The creature with the biggest eye? Sounds are made when objects_________.

Atlantic Giant Squid Vibrate

Dolly was the first ever living creature to be cloned. All food that we eat passes to the mouth. Within our
What type of animal was she? mouth, there is a fluid that dissolves food and allows
Sheep the tongue to taste it. What is this fluid that helps
dissolve the food?
What process produces most of the energy that is Saliva
radiated by the sun?
What is the biggest bird in the world?
Nuclear Fusion
Ostrich
What is the name of the trees that never lose
The dolphin sleeps with its one eye open.
leaves?
Evergreen trees
Which part of a mammal is most likely to become a
fossil?
What large mammal has a tail that is so strong that Bones
it can stand on it and lift its legs off the ground?
Kangaroo How many legs does a butterfly have?
8
What is the purpose of the stripe pattern on a
zebra’s body? What is the largest type of ‘big cat’ in the world?
To camouflage Tiger

What is the other function of the ear besides What type of bird can turn its head 270 degrees?
hearing? Owl
To maintain balance or sense changes in
position Name the metal used in the making of microchips.
Silicon
What material is the best conductor?
Silver Which kind of plastic can be recycled?
Thermoplastic
Order of food chain:
Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
Primary Producers-autotrophs
Mercury
Primary Consumers-herbivore
Secondary consumers-carnivore
What is given to wood whose normal cells have been
Decomposers
replaced with mineral deposits?
PETRIFIED WOOD
All animals need food, air, and ____ to survive.
Water
Pollination by birds is called:
ORNITHOPHILY
What part of the body helps you move?
Muscles
the rabbit has how many incisor teeth?
The two holes of the nose are called?
4
Nostrils
To what familiar fruit is the plantain similar?
What compounds are needed for photosynthesis?
BANANA
Water/H2O and Carbon dioxide CO2
What is the name for the new technology whereby a
Which is the food factory of a plant?
glass fiber carries as much information as hundreds
Leaf
of copper wires?
FIBER OPTICS (OPTO-ELECTRONICS)
What is the young one of a cow called?
Calf
What mammal lays eggs?
PLATYPUS
Which animal lives both on land and in water?
Amphibian
What nocturnal animal group makes up one-fourth of
all mammal species?
It allows you to bend your knees.
BATS or CHIROPTERA
Joints
What is the better-known name for the deadly poison
True or false: insects do not have a backbone
prussic acid?
True
CYANIDE or HYDROGEN CYANIDE

True or false: a spider is an insect.

