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!
Oh no! Why not try again by refreshing the page – you’ll get different questions!
Apoptosis is the body’s way of removing unwanted cells.
The kakapo is the only species of flightless parrot in the world.
Canaries come from, and are named after, the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa.
Mangroves are shrubs and trees that grow in shallow water on the coast.
Ostriches can weigh more than 140 kilograms!
Turritopsis dohrnii is commonly known as the immortal jellyfish, and it can turn back into a polyp when it gets too old.
There are 25 different human bitter receptors recorded in the bitterDB database. But not all humans have all 25 receptors!
There are only two northern white rhinos left, named Najin and Fatu, and both are female.
Myopia is another name for short-sightedness.
The Moon is bigger. It’s about 3500 kilometres across, while Pluto is only 2400 kilometres wide.
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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