By David, 2 January 2019
Get into 2019 with this brain work out! This megaquiz will test your knowledge of all the quizzes we wrote in 2018. The questions are randomly selected, so if you want more questions, you can just reload the page!
Panthera leo is the scientific name for the lion.
Australia is drifting north at about seven centimetres per year.
Pademelons are like small wallabies and can be found in New Guinea, Tasmania and the east coast of mainland Australia.
Iodine is not a metal. It’s a grey solid that also turns into a bright purple gas!
Soft drink bottles are commonly made from PET, a strong, watertight plastic that’s easy to recycle.
Deciduous trees lose their leaves once a year. In temperate climates, they usually lose their leaves in autumn. In the tropics, deciduous plants typically lose their leaves in the dry season.
Poison hemlock is a member of the Apiaceae family, which includes carrots, parsley and celery.
Mosquitoes typically weigh about 5 milligrams each, so it takes about 200 to make a gram.
Hyperloop is the name of a proposed mode of high-speed transport designed by a team from Tesla and SpaceX, currently being tested in the United States.
A melanistic animal has a lot of the dark pigment melanin, which makes it appear black or darkly coloured.
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January 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm
Question 10: I think you should specify that said triangle is on a flat plane, since it’s possible to have more than one right angle on different planar geometries.
January 2, 2019 at 8:35 pm
Oh, I didn’t realise the questions change on each reload – my previous comment was in regards to the maximum number of right angles that a triangle can have.
January 3, 2019 at 9:02 am
Yup, on a sphere you can have three right angles – on the Earth, Singapore, Kinshasa and the South Pole makes a triangle with three almost-right angles!