Saturday, June 25, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #166 - Science Trivia Questions - Scientific, Scientist, Hard Science & More!

Fun free science trivia questions and answers - science, scientific, scientist.
  1. What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in
    1781?
     
  2. What V-word is defined as "the ability of a liquid to resist
    flowing".
     
  3. What unit of measure was originally designed to be one
    forty-millionth of the Earth's circumference?
     
  4. What's sometimes dubbed Biosphere I?
     
  5. What are "human incubation chambers" heated to before Gillette's
    odor judges test deodorants by smelling human armpits?
     
  6. What antidepressant is most often referred to by snide shrinks as Slo Mo"?
     
  7. What gardeners' aid is identified by numbers indicating its
    percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium?
     
  8. What facial features flank your glabella?
     
  9. What organ of the body leads all others with 3,195 distinct
    genes?
     
  10. What Cool Whip ingredient outweighs all the others?
     
  11. What does a kit-flying linonophobic fear?
     
  12. What's the common name for the eye inflammation doctors call
    conjunctivits?
     
  13. What country flew the first supersonic airliner in 1968 but saw
    it crash in 1973?
     
  14. What two-word term is defined as "the lowest possible
    temperature"?
     
  15. What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
     
  16. What handy mathematical instrument's days were numbered when the
    pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
     
  17. What boxcar-sized instrument was repaired by the crew of the
    shuttle Endeavor in 1993?
     
  18. What name for a bone disease translates as "porous bone"?
     
  19. What earthenware ceramic was produced in ancient China from
    feldspar and china clay?
     
  20. What's the U.S. military acronym for liquid oxygen?
     
  21. What's one-tenth of a bel?
     
  22. What type of vessel was powered by a hand-cranked propeller when
    first used in combat in 1776?
     
  23. What type of machine do the French call a telecopie?
     
  24. What unit of measure was once defined as the length of three
    grains of barley laid end to end?
     
  25. What are the two main constituents of bronze.
     
  26. What Greek was the first physician to record case histories of
    patients?
     
  27. What four planets have a smaller diameter than Earth?
     
  28. What word was coined when a trapped moth caused an early computer
    to crash?
     
  29. What technological revolution was credited with the large
    increase in paper use in the 1980s and 1990s?
     
  30. What name for an automaton came from the Czech word meaning
    "forced labor"?
     

Answers to Trivia Quiz   #166 - Scientific, Scientist , Science

  1. Uranus.
  2. Viscosity.
  3. The meter.
  4. Earth.
  5. 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
  6. Valium.
  7. Fertilizer.
  8. The eyebrows.
  9. The brain.
  10. Water.
  11. String.
  12. Pink eye.
  13. The Soviet Union.
  14. Absolute zero.
  15. The sixteenth.
  16. The slide rule's.
  17. The Hubble telescope.
  18. Osteoporosis.
  19. Porcelain.
  20. LOX.
  21. A decibel.
  22. A submarine.
  23. A fax machine.
  24. The inch.
  25. Copper and tin.
  26. Hippocrates.
  27. Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Venus.
  28. Bug.
  29. The computer revolution.
  30. Robot.