Top 472 Advanced Science Questions and Answers

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Question 1

What is Zymology the study of?

Answer: fermentation

Question 2

What is Posology the study of?

Answer: drug dosage

Question 3

What is Redology the study of?

Answer: the classical Chinese literary masterpiece Dream of the Red Chamber

Question 4

What is Nosology the study of?

Answer: disease classification

Question 5

What is Nematology the study of?

Answer: nematodes

Question 6

What is Oneirology the study of?

Answer: dreams

Question 7

What is Malacology the study of?

Answer: mollusks

Question 8

What is Ethology the study of?

Answer: Animal behaviour

Question 9

What is Dipterology the study of?

Answer: Flies

Question 10

What is Cynology the study of?

Answer: Dogs

Question 11

What is cetology the study of?

Answer: Whales, dolphins and porpoises

Question 12

What is balneology the study of?

Answer: The thereputic effects of bathing

Question 13

What is Axiology the study of?

Answer: The nature of value

Question 14

What is auxology the study of?

Answer: Human growth

Question 15

What is Apiology the study of?

Answer: Bees

Question 16

What is Angiology the study of?

Answer: Vascular systems

Question 17

What is areology the study of?

Answer: Mars

Question 18

What is Actinology the study of?

Answer: The effect of light on chemicals

Question 19

Who Were Chang And Eng Bunker?

Answer: The first documented Siamese twins

Question 20

Who Invented The Gramophone?

Answer: Thomas Edison

Question 21

Who developed the vaccine for smallpox?

Answer: Edward Jenner

Question 22

Which science studies animal behaviour in natural habitats ?

Answer: Ethology

Question 23

Which part of a cat's eye reflects light ?

Answer: Tapetum Lucidum

Question 24

What is -459.7 F also know as?

Answer: Absolute Zero

Question 25

What is Cytology the study of?

Answer: The Structure of Cells

Question 26

This organ is a small pouch that stores bile.

Answer: Gall bladder

Question 27

Which fingerlike projection is attached to the large intestine?

Answer: Appendix

Question 28

In dyeing what is the name given to the substance used for fixing the colour?

Answer: Catalyst

Question 29

As what is a giraffe also known?

Answer: Camelopard

Question 30

Atlantic __________ are able to leap 15 feet high.

Answer: Salmon

Question 31

Which bird has been known to consume a third of its body weight in a single meal?

Answer: Pelican

Question 32

From Which Country Does The Poinsettia Plant Originate

Answer: Mexico

Question 33

In which organ is a clear watery solution known as the 'aqueous humor' found?

Answer: Eye

Question 34

The Rafflesia Has The Largest Single Flower Of Any Plant In The World. Where In The World Does It Grow?

Answer: Southeast Asia

Question 35

Ascorbic acid is commonly referred to as which vitamin?

Answer: Vitamin C

Question 36

What is the word for a group of colts?

Answer: A rag

Question 37

What is the word for a group of giraffes?

Answer: A herd

Question 38

What is the word for a group of mallards?

Answer: A sord

Question 39

What is the word for a group of pigs?

Answer: A litter

Question 40

What is the word for a group of racehorses?

Answer: A field

Question 41

What would you call a female antelope?

Answer: A Doe

Question 42

What would you call a baby clam?

Answer: A Larva

Question 43

What is a male ferret known as?

Answer: A Hob

Question 44

What would you call a baby ferret?

Answer: A Kit

Question 45

What would you call a male hawk?

Answer: A Tiercel

Question 46

What is the word for a female kangaroo?

Answer: A Doe

Question 47

What is the word for a male llama?

Answer: A Macho

Question 48

What would you call a baby llama?

Answer: A Cria

Question 49

What would you call a male mule?

Answer: A Jack

Question 50

A young otter is known as what?

Answer: A Pup

Question 51

What would you call a female rhinoceros?

Answer: A Cow

Question 52

What is a female walrus known as?

Answer: A Cow

Question 53

What would you call a baby wombat?

Answer: A Joey

Question 54

What chemical has the formula CaCO3?

Answer: Calcium carbonate

Question 55

What is the approximate age of the universe?

Answer: 13.8 billion years

Question 56

Which networking protocol is used to transfer files between two computers?

Answer: FTP

Question 57

Which of these trees has winged seeds?

Answer: Ash Tree

Question 58

What is the function of the pancreas?

Answer: Secretes hormones and digestive enzymes

Question 59

What is the name of the compound made of nitrogen and hydrogen, that is commonly used in fertilizers?

Answer: Ammonia

Question 60

What is the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus?

