The Irish Examiner Science Quiz

Test your knowledge of science and nature with our tricky multiple choice quiz. Then find out how bright you are. (Answers are at the bottom — but no peeking!

1. Which gas makes up most of every breath you take?

Oxygen; Hydrogen; Nitrogen; Helium

2. What is the sixth planet from the Sun?

Saturn; Mercury; Uranus; Jupiter

3. In which year did Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the Moon?

1961; 1963; 1966; 1969

4. What type of animal gives birth to a leveret?

Eel; Hare; Lemur; Panda

5. What is the chemical symbol for gold?

G; Ag; Au; Gd

6. What does the R in ‘laser’ stand for?

Repeated; Radiation; Radioactive; Radium

7. What type of animal lives in a drey?

Squirrel; Mongoose; Badger; Otter

8. What are people who suffer from brontophobia afraid of?

Dinosaurs; Thunder; Coughing; Food

9. What is the most common blood type?

A; B; AB; O

10. How many teeth are in a full adult set?

30; 32; 34; 36

11. Which one of the following types of solar radiation does sunscreen protect the skin from?

X-rays; Infrared; Ultraviolet; Microwaves

12. What is the main function of red blood cells?

Fight disease; Clot blood; Carry oxygen; Colour blood

13. Dry ice is a frozen form of which gas?

Nitrogen; Carbon monoxide; Carbon dioxide; Dihydrogen oxide

14. What is the name of the coloured part of the eye?

Retina; Iris; Pupil; Lens

15. In trigonometry, what is calculated by the adjacent divided the hypotenuse?

Tangent; Cosine; Pythagorus; Sine

16. Which chemical element, number 11 in the periodic table, has the symbol Na?

Nickel; Potassium; Sodium; Mercury

17. What is the largest fish in the world?

Blue whale; Basking shark; Whale shark; Great white shark

18. What do 1,000 megabytes make?

An ultrabyte; A terrabyte; A kilobyte; A gigabyte

19. What is the answer to this sum — 2 ?

6; 8; 12; 16

20. Who was the first person in space?

John Glenn; Yuri Gagarin; Neil Armstrong; Alexei Leonov

How many did you get right? Keep scrolling to find out!

ANSWERS:

1) Nitrogen

2) Saturn

3) 1969

4) Hare

5) Au

6) Radiation

7) Squirrel

8) Thunder

9) O

10) 32

11) Ultraviolet

12) Carry oxygen

13) Carbon dioxide

14) Iris

15) Cosine

16) Sodium

17) Whale shark

18) A gigabyte

19) 8

20) Yuri Gagarin

HOW BRIGHT ARE YOU?

0-5 Flickering torch

6-10 100W light bulb

11-15 Blazing sun

16-20 Supernova