Science
General Knowledge - 95 questions
1. What is the scientific name for the study of plants?
Answer: Botany.
2. Which planet is known as the red planet?
Answer: Mars.
3. What is the unit of measurement for force?
Answer: Newton.
4. Who is known as the 'father of genetics'?
Answer: Gregor Mendel.
5. What is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy?
Answer: Photosynthesis.
6. What is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way?
Answer: Andromeda.
7. Who invented the theory of relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein.
8. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter.
9. When and where was the first successful human heart transplant performed?
Answer: In 1967, in Cape Town, South Africa.
10. What is the study of viruses called?
Answer: Virology.
11. What is the name of the smallest unit of matter?
Answer: Atom.
12. Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming.
13. What is the process by which animals produce offspring called?
Answer: Reproduction.
14. What is the largest organ in the human body?
Answer: Skin.
15. What is an organism that produces its own food through photosynthesis?
Answer: Autotroph.
16. Who first proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
17. What is the closest star to our sun?
Answer: Proxima Centauri.
18. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell.
19. What is the study of earthquakes called?
Answer: Seismology.
20. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
Answer: Au.
21. What is the study of the origin, behavior, and evolution of the universe called?
Answer: Astrobiology.
22. Who discovered the process of pasteurization?
Answer: Louis Pasteur.
23. Who is credited with developing the first vaccine?
Answer: Edward Jenner.
24. What is the study of weather called?
Answer: Meteorology.
25. What is the unit of measurement for energy?
Answer: Joule.
26. How many bones are in the human body?
Answer: 206 (at birth).
27. Who developed the first successful vaccine against smallpox?
Answer: Edward Jenner.
28. What is the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit?
Answer: 212 degrees.
29. What is the name of the first satellite launched into space?
Answer: Sputnik.
30. What is the study of the earth and its features called?
Answer: Geography.
31. Who discovered the laws of motion?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton.
32. What is the scientific term for the fear of spiders?
Answer: Arachnophobia.
33. What is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas called?
Answer: Evaporation.
34. Who is credited with inventing the first light bulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison.
35. What is the study of animal behavior called?
Answer: Ethology.
36. What is the layer of the Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs?
Answer: Troposphere.
37. What is the unit of measurement for electric current?
Answer: Ampere.
38. Who published the famous work 'On the Origin of Species'?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
39. What is the process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces called?
Answer: Weathering.
40. Who discovered the structure of DNA?
Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick.
41. What is the chemical formula for water?
Answer: H2O.
42. What is the study of the history of the Earth called?
Answer: Geology.
43. Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus.
44. What is the longest bone in the human body?
Answer: Femur.
45. Who discovered the circulation of blood?
Answer: William Harvey.
46. Who is known as the 'father of the periodic table'?
Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev.
47. What is the process by which organisms release energy from food?
Answer: Respiration.
48. What is the unit of measurement for frequency?
Answer: Hertz.
49. Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee.
50. What is the study of sound called?
Answer: Acoustics.
51. Who discovered the planet Uranus?
Answer: William Herschel.
52. What is an organism called that obtains energy from consuming other organisms?
Answer: Heterotroph.
53. What is the boiling point of water in Celsius?
Answer: 100 degrees.
54. Who first proposed the theory of plate tectonics?
Answer: Alfred Wegener.
55. What is the study of human societies and cultures called?
Answer: Anthropology.
56. What is the unit of measurement for pressure?
Answer: Pascal.
57. Who invented the theory of general relativity?
Answer: Albert Einstein.
58. What is the process by which liquid changes into a gas called?
Answer: Vaporization.
59. Who is known as the 'father of modern physics'?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton.
60. What is the largest organ in the human brain?
Answer: The cerebrum.
61. What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
Answer: Na.
62. Who first proposed the concept of natural selection?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
63. What is the scientific term for the fear of heights?
Answer: Acrophobia.
64. What is the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: Troposphere.
65. Who first discovered cells?
Answer: Robert Hooke.
66. What is the unit of measurement for temperature?
Answer: Degree Celsius.
67. Who is known as the 'father of microbiology'?
Answer: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
68. What is the process of solid ice turning directly into water vapor called?
Answer: Sublimation.
69. Who invented the first telescope?
Answer: Hans Lippershey.
70. What is the name for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up?
Answer: Catalyst.
71. Who discovered the law of universal gravitation?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton.
72. What is the process of using bacteria to break down organic waste called?
Answer: Bioremediation.
73. Who is credited with developing the first successful polio vaccine?
Answer: Jonas Salk.
74. What is the process of using energy from the sun to create electricity or heat called?
Answer: Solar energy.
75. Who is known as the 'father of modern chemistry'?
Answer: Antoine Lavoisier.
76. What is the unit of measurement for power?
Answer: Watt.
77. What is the study of the function of living organisms called?
Answer: Physiology.
78. Who developed the three laws of motion?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton.
79. What is the process by which matter changes from a solid to a gas without passing through a liquid phase?
Answer: Sublimation.
80. Who discovered the structure of the atom?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford.
81. What is the study of physical properties of matter and energy called?
Answer: Physics.
82. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe.
83. Who first proposed the concept of the greenhouse effect?
Answer: Joseph Fourier.
84. What is the unit of measurement for electric potential?
Answer: Volt.
85. Who is known as the 'father of genetics in America'?
Answer: Thomas Hunt Morgan.
86. What is the process of using living organisms to create products or solve problems called?
Answer: Biotechnology.
87. Who is known as the 'father of modern medicine'?
Answer: Hippocrates.
88. What is the study of the history of the universe called?
Answer: Cosmology.
89. Who discovered the vaccination for smallpox?
Answer: Edward Jenner.
90. What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venus.
91. Who developed the laws of thermodynamics?
Answer: Sadi Carnot.
92. What is the process of changing a substance from a solid to a liquid called?
Answer: Melting.
93. Who first proposed the concept of the atom?
Answer: Democritus.
94. What is the unit of measurement for luminous intensity?
Answer: Candela.
95. Who is known as the 'father of microbiology in America'?
Answer: Louis Pasteur.