Answer: species

Question 61

What is the name of the unicorn-like whale whose ‘horn’ is actually a long tusk?

Answer: Narwhal

Question 62

What is the planet whose list of moons includes Oberon and Titania?

Answer: Uranus

Question 63

Who was the German astronomer who discovered in the early 17th century that the planets orbit the sun in ellipses?

Answer: Johannes Kepler

Question 64

What subatomic particle is used to arrange elements on the periodic table?

Answer: Protons

Question 65

What suffix is added to a word to denote a cell?

Answer: #NAME?

Question 66

What is Trichology the study of?

Answer: hair and scalp

Question 67

What is Teleology the study of?

Answer: ends or final causes

Question 68

What is Synecology the study of?

Answer: the ecological interrelationships among communities of organisms

Question 69

What is Semiology the study of?

Answer: signs

Question 70

What is Proctology the study of?

Answer: the hind regions (rectum, anus, colon and pelvic floor) of the body

Question 71

What is Psephology the study of?

Answer: the study, especially statistical, of elections

Question 72

What is Polemology the study of?

Answer: war in an interdisciplinary context

Question 73

What is Pomology the study of?

Answer: the scientific study and cultivation of fruits

Question 74

What is Pedology the study of?

Answer: one of two main branches of soil science

Question 75

What is Palynology the study of?

Answer: pollen

Question 76

What is Odontology the study of?

Answer: The structure and diseases of teeth

Question 77

What is Organology the study of?

Answer: Musical instruments

Question 78

What is Nephrology the study of?

Answer: The kidneys

Question 79

What is Mycology the study of?

Answer: fungi

Question 80

What is Lithology the study of?

Answer: Rocks

Question 81

What is Lepidopterology the study of?

Answer: butterflies and moths

Question 82

What is Horology the study of?

Answer: making timepieces, measuring time and timekeeping

Question 83

What is Histopathology the study of?

Answer: the structure of diseased tissues

Question 84

What is Graphology the study of?

Answer: handwriting for the purpose of analysing the character of the writer

Question 85

What is fulminology the study of?

Answer: Lightning

Question 86

What is eschatology the study of?

Answer: The end of human existence

Question 87

What is Edaphology the study of?

Answer: The influence of soil on life

Question 88

What is Dendrology the study of?

Answer: Trees

Question 89

What is Cytomorphology the study of?

Answer: The structure of cells

Question 90

What is codicology the study of?

Answer: The preparation of books and manuscripts

Question 91

What is chavezology the study of?

Answer: Devil worshipers

Question 92

What is Biometeorology the study of?

Answer: The effects of atmospheric conditions on living organisms

Question 93

What is Atmology the study of?

Answer: Aqueous vapors

Question 94

What is Aetiology the study of?

Answer: The causation of disease

Question 95

What is Aerobiology the study of?

Answer: Organic particles

Question 96

What is Acarology the study of?

Answer: Ticks and mites

Question 97

Who was the first person to notice "canals" on Mars?

Answer: Giovanni Schiaparelli

Question 98

Who Is Accepted As The Discoverer Of Penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming

Question 99

Who invented the telescope?

Answer: Galileo Galilei

Question 100

Who discovered Penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming

Question 101

Which two metals make up brass?

Answer: Copper and Zinc

Question 102

Which metal is used to Galvanise Steel?

Answer: Zinc

Question 103

Which meteor shower occurs on the 21st October?

Answer: Orionids

Question 104

Which Member Of The Cat Family Cannot Retract Its Claws?

Answer: Cheetah

Question 105

Which Is The Second Heaviest Land Animal?

Answer: Hippopotamus

Question 106

Which has longer wavelength?

Answer: Microwaves

Question 107

What Type Of Insects Are Hawkers, Clubtails, Biddies, Emeralds, Darts & Skimmers

Answer: Dragon Flies

Question 108

What type of animal is pulex irritants?

Answer: Flea

Question 109

What large herbivore sleeps only one hour a night?

Answer: Antelope

Question 110

What Would You Suffer From With Hypotension?

Answer: Low Blood Pressure

Question 111

Where do ants live?

Answer: Formicary

Question 112

What Is The SI Unit Of Force

Answer: Newton

Question 113

What is the second largest bone in the foot?

Answer: Talus

Question 114

What is the chemical symbol for curium?

Answer: Cm

Question 115

What is the atomic number of Molybdenum?

Answer: Forty two

Question 116

What is the atomic number for thalium?

Answer: 81

Question 117

What Is The Alloy Pewter Made From

Answer: Lead & Tin

Question 118

What Is Moh's Scale A Measure Of?

Answer: Hardness

Question 119

What element is lacking in a diet when goitre occurs?

