Science Bowl

Question 1

What weather phenomenon causes more deaths in the U.S. annually than any other except lightning?

Answer 1

Tornadoes

Question 2

What is given to wood whose normal cells have been replaced with mineral deposits?

Answer 2

Petrified wood

Question 3

Pollination by birds is called:

Answer 3

ornithophily (pron: or-nith-o-philly)

Question 4

Unlike rodents, the rabbit has how many incisor teeth?

Answer 4

Four

Question 5

What percent of fire-related deaths are due to smoke inhalation rather than burns?

Answer 5

80%

Question 6

To what familiar fruit is the plantain similar?

Answer 6

Banana

Question 7

What U.S. President was recognized as a world authority on American game animals?

Answer 7

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 8

How many men have walked on the moon?

Answer 8

Twelve

Question 9

The fastest-running terrestrial animal is:

Answer 9

Cheetah

Question 10

In what country do the greatest number of tornadoes occur?

Answer 10

United States

Question 11

What wonder drug was used for three years by the Army and Navy before becoming available to the general public in 1944?

Answer 11

Penicillin

Question 12

Which sea is the saltiest natural lake and is also at the lowest elevation on the face of the earth?

Answer 12

The Dead Sea

Question 13

The scarab, worshipped by the Egyptians, is what type of beetle?

Answer 13

Dung Beetle

Question 14

As you go down into a well, your weight:

Answer 14

Decreases Slightly

Question 15

W cloud at ground level is called what?

Answer 15

Fog

Question 16

What invention in about 1450 A.D. revolutionized communication and the world?

Answer 16

The Printing Press

Question 17

What is the name for the new technology whereby a glass fiber carries as much information as hundreds of copper wires?

Answer 17

Fiber Optics (Opto-Electronics)

Question 18

What mammal lays eggs?

Answer 18

Platypus

Question 19

Linseed oil comes from what plant?

Answer 19

Flax

Question 20

Bees must collect nectar from approximately how many flowers to make 1 pound of honeycomb? Is it:

Answer 20

20 million

Question 21

What is the name of the largest North American terrestrial rodent, distinguished by its spiny covering?

Answer 21

Porcupine

Question 22

Albacore is a type of:

Answer 22

Tuna

Question 23

The only species of cat that lives and hunts in groups is:

Answer 23

Lion

Question 24

Linen is made from what plant?

Answer 24

Flax

Question 25

What is arachnology?

Answer 25

Study of Arachnids

Question 26

What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?

Answer 26

The Stone Age

Question 27

What nocturnal animal group makes up one-fourth of all mammals species?

Answer 27

Bats or Chiroptera

Question 28

What is the name of the whale that has a long protruding tusk?

Answer 28

Narwhal

Question 29

How many time zones are there on Earth?

Answer 29

24

Question 30

What land mammal holds the record for the greatest age?

Answer 30

Man

Question 31

What is the better known name for the deadly poison prussic acid?

Answer 31

Cyanide or Hydrogen Cyanide

Question 32

What colorless, pungent gas is often dissolved in water to yield a solution that is used as a biological preservative?

Answer 32

Formaldehyde

Question 33

What is the rest mass of a photon?

Answer 33

Zero

Question 34

What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and zinc?

Answer 34

Brass

Question 35

What is the name given to the process, discovered by Goodyear, of adding sulfur to heated rubber?

Answer 35

Vulcanization

Question 36

Used primarily in fertilizers, which element is never found free in nature even though it makes up about 2.5% of the earth’s crust?

Answer 36

Potassium

Question 37

What element, whose symbol derived from the Latin for “liquid silver”, has been found in Egyptian tombs from 1500 B.C.?

Answer 37

Mercury

Question 38

What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from tobacco leaves and widely used as an insecticide?

Answer 38

Nicotine

Question 39

What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium?

Answer 39

Stainless steel