Science Trivia Questions XII

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The controversial OPV hypothesis says that HIV was transmitted to humans from chimps after Africans took an oral vaccine that had been cultivated in chimp kidneys. What was this vaccine for?

       a. Polio
       b. Malaria
       c. Cholera
       d. Diphtheria


Nowadays, the BTU is defined as 1055 of what metric unit?

       a. Watt
       b. Ampere
       c. Joule
       d. Volt


M and K are both used to represent what number?

       a. Thousand
       b. Twelve
       c. Hundred
       d. One


The Devonian period, the fourth division of the Paleozoic Era, is named for Devonshire, which is found in what country, where that period's sedimentary rocks were first studied in the 1830s?

       a. Australia
       b. England
       c. Kenya
       d. Scotland


Back when people thought that the universe rotated around the Earth, where did they think the sun was?

       a. Between Venus and Mars
       b. Past Uranus
       c. Between the earth and the moon
       d. Between Jupiter and Mars


Chester Carlson called it xerography, from the Greek words for "dry writing." What do we call it today?

       a. Faxing
       b. Photocopying
       c. Cuneiform
       d. Hieroglyphics


The second American to fly in space, what Mercury astronaut had also been a front-running candidate to be the first man to land on the Moon?

       a. Gus Grissom
       b. John Glenn
       c. Buzz Aldrin
       d. Roger Chaffee


What product was originally made thermal-shock resistant borosilicate glass?

       a. Pyrex
       b. Ceramics
       c. Plexiglas
       d. Safety glass


In 1926, Clifford Harmon established a series of trophies to honor people in what scientific field?

       a. Ecology
       b. Aviation
       c. Paleontology
       d. Computing


You might blow hot and cold on this one, but who would most likely use a synoptic chart?

       a. Meteorologist
       b. Eye doctor
       c. Bible student
       d. Mathematician


Because the shape of his nose apparently indicated a character flaw, who was initially denied a berth on the HMS Beagle by its captain, Robert Fitz Roy?

       a. Charles Darwin
       b. Robert Louis Stevenson
       c. James Cook
       d. Horatio Hornblower


What part of your body has to shut down before you're not just clinically dead, but really, irreversibly, dead?

       a. Lungs
       b. Brain
       c. Heart
       d. Appendix


Which branch of science studies sound?

       a. Botany
       b. Earth Science
       c. Acoustics
       d. Systems Theory


Which three colours are used to display the picture on your TV screen?

       a. Red, Green and Yellow
       b. Red, Green and Black
       c. Red, Green and Blue
       d. Red, Green and Brown


Which of the following was traditionally a major component of blackboard chalk?

       a. Calcium carbonate
       b. Calcium bicarbonate
       c. Sodium bicarbonate
       d. Sodium bisulfate




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