Answer: Iodine

Question 120

What does hepatitis affect?

Answer: Liver

Question 121

Which moon is our solar system's most cratered satellite?

Answer: Callisto

Question 122

Which astronomer had a metal nose?

Answer: Tycho Brahe

Question 123

The small red deer is the only type of deer found on which continent?

Answer: Africa

Question 124

The king crab walks __________

Answer: Diagonally

Question 125

Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?

Answer: Mars

Question 126

Pedology is the study of ______ ?

Answer: Soil

Question 127

Honey Bees have hair on their ________.

Answer: Eyes

Question 128

The process of a snake shedding its skin or a crustacean casting off its outer shell is called __________

Answer: Ecdysis

Question 129

Name the largest living bird.

Answer: Ostrich

Question 130

In The 19th Century Who Was The Railway King?

Answer: George Hudson

Question 131

A skunk will not __________ and throw its scent at the same time.

Answer: Bite

Question 132

__________ are the only animals born with horns.

Answer: Giraffes

Question 133

What is the more common name for the plant Viscum Album?

Answer: Mistletoe

Question 134

In which time period did the diplodocus live?

Answer: Jurassic

Question 135

In which constellation would you look to find the center of The Milky Way?

Answer: Sagittarius

Question 136

What unit was used to measure the strength of early lasers?

Answer: Gillettes

Question 137

How many vertebrae is the average human born with?

Answer: 33

Question 138

How many hearts does an octopus have?

Answer: 3

Question 139

Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by which pharmaceutical company?

Answer: Bayer

Question 140

From what part of a tree was aspirin originally extracted?

Answer: Bark

Question 141

For What Illness Did Louis Pasteur Develop A Cure?

Answer: Rabies

Question 142

Electrum is a natural alloy of gold and what other metal?

Answer: Silver

Question 143

What is the name given to Earth's outer layer of surface soil?

Answer: Lithosphere

Question 144

For what is Ethylene glycol frequently used in automobiles?

Answer: Anti-freeze

Question 145

Which Period Came Between The Triassic & Cretaceous Periods?

Answer: The Jurassic Period

Question 146

At Which Point Are The Temperature Scales Fahrenheit & Celcius The Same?

Answer: -40

Question 147

What is an unusual feature of the wombat's pouch?

Answer: It faces backwards

Question 148

What does a phrenologist read?

Answer: Skulls

Question 149

What is the word for a group of apes?

Answer: A shrewdness

Question 150

What is the word for a group of asses?

Answer: A pace

Question 151

What is the word for a group of badgers?

Answer: A cete

Question 152

What is the word for a group of bears?

Answer: A sloth

Question 153

What is the word for a group of boars?

Answer: A sounder

Question 154

What is the word for a group of bucks?

Answer: A brace

Question 155

What is the word for a group of cattle?

Answer: A drove

Question 156

What is the word for a group of doves?

Answer: A flight

Question 157

What is the word for a group of elk?

Answer: A gang

Question 158

What is the word for a group of fish?

Answer: A shoal

Question 159

What is the word for a group of gulls?

Answer: A colony

Question 160

What is the word for a group of hens?

Answer: A brood

Question 161

What is the word for a group of partridges?

Answer: A covey

Question 162

What is the word for a group of porpoises?

Answer: A school

Question 163

What is the word for a group of sheep?

Answer: A flock

Question 164

What is the word for a group of swans?

Answer: A herd

Question 165

What is the word for a group of swifts?

Answer: A flock

Question 166

A male alligator is known as what?

Answer: A Bull

Question 167

What is the word for a male badger?

Answer: A Boar

Question 168

What would you call a female badger?

Answer: A Sow

Question 169

What is the word for a female bear?

Answer: A Sow

Question 170

What is the word for a male eagle?

Answer: A Tiercel

Question 171

What is the word for a young eel?

Answer: An Elver

Question 172

What is a male hamster known as?

Answer: A Buck

Question 173

A young hamster is known as what?

Answer: A Pup

Question 174

What is the word for a female hog?

Answer: A Sow

Question 175

A female llama is known as what?

Answer: A Hembra

Question 176

What is a female mouse known as?

Answer: A Doe

Question 177

What is a female panda known as?

Answer: A Soar

Question 178

What is the word for a male pig?

Answer: A Boar

Question 179

A male rabbit is known as what?

Answer: A Buck

Question 180

What is a female rabbit known as?

Answer: A Doe

Question 181

What is the word for a female raccoon?

Answer: A Sow

Question 182

A young sea lion is known as what?

Answer: A Pup

Question 183

A young squirrel is known as what?

