Science Trivia Questions IX

Position your cursor over the question mark found beside each question for the answer.


If in Back to the Future, Marty McFly replaced his flux capacitor with a plain old everyday capacitor, what would it do?

       a. Send electricity to the gears
       b. Store electrical charge
       c. Prevent electrical shorts
       d. Measure electrical current


In the Kevin Bacon game, as well as in Stanley Milgram's Small World Experiment, how many degrees of separation supposedly separate you from anybody else on Earth?

       a. Twenty-five
       b. Twelve
       c. Six
       d. Ninety-nine


If Sabrina the Teenage Witch needs to make a tincture of something, what will that something be dissolved into?

       a. Blood
       b. Saltwater
       c. Alcohol
       d. Acid


What do gluons "glue" together within hadrons?

       a. Quasars
       b. Quarks
       c. Quirks
       d. Quickies


3D is height, width and breadth. Under Einstein's general theory of relativity, what is the fourth dimension?

       a. Gravity
       b. Light
       c. Time
       d. That "Age of Aquarius" band


When you pass gas, the gases are a combination of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. If an aristocratic nobleman were to only pass noble gases, which of these gases would not be in the recipe?

       a. Helium
       b. Neon
       c. Ammonia
       d. Argon


The Mizar was a flying car, made in the early 1970s by adding the rear portion of a Cessna Skymaster to what Ford car, whose fuel tank was prone to explosions if messed with from behind?

       a. Ford Escort
       b. Ford Pinto
       c. Ford Corsair
       d. Ford Focus


What famous painter also designed a bat-like flying device that never got off the ground?

       a. Leonardo da Vinci
       b. Michelangelo
       c. Samuel Morse
       d. James Whistler


Why is it unusual that Oklahoma City's two airports are named for Will Rogers and Wiley Post?

       a. They died in the same plane crash
       b. They famously were afraid to fly
       c. They co-wrote, "Man Will Never Fly"
       d. They hated Oklahoma and opposed building the airports


For whom were the Oldsmobile and the Reo Speedwagon named?

       a. Richard Evert Oldman
       b. Ransom Eli Olds
       c. O Henry Reo
       d. Old Man Reo Ford


If Auric Goldfinger had all the gold ever extracted in a typical year, what would he need to store it all in?

       a. A football stadium
       b. One of the Great Lakes
       c. A good sized room
       d. The Empire State Building


In 2000, I founded the Justin Timberlake Fans4Ever Club. When will my club celebrate its quasiquicentennial?

       a. 2250
       b. 2500
       c. 2125
       d. 2050


What is the chemical symbol of the element with the shortest English name?

       a. Cu
       b. Sn
       c. Pb
       d. Fe


Mintaka is the Arabic word for "belt". Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak are the stars that keep what constellation's pants from falling down?

       a. Orion
       b. Aquarius
       c. Cassiopeia
       d. Sagittarius




Click Here To Print This Quiz

Share this site with others