, 5 January 2022
Time for some super science trivia! This quiz has a selection from all the trivia questions we wrote in 2021. And if you’re hankering for more, you can get a new set of questions by reloading this web page!
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Gluten acts like a type of ‘glue’ that holds food together, and it can be found in wheat, barley and rye. While rye bread tends to have a lower gluten content, it’s not gluten free. If you need to avoid gluten, always check food labels as it can be found in unexpected places.
In order from softest to hardest, it’s talc, quartz, topaz, and diamond.
Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and if you break it apart with electricity, you get oxygen gas and hydrogen gas.
The International Space Station’s orbit is a circle on an angle. Each orbit, it gets as far north as the United Kingdom, and further south than New Zealand!
The Soviet rover Lunokhod 1 explored the Moon for 321 days in 1970 and 1971.
Since InSight landed on Mars in 2018, it has measured more than 500 marsquakes!
Dietary fibre is a part of plant-based food that your body can’t digest. It helps to keep your digestive system healthy
Cyanobacteria colonies make strange, lumpy rocks called stromatolites.
Pluto’s orbit is highly elliptical, so this dwarf planet’s orbit looks quite ‘squashed’ compared to many planets with more circular orbits.
To make a note one octave lower, the string needs to vibrate at half the frequency. To do that, it needs to be twice as long. In real life, bass guitars are usually a bit longer than guitars, but the strings also tend to be thicker and looser to reach those low notes!
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