Science rounds sort teams fast — either you have the specialist or you don't. These 50 questions cover biology, chemistry, physics, space exploration, animals, and earth science, organized from entry-level easy to genuinely difficult expert questions. Use them to drill before pub quiz night, figure out your team's science knowledge ceiling, or just remind yourself how much you've forgotten since school.
Foundation science every player should have covered.
Mercury
H₂O
Eight
The heart
Nitrogen
The mitochondria
Gravity
46 (23 pairs)
100°C
Saturn (as of 2024, with 146 confirmed moons)
High-school science — where teams start to diverge.
Aluminium (aluminum)
Omnivores
Four
6
Igneous rock
The troposphere
Ampere (amp)
Venus (it rotates so slowly that a Venusian day is longer than a Venusian year)
Hydrogen bonds
Transpiration
University-level science — your team's specialist will earn their keep here.
The event horizon
The citric acid cycle
-40 degrees (−40°C = −40°F)
Protium (¹H — one proton, no neutrons)
Haemoglobin (hemoglobin)
Boyle's Law
The Cambrian Period (part of the Paleozoic Era)
Rayleigh scattering (short-wavelength blue light scatters more than longer wavelengths)
An endemic species
Decibel (dB)
Deep-cut science for the team member who never stopped reading textbooks.
No two fermions in the same quantum system can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously
About 384,400 km (238,855 miles)
Helicase
Nuclear fission
W — from the German/Swedish name 'Wolfram'
The radius of the event horizon of a non-rotating black hole — the critical size at which an object becomes a black hole
The inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), native to Australia
The Mohs scale
The photon
Ionization energy
Quick-fire science — call it out fast or lose the point.
Fe (from Latin: ferrum)
Eight
The blue whale
The nucleus
Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
The skin
A lizard (reptile)
32°F
118
Proxima Centauri
Add up your correct answers and see where your team lands.
Your team should be on a quiz show. Exceptional across every discipline.
Strong command of science — you likely win the science round consistently.
Good foundation. A few gaps in the specialist rounds, but competitive.
You know the basics but the hard and expert rounds exposed some holes.
Find the scientist on your friend group and add them to the team.
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