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Where in the human body would you find the Scalene muscles?

The Neck

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What is the common affliction, Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia (much) more commonly known as?

Brain Freeze

such as when you eat ice cream too quickly and it gives you a quick headache

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The name of which chemical element has a name (not chemical symbol) beginning with the letter K?

Krypton

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The adult human body is made up of how many bones?

206

Baby's have about 300

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In the Apollo 11 moon mission, who was the astronaut that that stayed in the command module and therefore did not get to walk on the moon's surface?

Michael Collins

Dry ice is a frozen form of which gas?

Carbon Dioxide

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What is the largest artery in the human body?

The Aorta

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Which British mathematician is credited with the invention of the first programmable computer?

Charles Babbage

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What is determined by the Mohs Scale?

Mineral hardness

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Where in the human body are the metatarsal bones found?

The Foot

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What is measured with a hygrometer?

Humidity

Which is the longest bone in the human body?

Femur

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What was the name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space?

Vostok

How is a 'myocardial infarction' more commonly known?

Heart attack

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A temperature reading of -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius, is known as what?

Absolute Zero

In 1954, Ann Hodges from Oak Grove, Alabama, became the first person in recorded history to be struck by what?

A meteorite

What are the names of Mars two moons?

Phobos or Deimos

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True or False: The invention of the printing press is closer to the invention of the computer, than it is to the invention of paper?

TRUE

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What is the name for a triangle whose 3 sides are all the same length?

Equilateral

4 letters are used to represent genetic codes. What are they?

A, G, C, and T - Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T)

Which element in the periodic table has the chemical symbol Ti?

Titanium

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What is an anemometer used to measure?

Wind speed

The Mars Climate Orbiter Probe was lost in September 1999 upon arrival at Mars. What was the famous reason given for this?

The software and hardware were designed using different units of measurement (pound-force seconds vs newton seconds)

Jesus may have been able to walk on water, but can I walk on custard?

Yes - it is what is called a non-newtonian fluid so gets more dense the more pressure that is put on it. You need to go quickly though!

Can you recite the mathematical constant Pi to five decimal places?

3.14159

How many noble gasses are there? And can you name them all?

Six. helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe) radon (Rn)

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How many million miles away is the sun from the Earth?

93 million miles (avg)

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Since 2016, the Periodic Table has how many confirmed elements?

118

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What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?

Nitrogen

Roughly how long does it take for the sun's light to reach Earth?

  • 8 Seconds
  • 8 Minutes
  • 8 Hours
  • 8 Days

8 minutes