Answer: A Kit

Question 184

What is a baby turkey known as?

Answer: A Poult

Question 185

What is a female wallaby known as?

Answer: A Jill

Question 186

What is a baby weasel known as?

Answer: A Kit

Question 187

What is the word for a male whale?

Answer: A Bull

Question 188

What is a female whale known as?

Answer: A Cow

Question 189

What would you call a baby whale?

Answer: A Calf

Question 190

What would you call a male wombat?

Answer: A Jack

Question 191

What is the word for a female wombat?

Answer: A Jill

Question 192

What is the common name for sodium hypochlorite?

Answer: Bleach

Question 193

What is trichloromethane commonly known as?

Answer: Chloroform

Question 194

What is the chemical potassium hydrogen tartrate often used for?

Answer: It is used in baking to stabilize egg whites.

Question 195

What is calcium magnesium carbonate commonly known as?

Answer: Dolomite

Question 196

What is the chemical magnesium sulphate heptahydrate often used for?

Answer: It is used to relieve pain and inflammation.

Question 197

What is iron oxide commonly known as?

Answer: Hematite

Question 198

What is the common name for sodium hydroxide?

Answer: Caustic soda

Question 199

What is silicon dioxide commonly known as?

Answer: Quartz

Question 200

In computer networking, what do the initials URL stand for?

Answer: Uniform Resource Locator

Question 201

In computer networking, what does DNS stand for?

Answer: Domain Name System

Question 202

Which type of tree is known for its fragrant white flowers?

Answer: Pear Tree

Question 203

What is the common name for the tree species Salix babylonica?

Answer: Weeping Willow

Question 204

What is the name of the dinosaur with a club-like tail?

Answer: Ankylosaurus

Question 205

Which dinosaur was the largest carnivore?

Answer: Spinosaurus

Question 206

Which is the smallest planet in the Solar System?

Answer: Mercury

Question 207

In astronomy, what is the term for the measurement of the brightness of stars?

Answer: Apparent Magnitude

Question 208

Which element did Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman bombard to discover nuclear fission?

Answer: Uranium

Question 209

What is the lowest common multiple of 3, 4 and 5?

Answer: 60

Question 210

What is the atomic number of aluminum?

Answer: 13

Question 211

What is the name of the tree species native to India that has supporting roots and trunks, and a single tree can cover an area of up to 3 acres?

Answer: Banyan

Question 212

Which of these birds of prey mainly feeds on fish?

Answer: Osprey

Question 213

What metal that is so soft it can be cut with a knife?

Answer: Potassium

Question 214

What common fungal infection is also known as tinea pedis and is highly contagious?

Answer: Athlete's foot

Question 215

What is the name of the organ used by an octopus to cling to surfaces?

Answer: Suckers

Question 216

Which Polish astronomer has craters on the moon and Mars named after him?

Answer: Copernicus

Question 217

Which soft, purplish organ filters blood and stores platelets?

Answer: Spleen

Question 218

What is another name for a canine tooth?

Answer: Cuspid

Question 219

What medical term is often caused by abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye?

Answer: Glaucoma

Question 220

What is an autoclave designed to do to surgical instruments in a medical lab?

Answer: Sterilize them

Question 221

Instead of charcoal, what gas in a tank might you use to fuel a barbecue?

Answer: Propane

Question 222

What is the name of the chemistry law stating that the pressure of a gas at constant temperature varies inversely with its volume?

Answer: Boyle's Law

Question 223

Which part of the brain is involved in the coordination of voluntary motor movements?

Answer: The cerebellum

Question 224

What machine is used to separate denser substances from less dense ones by spinning them around in a container?

Answer: A centrifuge

Question 225

What protein is resposible for carrying oxygen in our blood?

Answer: Hemoglobin

Question 226

Admiral and Monarch belong to which group of animals?

Answer: Butterflies

Question 227

At which hospital was the first British Heart Transplant operation performed in 1979?

Answer: Papworth, Cambridge

Question 228

What is Tribology the study of?

Answer: friction and lubrication

Question 229

What is Stomatology the study of?

Answer: study of the mouth and its diseases

Question 230

What is Somatology the study of?

Answer: study of human characteristics

Question 231

What is Sitiology the study of?

Answer: dietetics

Question 232

What is Sinology the study of?

Answer: China

Question 233

What is Sindonology the study of?

Answer: the Shroud of Turin

Question 234

What is Selenology the study of?

Answer: The moon

Question 235

What is Phrenology the study of?

Answer: the derivation of a persons character traits, by studying the shape of their skull

Question 236

What is Phytology the study of?

