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Grab Bag Science Quiz and Trivia

November 7, 2019/16 Comments/in Quizzes, Trivia/by Greg Bernhardt
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Time to test your science knowledge with a fun 10 question quiz with random questions across all sciences. Difficulty is easy to medium. As always, post your score in the comment thread. Enjoy!

1. What element is missing?

periodic_table

 
 
 
 

2. Who’s missing in this 1927 Solvay Conference photo

 solvay conference

 
 
 
 

3. Where is the Discovery space shuttle?

 
 
 
 

4. What is the distance from the earth to the moon?

 
 
 
 

5. Who invented the number zero?

 
 
 
 

6. What is this zoomed in object?

Flower

 
 
 
 

7. What is the only planet to spin clockwise?

 
 
 
 

8. Which of these fruit is not a berry?

 
 
 
 

9. Six elements account for 99 percent of the mass of the human body: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium…

 
 
 
 

10. This is a picture of which scientist?

alexander fleming

 
 
 
 

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Greg Bernhardt
Greg Bernhardt

I have a BS in Information Sciences from UW-Milwaukee. I’ve helped manage Physics Forums for over 22 years. I enjoy learning and discussing new scientific developments. STEM communication and policy are big interests as well. Currently a Sr. SEO Specialist at Shopify and writer at importsem.com

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16 replies
  1. mfb
    mfb says:
    December 13, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    For fun I would have expected furlongs.

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  2. mfb
    mfb says:
    December 13, 2019 at 6:28 am

    Miles in a science quiz, seriously?

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  3. fresh_42
    fresh_42 says:
    November 10, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    I had 7 of 10:
    I didn’t know I am a match, silver wasn’t toxic enough in my opinion, and unfortunately never visited Venus.

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  4. Delta2
    Delta2 says:
    November 10, 2019 at 3:34 am

    I got 4 out of 10 but I was fooled by question 2, I answered J.C Maxwell because I thought “Maxwell was dead long ago when that photo was taken”, if I had thought abit more carefully I would have found that it is Marie Curie.

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  5. Ibix
    Ibix says:
    November 9, 2019 at 4:29 am

    6, five I was certain of plus one guess.

    I liked number 2 – the answer can be deduced with high confidence with a little study.

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  6. 256bits
    256bits says:
    November 9, 2019 at 3:10 am

    I got 6
    I really messed up the one about the moon.

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  7. WWGD
    WWGD says:
    November 8, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    Got 4 out of 10. Maybe the moon one should have choices with different orders of magnitud, e.g. a)10000 b) 80000, etc. Instead of so many close-by choices.

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  8. BillTre
    BillTre says:
    November 8, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    I got 4.
    I was disappointed with that.

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  9. Charles Link
    Charles Link says:
    November 8, 2019 at 7:15 pm

    Very interesting [USER=1]@Greg Bernhardt[/USER] :smile:. I managed to get 5 correct, but a couple were lucky guesses.

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  10. QuantumQuest
    QuantumQuest says:
    November 8, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    8 points out of 10 points total with a little bit of luck

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  11. Wrichik Basu
    Wrichik Basu says:
    November 8, 2019 at 8:05 am

    Got a 7 out of 10. #7 should have been correct; had no idea about #3 and #4, and #8 was pure guess.

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  12. Bystander
    Bystander says:
    November 8, 2019 at 7:40 am

    Seven; photo IDs, and shuttle location tripped me.

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  13. Greg Bernhardt
    Greg Bernhardt says:
    November 7, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    Fixed another issue

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  14. BillTre
    BillTre says:
    November 7, 2019 at 8:52 pm

    It said I got 3 of 9, but I counted 4 of 10 correct.

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  15. Greg Bernhardt
    Greg Bernhardt says:
    November 7, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    Something was a little busted with scoring. Please try now.

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  16. BillTre
    BillTre says:
    November 7, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    I hit thee submit button after making my selections and it just goes up the page.
    I don’t know how I did.
    Perhaps that’s part of the test?

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