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!
Congratulations! you are a real science whiz!
Oh dear! Maybe you should reload the page and try a new quiz!
The acre is an imperial unit, rather than metric unit.
Crepuscular animals are most active at twilight, around dawn and dusk.
1. Dendrochronologists study tree rings to work out exactly when the tree lived and died.
Glenn Seaborg (one of the discoverers of plutonium) used the symbol Pu rather than Pl because, when said out loud, it sounds like “PEE-YEW”, which is what a child might say when something smells bad!
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.
Asbestos is a type of mineral with long fibrous crystals. If inhaled they can cause life threatening diseases.
ISRO is the Indian Space Research Organisation. It launches missions from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in south-eastern India.
Uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element.
Alpha Crucis, the brightest star in the Southern Cross is 321 light years away.
Red blood cells are made by bone marrow, the softer tissue inside large bones.
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2 January, 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.
2 January, 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.
3 January, 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!
21 October, 2020 at 12:35 am
Great quiz!👍🏻