Answer: plants; botany

Question 237

What is Philology the study of?

Answer: the historical study of languages

Question 238

What is Phenology the study of?

Answer: periodic biological phenomena such as flowering, migration, breeding, etc

Question 239

What is Penology the study of?

Answer: prison management and criminal rehabilitation

Question 240

What is Otology the study of?

Answer: the structure, function, and pathology of the ear

Question 241

What is Ornithology the study of?

Answer: birds

Question 242

What is Onomatology the study of?

Answer: proper names

Question 243

What is Oenology the study of?

Answer: wine

Question 244

What is Odonatology the study of?

Answer: dragonflies and damselflies

Question 245

What is Ludology the study of?

Answer: games and play

Question 246

What is Kymatology the study of?

Answer: waves or wave motions

Question 247

What is Hepatology the study of?

Answer: The liver

Question 248

What is Formicology the study of?

Answer: Ants

Question 249

What is deltiology the study of?

Answer: Picture postcards

Question 250

What is Coleopterology the study of?

Answer: Beetles

Question 251

What is Christology the study of?

Answer: The theological study of redemption

Question 252

What is cereology the study of?

Answer: Crop circles

Question 253

What is campanology the study of?

Answer: Bell ringing

Question 254

What is Boxology the study of?

Answer: schematic layouts

Question 255

What is Astacology the study of?

Answer: Crayfish

Question 256

What is Agrostology the study of?

Answer: Grasses

Question 257

What is Agnoiology the study of?

Answer: Things which cannot be known

Question 258

What is Algology the study of?

Answer: Algae

Question 259

Why Is Louise Brown Famous?

Answer: First Test Tube Baby

Question 260

Who was the first man to go to space twice?

Answer: Virgil Grissom

Question 261

Who Took The First Practical Photograph?

Answer: Louis Daguerre

Question 262

Who is the only person two win two nobel prizes?

Answer: Marie Curie

Question 263

Who was the first to fly over the English Channel?

Answer: Louis Bleriot

Question 264

Who Invented The ZX80, The First Widely Available Personal Computer?

Answer: Clive Sinclair

Question 265

Who first transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic?

Answer: Guglielmo Marconi

Question 266

Who First Demonstrated Television In 1926?

Answer: John Logie Baird

Question 267

Who discovered X-rays?

Answer: Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 268

Who coined the theory that the earth revolves around the sun?

Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 269

Which substance has the chemical formula H2SO4?

Answer: Sulfuric acid

Question 270

Which metal has the chemical element W?

Answer: Tungsten

Question 271

Which Large Rodent Is Also Known As Nutria?

Answer: Coypu

Question 272

Which is the largest nerve in the Human Body?

Answer: Sciatic nerve

Question 273

Which Insect Has A Pair Of Prominent Pincers At The Tip Of It's Abdomen?

Answer: Earwig

Question 274

Which is the largest known butterfly?

Answer: Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

Question 275

Which moon is the second largest satellite in our solar system?

Answer: Titan

Question 276

Which month has a diamond as a birthstone

Answer: April

Question 277

Which 2 Islands Are The Natural Habitat Of The Orang-Utan?

Answer: Borneo & Sumatra

Question 278

What Part Of The Brain Is Affected In A Lobotomy?

Answer: The Frontal Lobe

Question 279

What is the symbol for copper?

Answer: Cu

Question 280

What is the troposphere immediately lower than?

Answer: Stratosphere

Question 281

What is the heart rate of the blue whale? (in beats per minute)

Answer: 9

Question 282

What is a death cap?

Answer: Toadstool

Question 283

What insect has a type of hair on its eyes?

Answer: Bees

Question 284

What Fundamental Part Of Computer Technology Was Pantented In The Us In 1961?

Answer: Silicon Chip

Question 285

What fruit is "Citrus grandis"?

Answer: Grapefruit

Question 286

What organ is joined to the hyoid bone?

Answer: Tongue

Question 287

What Colour Does Litmus Paper Turn When Dipped In Acid?

Answer: Red

Question 288

Which cluster of stars is also known as the Seven Sisters?

Answer: Pleiades

Question 289

What is the world's largest rodent?

Answer: Capybara

Question 290

The pupil of an octopus's eye is __________

Answer: Rectangular

Question 291

The __________ has green bones.

Answer: Garfish

Question 292

In Geology What Period followed The Cretaceous?

Answer: Jurassic

Question 293

How many degrees does the earth rotate each hour

Answer: Fifteen

Question 294

How Many Chambers Are There In Your Heart?

Answer: 4

Question 295

How many beams of light are used to record a holograph?

Answer: Two

Question 296

From What Metals Is Brass Made?