What is the rest mass of a photon?
False, its an Arachnida
ZERO
What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and zinc?
ANSWER: BRASS
What is the name given to the process, discovered by
Goodyear, of
adding sulfur to heated rubber?
ANSWER: VULCANIZATION
Used primarily in fertilizers, which element is never
found free in nature even though it makes up about
2.5% of the earth's crust?
ANSWER: POTASSIUM
What element, whose symbol derived from the Latin
for "liquid silver", has been found in Egyptian tombs
from 1500 B.C.?
ANSWER: MERCURY
What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from tobacco
leaves and widely
used as an insecticide?
ANSWER: NICOTINE
What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium?
ANSWER: STAINLESS STEEL
Table sugar, from sugar cane or beet, is what type of
sugar?
ANSWER: SUCROSE or DISACCHARIDE or
SACCHAROSE
Which prefix is often used with scientific terms to
indicate that something is the same, equal or
constant?
ISO
The study of phenomena at very low temperatures is
called
CRYOGENICS
The branch of medical science which is concerned
with the study of disease as it affects a community of
people is called:
EPIDEMIOLOGY
The study of how people use tools to perform work
and how people physically relate to their working
environment is called:
ERGONOMICS
Superconductivity is a material property associated
with:
A LOSS OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE
A type of plastic that is biodegradable has been in the
news lately. The ingredient that makes it
biodegradable is
CORNSTARCH
If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily it
is called:
DUCTILE
Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a decrease in a
person's hearing ability. What is the name of the
tube that becomes blocked to cause this problem?
EUSTACHIAN TUBE (pron: yu-sta-shen)
Name the general type of mammal that gives birth
to undeveloped young that are kept in pouches.
ANSWER: MARSUPIAL
Cystitis is the infection of which of the following?
URINARY BLADDER
What is the subdivision in the Plant Kingdom
comprising over 20,000 species of Mosses and
Liverworts?
ANSWER: BRYOPHYTES (pron: brI-eh-fites)
Name the medical term given to the inflammation of
infection of the mucous membranes of the nose.
ANSWER: RHINITIS
At room temperature, most elements are in which
phase of matter?
SOLID
The science of weights and measures is called:
METROLOGY
What compound is a common component of air
pollution, but is essential in the upper atmosphere
to protect life on earth? ANSWER: OZONE
What is osteoporosis? ANSWER: IT IS LOSS OF
CALCIUM FROM BONES
Yeast, used in making bread is a:
FUNGUS
The Statue of Liberty is green because of:
OXIDIZED COPPER
Which of the following vacuum pumps operates by
using a very cold surface to trap the gases on the
cold surface?
CRYOPUMP
Metals are good conductors of electricity because
they contain free electrons
Pollination is best defined as
transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
Which of the following scientists was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1911 for the discovery of the radioactive
elements, radium and polonium?
Marie Curie
Light travels at the fastest speed in ________.
Vacuum
Plants receive their nutrients mainly from
Soil
Rainbow is due to
refraction and reflection of sunlight by water
droplets
When a bottle of perfume is opened in one corner of a
room the smell spreads soon throughout the room.
This is an example of
Diffusion
Air pressure is usually highest when the air is
cool and moist
Nucleus, the genetic material containing rounded body
in each cell, was first discovered in 1831 by
Robert Brown
Which instrument is used to measure electric current?
Ammeter
Biosphere describes the earth realm where life occurs.
What describes the entire solid earth realm and is
composed of mineral matter?
Lithosphere
How many colours can be found in sunlight? 7
What mechanical and electronic device has a name
derived from a Czechoslovakian word meaning "work;
compulsory service"?ROBOT
For numbers < 10 (read as: less than or equal to
10), and not including the number 1, how many are
prime numbers?
4 (Solution: primes are 2, 3, 5, 7)
Factor the expression: x2 + 3x – 10
ANSWER: (x + 5)(x – 2)
A summary reaction for photosynthesis is:
CO2 + H2O AND LIGHT YIELDS
CARBOHYDRATE + O2
It is generally believed that most of the oxygen in
the air today came from:
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Osmosis is:
THE MOVEMENT OF WATER THROUGH A
SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANE
Which of the following is most accurate about the
pasteurization of milk:
IT REDUCES THE POPULATION OF BACTERIA
BY HEATING BUT NOT BOILING THE MILK
Doubling a musical note's amplitude:
INCREASES ITS LOUDNESS
BONUS
Physicists believe there are four fundamental
forces of nature. Name any two of them.
GRAVITATIONAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC,
STRONG, WEAK
Spanky swings a ball on the end of a string and
maintains it in uniform circular motion, what is the
most accurate term for the force exerted on
the rock through the string?
ANSWER: CENTRIPETAL
Amplitude modulation is typically associated with
what common form of communication:
RADIO TRANSMISSION
Which of the following elements does not occur
naturally in nature:
TECHNETIUM
Which of the following is NOT true:
W) all natural numbers are whole numbers
X) all whole numbers are integers
Y) all integers are rational numbers
Z) all numbers can be both a rational number and
an irrational number
ANSWER: Z) ALL NUMBERS CAN BE BOTH A
RATIONAL NUMBER AND AN IRRATIONAL
NUMBER
Factor the following equation: x2 – 6x + 5 = 0
ANSWER: (x – 5) (x – 1) = 0
The substance primarily responsible for the
greenhouse effect is:
CARBON DIOXIDE
Order the following from the SMALLEST unit of
distance to the LARGEST: mile, rod, feet,
kilometer.
ANSWER: FOOT, ROD, KILOMETER, MILE
For two objects separated by a distance d, if the
mass of one of the objects increases by two times,
by what factor will the gravitational attraction
between them increase?
ANSWER: TWO (ACCEPT 2 TIMES)
What part of the cotton plant produces what is
used to make cotton fabric.
ANSWER: W) FLOWERS OR SEED PODS
(Solution: The flowers of the cotton plant develop
into seed pods and the seeds inside the pods
are surrounded with an abundance of fine white
hairs which are used to produce long strands or
filaments of cotton thread.)
In standard form, give the product of (a + b)2
ANSWER: a2 + 2ab + b2
Solve the following equation: 2x + 4 = 6 + 2x
ANSWER: NO SOLUTION (ACCEPT: FALSE,
CONTRADICTION, DEFECTIVE
EQUATION, ETC.)
In bean and corn seeds, the food supply that is
used by the vseed to germinate and grow is in the:
COTYLEDON
The green pigment in plants that captures the
energy of sunlight and initiates photosynthesis is
called:
CHLOROPHYLL
Which of the following is an ectoparasite:
LICE
In humans, fertilization of the egg occurs most
typically in which of the following?
FALLOPIAN TUBE
In a typical four cycle gasoline car engine, what are What is the remainder of 628 divided by 9?
the most common names for the third stage or 7
cycle of the engine if the first cycle is the intake?
ANSWER: IGNITION (ACCEPT: POWER) What percentage of 68 is 10.2?
15
A manual laborer moves 40 kilograms of flour 5
feet above the ground in 5 seconds. If she does the A fuel tank holds 45 litres. Approximately how many
same task in twice the time it involves a pints will it hold?
different amount of what: 80 pints
W) power
X) work If a tube of toothpaste costs £1.57, how much do
Y) kinetic energy three tubes cost?
Z) potential energy £4.71
ANSWER: W) POWER
What is 7.75 x 100?
What is the chemical symbol for the toxic element 775
that causes mental retardation and is medically
referred to as Plumbism? A 24 hour digital clock shows 11:30, what time is it
ANSWER: Pb on a 12 hour clock?
11:30 a.m.
The equation, x = -4, is which of the following:
W) a true statement A two-dimensional shape with straight sides is
X) a false statement called a what?
Y) a conditional equation Polygon
Z) an equivalent equation
ANSWER: Y) A CONDITIONAL EQUATION £6.00 equals one-eighth of what?
BONUS £48

