Science Quiz with Answers- Round 16 to 20

SCIENCE Quiz

by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan

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Quiz on Science 16

1.      What is a microbe? 

2.      What are different kinds of microbes?

3.      Name three types of fungi.

4.      Name the first person to prove that a microbe causes diseases? 

5.      Name the bacterium found in contaminated meat and eggs?

6.      What is Bacteriology?

7.      What is Virology?

8.      What is Protozoology?

9.      What is Phycology?

10.  What is Physiology?

11.  What is Psychology?

12.  What is Astronomy?

13.  What type of coal is burnt to generate electricity?

14.  Name the first simple machine that was used by humans.

15.  When was electromagnetic induction discovered?

16.  Which British scientist discovered electromagnetic induction?

17.  When did Newton publish his Theory of Gravitation?

18.  When was the first commercial nuclear power station started?

19.  Where in England was the first commercial nuclear power station started?

20.  In which year human for the first time saw the earth as a complete globe?

Answer to Quiz on Science 16

1.      A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium)

2.      Bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, and viruses

3.      Yeast, moulds, and mushroom

4.      Louis Pasteur

5.      Salmonella

6.      The branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease

7.      The branch of medical science that studies viruses and viral diseases

8.      The branch of zoology that studies protozoan

9.      The branch of botany that studies algae

10.  The branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

11.  The science of mental life

12.  The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole

13.  Black Bituminous Coal

14.  The Lever

15.  1831

16.  Michael Faraday

17.  1687

18.  1956

19.  Calder Hall

20.  December, 1968

Quiz on Science 17

1.      What is Ecology?

2.      What is Botany?

3.      What is Zoology?

4.      What is Cytology?

5.      When was electricity from a moving magnet discovered?

6.      Who discovered electricity from a moving magnet?

7.      Who discovered the nature of combustion?

8.      Who begin the scientific classification of animals and plants in 1750?

9.      Who gave the first information on atom?

10.  What is the calorific value of fuel?

11.  Which salt is used to for making statues?

12.  Which salt is used for setting broken bones?

13.  What is photochemical reaction?

14.  What provide energy to the cell through respiration in plant cell?

15.  What is the powerhouse of the cell?

16.  What provide proper shape and hardness to the cell in the plant cell?

17.  What contain the green pigment called chlorophyll which is used in photosynthesis in plant cells?

18.  What do you mean by Bacteriophages?

19.  Name the most common elements that make up the rock.

20.  How Methane is prepared in the laboratory?

Answer to Quiz on Science 17

1.      The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

2.      The branch of biology that studies plants

3.      The branch of biology that studies animals

4.      The branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells

5.      1831

6.      Michael Faraday

7.      Antoine Lavoisier

8.      Carolus Linnaeus

9.      John Dalton

10.  Amount of heat energy produced on burning 1 kg of fuel in pure oxygen

11.  Plaster of Paris

12.  Plaster of Paris

13.  Chemical reaction that takes place only in presence of light

14.  Mitochondria

15.  Mitochondria

16.  Cell sap

17.  Chloroplast

18.  A virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria

19.  Oxygen, Silicon, Aluminium, Iron, Calcium, Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium etc

20.  By heating sodium acetate with sodium hydroxide

Quiz on Science 18

1.      Who discovered Penicillin in 1928?

2.      Which physical property allows a needle to float on water?

3.      What is the full form of PVC?

4.      Name the only vertebrate capable of sustained flight.

5.      Who performed the first human heart transplant?

6.      What is Gunpowder?

7.      Name the most costly used nuclear fuel.

8.      In what salts were Radioactivity discovered?

9.      When was Radioactivity discovered?

10.  Which French physicist discovered Radioactivity?

11.  What is actinium?

12.  Which French chemist discovered actinium in 1899?

13.  What is obtained by dissolving ammonium gas in water?

14.  What is Insectivorous?

15.  What is water of crystallisation?

16.  What will occur whenever the velocity of an object changes?

17.  Which French physicist liquefied air for the first time in 1877?

18.  Which law states that energy is conserved in a moving fluid?

19.  In animal cells, what contains many tiny glycogen granules and mitochondria?

20.  As what, the food is stored in animal cells?

Answer to Quiz on Science 18

1.      Alexander Fleming

2.      Surface tension

3.      Polyvinylchloride

4.      Bat

5.      Doctor Christian Barnard

6.      A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulphur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks

