General Science
What is the fastest land animal
cheetah
What is hydrogen oxide?
Water
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Venus (even though Mercury is closer to the Sun)
What animal is responsible for the most human deaths each year?
The mosquito
What is the chemical formula of water?
H2O
What do you call a volcano that’s not currently erupting?
Dormant
What element is a diamond composed of?
Carbon
Between which two planets does the asteroid belt lie?
Jupiter and Mars
What is the largest land mammal in North America?
Bison
Will accept buffalo but strictly this is a misnoma
What does a litre of water weigh?
1,000 g or 1 kg
Who is credited with coming up with the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
What is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?
Oxygen
What planet is closest in size to Earth?
Venus
What do you call a group of flamingos?
A flamboyance
What is the pH of pure water?
Water has a pH of 7, which is neither basic nor acidic.
How many bones do sharks have?
Zero
Atoms of the same chemical element but with different atomic masses are known as what?
Isotopes
What is the order of the planets from smallest to largest?
Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter
What is the smallest mammal on Earth?
The Etruscan shrew
Will accept just shrew
Where is the deepest part of the ocean?
The Challenger Deep, which is located inside the Mariana Trench
Will accept either location
Which continent is the driest (lowest precipitation)
Antarctica
What do you call the subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons?
Quarks
When was our solar system formed?
(+/- 10%)
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago
Will accept between anything 4 and 5 billion
Which animal did Australia go to “war” with in 1932?
The Emu
Where is most of the fresh (not salty) water on planet Earth?
About 68% is in glaciers and ice caps, mainly in the polar regions and in Greenland.
Will accept anything that suggests it's ice.