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General Science Knowledge Quiz

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This is just a short collection of trivia questions taken from different branches of science. There are questions on biology, chemistry, physics, geology, paleontology and meteorology. Some may be a bit difficult but others are easier. Let’s see how well you can do.

  • Question of

    Ice must melt into water before evaporating.

    • True
    • False
  • Question of

    Marie Curie’s notebooks are still so radioactive that they must be stored in a lead box.

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    Liquid mercury conducts electricity.

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    Which of these is not a pigment or group of pigments that is responsible for the change of color of leaves in the fall?

    • Chlorophyll
    • Carotenoids
    • Adenosine
    • Anthocyanins
  • Question of

    When a metal rusts, it combines with which of the following?

    • Water vapor
    • Oxygen
    • Hydrogen
    • Nitrogen
  • Question of

    Which travels faster?

    • An average bullet
    • The sound of the gun being shot
  • Question of

    In 1957 a man tried to ride out a tornado by holding onto a tree for dear life. At one point he found himself in the center of the tornado. What did he see?

    • Blackness, it was too dark to see anything.
    • Lightning
    • His life flash before his eyes.
  • Question of

    Some of the wooly mammoths that have been uncovered frozen in ice have had undigested tropical vegetation in their stomachs.

    • Yes
    • No
  • Question of

    How many oxygen atoms are there in a molecule of ozone?

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
  • Question of

    The strongest earthquake that we know of to occur in America was centered near which city?

    • St. Louis, Missouri
    • Los Angeles, California
    • San Francisco, California
    • Anchorage, Alaska

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Written by Gary J Sibio

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