Express the square root of 75 in its simplest radical How would you write 0.9 as a fraction?
form: Nine-tenths
ANSWER: 5√ 3
Is 66 a multiple of 3 and 11?
This person established the “one fluid theory” of Yes
electricity and performed some of the first
investigations into electrical grounding and What is three-fifths written as a percentage?
insulation: 60%
ANSWER: BEN FRANKLIN
How many sides of a trapezium MUST be parallel?
What is always unchanged in any chemical 2
reaction as reactants form products:
THE KIND AND NUMBER OF ATOMS Why would you never talk about the capacity of a
square?
What is the square root of ¼? Because squares are 2-dimensional objects
ANSWER: ½
To get 250, what must 50 be multiplied by?
Simplify the following algebraic expression: 5
4x – 3(a – b)
ANSWER: 4x – 3a + 3b What is -20 divided by 4?
-5
Which of the following is the hormone produced by
the human body to control blood sugar and when What is 450 rounded to the nearest 100?
not produced in sufficient amounts is the cause of 500
some forms of diabetes:
INSULIN How many 11's are there in 143
13
The wing of a bird and the arm of a human are
considered: What is the value of c in the following equation: 4c
HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES = 2c + 75?
37.5
What is 44.87 x 100?
4,487 What is the square root of 81?
9 or -9
What is 75% of £467?
£350.25
You are given the two numbers "9 squared" and What is 277 rounded to 1 significant figure?
"81". How do they relate to each other? 300
They are both the same
Is 4 a factor of 21?
What is the name given to 1,000 kilograms? No
Tonne
Bearings are always measured in which direction?
Which is further: 10 miles or 10 kilometres? Clockwise
10 miles
What is the remainder when 550 is divided by 9?
Each "slice" of a pie chart is what part of a circle? 1
Sector
26 What is -66 plus -33 minus -22 Angles on a straight line add up to what?
-77 180 degrees

