Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #75 - Science Trivia Quiz

Miscellaneous and random science related trivia quiz questions.

1. What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic
   bomb?
    
2. What high-level computer language was named after a French
   mathematician and philosopher?
    
3. What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John
   Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom?
    
4. What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when
   first used in combat in 1176?
    
5. What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race
   in Sydney, Australia?
    
6. What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and
   pitchblende?
    
7. What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make yellow
   paint?
    
8. What optical aids was nearsighted model Grace Robin the first to
   show off in 1930?
    
9. What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red
   blood cells in, in 1993?
    
10. What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic
    ointment for cuts and burns?
     
11. What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
     
12. What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the
    favorite of most women?
     
13. What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
     
14. What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods,
    despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
     
15. What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by
    nuclear power wags?
     
16. What is a single unit of quanta called?
     
17. What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to
    pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
     
18. What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to
    protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?
     
19. What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and
    use as a pain reliever?
     
20. What substance nets recyclers the most money?
     
21. What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
     
22. What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to
    toboggan on its belly on land?
     
23. What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
     
24. What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home
    in?
     
25. How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die
    in two days?
     
26. What computer company was named after a founder's memories of
    spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
     
27. What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the
    windpipe?
     
28. What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission
    of radiation"?
     
29. What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and
    moon?
     
30. What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world
    in 1520?
     
31. What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal
    invent to help his dad do taxes in 1642?
     
32. What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
     
33. What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
     
34. What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?
     
35. What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
    sorry they came into contact with?
     
36. What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to
    eat?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 75 -
Science
Trivia Answers

1. Nagasaki.
2. PASCAL.
3. Gus Grissom.
4. A submarine.
5. The Kangaroo.
6. Uranium.
7. The gallbladder.
8. Contact lenses.
9. A tyrannosaurus rex's.
10. Honey.
11. The Macintosh.
12. Eyes.
13. Uranus.
14. Olestra.
15. Chernobyl's.
16. A quantum.
17. It's head.
18. Coppertone.
19. Morphine.
20. Aluminum.
21. Shoes.
22. The penguin.
23. Athlete's foot.
24. Pork.
25. Nine.
26. Apple.
27. The Thyroid.
28. Laser.
29. Venus.
30. The rifle.
31. An adding machine.
32. White blood cells, or leukocytes.
33. The tractor.
34. Wind.
35. Poison Ivy.
36. The coconut.