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!
Well done! You have some real science smarts!
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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.
Maple syrup is made by boiling the sap from maple trees.
The Mars Climate Orbiter had a problem with its software, which miscalculated the thrust of its engines. As a result, it came too close to Mars and was lost.
Ernest Rutherford was known as the father of nuclear physics. Element 104 – rutherfordium – is named after him.
The patella is another name for your kneecap.
Fe is the chemical symbol for iron.
Iodine is often added to salt to prevent iodine deficiency. You might see the words ‘iodised salt’ on the packet.
Diprotodon were the largest marsupials known to exist and went extinct around 44 000 years ago.
Whale sharks are the largest species of carpet shark.
Tungsten is a very dense metal. One litre of tungsten weighs more than 19 kilograms!
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2 January, 2021 at 12:35 am
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.
2 January, 2021 at 6:20 pm
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.
If you want another quiz, just press f5 on the quiz page to refresh the page.
3 January, 2021 at 2:15 am
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