What weather phenomenon causes more deaths in the U.S. annually than any other except lightning?
ANSWER: TORNADOES
ANSWER: TORNADOES
What is given to wood whose normal cells have been replaced with mineral deposits?
ANSWER: PETRIFIED WOOD
ANSWER: PETRIFIED WOOD
Pollination by birds is called:
w) autogamy
x) ornithophily
y) entomophily
z) anemophily (pron: or-nith-o-philly) (pron: ent-eh-mof-illy) (pron: an-eh-mof-illy)
ANSWER: X — ORNITHOPHILY
ANSWER: X — ORNITHOPHILY
Unlike rodents, the rabbit has how many incisor teeth?
ANSWER: FOUR
ANSWER: FOUR
What percent of fire-related deaths are due to smoke inhalation rather than burns?
w) 10%
x) 50%
y) 80%
z) 99%
ANSWER: Y — 80%
ANSWER: Y — 80%
To what familiar fruit is the plantain similar?
ANSWER: BANANA
ANSWER: BANANA
What U.S. President was recognized as a world authority on American game animals?
ANSWER: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ANSWER: THEODORE ROOSEVELT
How many men have walked on the moon?
ANSWER: TWELVE
ANSWER: TWELVE
The fastest-running terrestrial animal is:
w) cheetah
x) lion
y) man
z) jaguar
ANSWER: W — CHEETAH
ANSWER: W — CHEETAH
In what country do the greatest number of tornadoes occur?
ANSWER: UNITED STATES (Central and Southeastern portions)
ANSWER: UNITED STATES (Central and Southeastern portions)
What wonder drug was used for three years by the Army and Navy before becoming available to the general public in 1944?
ANSWER: PENICILLIN
ANSWER: PENICILLIN
Which sea is the saltiest natural lake and is also at the lowest elevation on the face of the earth?
ANSWER: THE DEAD SEA
ANSWER: THE DEAD SEA
The scarab, worshipped by the Egyptians, is what type of beetle?
ANSWER: DUNG BEETLE
ANSWER: DUNG BEETLE
As you go down into a well, your weight: w) increases slightly x) decreases slightly y) remains exactly the same
ANSWER: X — DECREASES SLIGHTLY
ANSWER: X — DECREASES SLIGHTLY
W cloud at ground level is called what?
ANSWER: FOG
ANSWER: FOG
What invention in about 1450 A.D. revolutionized communication and the world?
ANSWER: THE PRINTING PRESS
ANSWER: THE PRINTING PRESS
What is the name for the new technology whereby a glass fiber carries as much information as hundreds of copper wires?
ANSWER: FIBER OPTICS (OPTO-ELECTRONICS)
ANSWER: FIBER OPTICS (OPTO-ELECTRONICS)
What mammal lays eggs?
ANSWER: PLATYPUS
ANSWER: PLATYPUS
Linseed oil comes from what plant?
ANSWER: FLAX
Bees must collect nectar from approximately how many flowers to make 1 pound of honeycomb? Is it:
w) 10 thousand
x) 2 million
y) 20 million
z) 50 million
ANSWER: X — 20 MILLION
ANSWER: X — 20 MILLION
What is the name of the largest North American terrestrial rodent, distinguished by its spiny covering?
ANSWER: PORCUPINE
ANSWER: PORCUPINE
Albacore is a type of:
w) shell-fish
x) tuna
y) marble
z) meteoroid
ANSWER: X — TUNA
ANSWER: X — TUNA
The only species of cat that lives and hunts in groups is:
w) lion
x) leopard
y) jaguar
z) cougar
ANSWER: W — LION
ANSWER: W — LION
Linen is made from what plant?
ANSWER: FLAX
ANSWER: FLAX
What is arachnology?
ANSWER: STUDY OF ARACHNIDS (accept: study of spiders or scorpions or relatives of spiders)
ANSWER: STUDY OF ARACHNIDS (accept: study of spiders or scorpions or relatives of spiders)
What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?
