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. Which Nobel Prize was jointly won by Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel in 1996?
Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how the body’s T-cells recognise and kill virus infected cells.
#2. What is another name for the mānuka plant?
The tea tree is called mānuka in New Zealand. Its scientific name is Leptospermum scoparium.
#3. Which element is named after the Moon?
Selenium is named after Selene, the Ancient Greek goddess of the Moon.
#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 name of the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
#6. What part of the plant Crocus sativus does the spice saffron come from?
Saffron spice is the stigma and styles of the saffron flower.
#7. What do you call an animal that is only active during the daytime?
Diurnal animals are active during the day.
#8. At a particular temperature and pressure, water reaches its triple point, but what does that mean?
The triple point of water is the temperature and pressure that allows water to be steam, liquid and ice all at the same time.
#9. The fifth sense is often called umami, but what other name does it have?
The fifth sense is savouriness, but it’s also called umami, a Japanese compound word that means ‘delicious taste’.
#10. New Zealand is a part of a giant, mostly undersea continent, half the size of Australia, but what is this continent called?
Zealandia, also known as Te Riu-a-Māui, was labelled a continent by a team of scientists in 2017, even though 94% of it is under the ocean.
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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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