The flat surface of a solid is referred to as what? Three-dimensional solids have something that two-
Face dimensional shapes do not. What is it?
Volume
To the nearest square metre, what is the area of a
circular pool with a radius of 10 m? What is 86% of 200?
314 m squared 172

What is 0.08 x 10? If a tap drips once every 30 seconds, how many
0.8 times will it drip in an hour?
120
15 pints of milk cost £7.80. What is the cost of 22
pints of milk? The interior angles of a quadrilateral add up to how
£11.44 many degrees?
360
How would you write twelve-eighteenths in its
simplest form? What is the meaning of the word "Gradient"?
Two-thirds The steepness of a slope

At 01:30 p.m. what will be the time shown by a 24 What is the smallest perfect number?
hour digital clock? A perfect number is a positive integer
13:30 that is equal to the sum of its proper
divisors. Number ‘6’ is the smallest
What is 783.76 - 2.13?
perfect number, as the sum of 1, 2,
781.63
and 3, together make 6.
On a distance-time graph what does a line segment
that is horizontal tell you? Which number is a ‘magic number’?
There was no movement during the period Number ‘9’ is considered as a magic
number, as the sum of the digits of
How many faces has the regular polyhedron made the multiples of 9, is always 9. For
with pentagons? example; (18) 8 + 1 = 9, (54) 5 + 4 = 9,
12 (81) 8 + 1 = 9.

Divide 240 litres in the ratio 3 : 5.

What is zero to the power of zero?
90 : 150
Any number to the power of zero is 1,
Where can the 'numerator' in a fraction be found? so (30 = 1) and zero to the power of
Above the line any number is always zero (02 =0).
But when it comes to zero to the
Two lines that cross each other are said to what? power of zero, the answer is
Intersect undefined (00 =??).

