Can you recite the mathematical constant Pi to five decimal places?
3.14159
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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!
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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)
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Which element in the periodic table has the chemical symbol Ti?
Titanium
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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)
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What is the name for a triangle whose 3 sides are all the same length?
Equilateral
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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 are the names of Mars two moons?
Phobos or Deimos
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Ambidextrous is described as being able to use both hands equally well. What is the opposite of ambidextrous (i.e. being clumsy/unskilled using both hands)?
Ambisinistrous
In 1954, Ann Hodges from Oak Grove, Alabama, became the first person in recorded history to be struck by what?
A meteorite
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A temperature reading of -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius, is known as what?
Absolute Zero
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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
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Which is the longest bone in the human body?
Femur
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Where in the human body are the metatarsal bones found?
The Foot
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What is determined by the Mohs Scale?
Mineral hardness
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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 the largest artery in the human body?
The Aorta
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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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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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In the visible light spectrum, which of these colour lights has the highest frequency?
Blue
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Where in the human body would you find the Scalene muscles?
The Neck
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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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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
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Dry ice is a frozen form of which gas?
Carbon Dioxide
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How is a 'myocardial infarction' more commonly known?
Heart attack
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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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What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?
Nitrogen
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If a chemical has a pH level of 0, which of these is it?
- Acid
- Alkaline
- Neutral
Acid
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