ANSWER: THE STONE AGE
ANSWER: THE STONE AGE
What nocturnal animal group makes up one-fourth of all mammals species?
ANSWER: BATS or CHIROPTERA
ANSWER: BATS or CHIROPTERA
What is the name of the whale that has a long protruding tusk?
ANSWER: NARWHAL
ANSWER: NARWHAL
How many time zones are there on Earth?
ANSWER: TWENTY-FOUR
ANSWER: TWENTY-FOUR
What land mammal holds the record for the greatest age?
ANSWER: MAN
ANSWER: MAN
What is the better known name for the deadly poison prussic acid?
ANSWER: CYANIDE or HYDROGEN CYANIDE
ANSWER: CYANIDE or HYDROGEN CYANIDE
What colorless, pungent gas is often dissolved in water to yield a solution that is used as a biological preservative?
ANSWER: FORMALDEHYDE
ANSWER: FORMALDEHYDE
What is the rest mass of a photon?
ANSWER: ZERO
ANSWER: ZERO
What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and zinc?
ANSWER: BRASS
ANSWER: BRASS
What is the name given to the process, discovered by Goodyear, of adding sulfur to heated rubber?
ANSWER: VULCANIZATION
ANSWER: VULCANIZATION
Used primarily in fertilizers, which element is never found free in nature even though it makes up about 2.5% of the earth’s crust?
ANSWER: POTASSIUM
ANSWER: POTASSIUM
What element, whose symbol derived from the Latin for “liquid silver”, has been found in Egyptian tombs from 1500 B.C.?
ANSWER: MERCURY
ANSWER: MERCURY
What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from tobacco leaves and widely used as an insecticide?
ANSWER: NICOTINE
ANSWER: NICOTINE
What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium?
ANSWER: STAINLESS STEEL
ANSWER: STAINLESS STEEL
Table sugar, from sugar cane or beet, is what type of sugar?
ANSWER: SUCROSE or DISACCHARIDE or SACCHAROSE
ANSWER: SUCROSE or DISACCHARIDE or SACCHAROSE
Which prefix is often used with scientific terms to indicate that something is the same, equal or constant?
w) iso
x) mega
y) meta
z) quasi (pron: eye-so)
ANSWER: W — ISO
ANSWER: W — ISO
The study of phenomena at very low temperatures is called:
w) heat transfer
x) morphology
y) crystallography
z) cryogenics (pron: cry-o-jen-iks)
ANSWER: Z — CRYOGENICS
ANSWER: Z — CRYOGENICS
The branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it affects a community of people is called:
w) epidemiology
x) oncology
y) paleontogy
z) pathology
ANSWER: W — EPIDEMIOLOGY
ANSWER: W — EPIDEMIOLOGY
The study of how people use tools to perform work and how people physically relate to their working environment is called:
w) engineering
x) ergonomics
y) agronomy
z) physiology
ANSWER: X — ERGONOMICS
ANSWER: X — ERGONOMICS
Name the first woman to travel in space.
ANSWER: (VALENTINW) TERESHKOVA
ANSWER: (VALENTINW) TERESHKOVA
What famous scientist and inventor participated in the invention of the Aqua-Lung?
w) Thomas Edison
x) Isaac Newton
y) Leonardo da Vinci
z) Jacques Cousteau
ANSWER: Z — JACQUES COUSTEAU
ANSWER: Z — JACQUES COUSTEAU
Superconductivity is a material property associated with:
w) cooling a substance without a phase change
x) frictionless liquid flow
y) a loss of thermal resistance
z) a loss of electrical resistance
ANSWER: Z — A LOSS OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE
ANSWER: Z — A LOSS OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE
A type of plastic that is biodegradable has been in the news lately. The ingredient that makes it biodegradable is:
w) vegetable oil
x) petroleum
y) cornstarch
z) leather
ANSWER: Y — CORNSTARCH
ANSWER: Y — CORNSTARCH
Who was the marine biologist and author of Silent Spring who was one of the first people to warn of the dangers of pesticides like DDT?