How many edges has a pyramid with a hexagonal When two circles have the same
base?
centre, what is it called?
12
Concentric circles are circles with a
common center.
A graph in the form of x = a is what?
A straight vertical line
When something is going to occur,
which mathematical term is used to
express the likelihood of the event?
‘Probability’ is the extent to which
something is likely to happen or be
the case.
The number hundred is derived from
the ancient word, “hundrath,” which
actually means what?
The word “hundred” comes from the
old Norse term, “hundrath”, which
actually means 120.
Which number has the most
synonyms?
‘Zero’, which can also be addressed
as; nil, nada, zilch, zip, nought, and
many more
Who is known as the "Father of Geometry"?
Answer: Euclid
Who is credited with the discovery of calculus?
Answer: Isaac Newton
Which mathematician developed the theory of
relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Which mathematician is often referred to as the
"Prince of Mathematicians"?
Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss
Question: Who is known for their work on prime
numbers and the distribution of prime numbers?
Answer: Bernhard Riemann
Question: Which mathematician is famous for the
development of probability theory?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
What theory is concerned with solving polynomial
equations?
Answer: Algebra
Question: Which theory studies the properties and
relationships of geometric figures in two and three
dimensions?
Answer: Euclidean Geometry
Question: What theory explores the properties and
behaviors of numbers?
Answer: Number Theory
Question: Which theory focuses on the
measurement and properties of shapes and
figures?
Answer: Geometry
Question: What theory deals with the analysis of
data and the interpretation of patterns and trends?
Answer: Statistics
Question: Which theory studies the behavior and
properties of functions and their graphs?
Answer: Function Theory
Question: What theory involves the study of
systems of linear equations and their solutions?
Answer: Linear Algebra
Question: Which theory explores the relationship
between angles and the sides of triangles?
Answer: Trigonometry
Question: What theory studies the properties and
behavior of vectors in mathematical spaces?
Answer: Vector Theory
Question: Which theory involves the study of
complex numbers and their properties?
Answer: Complex Analysis
Question: What theory focuses on the study of
limits, continuity, and infinitesimal calculus?
Answer: Real Analysis
Question: Which theory deals with the analysis of
random phenomena and the mathematical
modeling of uncertainty?
Answer: Probability Theory
What shape's area is found by the following
equation: 1/2 base times height?
Answer: Triangle
Question: How many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the name given to rectangles
whose sides have a particular ratio of about 1.6 to
1?
Answer: Golden rectangle
Question: What is the 'm' in E = mc squared?
Answer: Mass
Question: Which is the value that appears most
often in a set of data?
Answer: Mode
Question: Something raised to the second power is
Squared. What is something raised to the third
power?
Answer: Cubed
Question: What is the term for a figure that's
entirely enclosed inside another figure?
Answer: Embedded
Question: What is one half of a sphere?
Answer: Hemisphere
What shape's area is found by the following
equation: 1/2 base times height?
Answer: Triangle
Question: How many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the name given to rectangles
whose sides have a particular ratio of about 1.6 to
1?
Answer: Golden rectangle
Question: Which C is a solid figure with a circular-
based plane, connected to a point called the
vertex?
Answer: Cone
Question: In the equation '5X + 6 = 45,' what is X?
Answer: A variable
Question: What is the square root of 81?
Answer: 9
Question: Which of the following is not an
operation?
Answer: Square Root
Question: Mary was born in 1972. What birthday
does she celebrate in 2020?
Answer: 48th
Question: A roller coaster has 14 rows with 5 seats
on each. What is the capacity of the ride?
Answer: 70
Question: A driving instructor charges £22 but
offers a 5% discount for booking 10 at once. How
much does a course of 10 lessons cost?
Answer: £209
Question: Dawn is saving for a holiday that costs
£1500. She pays half as a deposit and the rest over
6 months. How much does she pay per month?
Answer: £125
Question: A bowling alley had 12 lanes. Each lane
had 10 pins plus a spare. How many pins did the
bowling alley have?
Answer: 132
Question: Rachel buys 8 yards of fabric costing
£2.75 per yard. How much does she spend?
Answer: £22
Question: Carl's monthly phone bill is $42. How
much does he pay a year?
Answer: £504
Question: Mark scores 12 out of 75 on a maths
test. What's his score as a percentage?
Answer: 15%
Question: If 6 ice creams cost £4.74, what is the
price per ice cream?
Answer: 79p
Question: What is the greatest number in a set of
data called?
Answer: Maximum
Question: A piece of lace is 1.8 meters long. How
many pieces would I use for 4 dresses, each
needing 2.7 meters?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the capacity of a 1000-liter pool
filled with water at a rate of 50 liters per hour?
Answer: 20
Question: Each episode of a cartoon is 8 minutes
long. How many complete cartoons could I watch in
2 hours?
Answer: 15
