Thursday, May 19, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #131 - Fun Science Trivia Quiz

General science trivia questions and answers.
  1. What process involves treating rubber with sulfur to harden it?
     
  2. What scale of zero to 14 is used to measure acidity or
    alkalinity?
     
  3. What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three
    atoms instead of two?
     
  4. What unit of electrical power is equal to one joule per
    second?
     
  5. What planet is closest in size to our moon?
     
  6. What's the common name for a cubic decimeter?
     
  7. What measure of energy comes from the Latin word meaning
    "heat"?
     
  8. What's removed from water in the process of desalination?
     
  9. What species Amazonian electric variety packs a 650 volt
    wallop?
     
  10. What C word defines a substance that speeds a chemical
    reaction without being consumed?
     
  11. What's the base unit of mass in the metric system?
     
  12. What cooking fuel is produced by heating wood without
    oxygen?
     
  13. What's the only metal that's not a solid at room temperature?
     
  14. Which will yield the most BTUs of energy--a gallon of oil, a
    pound of coal or a gallon of gasoline?
     
  15. What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to
    inches?
     
  16. What method of underwater detection is short for "sound
    navigation and ranging"?
     
  17. What hazardous substance is euphemistically referred to
    as "mineral fiber"?
     
  18. What color does litmus turn when dipped into acid?
     
  19. What process involves heating an ore to obtain a metal?
     
  20. What's the U. S. equivalent of 0.45 kilograms?
     
  21. What's defined as the distance between a lens and its focal
    point?
     
  22. What energy unit is defined as the heat required to
    raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?
     
  23. What founding father was knocked unconscious while
    attempting to electrocute a turkey?
     
  24. What continent is subjected to the world's largest ozone hole?
     
  25. What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across,
    the largest in the animal kingdom?
     
  26. What explosive cosmic event was seen with the naked eye in
    1987, for the first time in 383 years?
     
  27. What three terms are represented in Newton's second law
    of motion F = ma?
     
  28. How many of the nine planets have moons/
     
  29. What were exterminated from Harvard's bio labs when they were
    found to be carrying radioactive chemicals into the walls?
     
  30. What type of trees yield the resin used to produce turpentine?
     
  31. What's the most malleable metal?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 131 - Science Trivia.

  1. Vulcanizing.
  2. The pH scale.
  3. Ozone.
  4. The Watt.
  5. Mercury.
  6. A liter.
  7. The calorie.
  8. Salt.
  9. The eel's.
  10. Catalyst.
  11. The kilogram.
  12. Charcoal. 
  13. Mercury. 
  14. A gallon of oil.
  15. Centimeters.
  16. Sonar.
  17. Asbestos.
  18. Pink.
  19. Smelting.
  20. One pound. 
  21. It's focal length. 
  22. One Calorie. 
  23. Benjamin Franklin..
  24. Antarctica.
  25. A squid.
  26. A supernova.
  27. Force, mass, acceleration. 
  28. Seven. 
  29. Ants.
  30. Pine trees. 
  31. Gold. 
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