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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This planet is the 6th furthest from the sun	Saturn	97%
On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin explained his theory on...	Evolution	85%
This element is the most abundant one found in Earth's atmosphere	Nitrogen	85%
Alexander Fleming is known for his creation of this effective antibiotic	Penicillin	81%
Husband and wife duo that discovered radium and polonium	Pierre and Marie Curie	81%
Supposedly, his theory of gravity came to him when an apple fell onto his head	Sir Isaac Newton	81%
Adult humans are supposed to have this amount of teeth	32	80%
For a while, Pluto was known as the 9th planet before being demoted to this status of planet	Dwarf Planet	80%
If something is said to be a nonagon, then it has this many sides	Nine	80%
Number of hydrogen particles found in a single water molecule	Two	80%
According to World Atlas, only 2% of the world population have this color of eyes	Green	78%
This layer of Earth lies between the crust and the core	Mantle	77%
Healthy element that is found in abundance in fruits such as bananas	Potassium	77%
Reflection is when light bounces off a surface, but what is it called when light changes direction and speed while passing through a surface?	Refraction	75%
Sodium Chloride is more commonly referred to as...	Salt	75%
Angles that are greater than 90° are said to be...	Obtuse	74%
In 1986, a nuclear reactor here faced a meltdown causing major damage and ecological fears of radiation spread and contamination	Chernobyl	73%
The Aurora Borealis is more commonly referred to as the...	Northern Lights	73%
As trees age, they grow rings around their interior that when counted can tell you when the tree formed. How many years are represented by a single ring?	One	73%
A scientific assumption or tentative explanation that has not yet been tested	Hypothesis	72%
This animal is currently the largest living animal on Earth	Blue Whale	70%
Diamonds are composed primarily of this element	Carbon	69%
Dog is to canine as cat is to ______	Feline	69%
The only element to begin with the letter X	Xenon	69%
In humans, men have this type of chromosome while women do not	Y	69%
Popular conspiracy theories believe that this site in the US houses intelligence surrounding aliens and their technology	Area 51	68%
There are 3 main types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, and __________	Sedimentary	68%
This type of cells are responsible for fighting off disease as part of your imune system	White Blood Cells	68%
If you go see a podiatrist, it means that you are getting this part of your body checked out	Feet	67%
When you see Σ in math, you are being asked to find this	Sum	67%
At 190 years old, Jonathan the ________ is the oldest known living land animal	Tortoise	67%
In 2014, this scary disease had a breakout in western Africa that ultimately led to the death of over 11,000 people	Ebola	64%
The colorful part of your eye is called the...	Iris	64%
Dmitri Mendeleev contributed to the realm of science with his creation of this	Periodic Table	64%
Soviet equivalent of an Astronaut	Cosmonaut	63%
Popular movie that dealt with time travel as discovered by the wacky Doc Brown	Back to the Future	62%
What you call lava when it is still below surface-level	Magma	62%
What it is called when the moon darkens as it passes into the Earth's shadow created by its placement in relation to the Sun	Lunar Eclipse	61%
This astronomical body is responsible for the tides of the waters on Earth	Moon	61%
When air is 20°C, this is measured to be 343 meters per second	Speed of Sound	61%
Ornithology is known as the study of this...	Birds	60%
Subatomic particle that has a negative charge	Electron	60%
This candy when combined with Coca Cola can spark a fizzy eruption	Mentos	59%
This fiction novel scientist created a living being out of the remains of human compost but was utterly horrified by his creation	Frankenstein	58%
This project as chiefly conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the 1900s	Manhattan Project	58%
In which modern-day country did a meteor strike with such force that it killed off the population of dinosaurs?	Mexico	58%
When you mix cement, water, and aggregate such as rocks and sand, then you are going to get this product as a result	Concrete	57%
Caterpillars undergo this process in order to become butterflies	Metamorphosis	57%
A substance that is above 7 on a pH scale is considered to be this	Basic	56%
North, west, east, and south are known as these type of directions	Cardinal	56%
Structurally, plant cells have this defining feature while animal cells do not	Cell Wall	56%
Bats use this form of sonar locating in order to fly around at night and find food	Echolocation	56%
This hormone is a favorite among most people as it gives your brain the sense of pleasure and reward	Dopamine	55%
