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!
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#1. Which direction is Australia moving?
Australia is drifting north at about seven centimetres per year.
#2. What does a crepuscular animal do?
Crepuscular animals are most active at twilight, around dawn and dusk.
#3. What is petrology the study of?
Petrology is the study of rocks. It comes from the Greek word petros, which means rock.
#4. What kind of scientist is most likely to study an igneous intrusion?
An igneous intrusion is where molten rock comes up through the crust. Rocks are studied by rock scientists – geologists!
#5. What is a meteoroid?
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.
#6. What do you call the branching ridges on the underside of many leaves?
The veins of a leaf help to transport water and nutrients, and they can also help keep a leaf strong.
#7. What is the maximum number of right angles that can be found in a triangle?
The angles in a triangle must add up to 180 degrees. As a right angle is 90 degrees, and a triangle has three angles, the maximum must be one right angle. Otherwise, if there were two 90 degree angles, it would add up to 180 degrees and there would be nothing left for the third angle.
#8. Which of the following did Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, invent?
Alfred Nobel was an expert in explosives and invented dynamite and gelignite.
#9. Order these objects from closest to farthest away from Earth: the International Space Station (ISS), the National Broadband Network’s Sky Muster satellites, the Moon.
The ISS is about 400 kilometres from Earth, the Sky Muster satellites are in geostationary orbit, about 40 000 kilometres away and the Moon is about 400 000 kilometres away.
#10. What is a pademelon?
Pademelons are like small wallabies and can be found in New Guinea, Tasmania and the east coast of mainland Australia.
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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.
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.
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!
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