Multiple Choice Trivia Questions
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How long ago did dinosaurs become extinct?
A. 10,000 years
B. 600,000 years
C. 6 million years
D. 60 million years
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Which of the following food items have the least calories?
A. 5 ounces of whole milk
B. 5 ounces of beer
C. 5 teaspoons of sugar
D. 5 ounces of vegetable oil
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The scapula is more commonly called the what?
A. shoulder blade
B. knee cap
C. femur
D. lower jaw bone
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At the time that the Large Electron-Positron Collider went into operation in 1989 it was the largest scientific instrument ever built with a circumference of over 16 miles. Where is it located?
A. California and Nevada
B. France and Switzerland
C. Austria and Germany
D. France and Italy
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If a circle and a square have the same area, then which of the following statements must be true?
A. The circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter
B. the circle's circumference is greater than the square's perimeter
C. the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter
D. None of the above
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Which of the following are true during a lunar eclipse?
A. The sun is between the earth and the moon
B. the earth is between the sun and the moon
C. the sun is between the earth and the moon
D. none of the above
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What kinds of quarks form the protons and neutrons in the atoms of matter?
A. strange and charmed
B. top and bottom
C. up and down
D. all of the above
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What country became the third one to launch a spacecraft to the moon in January 1990?
A. China
B. France
C. Japan
D. United Kingdom
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Which of the following flowers did not get its name from adding "ia" to the surname of the botanist?
A. fuchsia
B. magnolia
C. zinnia
D. petunia
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What is an imaginary number?
A. any irrational number
B. any complex number
C. the result of dividing any number by zero
D. the square root of any negative real number
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Prior to 1977 rings were only known to exist around Saturn. Since then, at least one ring has been found around which other planet or planets?
A. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune
B. Uranus and Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Mercury and Neptune
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Which of these drugs was discovered first?
A. aspirin
B. cocaine
B. penicillin
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The Magellan spacecraft launched in 1989, was sent to map the surface of what planet?
A. Mars
B. Neptune
C. Venus
D. Mercury
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In computer software, how many bits are in a kilobyte?
A. 100
B. 1,000
C. 8,000
D. 8192
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In relativity theory, if a spaceship accelerated to near the speed of light, an observer not on the ship might notice all but which of the following?
A. clocks on the ship would slow down
B. the ship would get smaller
C. the ship would lose mass
D. the ship would gain mass
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Which of these animals lays eggs?
A. Kangaroo
B. koala
C. platypus
D. Tasmanian devil
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During which decade was the television invented?
A. 1920s
B. 1930s
C. 1940s
D. 1950s
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How many of the eight planets other than earth are smaller than Earth?
A. 0
B. 2
C. 4
D. 6
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Which of the following animals have, on the average, the shortest lifespan?
A. gray squirrel
B. grizzly bear
C. kangaroo
D. moose
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Which of the following gasses account for about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere?
A. argon
B. carbon dioxide
C. nitrogen
D. oxygen
ANSWERS
- D. 60 million years
- B. 5 ounces of beer
- A. shoulder blade
- B. France and Switzerland
- C. the circle's circumference is less than the square's perimeter
- B. the earth is between the sun and the moon
- C. up and down
- C. Japan
- D. petunia
- D. the square root of any negative real number
- A. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune
- B. cocaine
- C. Venus
- D. 8192
- C. the ship would lose mass
- C. platypus
- A. 1920s
- C. 4
- C. kangaroo
- C. nitrogen