w) Jacques Cousteau
x) Rachel Carson
y) Charles Darwin
z) Marlin Perkins
ANSWER: X — RACHEL CARSON
ANSWER: X — RACHEL CARSON
If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily it is called:
w) malleable
x) ductile
y) extractive
z) tactile
ANSWER: X — DUCTILE
ANSWER: X — DUCTILE
What is the name given to the invasion of warm surface waters off the Peruvian coast that has been identified with strange climactic effects in recent years?
ANSWER: EL NI¥O
ANSWER: EL NI¥O
Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a decrease in a persons hearing ability. What is the name of the tube that becomes blocked to cause this problem?
ANSWER: EUSTACHIAN TUBE (pron: yu-sta-shen)
ANSWER: EUSTACHIAN TUBE (pron: yu-sta-shen)
Name the general type of mammal that gives birth to undeveloped young that are kept in pouches.
ANSWER: MARSUPIAL
ANSWER: MARSUPIAL
In a musical instrument that produces a fundamental note, what would the wavelength of the second harmonic be relative to the fundamental?
ANSWER: WAVELENGTH WOULD BE ONE-HALF THE FUNDAMENTAL
ANSWER: WAVELENGTH WOULD BE ONE-HALF THE FUNDAMENTAL
In which country was a method for making rust-resistant iron discovered in the fifth century B.C.? w) Sumeria
x) Egypt
y) India
z) Babylon
ANSWER: Y — INDIA
ANSWER: Y — INDIA
Cystitis is the infection of which of the following?
w) liver
x) urinary bladder
y) pancreas
z) lung
ANSWER: X — URINARY BLADDER
ANSWER: X — URINARY BLADDER
What is the subdivision in the Plant Kingdom comprising over 20,000 species of Mosses and Liverworts?
ANSWER: BRYOPHYTES (pron: brI-eh-fites)
ANSWER: BRYOPHYTES (pron: brI-eh-fites)
Name the medical term given to the inflammation of infection of the mucous membranes of the nose.
ANSWER: RHINITIS
ANSWER: RHINITIS
Wutomobile catalytic converters cause the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons which result from incomplete combustion to be converted into what two substances?
ANSWER: CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) AND WATER (H2O)
ANSWER: CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) AND WATER (H2O)
At room temperature, most elements are in which phase of matter?
w) solid
x) liquid
y) gas
z) plasma
ANSWER: W — SOLID
ANSWER: W — SOLID
The per capita birth rate of a population is known as its:
w) mortality
x) natality (pron: nay-tal-eh-ty)
y) population density
z) carrying capacity
ANSWER: X — NATALITY
ANSWER: X — NATALITY
Who is called the Father of the Nuclear Navy?
w) Edward Teller
x) Robert Oppenheimer
y) Hymen Rickover
z) Chester Nimitz
ANSWER: Y — HYMEN RICKOVER
ANSWER: Y — HYMEN RICKOVER
The science of weights and measures is called:
w) metrology
x) meteorology
y) mineralogy
z) morphology
ANSWER: W — METROLOGY
ANSWER: W — METROLOGY
The following are the names of man-made structures in the United States. Identify the type of structure. Hungry Horse, Yellowtail, Dworshak, Don Pedro, Cougar, Glen Canyon, Grand Coulee and Hoover. Name the type of structure.
ANSWER: DAMS
ANSWER: DAMS
Which of the following is primarily composed of calcium carbonate?
w) Fish scales
x) Shark teeth
y) Oyster Shells
z) Whale bones
ANSWER: Y — OYSTER SHELLS
ANSWER: Y — OYSTER SHELLS
What compound is a common component of air pollution, but is essential in the upper atmosphere to protect life on earth?
ANSWER: OZONE
ANSWER: OZONE