:
Earth's atmosphere?
true or false?
6. Humans and chimpanzees share roughly how
32. Where in the human body can the smallest
much DNA?
bone be found?
7. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's
33. How many bones do sharks have?
atmosphere?
34. What is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia the
8. Roughly how long does it take for the sun's
scientific term for?
light to reach Earth - 8 minutes, 8 hours or 8
35. What does USB stand for?
days?
36. What is the largest desert on Earth?
9. Which famous British physicist wrote A Brief
37. In which year were the first collisions
History of Time?
achieved in the Large Hadron Collider?
10. At what temperature are Celsius and
38. What is the heaviest organ in the human
Fahrenheit equal?
body?
11. What modern-day country was Marie Curie
39. What is the rarest blood type in humans?
born in?
40. In which year was Pluto reclassified as a
12. What is the biggest planet in our solar
Dwarf Planet?
system?
41. What is the biggest animal in the world?
13. What name is given for the number of
42. What is the only active volcano on mainland
protons found in the nucleus of an atom?
Europe called?
14. How many vertebrae does the average
43. What is desquamation the scientific term for?
human possess?
44. How many days on Earth does it take for
15. What was the name of the first man-made
Venus to rotate once on its axis?
satellite launched by the Soviet Union in
45. How many states of matter are there?
1957?
46. What does a Geiger Counter measure?
16. Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is
47. What are natural satellites colloquially known
named after an Ancient Greek physician?
as?
17. What is a material that will not carry an
48. In which year did the Apollo 13 space mission
electrical charge called?
take place?
18. Which Apollo moon mission was the first to
49. What metal is the best conductor of
carry a lunar rover?
electricity?
19. How many teeth does an adult human have?
50. What was the first vaccine to be developed
20. What is the study of mushrooms called?
against a contagious disease?
21. How many brains and how many hearts does
an octopus have?
22. What is the only letter not to appear on the
periodic table?
23. What is the fastest land animal in the world?
24. What is the only even prime number?
25. What do the letters in the word laser stand
for?
1. Deoxyribonucleic acid 47. Moons
2. 206 48. 1970
3. Sir Isaac Newton 49. Silver
4. Diamond 50. The smallpox vaccine
5. Nitrogen
6. 98 per cent
7. Nitrogen
8. 8 minutes
9. Stephen Hawking
10. -40
11. Poland
12. Jupiter
13. Atomic number
14. 33
15. Sputnik 1
16. Hippocratic Oath
17. Insulator
18. Apollo 15
19. 32
20. Mycology
21. 9 brains, 3 hearts
22. J
23. Cheetah
24. 2
25. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
Radiation
26. The circumference
27. False
28. The Pacific
29. Sputnik 1
30. Tim Berners-Lee
31. True
32. The ear
33. Zero
34. Brain freeze
35. Universal Serial Bus
36. Antartica
37. 2010
38. The liver
39. AB Negative
40. 2006
41. The Antarctic blue whale
42. Mount Vesuvius
43. Peeling skin
44. 243
45. 4 - solid, liquid, gas and plasma
46. Radiation