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!
Red blood cells are made by bone marrow, the softer tissue inside large bones.
Soft drink bottles are commonly made from PET, a strong, watertight plastic that’s easy to recycle.
An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals.
Cuvier’s beaked whales can dive almost three kilometres below the surface of the ocean.
A unit on the moment magnitude scale represents 32 times more energy. So a difference of two is about 1000 times more energy!
Number 16 was a trapdoor spider that lived until she was 43 years old.
The cochlear implant is an Australian invention that helps people to hear.
A meteoroid is a small lump of rock in space. A meteor is a streak of light from space rock burning up in the atmosphere, and a meteorite is any space rock that’s made it to the ground on the surface of a planet or moon.
Iodine is not a metal. It’s a grey solid that also turns into a bright purple gas!
Dragonflies are insects, so they have six legs.
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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!