Astronomy
What is the name of the force holding us to the Earth
Gravity
Which part of the body is the control center for the nervous system?
Brain
What is the hardest material in the world?
Diamond
What operating system did Microsoft develop?
Which is denser, water or ice?
Which planet is known as the red plant?
Mars
What are the slowest animal on Earth?
Three-toed Sloth
What element is almost as light as hydrogen?
Helium
What does the Internet prefix WWW stand for ?
World Wide Web
When you put a rod into a container of clear water, the rod appears to bend at the surface and continues underwater at a different angle. What principle of physics is this?
Refraction
Earth is located in which galaxy?
The Milky Way Galaxy
The word "muscle" comes from a Latin term, musculus. What does musculus mean in its original language?
little mouse
Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Prize, was most famous for which invention?
Dynamite
What is the name of digital file format that was devised in 1987 to reduce the size of images and short animations?
GIF
Who was the scientist to propose the three laws of motion?
Issac Newton
What is the name of Saturn's largest moon?
Titan
What is the name given to the short stretches of DNA formed on the lagging strand?
Okazaki fragments
In the Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote often tries to blow up Road Runner with TNT? What does TNT stand for ?
Trinitrotoluene
What does fiber optic cable resemble, in terms of size?
Human hair
What is the internal force per unit area of a body that arises from externally applied forces?
Stress
What telescope is the world's first space-based optical telescope ?
Hubble Space Telescope
Who proved that contamination with microorganisms, rather than mere exposure to air, is responsible for food spoilage and disease?
Louis Pasteur
What is the only letter that does not appear in the periodic table?
J
What was the name of the chess-playing computer that made history when it defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1996?
Deep Blue
The thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat postulates that a cat can be in two states at the same time. What are those two states?
Alive and Dead