Easy Science Trivia

Quzzing a bunch of elementary school kids? Make sure you’re ready

with questions they can answer. These easy science trivia
questions and answers are perfect for testing what they know and
expanding their knowledge so they get to appreciate more about
the world around us.

1. This essential gas is important so that we can breath.

Oxygen

2. What is the nearest planet to the sun?

Mercury

3. How many teeth does an adult human have?

32

4. The earth has three layers of varying temperatures. What are

its three layers?
 Crust, mantle, and core

5. What is the largest planet in the solar system?

Jupiter

6. What do bees collect and use to create honey?

Nectar

7. What is the hottest planet in the solar system?

Venus

8. What is the rarest blood type?

AB negative
9. On what part of your body would you find the pinna?

Ear

10. What part of the plant conducts photosynthesis?

Leaf

11. What’s the boiling point of water?

100 degrees Celsius

12. What is the largest known land animal?

Elephant

13. What is the largest known animal?

 Blue whale

14. What tissues connect the muscles to the bones?

Tendons

15. Who was the scientist to propose the three laws of

motion?

Isaac Newton

16. The plant Earth is surrounded by different layers of gas,

which when taken together, we call the…?

Atmosphere

17. Animals that eat both plants and meat are called what?

Omnivores
18. Which of Newton’s Laws state that ‘for every action, there
is an equal and opposite reaction?’

The third law of motion

19. Diabetes develops as the result of a problem with which

specific organ in the body?

Pancreas

20. True or false: sound travels faster in air than in water.

False

21. How long does a human red blood cell survive?

120 days

22. True or false – lightning is hotter than the sun.

 True

23. In what country can you find the Suez Canal?

Egypt

24. This planet spins the fastest, completing one whole

rotation in just 10 hours. Which planet is it?

Jupiter

25. How many elements are there in the periodic table?

118

26. This planet has a collective 53 moons, making it the

planet in our solar system with the biggest numbers of moon.

Saturn
27. Where can you find the smallest bone in the human
body?

Middle ear

28. Scientists believe that the continents of the earth were all
one large landmass 280 million years ago. The moving of
tectonic plates caused this mass to break off into different
pieces, making up the continents as we know them today.
What was this landmass called?

Pangea

29. This theory aims to explain how Pangea became separate

continents, suggesting that the movement of tectonic plates
caused the mass to break off and drift into different places.

The Continental Drift Theory

30. How many hearts does an octopus have?

3
31. True or false: male seahorses give birth to their young,
not the females.

True

32. The oldest living tree is 4,843 years old and can be found
where?

California

33. Can you hear anything in outer space?

No, there is medium for sound to travel through

34. This man is responsible for reshaping the way early man
believed the solar system worked. He proposed that the Earth
was not the center of the universe, and that the sun was
instead at the center of our solar system. Who was he?

Copernicus
35. From what tree do acorns come from?

Oak trees

36. What is the tallest type of grass?

Bamboo

37. Dolly was the first ever living creature to be cloned. What
type of animal was she?

Sheep

38. This animal was the first ever to be launched into space.
She was strapped into the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft which
was sent out into outer space on November 3, 1957. What was
her name?

Laika

39. What type of animal was Laika?

 Dog

40. An egg’s shell is what percentage of its total weight?

12%

41. What is the smallest country in the world?

Vatican City

42. Who is regarded as the man who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

43. What is considered the highest mountain in Africa?

Mount Kilimanjaro
44. In what year was Alaska sold to the United States of
America?

1867

45. How many bones do sharks have in total?

Zero

46. Discovered by Alexander Fleming, this is now used to

treat infections and is considered one of the most important
discoveries in the field of medical science. What is it?

Penicillin

47. This measurement – approximately six feet – is used to

measure the depth of water. What is it?

Fathom

48. What is a Geiger counter used to measure?

 Radiation

49. What is the hardest known natural material?

Diamonds

50. True or false: your hair and your nails are made from the
same material.

True

Hard Science Trivia

Looking for something more difficult to challenge your knowledge
and perhaps teach you a little something new? There’s a ton to
learn about the world, and these hard science trivia questions might
challenge what you know and shift the way you see certain aspects
of the world around you.

1. This part of the brain deals with hearing and language.

Temporal lobe

2. This is the phenomenon that explains why people will tend to

refuse to offer help when there are other people present during
an emergency.
 The Bystander Effect

3. When you open a bottle of wine and leave it exposed to the air,
the ethanol in it reacts with oxygen. This reaction forms what?

Ethanoic acid

4. What is it called when you make light change direction by

passing it through a lens?

Refraction

5. An unlit match has what form of energy?

Chemical energy

6. This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs

between different atoms. What do you call this bond?

Covalent
7. What is the scientific term for peeling skin?

Desquamation

8. True or false: the Large Magellan Cloud is farther from the

Earth than Andromeda.

