Question: What name is given to an atomic particle carrying a negative charge?
Answer: Electron

Question: DNA is found in which part of the cell?
Answer: Nucleus

Question: By which name is the drug acetylsalicylic acid better known?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: Which flower has the same name as a diaphragm in the eye?
Answer: Iris

Question: Which animals are arthropods and have eight legs?
Answer: Arachnids

Question: Which is the modern scientific unit of work and energy?
Answer: Joule

Question: Chlorine, fluorine and bromine belong to which family of elements?
Answer: Halogens

Question: Which was the first antibiotic to be discovered?
Answer: Penicillin

Question: What is the boiling point of water?
Answer: 100 degrees Celsius

Question: Ascorbic acid is which vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin C

Question: What is the generic term for the mechanical, electrical and electronic components of a computer?
Answer: Hardware

Question: Whose research on X-ray diffraction of ?DNA crystals helped Crick and Watson during the race to discover the structure of DNA?
Answer: Rosalind Franklin

Question: Heisenberg is most associated with which branch of physics?
Answer: Quantum Mechanics

Question: What did Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes discover?
Answer: Superconductivity

Question: What science is the study of missiles in motion?
Answer: Ballistics

Question: What kind of elements are found in a pure state in nature?
Answer: Native elements

Question: What is the name given to the longest side of a right-angled triangle?
Answer: Hypotenuse

Question: Which Swedish scientist had a temperature scale named after him?
Answer: Anders Celsius

Question: How many colors are there in the spectrum when white light is separated?
Answer: Seven

Question: The discovery of which law provoked the surprised cry 'Eureka!'?
Answer: Archimedes Principle

Question: What is the study and use of frequencies above 20 khz?
Answer: Ultrasonic's

Question: What is an unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?
Answer: Equilibrium

Question: Which physicist's law states that equal volumes of all gases, measured at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules?
Answer: Amadeo Avogadro

Question: What is the ability of fluids to offer resistance to flow?
Answer: Viscosity

Question: What is described as an ionized gas with approximately equal numbers of positive and negative charges?
Answer: Plasma

Question: What name is given to the very serious chain of events which can follow the failure of the cooling system in a nuclear reactor?
Answer: Meltdown

Question: Which electronic device magnifies the strength of a signal?
Answer: Amplifier

Question: What does c represent in the equation e = mc*2?
Answer: Speed of light

Question: What is a cylindrical coil of wire in which a magnetic field is created when an electric current is passed though it?
Answer: Solenoid

Question: What describes a substance that exists in more than one form, differing in physical rather than chemical properties?
Answer: Allotropic

Question: Whose 'unified field theory' tried to explain the four fundamental forces in terms of a single, unified force?
Answer: Einstein

Question: In Britain, how many lines makeup the picture on a TV screen?
Answer: 625

Question: What diverges rays of light, if it is concave?
Answer: Lens

Question: What can be expressed as the number of cycles of a vibration occurring per unit of time?
Answer: Frequency

Question: What is the product of the mass of a body and its linear velocity?
Answer: Momentum

Question: Which quantity has direction as well as magnitude?
Answer: Vector quantity

Question: What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, named after a Croatian electrical engineer?
Answer: Tesla

Question: What is the favorite food of the giant panda?
Answer: Bamboo shoots

Question: How long is a giraffe's neck, approximately?
Answer: 3 meters

Question: What kind of an animal is a marmoset?
Answer: An American monkey

Question: Which plant has flowers but no proper leaves?
Answer: Cactus

Question: What name is given to animals that eat both flesh and plant material?
Answer: Omnivores

Question: Which flightless marine birds of the southern hemisphere live in rookeries?
Answer: Penguins

Question: Which species of decapod has varieties called "fiddler', 'spider' and 'hermit'?
Answer: Crab

Question: Which digestive organ is well-developed in grass-eating herbivores, but is only vestigial in humans?
Answer: Appendix

Question: Which are the only birds able to fly backwards?
Answer: Hummingbirds

Question: Photosynthesis is carried out in which part of the cell?
Answer: Chloroplast

Question: What is the name of the protective outer layer of trees?
Answer: Bark

Question: What liquid do plants need for photosynthesis?
Answer: Water

Question: What are the young of bats called?
Answer: Pups

Question: What is the larva of a toad called?
Answer: Tadpole

Question: Which bird, a member of the cuckoo family, is often seen dashing along the highways of the southern USA and Mexico... hence its name?
Answer: Roadrunner

Question: What grow as parasites and saprotrophs, contain no chlorophyll, and reproduce by means of spores?
Answer: Fungi

Question: Why do fish have gills?
Answer: To absorb oxygen

Question: Which animal can move by jet propulsion?
Answer: Octopus

Question: What name is given to the microscopic plants found in great numbers in rivers, lakes, and oceans?
Answer: Algae

Question: What are the nocturnal, herding herbivores of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea?
Answer: Kangaroos

Question: What is a beaver's home called?
Answer: Lodge

Question: Which tissue carries sugary sap around the plant?
Answer: Phloem

Question: Which cells form the middle layer of plant leaves?
Answer: Mesophyll

Question: How long is the gestation period of a duck-billed platypus?
Answer: It doesn't have one

Question: Which antipodean bird is the largest member of the kingfisher family?
Answer: Kookaburra

Question: Which microscopic organisms form the basis of marine and freshwater food chains?
Answer: Plankton

Question: Which bird feeds with its head upside-down and its beak held horizontally beneath the water?
Answer: Flamingo

Question: What kind of a tongue does the okapi have?
Answer: Prehensile

Question: What do baleen whales eat?
Answer: Krill

Question: Which South American vulture can have a wing span of up to 3 meters and a body weight of up to 13 kilos?
Answer: Condor

Question: Which part of a beetle's body is a skeleton?
Answer: The outside

Question: In what state is a 'sessile' animal likely to be?
Answer: Stationary

Question: Which sub-division of plants is named after their practice of forming 'naked seeds'?
Answer: Gymnosperms

Question: The maidenhair tree is the sole survivor of which class of plant?
Answer: Ginko

Question: What is the state of inactivity through the dry, summer season, as hibernation is the dormancy of the winter months?
Answer: Aestivation

Question: Which insects' larvae secrete blobs of froth called 'cuckoo spit'?
Answer: Froghopper / spittlebug

Question: What kind of a creature is a scorpion?
Answer: Arachnid

Question: Which part of the common valerian is used to make a sedative?
Answer: Root

Question: What is the name of the structures which allow stems to breathe?
Answer: Lenticels

Question: What kind of an organism causes a 'rust' attack on plants?
Answer: Fungus

Question: Which is the dominant generation in the ferns?
Answer: Sporophyte

Question: Which is the biggest flower in the world?
Answer: Fafflesia arnoldiana or stinking corpse lily

Question: What is the name of the lustrous substance that forms pearl and mother-of-pearl?
Answer: Nacre

Question: What is the name of the so-called 'first-bird'?
Answer: Archaeopteryx

Question: What is the Latin word for 'liquid' which we use to mean the fluid produced by the tree Ficus elastica?
Answer: Latex