Answer: Copper & Tin

Question 297

How fast (mph) can a kangaroo hop?

Answer: Forty

Question 298

A Jacaranda is a type of what?

Answer: Tree

Question 299

A group of bees can be called either a hive, a swarm, or a __________

Answer: Grist

Question 300

A cat's __________ can't move sideways.

Answer: Jaw

Question 301

What company made the first color arcade game?

Answer: Atari

Question 302

Geological eras are divided into units called ________.

Answer: Periods

Question 303

In which organ is bile produced?

Answer: Liver

Question 304

In the early 20th century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat which illness?

Answer: Epilepsy

Question 305

How many stomach compartments does a cow have?

Answer: Four

Question 306

How many hearts do earthworms have?

Answer: 5

Question 307

How many legs does a crab have?

Answer: 10

Question 308

How do procumbent plants grow?

Answer: They spread overground

Question 309

From which type of tree do we get hardwood?

Answer: Deciduous

Question 310

From what is the heart drug digitalis obtained?

Answer: Foxglove

Question 311

From which plant is the poison ricin obtained?

Answer: The Castor Bean Plant

Question 312

For What Is Lepidoptera The Scientific Name?

Answer: Butterflies & Moths

Question 313

Emphysema Affects Which Part Of The Body?

Answer: Lungs

Question 314

Cocci, Spirilla, and Streptococci are types of what?

Answer: Bacteria

Question 315

Aspirin was originally obtained from the bark of which tree?

Answer: Willow

Question 316

Acetylsalicylic acid is more commonly known as what?

Answer: Aspirin

Question 317

What word describes the porous openings on the surface of leaves?

Answer: Stomata

Question 318

A 'Boomer" Is The Male Of Which Animal?

Answer: Kangaroo

Question 319

What is the word for a group of cranes?

Answer: A herd

Question 320

What is the word for a group of flies?

Answer: A swarm

Question 321

What is the word for a group of foxes?

Answer: A skulk

Question 322

What is the word for a group of goats?

Answer: A herd

Question 323

What is the word for a group of herons?

Answer: A sedge

Question 324

What is the word for a group of kangaroos?

Answer: A troop

Question 325

What is the word for a group of larks?

Answer: An exaltation

Question 326

What is the word for a group of leopards?

Answer: A leap

Question 327

What is the word for a group of mares?

Answer: A stud

Question 328

What is the word for a group of peacocks?

Answer: A muster

Question 329

What is the word for a group of pheasants?

Answer: A nye

Question 330

What is the word for a group of quails?

Answer: A bevy

Question 331

What is the word for a group of sparrows?

Answer: A host

Question 332

What is the word for a group of swine?

Answer: A herd

Question 333

What is a female alligator known as?

Answer: A Cow

Question 334

What is the word for a male bear?

Answer: A Boar

Question 335

What would you call a male bee?

Answer: A Drone

Question 336

A female cat is known as what?

Answer: A Queen

Question 337

What would you call a female elephant?

Answer: A Cow

Question 338

What is a male falcon known as?

Answer: A Tiercel

Question 339

What is the word for a male giraffe?

Answer: A Bull

Question 340

What is a female hamster known as?

Answer: A Doe

Question 341

What would you call a baby hare?

Answer: A Leveret

Question 342

A female hedgehog is known as what?

Answer: A Sow

Question 343

What would you call a male hippopotamus?

Answer: A Bull

Question 344

What is a female hippopotamus known as?

Answer: A Cow

Question 345

What would you call a baby hippopotamus?

Answer: A Calf

Question 346

What would you call a male manatee?

Answer: A Bull

Question 347

What is a female manatee known as?

Answer: A Cow

Question 348

What is the word for a male moose?

Answer: A Bull

Question 349

What is the word for a young moose?

Answer: A Calf

Question 350

What is the word for a male mouse?

Answer: A Buck

Question 351

What is a male panda known as?

Answer: A Boar

Question 352

What is a male rat known as?

Answer: A Buck

Question 353

What would you call a female rat?

Answer: A Doe

Question 354

What is a baby rhinoceros known as?

Answer: A Calf

Question 355

A female sea lion is known as what?

Answer: A Cow

Question 356

A male seal is known as what?

Answer: A Bull

Question 357

What is the word for a young shark?

Answer: A Pup

Question 358

What is a male skunk known as?

Answer: A Boar

Question 359

What would you call a baby skunk?

Answer: A Kit

Question 360

What would you call a male squirrel?

Answer: A Buck

Question 361

What would you call a male swan?

Answer: A Cob

Question 362

A female swan is known as what?

