Take the Super Quiz
Published 6:19 pm, Saturday, September 21, 2013
Score 1 point for each correct answer on freshman level, 2 points graduate; 3 points Ph.D.
(What does "micro" mean in "microorganism"? Small.)
1. What is an obtuse angle? 2. What is the national gemstone of Australia? 3. A regular solid with six similar faces is called a ——— 4. Identify the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. 5. Identify Ganymede.
6. Louis Pasteur created the first vaccines for ——— 7. The inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body. 8. Both Boyle's law and Charles' law deal with what form of matter? 9. Fuel and air mix in this part of an engine. 10. Coke is an impure form of ———
11. By fermentation, yeast converts carbohydrates to carbon dioxide and ——— 12. Three scientists are known collectively as "EPR." Name any one of the three. 13. Who is best known for his uncertainty principle? 14. The spring scale is based on ———— law. 15. An apparatus for reducing or increasing the voltage of an alternating current.
1. More than 90 degrees. 2. Opal. 3. Cube. 4. Chernobyl. 5. Moon (Jupiter). 6. Rabies and/or anthrax. 7. Centripetal force. 8. Gas. 9. Carburetor. 10. Carbon. 11. Alcohol. 12. Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen. 13. Werner Heisenberg. 14. Hooke's. 15. Alternator.