Science Quiz #279
Science and Nature Quiz for 21 May 2014
A new science quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.
1
Q1.
Which Apollo mission brought the first rocks and other material from the Moon?
Select from the options above.
2
Q2.
What is the "dermis"?
B
The thing that hangs down the back of your throat
Select from the options above.
3
Q3.
Three members of which family, between 1781 and 1850, discovered Uranus, compiled a star catalogue, mapped all the stars in the Northern hemisphere and founded an observatory to map those in the Southern?
Select from the options above.
4
Q4.
Which of these affects the eyes?
Select from the options above.
5
Q5.
What is one description of a lunar eclipse?
Select from the options above.
6
Q6.
Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
Select from the options above.
7
Q7.
Which of these is a type of vegetable?
Select from the options above.