Answer: A Pen

Question 363

What is a male wallaby known as?

Answer: A Jack

Question 364

What is a baby walrus known as?

Answer: A Cub

Question 365

What would you call a female zebra?

Answer: A Mare

Question 366

What is the chemical formula for sodium bicarbonate?

Answer: NaHCO3

Question 367

What chemical has the formula KOH?

Answer: Potassium hydroxide

Question 368

What is the chemical trichloromethane often used for?

Answer: It is used as a solvent for lacquer, floor polishes and resins.

Question 369

What chemical compound makes cream of tartar?

Answer: Potassium hydrogen tartrate

Question 370

What chemical compound makes epsom salt?

Answer: Magnesium sulphate heptahydrate

Question 371

What chemical compound makes gypsum?

Answer: Calcium sulphate dihydrate

Question 372

What is the chemical deuterium oxide often used for?

Answer: It is used in nuclear reactors, as a neutron moderator.

Question 373

What is the chemical calcium carbonate often used for?

Answer: It is used as a building material.

Question 374

What is the chemical formula for mercury?

Answer: Hg

Question 375

What is the common name for potassium nitrate?

Answer: Saltpetre

Question 376

What is the chemical trinitrotoluene often used for?

Answer: It is used in used in military shells, bombs, and grenades.

Question 377

What was the first ever message sent via morse code?

Answer: What Hath God Wrought?

Question 378

Which networking protocol is used to access websites securely?

Answer: HTTPS

Question 379

In computer networking, what is meaning of the initials IP?

Answer: Internet Protocol

Question 380

What is the approximate distance from Earth to the sun?

Answer: 150 million km

Question 381

What is the approximate radius of the sun?

Answer: 696,000 km

Question 382

What type of tree has an umbrella-shaped canopy and is native to Africa and Australasia?

Answer: Acacia

Question 383

What was the 1986 Giotto probe designed to study?

Answer: Halley's Comet

Question 384

What type of bird is Hawaii's state bird, the Nene?

Answer: A goose

Question 385

What is the lowest common multiple of 22 and 44?

Answer: 44

Question 386

What is the name of the inert gas with atomic number 18?

Answer: Argon

Question 387

Which planet did the Mariner 10 probe take pictures of in 1974?

Answer: Mercury

Question 388

Who created an audiometer to detect vestigial hearing in the deaf, among other inventions?

Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question 389

In geometry, what is the opposite of an acute angle?

Answer: Obtuse

Question 390

Which disease is carried by the same virus as chicken pox,l and is common amongst older people?

Answer: Shingles

Question 391

What are the two different values of the square root of 144?

Answer: 12 and -12

Question 392

Which comet causes the Orionids meteor shower each October?

Answer: Halley's Comet

Question 393

Which of these is a hard variety of coal known for burning with little flame or smoke?

Answer: Anthracite

Question 394

In medical terms, what is the name of a condition in which a blood vessel gets blocked by an air bubble moving through the bloodstream?

Answer: An Embolism

Question 395

What term is used to describe a number of skin inflammations and is from the Greek word for 'skin'?

Answer: Dermatitis

Question 396

What is the name for the extension on a neuron that receives signals from other neurons?

Answer: Dendrite

Question 397

What is the circular cap on a mushroom called?

Answer: Pileus

Question 398

What part of the body is the sclera a part of?

Answer: The eyeball

Question 399

In 1905, German scientist Alfred Einhorn created the first injectable local anesthetic used in dentistry. What is it called?

Answer: Novocaine

Question 400

Which of these can be found in the knee?

Answer: Meniscus

Question 401

What is Xylology the study of?

Answer: Wood

Question 402

What is Vexillology the study of?

Answer: Flags

Question 403

What is Teratology the study of?

Answer: wonders, or monsters

Question 404

What is Soteriology the study of?

Answer: especially as related to Christianity

Question 405

What is Phycology the study of?

Answer: Algae

Question 406

What is Orthopterology the study of?

Answer: grasshoppers and crickets

Question 407

What is Orology the study of?

Answer: Mountains

Question 408

What is Molinology the study of?

Answer: Windmills and similar devices

Question 409

What is Ichthyology the study of?

Answer: fish

Question 410

What is Histology the study of?

Answer: living tissues

Question 411

What is Hippology the study of?

Answer: Horses

Question 412

What is Helminthology the study of?

Answer: parasitic worms

Question 413

What is ecohydrology the study of?

Answer: Interactions among organisms and the water cycle

Question 414

What is desmology the study of?

Answer: Ligaments

Question 415

What is Dermatopathology the study of?

Answer: Skin disease

Question 416

What is Batology the study of?