They larynx is also known as the....	Voicebox	54%
A massive super-volcano lies below this famous national park in the US	Yellowstone	54%
The collarbone is also known as this officially in anatomy	Clavicle	53%
Pathology is the study of this	Disease	53%
Name of the fin on a shark that sticks out of the water when it swims at the surface, typically eliciting fear out of any nearby swimmer	Dorsal fin	52%
The compass is one of the most important inventions to come from this country	China	51%
The third most common measure of temperature behind Fahrenheit and Celsius is...	Kelvin	50%
The Fujita Scale is used to measure this kind of meteorological event	Tornadoes	50%
The initial outbreak of the COVID-19 virus originated from this city	Wuhan	50%
Nicola Tesla was responsible for the discovery of this type of electrical current	Alternating	49%
Whose law says that if something can go wrong, then it will?	Murphy's Law	49%
Acrophobia is more commonly known as the fear of...	Heights	48%
Instead of eating physical food, organisms like plankton and algae eat sunlight using this process	Photosynthesis	47%
What taxonomic rank is represented by "Homo" in Homo Sapiens?	Genus	46%
People with this blood type are known as being universal donors	O Negative	45%
In Jurassic Park, what substance was purchased in abundance because it often had fossilized mosquitos that had consumed dinosaur blood inside of it? That blood then went towards reproducing the dinosaurs that wrecked havoc in the park	Amber	44%
Coal, natural gas, and petroleum oil are all examples of this	Fossil Fuels	44%
When someone refers to your mandible, they are referring to which part of your body?	Jaw	43%
Opposite of Occidental	Oriental	43%
This very illegal drug is only a slight difference from Adderall in terms of their chemical composition and they are referred to as cousin drugs	Methamphetamine	42%
In hit TV series Breaking Bad, main character Walter White takes his nickname based on this German physicist	Werner Heisenberg	41%
"Tyrannosaurus" is Greek for Tyrant ______	Lizard	40%
First person to theorize that the sun is at the center of the universe rather than the Earth	Nicolaus Copernicus	40%
This type of gene is able to skip generations unlike its genial counterpart	Recessive	40%
Alcohol is created by this process where yeast breaks down sugars in carbohydrates and in turn creates ethanol	Fermentation	39%
Ancient Egyptians used this plant that grew in abundance along the Nile River as paper to write things down on	Papyrus	39%
Crocodiles are so old, that they are believe to have been around in this geological period due to dating efforts on excavated fossils	Triassic	36%
What the D in LED stands for	Diode	35%
Henry Ford was able to much more efficiently produce his automobiles due to his implementation of this manufacturing process	Assembly Line	33%
Of all of the large species of cats, only this one has claws that are not fully retractable	Cheetahs	32%
Operation where a small camera travels into your body to take a look under the hood, so to speak	Endoscopy	32%
An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary by this man who looks to alert the public on his fear of increasing emergency due to Global Warming	Al Gore	31%
This fibrous material used to be used as a thermal and electrical insulator in homes and buildings until it was discovered to have many adverse health effects in the 1970s	Asbestos	31%
This is known as the resistance of any object to motion without the application of an external force	Inertia	31%
ALS is also named after a former baseball star that died prematurely as a result of contracting the disease	Lou Gehrig	31%
Type of clouds that are high in the sky and usually very thin, often seen on a nice weather day	Cirrus	29%
If you have halitosis, it means that you have this...	Bad Breath	28%
This layer of the atmosphere is the outermost one	Exosphere	28%
Type of gas used during WWI that was promptly banned under international laws of war following the conclusion of the conflict	Chlorine	27%
According to horoscope, the birthstone for people born in the month of July is...	Ruby	27%
This scientist was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park	Thomas Edison	25%
If a resource is able to be recycled and reused, then it is said to be this...	Renewable	24%
Henry Stanley was sent to the Congo to find this missing Scottish physician who was lost while on a mission trip through the jungle	David Livingstone	23%
Name of the asteroid belt that circles the Milky Way and surrounds all of its planets	Kuiper Belt	23%
Which element is often referred to as yellow cake variety?	Uranium	21%
The primary reason why it is faster when you fly from west to east over the US	Jet Stream	17%
Who is known for his improvements upon the Scientific Method as well as being referred to as the father of empiricism?	Sir Francis Bacon	13%

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