Printable Trivia Quizzes ? Science Questions and Answers

Science Trivia Questions and Answers 

What delta-winged supersonic transport is the fastest passenger plane?

A: The Concorde.

What comet was first sighted by the Chinese in 240 B.C.?

A: Halley’s Comet.

What does “SPF” mean on sunscreen containers?

A: Sun Protection factor.

What M-word is defined as “a device that changes sound into electric current”?

A: Microphone.

What colorless gas is essential in the production of fertilizers and light bulbs?

A: Nitrogen.

What explosive jelly is combined with gasoline to make incendiary bombs?

A: Napalm.

What did the Nimbus-7 satellite monitor changes in the depth of?

A: The ozone layer.

What body part is low-density lipoprotein most likely to clog?

A: Arteries.

What was the short word for “Infantile Paralysis” on 1950s March of Dimes posters?

A: Polio.

What book did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?

A: The Bible.

What are you shopping for if you’re sized up by a Brannock Device?

A: Shoes.

What’s the most common automotive essential that is measured in terms of its viscosity?

A:  Oil.

What did 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier prove was a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?

A: Water.

What objects are studied in what enthusiasts call “ufology”?

A: Unidentified flying objects.

Who’s known in the shrink biz as “Weird Beard”?

A: Sigmund Freud.

What’s the English title of Freud’s book Traumdeutung?

A: The Interpretation of Dreams.

What celestial objects were once referred to as “hairy stars”?

A: Comets.

What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is “fundamentally altering our view of the universe”?

A: The Hubble telescope.

What constellation points to the south celestial pole?

A: The Southern Cross.

What’s the study of materials at very low temperatures?

A: Cryogenics.

What unit of length is derived from the Latin word uncia?

A: The inch.

What country launched Europe’s first super-high-speed passenger train, in 1981?

A: France.

What’s believed by many to be a satellite of Neptune that escaped its primary orbit?

A: Pluto.

What planet is circled by only two moons?

A: Mars.

What artillery weapon was launched upon the world in 400 B.C.?

A: The catapult.

What procedure is performed on an abscess if the dentist thinks the tooth can be saved?

A: Root canal.

What Greek advised: “Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine by your food”?

A: Hippocrates.

What does an anthropophagic census-taker fear?

A: People.

What “black metal” gave blacksmiths their name?

A: Iron.

What word describes the physical components of a computer?

A: Hardware.

What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?

A: Venus.

What does a bromidrosiphobic shoe salesman fear?

A: Smelly feet.

What planet needs 248 years to meander its way around the sun?

A: Pluto.

What did 18th-century astronomer Edmund Halley chart 24 of?

A: Comets.