Answer: Brambles

Question 417

Who Was The First Director Of The Atomic Lab At Los Alamos New Mexico?

Answer: J Robert Oppenheimer

Question 418

Who Invented the worlds first electronic pocket calculator in 1972?

Answer: Clive Sinclair

Question 419

Which plant is known for attracting hummingbirds?

Answer: Hibiscus

Question 420

Where Does A Gopher Make Its Home?

Answer: Underground

Question 421

Which Aircraft Manufactuer Produced The Spitfire?

Answer: Supermarine

Question 422

What Vehicular Safety Device Was First Pantented By Ej Claghorn?

Answer: Seat Belt

Question 423

Where Is The Natural Habitat Of The Cheese Plant?

Answer: Central America

Question 424

What Road Safety Device Was Invented By Percy Shaw In 1943?

Answer: Cats Eye

Question 425

What Is The Collective Name For Rhinoceroses?

Answer: A Crash

Question 426

What is a word for a castrated ram?

Answer: Wether

Question 427

Which monkey has patches of red on its rear end?

Answer: Mandrill

Question 428

On what part of the body is an 'LTK procedure' performed?

Answer: Eyes

Question 429

In the animal kingdom, if reptiles are in class reptilia, then birds are in class ____?

Answer: Aves

Question 430

What is the Chemical Element Pa?

Answer: Protactinium

Question 431

A "sirocco" refers to a type of __________."

Answer: Wind

Question 432

Which branch of science is associated with the terms monocotyledon and dicotyledon?

Answer: Botany

Question 433

What does the binary number 1000000 (six zeros) represent?

Answer: 64

Question 434

How many moons does Mercury have?

Answer: 0

Question 435

Developed in the USA in 1930, by what name is poly vinyl chloride better known?

Answer: PVC

Question 436

Acetic Acid Is More Commonly Known As What?

Answer: Vinegar

Question 437

What is the word for a group of gnats?

Answer: A swarm

Question 438

What is the word for a group of goldfinches?

Answer: A charm

Question 439

What is the word for a group of hares?

Answer: A down

Question 440

What is the word for a group of kittens?

Answer: A kindle

Question 441

What is the word for a group of moles?

Answer: A labour

Question 442

What is the word for a group of mules?

Answer: A barren

Question 443

What is the word for a group of nightingales?

Answer: A watch

Question 444

What is the word for a group of ravens?

Answer: An unkindness

Question 445

What is a baby alpaca known as?

Answer: A Cria

Question 446

What is the word for a young bat?

Answer: A Pup

Question 447

A young beaver is known as what?

Answer: A Kitten

Question 448

A young deer is known as what?

Answer: A Fawn

Question 449

What is a baby donkey known as?

Answer: A Colt

Question 450

What would you call a baby elephant?

Answer: A Calf

Question 451

A female ferret is known as what?

Answer: A Jill

Question 452

What would you call a female guinea pig?

Answer: A Sow

Question 453

What is a baby hawk known as?

Answer: An Eyas

Question 454

What is the word for a male hedgehog?

Answer: A Boar

Question 455

What is the word for a male yak?

Answer: A Bull

Question 456

What is sodium tetraborate decahydrate commonly known as?

Answer: Borax

Question 457

What is the chemical calcium magnesium carbonate often used for?

Answer: It is used as an ingredient in the production of glass, bricks, and ceramics.

Question 458

What chemical has the formula CH4?

Answer: Methane

Question 459

What is the chemical silicon dioxide often used for?

Answer: It is used as oscillators in radios, watches.

Question 460

Who discovered the electron?

Answer: J. J. Thomson

Question 461

What is the name of the largest asteroid in the Solar System?

Answer: Ceres

Question 462

What is another word for carbohydrate?

Answer: Saccharide

Question 463

Phobos is a moon of which planet in our solar system?

Answer: Mars

Question 464

Interferons are proteins produced by the human body to interfere with the spread of what?

Answer: viruses

Question 465

Which planet is never observable when the sky is fully dark?

Answer: Mercury

Question 466

The moons Deimos and Phobos orbit which planet in our solar system?

Answer: Mars

Question 467

What type of matter is a positron?

Answer: Antimatter

Question 468

What is the atomic number of the first transuranium element?

Answer: Neptunium

Question 469

Named for its steely blue colour, which fish has a steelhead variety?

Answer: Trout

Question 470

Which of these people was not an astronomer?

Answer: Christiaan Barnard

Question 471

What was the nationality of the mathematician Joseph Fourier?

Answer: French

Question 472

What connects the nose to the ear?

Answer: Eustachian tube