Science & Technology quiz

Physics, chemistry, space and the inventions that rebuilt everyday life.

Science & Technology is an extra category. The questions on this page are free to play; inside a duel it belongs to the paid part — six other categories stay free forever.

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How many planets does our solar system have?

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What does the C in CRISPR stand for?
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- Clustered
- Code
- Cell
- Carbon
Which operating system do most phones use?
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- Android
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
Which molecule carries the hereditary information?
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- DNA
- ATP
- Glucose
- Insulin
Which atomic number does the element oxygen have?
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- 8
- 6
- 16
- 2
Which chemical element has the symbol Mg?
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- Manganese
- Magnesium
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
On the earthquake magnitude scale, each whole number up means ground motion grows by about how much?
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- Tenfold
- Twofold
- A hundredfold
- It stays the same
NASA named a space telescope that found thousands of exoplanets after which 17th-century astronomer?
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- Johannes Kepler
- Galileo Galilei
- Edwin Hubble
- Tycho Brahe

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm that has existed for several centuries.

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True.

The Great Red Spot is a huge anticyclonic storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. It has been observed continuously since at least 1830, and may even have existed since Cassini's records in the late 17th century.
Tesla was not founded by Elon Musk but by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

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True.

Eberhard and Tarpenning founded Tesla in 2003; Musk joined in 2004 as an investor.
The Transformer architecture is based on the paper Attention Is All You Need from 2017.

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True.

The paper by Vaswani et al. (Google Brain) introduced the Transformer architecture in 2017, which relies on self-attention instead of recurrent networks - it forms the basis of modern AI models such as GPT and BERT.
A frog is a mammal.

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False.

Frogs are amphibians that are born in water and do not give milk.

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