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!
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The Sun is about 70% hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% other elements.
The acre is an imperial unit, rather than metric unit.
Octopuses have three hearts – one to pump blood around the body, and one each for its two gills.
There are 1 000 000 000 nanoseconds in a second. As there are 60 seconds in a minute, there are 60 000 000 000 nanoseconds in a minute.
Mount Erebus, located near New Zealand’s Scott Base, has a lake of lava in its crater, and regularly throws out rocks or ‘bombs’.
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.
Crepuscular animals are most active at twilight, around dawn and dusk.
Amber is fossilised tree sap.
All four species of macadamia trees are native to Australia.
The cochlear implant is an Australian invention that helps people to hear.
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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!??
25 May, 2022 at 12:55 am
Cool