Question: A school has classes with 32, 28, and 36
pupils. How many pupils on average per class?
Answer: 32
Question: A music promoter sells a third of the
tickets for a 930 capacity venue and gives 75 to
friends. How many people attend?
Answer: 385
Question: If Tom uses a quarter of a cucumber to
make 4 sandwiches, how many does he need to
make 32 sandwiches?
Answer: 2
Question: 3 farmers grew 45 watermelons between
them. If Farmer 1 grew 18 watermelons and Farmer
2 grew 12 watermelons, how many did Farmer 3
grow?
Answer: 15
Question: A car park has 30 rows of 7 cars on each
of 4 floors. What is the capacity of the car park?
Answer: 840
Question: A leisure center has 18 spaces in a swim
class and 70 classes a week. How many students
are taught?
Answer: 1260
Question: What is the distance around a circle
called?
Answer: Circumference
Question: What operation is indicated by +?
Answer: Addition
Question: What is 1,000 x 1?
Answer: 1,000
Question: What maths word means the relative
size of something?
Answer: Scale
Question: What maths term means as correct
and exact as possible?
Answer: Accurate
Question: What fraction of a minute is five
seconds?
Answer: One twelfth
Question: What number is 20% of 40?
Answer: 8
Question: What is 10 to the power of 6?
Answer: 1,000,000
Question: If a fraction has a larger numerator
than denominator, it is what?
Answer: Improper
Question: Millie gets 68 out of 80 in her science
exam. What is her mark as a percentage?
Answer: 85%
Arithmetic Trivia
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Question: A sector is a region bounded by and
including an arc and how many radii of a circle?
Answer: 2
Question: Which of these is the horizontal axis
on a graph?
Answer: X-Axis
Question: 5 pentagons have how many sides in
total?
Answer: 25
Question: What number is represented by a one
followed by nine zeroes?
Answer: One Billion
Question: 40% of a shop's 90 employees are
women. How many men are employed?
Answer: 54
Question: Erica needs 10 liters of paint for
decorating a room. If a 2.5-liter pot costs £13.50,
how much does she spend?
Answer: £54
Question: Leo spends £2.25 each day on a latte.
How much is his bill for a week?
Answer: £15.75
Question: A French baker sells 553 baguettes
over a week. How many does he sell each day
on average?
Answer: 79
Question: A parent buys two bags of goat feed
at 50p for each of her three children. What does
she spend?
Answer: £3
Question: James has 6 singing lessons a
month, each lasting 35 minutes. How long does
he spend singing?
Answer: 3h 30m
Basic Math Problems Trivia
Hide all answers
Question: Each pack of biscuits contains 82
units. How many packs do I need to give 738
people a biscuit each?
Answer: 9
Question: Audrey sells 88, 65, 67, and 98 books
on consecutive days. What is her total sales?
Answer: 318
Question: Omar and Jean have 78 acres of land
between them. Jean owns 32 acres, so how
many does Omar have?
Answer: 46 acres
Question: Alice baked 30 cookies, but Betty
cooked 50% more. How many did Betty make?
Answer: 45
Question: 80,000 fans attended a football game.
The tickets cost $40 each. What was the total
revenue from the ticket sales?
Answer: $3.2 million
Question: How many days are there in the last
three months of the year?
Answer: 92
Question: A 60-month credit agreement runs for
how many years?
Answer: 5
Question: I use 15ml of shampoo in the shower
each morning. How long will a 360ml bottle
last?
Answer: 24 days
Question: Jack walked 65, 54, 37, and 89
minutes on consecutive days. How many
minutes did he walk in total?
Answer: 245
Question: Fiona's class marks over the year are
50, 60, 54, 66, and 70. What's her average?
Answer: 60
Question: A carpenter was constructing a
timber frame. The wood was available in
lengths of 3 yards. He needed a total of 40
yards. How many lengths did he have to order?
Answer: 14
Question: Helen buys 15 balls of wool weighing
250g for a project. What is the total weight of
wool?
Answer: 3.75kg
Question: Mac sorts his jelly beans into 18
groups with 13 beans in each. How many beans
does he have in total?
Answer: 234
Question: If a square room measures 81 square
meters, how many meters long is each side?
Answer: 9m
Miscellaneous Math Trivia
Hide all answers
Question: What was the name of the measuring
system before we went metric?
Answer: Imperial
Question: Darren downloaded 50 songs in May
and then 60 for each of the next three months.
What is the total number of songs downloaded?
Answer: 230
Question: 200 runners competed in a marathon.
35% dropped out before the finish. How many
runners completed the course?
Answer: 130
Question: 75% of the 312 sun loungers on the
beach are occupied. How many are empty?
Answer: 78
Question: Each lane in the bowling alley can
accommodate 6 people. How many lanes are
needed for 84 people to bowl?
Answer: 14
Question: A computer shop sells 44 X-Box
games, 101 Playstation games, and 88 Switch
games. What is the total sales?
Answer: 233
Question: Kara is doing a jigsaw with 2500
pieces. She is three-fifths finished. How many
pieces still need to be placed?
Answer: 1000
Question: If a quarter of children in a school of
260 pupils take drama, how many are in the
class?
Answer: 65
Question: Liam arrives at the cinema at 2.15 to
watch a film lasting 90 minutes. When does he
leave?
Answer: 3.45
Question: Entrance to the zoo costs £8. How
much does it cost for Tom and four friends to
get in?
Answer: £40