Miscellaneous and random science related trivia quiz questions.
- What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic
bomb?
- What high-level computer language was named after a French
mathematician and philosopher?
- What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John
Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom?
- What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when
first used in combat in 1176?
- What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race
in Sydney, Australia?
- What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and
pitchblende?
- What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make yellow
paint?
- What optical aids was nearsighted model Grace Robin the first to
show off in 1930?
- What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red
blood cells in, in 1993?
- What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic
ointment for cuts and burns?
- What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
- What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the
favorite of most women?
- What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
- What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods,
despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
- What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by
nuclear power wags?
- What is a single unit of quanta called?
- What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to
pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
- What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to
protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?
- What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and
use as a pain reliever?
- What substance nets recyclers the most money?
- What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
- What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to
toboggan on its belly on land?
- What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
- What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home
in?
- How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die
in two days?
- What computer company was named after a founder's memories of
spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
- What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the
windpipe?
- What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation"?
- What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and
moon?
- What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world
in 1520?
- What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal
invent to help his dad do taxes in 1642?
- What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
- What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
- What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort scale?
- What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were
sorry they came into contact with?
- What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to
eat?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 75 -
Science
Trivia Answers
- Nagasaki.
- PASCAL.
- Gus Grissom.
- A submarine.
- The Kangaroo.
- Uranium.
- The gallbladder.
- Contact lenses.
- A tyrannosaurus rex's.
- Honey.
- The Macintosh.
- Eyes.
- Uranus.
- Olestra.
- Chernobyl's.
- A quantum.
- It's head.
- Coppertone.
- Morphine.
- Aluminum.
- Shoes.
- The penguin.
- Athlete's foot.
- Pork.
- Nine.
- Apple.
- The Thyroid.
- Laser.
- Venus.
- The rifle.
- An adding machine.
- White blood cells, or leukocytes.
- The tractor.
- Wind.
- Poison Ivy.
- The coconut.
