Question: What type of fish 'pack it' in an annual migration off the east coast of Africa and whose biomass is said to be comparable to the continent's annual wildebeest migration?
Answer: Sardines/pilchards

Question: In the fall of 2013, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a certain 'Mississippi Baby' whose case was thought of as a landmark event in medical history. The conclusions made about her were reversed in July 2014. She was in the news for what reason?
Answer: Cured of HIV

Question: Oklo in Gabon, Africa is the only known place in the world where what reaction occurs naturally?
Answer: Nuclear fission

Question: The Flammarion engraving that can be frequently seen on book covers sought to illustrate what belief system?
Answer: Flat earth

Question: British physicist David Deutsch is regarded as the father of what field of science which is certain to see more interest as the scale of the world's need for data processing increases?
Answer: Quantum computing

Question: The modern-day cattle breed of 'Heck' came about when it was attempted to bring back what extinct species?
Answer: Aurochs

Question: Awarded to people in the medical field, what American awards are considered the country's equivalent of the Nobel Prize in that area?
Answer: The Lasker Awards

Question: Using two copper devices called the Magdeburg hemispheres, a certain German scientist proved the concept of what in 1656?
Answer: Atmospheric pressure/ vacuum (Otto von Guericke)

Question: If the Solvay Conferences of the early 1910s set the tone for 20th century physics, the Dartmouth Conferences of 1956 have similar importance for what field of science?
Answer: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Question: What is the name of the six-letter ore from which niobium and tantalum are extracted and whose mining is said to have fueled many modern day African conflicts?
Answer: Coltan

Question: What is the subject of the illustration commonly called March of Progress that was commissioned by Time-Life Books and drawn by Rudolph Zallinger in 1965?
Answer: The ape to man progress

Question: The 1610 book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) that contained several sketches of the moon was published by whom?
Answer: Galileo

Question: According to Guinness Book, the greatest concentration of animals ever speculatively guessed concerned what scourge of crops?
Answer: (Rocky mountain) locust

Question: What famous theorem proposed in 1964 clearly delineated the areas of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics?
Answer: Bell's theorem

Question: The Nice model, named for the French city, seeks to explain the formation of what?
Answer: Solar System

Question: Usually named for the places where they are found, what are traditionally classified into three types as stony, iron and stony-iron?
Answer: Meteorites

Question: Which scientific great's equation is seen in the field of quantum mechanics as the equivalent of Newton's Second Law?
Answer: Erwin Schrödinger

Question: Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his studies of inheritance and pioneered the use of which tiny organism?
Answer: Fruit fly

Question: The Oscillating Universe Theory combines Big Bang and what other event to make-up a cycle?
Answer: Big Crunch

Question: German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of what machines extensively used during WWII?
Answer: Enigma machines

Question: English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of what disease to a water pump?
Answer: Cholera

Question: A scientific idea called Salter Sink that is essentially mixing hot and cold waters aims to prevent or reduce the effects of what?
Answer: Hurricanes

Question: Philip Zimbardo of Stanford is best known for what experiment conducted in 1971 that highlighted the behavior of people when assigned roles?
Answer: Stanford prison experiment

Question: As seen in a scene inspiring Robin Williams in the movie Awakenings, the chemical L-DOPA is widely used in the treatment of what disease?
Answer: Parkinson's disease

Question: James Herrick is credited with the description of a genetic disease in which red-blood cells are in what shape instead of the normal disc shape?
Answer: Sickle

Question: The sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient method used to find what in mathematics?
Answer: Prime numbers

Question: The Kessler syndrome talks about the dangers of debris where, which was also brought to main-stream attention via a 2013 hit movie?
Answer: Space/ low Earth orbit

Question: The kerplunk experiment, the Tyron experiment, and the Morris water maze are all experiments of behavioral psychology that involved what?
Answer: Rats in mazes

Question: What 'continental' moon of the Solar System has become the focus of extra-terrestrial life studies because its smooth surface suggests the presence of an ocean underneath?
Answer: Europa

Question: In a 1999 poll conducted by the British journal Physics World, who is the only American in the list of the ten greatest physicists of all time? Still thinking? Surely, you're joking!
Answer: The inimitable Dr. Richard Feynman (1918-88)

Question: What is Yersenia pestis which caused a lot of hardship to humankind?
Answer: Bacteria that caused the plagues of the Middle Ages

Question: If Jupiter has the Great Red Spot, which planet has the Great Dark Spot?
Answer: Neptune

Question: When one hears the name of the Swedish village Ytterby, what aspect of science should come to mind?
Answer: Periodic table of elements

Question: Redshift or blueshift that help us see which stars/galaxies are approaching or receding are determined by what effect named for an Austrian physicist?
Answer: Doppler effect

Question: What mathematical theorem, the first major theorem to be solved using a computer, was proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken with a set of 1936 maps?
Answer: Four-color map theorem

Question: The Cavendish experiment of 1797-98 conducted using a torsion pendulum was the first to accurately measure what physical fundamental physical constant?
Answer: Gravitational constant (the big G)

Question: What is the only big cat species not currently protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act?
Answer: African lion (Panthera leo)

Question: A 2012 study at the University of Granada concluded that when a person lies, there is an increase in the temperature around the nose and in the orbital muscle in the inner corner of the eye. What is this effect called?
Answer: Pinocchio effect, obviously!

Question: A project by a group of scientists in New South Wales to revive an extinct Australian frog was named after what biblical figure?
Answer: Lazarus

Question: Schreger lines are the unique identifiers of what valuable substance whose usage has led to the dwindling numbers of something large?
Answer: Ivory

Question: Which distinctive plant's genus is Dionaea (the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and species muscipula (Latin for 'mouse-catching device')?
Answer: Venus flytrap

Question: What probability riddle originally published in American Statistician in 1975 gained popular attention after it was featured in Parade in 1990?
Answer: Monty Hall problem

Question: What usual first step in the identification of a bacterial species is like a litmus test in that the results are identified by colors (blue/purple for positive and pink/red for negative)?
Answer: Gram staining

Question: What poison associated with indigenous people of a continent comes in the varieties of tubo, calebas and pot?
Answer: Curare

Question: Because all species of the manatee use fresh water in varying ways, what is the only strictly marine herbivorous mammal?
Answer: Dugong

Question: In the contemporary world of cutting-edge physics, what are ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, LHCf and MoEDAL?
Answer: Seven particle detector experiments constructed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN