Daily Trivia Quiz #3 - Science

 

Trivia Quiz of the day - questions about science - Answers at bottom of page.

1. What delta-winged supersonic transport is the fastest passenger plane?
   
2. What comet was first sighted by the Chinese in 240 B.C.?
   
3. What does "SPF" mean on sunscreen containers?
   
4. What M-word is defined  as "a device that changes sound into electric current"?
   
5. What brand became the first sugar-free sugar substitute, in 1957?
6. What colorless gas is essential in the production of fertilizers and light bulbs?
   
7. What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world in 1520?
   
8. What explosive jelly is combined with gasoline to make incendiary bombs?
   
9. What did Dr. Heinrich Dreser hype as a non addictive substitute for morphine in 1898?
   
10. What did the Nimbus-7 satellite monitor changes in the depth of?
    
11. What body part is low-density lipoprotein most likely to clog?
    
12. What's wire rope most often called?
13. What was the short word for "Infantile Paralysis" on 1950s March of Dimes posters?
    
14. What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?
    
15. What are you shopping for it you're sized up  by a Brannock Device?
    
16. What's the most common automotive essential that is measured in terms of its viscosity?
    
17. What did 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier prove was a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?
    
18. What objects are studied in what enthusiasts call "ufology"?
    
19. Who's known in the shrink biz as "Weird Beard"?
    
20. What's the unit of capacity for fuel wood?
    
21. How many of every ten coffee beans in USDA approved coffee can be moldy, insect-infested or insect-damaged?
    
22. What's the English title of Freud's book Traumdeutung?
    
23. What celestial objects were once referred to as "hairy stars"?
    
24. What piece of  lumber's actual size is one-and-a-half by three-and-a-half inches when "surfaced"?
    
25. What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is "fundamentally altering our view of the universe"?
    
26. What's the most common contributor to chronic bronchitis?
    
27. What constellation points to the south celestial pole?
    
28. What's the study of materials at very low temperatures?
    
29. What unit of length is derived from the Latin word uncia?
    
30. What country launched Europe's first super-high-speed passenger train, in 1981?
    
31. What's believed by many to be a satellite of Neptune that escaped its primary orbit?
    
32. What planet is circled by only two moons?
    
33. What artillery weapon was launched upon the world in 400 B.C.?
    
34. What procedure is performed on an abscess if the dentist thinks the tooth can be saved?
    
35. What Greek advised: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine by your food"?
    
36. What does an anthropophagic census-taker fear?
    

Daily Trivia Quiz #3  Answers

1. The Concorde.
2. Halley's Comet.
3. Sun Protection factor.
4. Microphone.
5. Sweet' n Low.
6. Nitrogen.
7. The rifle.
8. Napalm.
9. Heroin.
10. The ozone layer.
11. Arteries.
12. Cable.
13. Polio.
14. The Bible.
15. Shoes.
16. Oil.
17. Water.
18. Unidentified flying objects.
19. Sigmund Freud.
20. A cord.
21. One.
22. The Interpretation of Dreams.
23. Comets.
24. A two-by-four.
25. The Hubble telescope.
26. Smoking.
27. The Southern Cross.
28. Cryogenics.
29. The inch.
30. France.
31. Pluto.
32. Mars.
33. The catapult.
34. Root canal.
35. Hippocrates.
36. People.