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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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.
The strong force holds together the nuclei of atoms, and it’s the strongest of the four fundamental forces.
The letter P represents phosphorus. Potassium is K, polonium is Po, and tungsten is W.
Places on the Tropic of Capricorn are directly under the Sun at midday on their longest day of the year.
Mercury (Hg) was once called hydrargyrum, which comes from the Greek words for water and silver.
Astroblemes are impact craters. The name means ‘star wound’.
A diurnal animal comes out during the day. It’s like the opposite of a nocturnal animal!
Three toed sloths have nine neck bones. Almost all other mammals, including humans and giraffes, have seven.
The Kuiper belt is a bit like the asteroid belt, but it’s just outside the orbit of Neptune, rather than between Mars and Jupiter.
Ostriches can weigh more than 140 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