Biology
What do the letters DNA stand for?
deoxyribonucleic acid
Outside of the lab, the phenomenon of effervescence is usually called what?
bubbling or fizzing
Who wrote the first book of physics, called Physica?
Aristotle
Metascience is a branch of science that studies what?
science
Who would win in a fight: a Tyrannosaurus, a monster truck or Mr Tone?
Mr Tone
The three commonly accepted domains of life are Eukarya, Archaea and what?
Bacteria
What do we call molten rock below the surface of the Earth?
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. It stretches through which two countries?
Switzerland and France
Which branch of physics focuses on heat and its relationship with energy and matter?
thermodynamics
How many mm are in an Mm?
1 000 000 000
There are currently how many species of bear?
8
Which element is named after the scientist who created the periodic table?
mendelevium
What is the electron's antiparticle?
positron
Which branch of science studies ancient life and extinct organisms?
palaeontology
Who coined the term "cell" to refer to the building blocks of life?
Robert Hooke
Where is your philtrum?
middle of the upper lip
Which chemist's X-ray photographs of DNA revealed its double helical structure?
Rosalind Franklin
Which state of matter is formed when a gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero?
Bose-Einstein condensate
Which branch of geology focuses on the formation, composition, distribution and structure of rocks?
petrology
The moment magnitude scale is used to measure the strength of what?
earthquakes
What is the only bone in the human body that does not articulate with any other bone?
hyoid bone (tongue-bone)
What everyday ingredient would you produce by reacting sodium hydroxide with carbonic acid?
baking soda (sodium hydrogen carbonate)
What do we call a particle of sound?
phonon
Which branch of biology is focused on the measurement of animal parts?
zoometry
What is the name of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy?
Sagittarius A*