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!
A melanistic animal has a lot of the dark pigment melanin, which makes it appear black or darkly coloured.
Green iguanas live in the Americas, not Australia.
Portland cement is typically made by roasting limestone, with a small amount of other ingredients, such as gypsum or clay.
There are 29 bones in the human head – eight in the cranium, 14 in the face, one in the neck and three in each ear!
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!
Circles of the same size fit together tightest in a hexagonal pattern, with six circles around each circle.
Canopus is the name of a star, not a cloud.
There is one thigh bone (femur), a shin bone (tibia) and a bone running behind it called the fibula or calf bone, and a kneecap (patella).
Millions of years ago, when dinosaurs roamed Earth, the Sun was slightly less bright.
Light travels at about one billion kilometres per hour.
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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!??