Scientist

A group of whales is known as what?

Pod

After it reaches the Earth's surface, what's a meteor called?

Meteorite

In a vacuum, what moves at the speed of 186,282 miles per hour?

Light

Low blood sugar is known as what?

Hypoglycemia

Oncology is the study and treatment of what?

Cancers

One ton equals how many pounds?

2000

Pearls can be found in what sea creature?

Oyster

People with what type of blood can donate blood to anyone?

O-

The force of gravity on an object is known as what?

Weight

The three laws of motion were devised by who?

Isaac Newton

Trees that never loose their leaves are known as what?

Evergreen

What is the most common type of cancer in men?

Prostate

What is the most common type of cancer in women?

Breast

What scale is used to measure the intensity of earthquakes?

Richter

What scientist first explained that the planets revolve in orbit around the sun?

Johannes Kepler

What type of scientist studies motion?

Physicist

Who devised the three laws of motion?

Isaac Newton

Who founded the company SpaceX?

Elon Musk

Who is the father of psychoanalysis?

Sigmund Freud

What U.S. city has been the target of the most tornadoes?

Oklahoma City

What is the first element on the periodic table?

Hydrogen

The resistance of any object to a change in its state of motion is known as what?

Inertia

What phenomenon just before sunrise, or just after sunset, produces a green spot of light above the sun?

Green flash

What is measured with a Geiger counter?

Radioactivity

What is a telephone which is a mixture of telephone and hand-held computer often called?

Smartphone

What is the Ericofon also known as?

The Cobra phone

This is the name of the man that first, by mistake, came up with the idea with penicillin?

Alexander Flemming

What is an attraction between molecules without a chemical bond between them called?

Cohesion

What was the name of the inventor who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in 1901?

Wilhelm Rontgen

What is the process called when a liquid is heated so that it can be broken down into its constituents?

Distillation

Close to which city is the research center CERN?

Geneva

What was the name of the ship Nansen and Amundsen used on the expeditions to the North and South Poles?

Fram

What does the symbol N stand for in thermodynamics?

Particle number

Which Greek scientist and philosopher succeeded in measuring the Earths circumference around 200 BC?

Eratosthenes

Approximately how much is gravitational acceleration expressed in m/s^2 at the surface of the Earth?

10

Who said "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth."?

Archimedes

Which scientist "discovered" gravity?

Isaac Newton

In this year the famous work of Charles Darwin, "On the Origin of Species", was release

1859

In what research are Alleles, Diploids, Phenotypes and Plasmids important terms?

Genetics

James Dewar invented the thermos. But what does "thermos" mean?

Heat

Benjamin Franklin was not only a politician but also a scientist. What did he invent?

The lightning rod

What is studied with the aid of a Bathyscaphe?

Ocean deeps

What type of vehicle is equipped with a centerboard?

A ship

What does Napalm primarily consist of, besides petrol?

Sodium

Who discovered the principal of the force that affects objects immersed in water?

Archimedes

The rate of change in motion is known as what?

Acceleration

Which of Newton's three laws says it's more difficult to move something with a larger mass?

Law 2

If you're in a vacuum, and you drop a hammer and a cotton ball from the same height, which will hit the ground first?

They'll hit at the same time

In what month is the Earth closest to the sun?

January

The fastest land snake in the world is what?

Black Mamba

What scientist discovered the principle of inertia?

Galileo Galilei

Animals which can live on land, but which also need to be in water are known as what?

Amphibians

What scientist discovered that the world has magnetic poles?

William Gilbert

What's the name for the fastest speed that an object can fall at?

Terminal velocity

Bronze consists of two primary elements. One is copper. What's the other?

Tin

Which of Newton's three laws says that for every action, there is an equal or opposite reaction?

Law 3

How many colors are there in a rainbow?

7

The point at which water vapor turns into dew is known as what?

Dew point

How many pints of blood run through the average human body?

10

Ceres is a dwarf planet which sits between Mars and what planet?

Jupiter

What is measured using an echo sounder?

Water depth

In which unit is luminous intensity measured?

Candela

What is measured in the unit Candela?

Luminous intensity

What is the SI unit for electrical current?

Ampere

What is the name of the change of a moving object's direction of movement, which can be observed, when the object is viewed in a rotating reference system?

The Coriolis effect

According to the Theory of Relativity, how many dimensions are there?

4

Which law describes the relationship between voltage, resistance and current?

Ohm's law

How many stars are in the Milky Way?

100 Billion

What country did Albert Einstein die in?

USA

How many liters are in an American gallon?

3,78 L

What country dropped the first atom bomb?

USA

When was the scientist Charles Darwin born?

1809

Which of the following vitamins is soluble in water?

Vitamin C

Which element did the Curies discover first in 1898, followed later that year by their discovery of Radium?

Polonium

What is the SI unit for time?

Second

John Mauchley among others constructed a decimal computer in the 1940's. What did they call it?

Eniac

How fast does sound travel in normal atmospheric conditions?

347 m/s

What island is associated with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe?

Hven

What is the chemical symbol for table salt?

NaCl

Tycho Brahe was a scientist that understood that the Earth could not be the centre of the galaxy, after that our image of the world changed to what we today call...?

Heliocentrism

A computer developed in Cambridge University, was the first computer with stored programs and did its first calculation in 1949. What's it called? 

EDSAC

According to a modern theory of physics, the smallest parts in the universe are called what? 

Superstrings

An octopus has how many hearts?

3

At what speed does a tropical storm turn into a hurricane?

