Here’s our megaquiz for the year! Below are 10 questions picked from every quiz we wrote in 2020. If you want more questions, just hit refresh and we’ll grab you another 10. Good luck!
Results
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#1. The standard note for tuning instruments is A (above middle C). At what frequency does the note vibrate?
440 Hz sounds as an A and it is now the standard tuning note for instruments. While music has a long history, this standard was only implemented by the International Organization for Standardization in 1955.
#2. CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory just got a new name – but what is it?
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory is now known as the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
#3. CRISPR is a method used for gene editing. What does the first letter stand for?
The letters in CRISPR stand for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. CRISPR are special pieces of DNA that can be used to help edit an organism’s genome.
#4. Which one of the following was a dinosaur?
Archaeopteryx was a bird-like dinosaur. Pteranodon was a flying reptile, Plesiosaurus was a marine reptile, and Dimetrodon was a synapsid (traditionally known as a “mammal-like reptile”).
#5. What was the first type of bird to hatch in space?
In 1990, quail eggs hatched in the Soviet space station Mir.
#6. What do humans make maple syrup out of?
Maple syrup is made by boiling the sap from maple trees.
#7. In a human body, what organ is the appendix typically a part of?
The appendix is part of the intestines, found near the junction between the small and large intestines.
#8. The golden ratio is famous in art and architecture. Which famous sequence is most closely linked to this ratio?
Dividing a Fibonacci number by its immediate predecessor in the sequence gives an approximation of the golden ratio.
#9. Which is bigger – Pluto or the Moon?
The Moon is bigger. It’s about 3500 kilometres across, while Pluto is only 2400 kilometres wide.
#10. Which simple machine has a fulcrum?
The fulcrum is the pivot or hinging part of a lever.
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3 responses
Hey, I got 9 right, missed moons of Pluto, but you gave me an 8/10. Looks like you program did not account for the extra 5 question, just the first five since I aced the last 5.
Hi Terry,
Thanks for the feedback! Sadly, the quiz changes every time you load it, so I can’t get the same bug to appear. But let us know if it happens again, and I’ll dig a bit deeper.
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Hi David,
I thought there might be a larger problem, though very minro,` and you would get a number of responses so I wanted to be first. :-} All is good.
Thank you
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