False

9. This Saturn moon has a methane cycle, differentiating it from

the other moons of the planet. What is its name?

Titan

10. Animals that are active during dawn and dusk are called
what type of animals?

Crepuscular

11. What percentage of the total number of known animals

are invertebrates?
 95%

12. True or false: chloroplasts can be found in animal cells.

False

13. ATP is the molecular unit of energy that gives our body
fuel on a cellular level. What does ATP stand for?

Adenosine triphosphate

14. Where is the world’s most active volcano located?

Hawaii

15. True or false: rainforests are considered temperate

climate regions.

Rainforest
16. This type of material does not allow electricity to flow
through them easily, unlike conductors which are used for their
ability to rapidly allow electricity to pass through. What is this
material called?

Insulators

17. Optics is the study of what?

Light

18. True or false: the graduated cylinder is a tool that’s used

to measure fluid volume.

True

19. Using feet, how long does the human small intestine
measure on average?

17 feet
20. In 1953, the United States of America conducted its first
and only nuclear artillery test. Where was the test held?

Nevada

21. Most of a penny is made from what type of metal?

Zinc

22. This jungle animal, when in groups, is referred to as an

ambush. What kind of animal is this?

Tigers

23. Space travelers from the United States are called

astronauts. From Russia, they’re called cosmonauts. Where are
taikonauts from?

China
24. This lunar phase happens when less than a full moon but
more than a half moon is illuminated.

Gibbous phase

25. Joseph Henry was given credit for this invention in 1831
which was said to revolutionize the way that people
communicate during the time. What was his invention?

The telegraph

26. The name of this disease stems from the medieval term
that means ‘bad air’. What disease is it?

Malaria

27. This animal’s fingerprints closely resemble that of a

human’s. So much so in fact, that inspecting its fingerprint side
by side with a human print might make it impossible to
differentiate. What animal is it?

Koala
28. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious
awards in the field of science. The man behind the award –
Alfred Nobel – invented what?

Dynamite

29. Leo Gertstenzang is typically credited for the invention of

q-tips – one of the most important modern day necessities for
personal care. What year did he invent them?

1923

30. A spider monkey’s tail can carry its weight and hold on to
branches. This type of tail – which can hold on to objects and
support the weight of the animal to which it belongs – are
called what type of tail?

Prehensile tail

31. The joints of the body are designed so that they allow
bones to interface and move. This specific type of joint
however, is rigid and does not allow movement. What type of
joint is this?
 Suture joints

32. Bright’s Disease affects what part of the body?

Kidney

33. Had pirates known about this vitamin, then they wouldn’t
have suffered from scurvy. What vitamin is this

Vitamin C

34. This medical term is used to refer to items ‘based on

experience’.

Empiric

35. This refers to the amount of blood cells in a certain

amount of blood.
 Hematocrit

36. This is the unit of measure used to quantify radioactive

element activity.

Becqueral

37. Why do bubbles pop shortly after their blown?

Dirt from the air

38. This is the only type of canine that can climb trees. What
is it called?

Gray fox

39. Lagomorph, refers to what type of animal?

Rabbits
40. Which mountain peak extends the furthest from the
center of the Earth?

While many might say it’s Mount Everest, the answer is

actually Chimborazo which sits on the equator.

41. Many of us believe that the average human has 5 senses,

but that’s not actually true. What two other senses do we have
that are often left unknown to most lay people?

Vestibular and proprioceptive senses

42. What does the vestibular sense do?

Informs the brain of a person’s position in space

43. What does the proprioceptive sense do?

Informs the brain of the relative position of certain body parts

to others
44. What will two particles of opposing charges do – repel or
attract?

Attract

45. When a substance goes from one state of matter to

another, what is that process called?

A change of state

46. This type of cell division results two four daughter cells,
each one with half the number of chromosomes in the parent
cells. What is it called?

Meiosis

47. This is the quality of an object that allows it to float on

water.

Buoyancy
48. What are the only two egg-laying mammals in existence
in the world today?

Echidna and Platypus

49. What is it called when a solid matter transitions to a gas

immediately without having to pass through the liquid state?

Sublimation

50. This relationship between muscles means that one

muscle assists the movement of another.

Synergistic

51. This type of muscle relationship refers to two muscles

that never move in the same direction. When one is flexed, the
other will always be extended.

Antagonistic
52. This ‘v’ word describes a fluid’s ability to resist flowing.
What is it?

Viscosity

53. What is the bone diseases that literally translates to

‘porous bones’?

Osteoporosis

54. This term is commonly used today to refer to errors with

computer systems. It was first coined when a moth was
trapped in an early model of the personal computer, causing it
to crash. What is this word?

Bug

55. This Greek physician was the first to keep records of his
patients’ histories.

Hippocrates
56. What two substances are the main components of
bronze?

Copper and tin