Science & Technology trivia questions
2055 multiple-choice Science & Technology trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What scale is used only to describe hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific Ocean?
- Which of these is classified on the Hamilton-Norwood scale?
- What is the name of the scale created by an entomologist who had been stung by almost every type of bee, ant, and wasp?
- Who proposed a general method of classifying how technologically advanced a civilization is?
- The Scoville scale is used to measure the hotness of what?
- This scale was originally used to determine the level of consciousness after head trauma.
- The absolute hardness of a diamond measures 1500, on which scale?
- What scale is used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-earth object?
- Which of the following is a description of an earthquake with magnitude 4.9 according to the Richter Scale?
- What scale measures the sexual orientation from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual?
- The term hurricane indicates a tropical storm which occurs in the northern hemisphere, whereas this term refers to the southern hemisphere.
- A tropical storm with sustained winds exceeding 33 meters per second, which occurs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline, is called this.
- One of the factors necessary for the formation of a tropical cyclone is a warm sea surface to a certain depth. As a minimum, how warm should the sea surface be and to what depth?
- Worldwide, tropical cyclone activity peaks towards the end of which season and why?
- The Fujita scale rates a tornados intensity by the damage it inflicts on human-built structures, this scale classifies hurricanes by the intensity of their sustained winds.
- Which of the following statements best describes a storm surge?
- Anemometers, from the Greek word anemos meaning wind, can be used to measure this.
- In a tropical cyclone, this area is characterized with the strongest winds, the tallest clouds, and the heaviest rain.
- Which of these economic terms does not denote restriction of international trade, i.e. the free flow of goods between nations?
- What factor is the reason for economists to believe that countries are gradually becoming more economically interdependent?
- International trade is an important part of world economy. Which statement about international trade is not true?
- In economics, the Law of Supply is the direct opposite of the Law of Demand. Which of the following correlations best describes the Law of Supply?
- Suppose that an increase in the price of good Y results in an increase in the demand for good X. This phenomenon is an example of which effect in economics?
- Having in mind the demand and supply laws, what will happen to the equilibrium of price and quantity of automobiles if wages of workers manufacturing them increase?
- Elasticity is a term in economics which refers to the proportional change in two variables related to each other. For example, if you earn $80,000 a year and use cable TV service that costs you $100 per year, your demand for the cable service is likely to be what?
- The phenomenon that leads individual consumers and producers to equilibrium with the market is defined by which term in economics?
- An effective minimum price imposed by the government, called price floor in economics, is usually expected to result in what?
- What is the nearest star to the Sun?
- In 1928, the International Astronomical Union divided the sky into how many official constellations?
- What is the apparent path of the sun around the sky called?