Trivia

Question 1

Father of Chemical Engineering

Answer 1

George Edward Davis

Question 2

Father of Modern Chemical Engineering

Answer 2

Warren Lewis

Question 3

the strongest material in the universe

Answer 3

carbyne

Question 4

color of Fe(III) in a flame test

Answer 4

gold

Question 5

the circumstance when warmer water freezes faster than colder water

Answer 5

Mpemba Effect

Question 6

Amount of salt in an average human body

Answer 6

250 grams

Question 7

Lack of salt in body is called

Answer 7

hyponatremia

Question 8

most abundant protein in the human body

Answer 8

collagen

Question 9

what trace metal is found in Vitamin B12

Answer 9

Cobalt

Question 10

A cucumber is ___ %water

Answer 10

96

Question 11

Herb wormwood is a licorise-anise-flavored green liquor with 68% alcohol content or 132 proof. herb wormwood’s other name is

Answer 11

Absinthe

Question 12

a boiler explosion killed 23 workers in Gazipur, Bangladesh. the boiler triggered a fire that spread to the surrounding areas and collapsed part of a four-storey building. when did this occur

Answer 12

September 10, 2016

Question 13

Hydroquinone is used to/in

Answer 13

Lighten skin

Question 14

the material invented by Charles Goodyear in 1839 by making natural elastomer more durable by the addition of sulfur or other curatives or accelerators

Answer 14

Vulcanized rubber

Question 15

the pressure needed to produce snow from a snowmaking machine

Answer 15

20 atm

Question 16

First known LASER

Answer 16

Ruby Laser

Question 17

an egg is __% calcium

Answer 17

45

Question 18

acts as a kind of cement to keep ocean floor sediments together

Answer 18

Methane hydrate

Question 19

the time it takes for light from the sun to reach the earth

Answer 19

8 min 20 sec

Question 20

the country (and its territories) with the most timezones

Answer 20

France (12 timezones)

Question 21

1 eon is equivalent to

Answer 21

1 billion years

Question 22

who discovered phenolphthalein

Answer 22

Adolf von Baeyer

Question 23

due to thermal expansion, the Eiffel tower expands in summer by how much?

Answer 23

15 cm

Question 24

the average weight of an iceberg

Answer 24

10 million tons

Question 25

the only rock that floats in water

Answer 25

pumice

Question 26

the coldest known place in the universe (-458 degF)

Answer 26

Boomerang Nebula

Question 27

the average time it takes for blood to circulate around the human body

Answer 27

20 seconds

Question 28

a human brain is _% water

Answer 28

75

Question 29

phosphorus fertilizers are derived from

Answer 29

fluorapatite

Question 30

it is a technique in which laser light is directed at a beam of atoms, hitting them head-on dramatically slowing them down

Answer 30

laser cooling

Question 31

Sunspots appear in the

Answer 31

photosphere

Question 32

magnetic fields in sunspots are

Answer 32

stronger than the rest the sun

Question 33

who discovered that sunspots vary in a cycle of 11 years

Answer 33

Heinrich Schwabe

Question 34

Who was the first astronomer to observe sunspots?

Answer 34

Thomas Harriot

Question 35

what is the correct alignment during a solar eclipse?

Answer 35

Sun, Moon, Earth

Question 36

the moon’s mass is about

Answer 36

1/8 of Earth’s mass

Question 37

a person weighing 60 kg on the earth would weight,

Answer 37

10 kg on the moon

Question 38

Who discovered positron?

Answer 38

Anderson