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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Mangroves are shrubs and trees that grow in shallow water on the coast.
In 1990, quail eggs hatched in the Soviet space station Mir.
The letter P represents phosphorus. Potassium is K, polonium is Po, and tungsten is W.
Venus’ atmosphere is very thick. At Venus’ surface, the atmosphere is about 100 times thicker than Earth’s at sea level.
Mimas is the innermost of Saturn’s major moons, and it’s famous for its gigantic crater.
Chlorophyll reflects green light instead of absorbing it, which is why leaves typically look green.
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.
Many spiders spool out one or more threads of silk, and float away on wind and static electricity in a technique known as ballooning.
Fe is the chemical symbol for iron.
Red dwarfs make up about three quarters of all the stars in the Milky Way.
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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