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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Even in veins that look blue, the blood is still red. Veins that look blue to the eye do so because of the way light travels through skin, and the way our eyes perceive that light.
The Australian Animal Health Laboratory is now known as the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness
The tallest tree in the world is a redwood tree called Hyperion, in California. It’s more than 115 metres tall.
Geothermal energy comes from hot rocks underground, and can often be found near volcanoes.
Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Shoemaker Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, creating giant dark spots across the planet.
Humans are able to survive on both plant and animal matter, so they are omnivores.
Three toed sloths have nine neck bones. Almost all other mammals, including humans and giraffes, have seven.
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.
Astroblemes are impact craters. The name means ‘star wound’.
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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