FunTrivia Sci / Tech Mix: Vol 33 Quiz

Answer: 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C

Water is a clear liquid. Water can change from a liquid to a solid form called ice at a temperature of 32 degrees F and 0 degrees C. A variety of the water form is called rain.

Question by player oysters8

Answer: Mars

The four terrestrial planets in our solar system are the closet planets to the sun. From closest to farthest from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The word terrestrial is derived from the Latin words Terra and Tellus which mean earth. Terrestrial planets are chiefly composed of metals or silicate rocks.

Question by player DizWiz

Answer: Galaxy Note

The Galaxy Note is an Android smartphone released by Apple's rival Samsung in late 2011. The iPhone is a smartphone which was released by Apple on June 29th 2007. It was known as the iPhone OS until mid 2010. The iPad is a tablet computer released by Apple on 3rd April 2010 while the iPod was first released on 10th November 2001. All the Apple devices run on Apple's iOS operating system while the Galaxy Note initially had Ginger Bread and later Jelly Bean.

The iPhone is the most popular device sold by Apple. Samsung comes up with weird names for its operating systems!

Question by player mask100

Answer: Webbing between fingers

This condition happens if the fingers are not naturally separated during the sixth to eighth week of life in the womb. Surgery is usually performed to separate the fingers when the baby is around 18 to 24 months when the fingers have grown.

Question by player Tekka

Answer: 17

A heptadecagon has seventeen sides and its name, like that of most other polygons, is based on ancient Greek words for numbers. It is composed of 'hept' meaning 'seven' as in heptagon, a polygon with seven sides, and 'decagon', the name for a polygon with ten sides. The names of many polygons with large numbers of sides are made up of two separate components in a similar way. A six-sided polygon is called a hexagon while a nonagon or enneagon has nine sides and a hectogon has a hundred sides.


Question by player misstified

Answer: yew

The European yew (Taxus baccata) is an Old World native belonging to the Taxaceae family of the Pinophyta division of plants, commonly known as conifers. While "baccata" (bearing berries) refers to the tree's bright red, berry-like arils (seed-bearing structures), the genus name "Taxus" is very probably derived from the Scythian word for "bow".

Indeed, yew wood's remarkable elasticity makes it ideal for the manufacturing of bows, especially the famed English longbows used with great effect in the Middle Ages. Due to its fine grain and smooth texture, yew wood (one of the hardest softwoods) is also extensively used in the making of furniture and musical instruments.

These medium-sized trees, with their strikingly arranged dark green leaves, are also popular in landscaping and ornamental horticulture. All parts of a yew tree, with the exception of the edible arils, contain alkaloids known as taxines, which are toxic to humans and some animals, such as horses and cattle. All the other trees are also conifers.

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: Maximum

An average is a value that typically represents a set of numbers. Usually we think of the total of all the numbers divided by the amount of numbers, which is the mean. The mode is the most commonly occurring number in a set. It is useful when a lot of the numbers in the set are the same.

The median is the number closest to the middle when all the numbers are listed in order. This is useful when one number is extremely different to most, like much larger or much smaller, which can result in the mean not really being a good representative of the set.

Question by player Flukey

Answer: the speed of light in a vacuum.

Einstein wasn't the first to find a relationship between mass and energy, but he was the first to actually write it down as a formula. He beat out Poincare who had come up with a similar relation the same year Einstein proposed his formula.

Question by player Desdaimil

Answer: Flower

There are over twenty species of Rafflesia in southeastern Asia, the smallest of which has a flower only extending about 12cm (5in) across. Its bigger cousin, Rafflesia arnoldii, produces a flower about one metre in diameter which can tip the scales at 11kg (25lb).

It has five huge petals, but the flower only lasts a few days, making the plant difficult to spot in the rainforest. You might find one by the smell though. One of its nicknames is the "carrion flower" due to the delightful aroma of rotting flesh emanating from it.

Question by player Tizzabelle

Answer: Apollo 7

In 1967, the crew of AS-204, Command Pilot Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee, were killed on the launch pad in a cabin fire during testing. NASA later renamed the flight Apollo 1, chosen by that crew. Apollo 4 first tested the Saturn V rocket which powered astronauts to the moon. Apollo 7, the first manned mission in the Apollo program, crewed by Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham under "Wally" Schirra, tested the redesigned Apollo Command/Service Module. "We Have Cleared the Tower", an episode of the television miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", paid tribute in its title to the crew of Apollo 1 which never left the ground.

Question by player Humanist