• 1. 
    Cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus are types of:

  • Stars
  • Tornadoes
  • Cyclones
  • Clouds
  • 2. 
    Who discovered the four main moons of Jupiter in 1610?

  • Galileo Galilei
  • Nicholas Copernicus
  • Edward Emerson Bernard
  • Edmund Halley
  • 3. 
    The unit of measuring the depth of water is called:

  • Decibel
  • Ampere
  • Fathom
  • Pascal
  • 4. 
    Who is the author of the book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes?

  • Michio Kaku
  • Brian Greene
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • 5. 
    Which of these gases solidifies to form dry ice?

  • Carbon dioxide
  • Nitrous oxide
  • Sulfur dioxide
  • Helium
  • 6. 
    The process by which some animals locate distant or not visible objects through sound waves is known as:

  • Longitudinal waves
  • Stridulation
  • Sonar
  • Echolocation
  • 7. 
    Who is the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes in two different fields?

  • Irène Joliot-Curie
  • Ève Curie
  • Lise Meitner
  • Marie Curie
  • 8. 
    What is the study of fungi called?

  • Mycology
  • Phycology
  • Bacteriology
  • Virology
  • 9. 
    In physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite what?

  • impaction
  • subtraction
  • reaction
  • distraction
  • 10. 
    Who invented the World Wide Web?

  • the Federal Communications Commission
  • A laboratory in Switzerland
  • Microsoft
  • Apple
  • 11. 
    Which of these chemical elements is heavier than iron?

  • gold
  • potassium
  • carbon
  • manganese
  • 12. 
    Two types of organisms deriving benefit from each other is known as:

  • Commensalism
  • Amensalism
  • Mutualism
  • Parasitism
  • 13. 
    What airplane has not been flown commercially since 2003?

  • Airbus 380
  • Concorde
  • Boeing 747
  • McDonnell Douglas MD80
  • 14. 
    The cultivation of plants in nutrient solutions without soil is known as:

  • Aeroponics
  • Hydroponics
  • Tissue culture
  • Seed culture
  • 15. 
    Which of these is a form of energy which is due to an object or a particle's motion?

  • Thermal energy
  • Potential energy
  • Chemical energy
  • Kinetic energy
  • 16. 
    What is the name of the first human ancestral fossil found in the year 1974?

  • Timothy
  • Otzi
  • Charles
  • Lucy
  • 17. 
    The scientific study of fishes is known as:

  • Ornithology
  • Entomology
  • Ichthyology
  • Paleontology
  • 18. 
    A baby blue whale drinks this many liters of milk per day:

  • 190
  • 50
  • 500
  • 10
  • 19. 
    Who invented the geodesic dome?

  • R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Albert Einstein
  • Samuel Morse
  • Samuel Fuller
  • 20. 
    Who is known for creating the binomial nomenclature of plants?

  • Georges Cuvier
  • Carl Linnaeus
  • Charles Darwin
  • Theophrastus
  • 21. 
    Which of the following technological developments came first?

  • telephone
  • teletype
  • telegraph
  • telescope
  • 22. 
    When was the first plastic made of artificial materials patented?

  • 1909
  • 1920
  • 2003
  • 1945
  • 23. 
    Moths are a member of what order?

  • octagon
  • optica
  • lepidoptera
  • leprosy
  • 24. 
    For what is the Jurassic period named?

  • the French word for "day"
  • a soccer hero
  • a kind of dinosaur
  • a mountain range
  • 25. 
    Who developed the theory of the chemical reactivity of oxygen?

  • Antoine Lavoisier
  • Louis Pasteur
  • John Dalton
  • Joseph Priestley
  • 26. 
    Who developed the carbon-14 dating technique of dating fossils and archaeological specimens?

  • James R. Arnold
  • Willard Libby
  • Leona Woods
  • Mario J. Molina
  • 27. 
    What kind of substance makes litmus paper turn blue?

  • Acid
  • Base
  • Alkali
  • Salt
  • 28. 
    The only living reptiles that use a vertical limb posture in walking is:

  • Snake
  • Turtle
  • Crocodile
  • Lizard
  • 29. 
    Which of these particles was discovered by J.J. Thompson?

  • Proton
  • Neutron
  • Electron
  • Atom
  • 30. 
    Who discovered X-rays?

  • Marie Curie
  • Riccardo Giacconi
  • Raymond Gosling
  • Wilhelm Röntgen
  • 31. 
    Who won the Nobel Prize for cultivating the poliomyelitis virus in tissue culture in 1954?

