Do you know what spaghettification is, or who invented the light bulb?
If you think the answers are ‘an Italian cooking technique’ and ‘someone with a bright idea’, you may want to hit the books before attempting this science quiz.
MailOnline has put together 20 multiple choice questions that will test your knowledge of life on Earth and the universe beyond.
So if you think you know your haemoglobin from your myoglobin, have a go at the quiz below.
Don’t worry, it’s not rocket science… or is it?
MailOnline has put together 20 multiple choice questions that will test your knowledge of life on Earth and the universe beyond
For mobile users who are unable to use the interactive quiz above, we have put the questions below and the answers in a box at the bottom of this article.
1. How long would it take to fall through an airless, frictionless hole all the way through the Earth?
A. 42 minutes
B. 42 hours
C. 42 days
2. What is spaghettification?
A. The process of turning wheat dough into pasta
B. The act of creating a thin string of material
C. What happens to someone falling towards a black hole
3. What is ethology?
A. The study of animal behaviour
B. The study of ethics
C. The study of heather
4. When it is 9pm on Christmas Eve in London, what time is it at the geographic North Pole?
A. Midnight
B. 9am
C. 9pm
The geographic north pole is is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets its surface (stock image)
5. In multiple-choice tests with four options, which answer is most likely to be right?
A. The first
B. The second
C. The third
D. The forth
6. What is the furthest you can see with the naked eye?
A. 1.6 miles
B. 30 miles
C. 2.5 million light years
7. Why are the cells that make up your body called cells?
A. They look like the rooms monks lived in
B. They trap material inside them like a prison cell
C. They form a network like cellular phones
8. To the nearest thousand feet, what is the highest a bird has been observed flying?
A. 1,600 feet
B. 12,000 feet
C. 38,000 feet
9. To the nearest thousand, how many hairs are there on a typical human head?
A. 10,000
B. 50,000
C. 150,000
10. What is the red liquid that oozes out of a joint of beef or rare steak called?
A. Haemoglobin
B. Serum
C. Myoglobin
Do you know what the red liquid that oozes out of a rare steak is called? (stock image)
11. Who invented the traditional incandescent light bulb?
A. Thomas Edison
B. Michael Faraday
C. Joseph Swan
12. How many computers did former IBM chairman Thomas Watson supposedly predict the world would require?
A. 5
B. 100,000
C. 1 billion
13. What was Albert Einstein issued US patent number 1781541 for in 1930?
A. The atomic bomb
B. The space rocket
C. The refrigerator
14. Why was Dolly the Sheep called Dolly?
A. Named after the lead scientist’s daughter’s doll
B. Named after Dolly Parton
C. Named after the acronym of the technique used to create her
Dolly the sheep pictured in 2002. Dolly was the first successfully produced clone from a cell taken from an adult mammal. Her creation has been fundamental to stem cell research and ‘opened up previously unimaginable possibilities’ in biology and medicine
15. Which part of the tongue contains the salt-detecting taste buds?
A. All of it
B. The front
C. The sides
16. How long ago did our common ancestor with mice live?
A. 125 million years
B. 75 million years
C. 55 million years
17. If there were no greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, what would be the average surface temperature of the Earth?
A. 5°C (41°F)
B. -18°C (-0.4°F)
C. 22°C (71.6°F)
18. How many mirrors are on the James Webb Space Telescope?
A. 1
B. 18
C. 180
D. 18,000,000
19. What is the real name for ‘rocket science’?
A. Bangology
B. Spaceonautics
C. Rocketology
D. Astronautics
20. The oldest known animal of all-time was a…
A. Tortoise
B. Sea cucumber
C. Clam
D. Snail