second round Science trivia for lovely science teachers

Which scientist, who contrary to lore didn’t fail maths at school, developed his greatest insights  not from careful experimental analysis, but by contemplating what would happen under particular circumstances, saying “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination”? 

• Marie Curie 

• Galileo Galilei 

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein 

Named after a nineteenth century English physicist, what is the SI unit for energy?

• Kilo

• Meter

• Joule

• Watt

Whose pea plant experiments established many of the rules of heredity?

• Gregor Medel

• Nicolaus Copernicus 

• Rosalind Franklin

• Stephen Hawking

True or false? Albert Einstein had a lighter than average brain. 

• ture

• false

• not sure

• i don't know

What is the most plentiful metal found in the earth’s crust? 

• Aluminium

• Iron

• Potassium

• Magnesium

According to astronauts, the moon smells like what chemical explosive? 

• banana

• carbon

• gunpowder

• egg

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Which animal’s fingerprints so closely resemble a human’s that they are impossible to different? 

• panda

• monkey

• chimpanzee

• koala

To the nearest ten percent, what percentage of the human body is made up of water? 

• 50%

• 60%

• 70%

• 80%

How long does a red blood cell survive in the human body? 

• 30 days

• 2 weeks

• 2 months

• 4 months

Which side of the brain is more concerned with logic and reasoning, and also controls the other side?

• left

• right

• front

• back