By David, 2 January 2020
Start the new decade with a challenge! This megaquiz will test your knowledge of all the quizzes we wrote in 2018. The questions are randomly selected, so if you want more questions, you can just reload the page. Or head back to our 2019 megaquiz!
Congratulations! you are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! better brush up before the next quiz!
The oculomotor nerve controls most of the movements of your eye and eyelid.
Douglas Mawson was a famous Australian geologist who explored Antarctica.
Just one mammal species, the fin whale, improved from endangered to non-endangered in 2018.
Earth’s equator is about 40 075 kilometres long.
Ostriches can run faster than 95 kilometres per hour for very short stretches.
Triceps muscles are on the back of arms, opposite the biceps.
Bootlace worms are only about one centimetre wide, but they can grow very long. A 55-metre-long bootlace worm washed up on the coast of Scotland in 1864.
A zircon crystal found in the Jack Hills of Western Australia is believed to be 4.4 billion years old, forming not long after Earth itself!
Gravity accelerates objects at about 9.8 metres per second every second, and 9.8 metres per second is about 35 kilometres per hour.
Huntsman spiders have two rows of eyes, and each row has four eyes.
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