  • Dmitry I. Ivanovsky
  • Martinus W. Beijerinck
  • Thomas Huckle Weller
  • Frederick Chapman Robbins
  • 32. 
    Which of these chemicals help fruit to ripen?

  • Ethylene
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Methane
  • Nitrogen oxide
  • 33. 
    The layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs is called the:

  • Troposphere
  • Ionosphere
  • Mesosphere
  • Stratosphere
  • 34. 
    What is the International System of Units (SI) name for a unit of magnetic flux?

  • Coulomb
  • Ampere
  • Tesla
  • Weber
  • 35. 
    The sea anemone is a member of what order?

  • Coronatae
  • Actiniaria
  • Forcipulata
  • Camarodonta
  • 36. 
    Group 18 of the periodic table is made up of which elements?

  • Noble gases
  • Rare-earth elements
  • Halogens
  • Alkali metals
  • 37. 
    Who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018 for the invention of optical tweezers?

  • Jim Peebles
  • John B. Goodenough
  • Arthur Ashkin
  • Steven Chu
  • 38. 
    Faraday is a unit of measurement for:

  • Temperature
  • Sound
  • Power
  • Electricity
  • 39. 
    Hafnium belongs to which group in the periodic table?

  • Group 17 (VIIa)
  • Group 13 (IIIa)
  • Group 1 (Ia)
  • Group 4 (IVb)
  • 40. 
    How many laws are there in Kepler's planetary motion?

  • 1
  • 5
  • 7
  • 3
  • 41. 
    This isotope of hydrogen is also known as heavy hydrogen:

  • Tritium
  • Polonium
  • Deuterium
  • Protium
  • 42. 
    Who is known as the father of the Green Revolution?

  • Norman Borlaug
  • Verghese Kurien
  • M.S. Swaminathan
  • Nirpakh Tutej
  • 43. 
    E = mc2 is an equation which deals with:

  • Theory of special relativity
  • Quantum field theory
  • Theory of general relativity
  • Law of inertia
  • 44. 
    Which of these laws states that the pressure (p) of a given quantity of gas varies inversely with its volume (v) at a constant temperature?

  • Charles’s law
  • Gay-Lussac’s law
  • Avogadro’s law
  • Boyle’s law
  • 45. 
    Who among the following coined the term Dinosauria?

  • Charles Lyell
  • John Gould
  • Richard Owen
  • Charles Darwin
  • 46. 
    Which of these trees is known as a living fossil?

  • Pinus
  • Cycas
  • Ginkgo
  • Lady fern
  • 47. 
    Who discovered the composition of white light?

  • Albert Einstein
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Isaac Newton
  • 48. 
    The study of pollen and spores is known as:

  • Paleontology
  • Pomology
  • Palynology
  • Paleobotany
  • 49. 
    The “hole” in the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere above Antarctica was discovered by:

  • Nicholas Copernicus
  • Charles Fabry
  • Joseph Charles Farman
  • James Clark Ross
  • 50. 
    Which is the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts into orbit?

  • Falcon
  • Falcon 9
  • Grasshopper
  • Dragon
  • 51. 
    The capacity of a material to deform permanently in response to stress is called:

  • Elasticity
  • Ductility
  • Malleability
  • Reflectivity
  • 52. 
    What causes dew?

  • Precipitation
  • Condensation
  • Evaporation
  • Transpiration
  • 53. 
    The male reproductive part of a flower is called the:

  • Carpel
  • Stigma
  • Stamen
  • Pistil
  • 54. 
    Who was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics?

  • Marie Curie
  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
  • Max Planck
  • Philipp Lenard
  • 55. 
    Who was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa using a primitive microscope?

  • Robert Hooke
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden
  • 56. 
    The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods belong to the:

  • Paleozoic Era
  • Cenozoic Era
  • Mesozoic Era
  • Precambrian Era
  • 57. 
    Which era is known as the age of mammals?

  • Archean
  • Cenozoic
  • Mesozoic
  • Paleozoic
  • 58. 
    Fossilized tree resin is known as:

  • Amber
  • Frankincense
  • Canada balsam
  • Balm of Gilead
  • 59. 
    The plant tissue responsible for the transportation of water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant is:

  • Phloem
  • Cambium
  • Xylem
  • Cortex
  • 60. 
    Which of these laws establishes the relationship between the current and the voltage as directly proportional?

  • Ohm’s law
  • Coulomb’s law
  • Joule’s law
  • Faraday’s law
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