General Science Quiz No. 2

[Carl]

• 1. What happens to your skin's blood vessels as you exercise ?

• 2. The cecum is part of which intestine ?

• 3. What is a mammal with a pouch for its young called ?

• 4. What is the active ingredient in smelling salts ?

• 5. The Kelvin scale is used to measure what ?

• 6. What insects are sometimes called devil’s darning needles ?

• 7. What is a nanominute ?

• 8. What is the only chemical element whose name is only three letters long ?

• 9. What country was the first to send an object to the Moon ?

• 10. What disorder often leads to sufferers eating odd items such as dirt or metal ?

• 11. Emollients are more commonly referred to as what ?

• 12. What's another name for vitamin B5 ?

• 13. Trypophobia is the fear of what ?

• 14. What plastic often has its name shortened to PS ?

• 15. If a triangle has two equal sides, it is what ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

3 Marsupial
4 Ammonia

[stowie39]

5. Temperature
15. Isosceles

[LucindaC]

6 Dragonfly
14 polystyrene

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. What happens to your skin's blood vessels as you exercise ? They widen

• 2. The cecum is part of which intestine ? Large intestine

• 3. What is a mammal with a pouch for its young called ? A masupial

• 4. What is the active ingredient in smelling salts ? Ammonia

• 5. The Kelvin scale is used to measure what ? Temperature

• 6. What insects are sometimes called devil’s darning needles ? Dragonfly

• 7. What is a nanominute ? One-billionth of a minute

• 8. What is the only chemical element whose name is only three letters long ? Tin

• 9. What country was the first to send an object to the Moon ? The Soviet Union

• 10. What disorder often leads to sufferers eating odd items such as dirt or metal ? Pica

• 11. Emollients are more commonly referred to as what ? Moisturizers

• 12. What's another name for vitamin B5 ? Pantothenic Acid

• 13. Trypophobia is the fear of what ? Holes

• 14. What plastic often has its name shortened to PS ? Polystyrene

• 15. If a triangle has two equal sides, it is what ? Isosceles