74 MPH

Diamonds are made up largely of what element?

Carbon

Fahrenheit and Celsius are equal at what temperature?

-40

How long does it take for light from the sun to reach the Earth?

8 minutes 20 seconds

How long is an eon?

Billion years

How many centimeters constitute one inch? 

2,54

How many degrees Celsius is 200 Fahrenheit? 

93

How many grams are there in an international pound? 

453

In which part of a nuclear plant do you find radioactive materials? 

The reactor core

It is relatively safe to be in a car during a thunderstorm because it acts as a... ?

Faraday cage

Mobile telephones use jar files. What type of files are these? 

Java files

Roughly how far is it around the equator? 

40.000 km

"The Great Red Spot" is a storm which is located on what planet?

Jupiter

The planet with the most gravity of any planet in our solar system is what?

Jupiter

There are two planets known as ice giants in our solar system. One is Uranus. What’s the other?

Neptune

What are sugar, starch and cellulose examples of? 

Carbohydrates

What are waves that have the same frequency and phase called? 

Coherent

What company introduced the world's first mobile phone? 

Motorola

What could we say that a liquid's "viscosity" describes? 

Ability to flow

What do you call the study of sound? 

Acoustics

What does the "A" in the acronym LASER stand for? 

Amplification

What does the abbreviation FTP stand for regarding the internet? 

File Transfer Protocol

What does the abbreviation SMS stand for regarding telephony? 

Short Message Service

What index is used to denote the strength of a volcano's power? 

VEI

What is A/h an abbreviation for? 

Ampere hour

What is a Yellow Metal? 

A type of brass

What is "Alchemy"? 

Attempts to turn base metals into gold

What is measured by the unit Newton? 

Force

What is measured by the unit PSU? 

Water salinity

What is the change of frequency in a constant sound signal known as? 

Doppler Effect

What is the filament in an ordinary light bulb made of? 

Tungsten

What is the heaviest known element? 

Osmium

What is the length of a statute mile in meters? 

1609 m

What is the planet with the most moons?

Jupiter

What is the unit of torque? 

Newton meter

What’s it called when two atoms of hydrogen combine to form an atom of helium?

Fusion

What's the name of the world's largest active volcano? 

Mauna Loa

What’s the only human internal organ capable of reforming lost tissue?

Liver

What scientist invented the refracting telescope?

Hans Lippershey

What SI-unit is a measure of illuminance? 

Lux

What unit of measurement equals approximately 746 watts?

Horsepower

What was the first planet discovered with a telescope?

Uranus

Which of the following is a unit for power? 

Newton

Which of these elements is liquid at room temperature?

Mercury

Which of these surnames ISN'T also a unit of measurement? 

Mannheim

Which planet has an axis which tilts at 98 degrees?

Uranus

Which planet has moons by the name of Mimas and Titan?

Saturn

Which planet in our solar system has the longest days?

Venus

Which unit of measurement indicates the strength of a magnetic field? 

Gauss

Who won the first Nobel Prize in physics? 

Wilhem Röntgen

What degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius?

212

How many meters is 1 maritime nautical cable?

185,2

How many bytes are there in a gigabyte?

A billion

What did Marie Curie and Pierre Curie receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for in 1903?

Their research on radiation

What was the name of the ship capt. James Cook circumnavigated the world in between 1768 to 1771?

Endeavour

How many millions of years old is the skeleten of the Human ancestor "Lucy" was discovered in the 1970s?

3

Who invented the wheel?

Nobody knows for sure

How many meters constitute a mile?

1609

What is genealogy the study of?

Ancestry

Guglielmo Marconi was the one that got the patent for the invention of radio. But who is considered its true inventor today?

Nikola Tesla

This is the British scientist Stephen Hawking's main field

Cosmology

The percentage of silver must be above what to be called silver?

83%

What is a hygrometer used to measure?

Humidity

At what temperature Celsius do you reach absolute zero? (The lower limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale)

-273,15

When was Newton's mathematical treatise on gravity published?

1687

What did Marie Curie receive the Nobel Prize for in 1911?

Chemistry

Which two metals is Brass an alloy of?

Copper and zinc

Who was the physicist who discovered the Law of Gravity?

Isaac Newton

Which rival of Edison developed the concept of alternating current?

Tesla

Which of the following measurement prefixes is the biggest?

Tera

This is the name of the inventor in the Tintin series

Professor Calculus

Another name for hydrogen cyanide is...?

Prussic acid

What discovery did Einstein receive his 1922 Nobel Prize for?

Photoelectric effect

What is the formula devised by Albert Einstein to describe the relationship between energy and mass?

E = mc^2

Which unit of measurement, named after a Serbian inventor, indicates magnetic flux density?

Tesla

What is the name of the female scientist who, along with her husband, discovered radium?

Marie Curie

What was "Little Boy" a code name for?

An atomic bomb

What did Samuel Morse invent?

The Morse code

What disease did the famous theoretical physicist and writer Stephen Hawking suffer from?

ALS

What was the primary goal of alchemy in medieval times?

To transform base metals into gold

During which decade did Alexander Graham Bell get his telephone patent?

1870s

Who was the French mathematician who invented an early mechanical calculator in 1642?

Blaise Pascal

What is indicated by a Carat?

Gold content

Where is the Samsung company based?

South Korea

Which of the following is NOT one of Nature's fundamental forces?

Evolution

What is measured in Ohms?

Resistance

Which country did the inventor of the temperature scale Fahrenheit come from?

Germany