7.      Uranium

8.      Uranium salts

9.      1896

10.  Henri Becquerel

11.  A radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores

12.  Andre Louis Debierne

13.  Ammonium hydroxide

14.  Plants and animals that feeds on small insects

15.  The fixed number of water molecules which are in loose combination with one molecule of a salt

16.  Acceleration

17.  Louis Paul Cailletct

18.  Bernoulli’s law

19.  Cytoplasm

20.  Glycogen

Quiz on Science 19

1.      Who is called as the Father of Psychoanalysis?

2.      When was the Iron-Lung invented?

3.      Who invented Iron-Lung?

4.      What property of a body is calculated by multiplying its mass by its velocity?

5.      What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is "fundamentally altering our view of the universe"?

6.      What is Cryogenics?

7.      Where is the pineal gland located in our body?

8.      What do you mean by Hypermetropia?

9.      What is Ornithology?

10.  What is Hygrometer?

11.  What is calcium carbonate normally known as?

12.  How many hearts does an octopus have?

13.  What units are used to measure sound intensity?

14.  Name the glands that produce white blood cells.

15.  What is the term used for the maximum displacement of a periodic wave?

16.  What types of charges does a proton carry?

17.  What part of the eye may be obscured by cataracts?

18.  Hydrolysis is the reaction of a chemical compound with what other compound?

19.  Name the apparatus used in a ship to find the depth of the sea?

20.  Who is a nutritionist?

Answer to Quiz on Science 19

1.      Dr. Sigmund Freud

2.      1929

3.      Philip Drinker of Harvard, USA

4.      Momentum

5.      The Hubble telescope

6.      The study of materials at very low temperatures

7.      Brain

8.      Abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects

9.      The branch of zoology that studies birds

10.  Instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the atmosphere

11.  Chalk

12.  Three

13.  Decibels

14.  Lymph glands

15.  Amplitude

16.  Positive charge

17.  The lens

18.  Water

19.  Sonar

20.  The food scientist

Quiz on Science 20

1.      Why mercury is used as a thermometric liquid?

2.      Why do you think that copper tubing is used in automobile radiators?

3.      Where in human the fertilization occurs?

4.      Name the ball-like structure formed after division in the fertilized egg.

5.      What is Phototropism?

6.      What does the peripheral nervous system consist of?

7.      What is the diameter of the moon?

8.      How long the light takes to reach to the earth from the sun?

9.      How many teeth does an elephant have?

10.  What is the boiling point of Mercury?

11.  What is the term used for solidified carbon dioxide?

12.  What is the distance between the moon and the earth?

13.  Which British physicist invented the Kelvin scale?

14.  Through what process does hydrogen nuclei change into helium nuclei?

15.  Through which organ does a fish get oxygen?

16.  Name the metal that can be extracted from the bauxite.

17.  Name the only rock that floats in water.

18.  What is the common name for nitrous oxide?

19.  Name the longest cells in the human body.

20.  What is the weight of the earth?

Answer to Quiz on Science 20

1.      Because, it is a good conductor of heat

2.      Because, it readily take heat from the hot water coming from the engine.

3.      Oviduct

4.      Embryo

5.      Movement of plant parts towards light

6.      Cranial and spinal nerves

7.      3500 km

8.      8 Minutes 20 Seconds

9.      Four

10.  357 ⁰C

11.  Dry Ice

12.  3, 84,000 Kms

13.  William Thomson

14.  Nuclear fusion

15.  Gills

16.  Aluminium

17.  Pumice

18.  Laughing Gas

19.  The motor neurons

20.  6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg