Did you know that the US President George Bush sr banned a Green leafy vegetable in the White House, as it contained an unusual Compound that made it bitter for him? Did you know that it was the work of a woman scientist that led to the use of nuclear reactors to generate electricity?
Basic aim of this book is to help school students of secondary or higher secondary schools (Xth or XIIth). The idea is to create their interests in science and to present difficult scientific topics in interesting and easy to understand manner. Generally students find scientific topics so hard that they soon loose their interests and avoid the subject. The same kind of difficulties they face in various competitions and interviews. With the help of this book they can enhance their knowledge and confidence. Every topic has been dealt with in such a way that even a lay reader could understand the subject through many short questions-answers. If you want to increase your knowledge and understanding of Science, you must read this book. You can also check your general knowledge about all the scientific topics. Filled with fascinating scientific information and facts, this book is highly beneficial for both students and general readers. And more, the answers to all of your general trivia challenges are there.
Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!
The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is exactly as the title suggests-a book of 750 multiple choice questions on all things trivia. It gives the person who has no idea of the answer a 25% chance of guessing the correct choice. Most of the questions are in the easy to medium range because they are tailored for both adults and kids to answer. The first 500 questions in The Ultimate Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book follow the traditional topics of general knowledge, sport, history, science, geography, entertainment, maths, food and drink and current events, to name just a few. The remaining 250 questions deal with the more bizarre and eccentric topics in our world, and are more humorous in their subject matter. Again, these are not impossible to answer, and with a little bit of lateral thinking and a sense of humour, can be answered correctly. The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is the first truly multiple choice format quiz and trivia book to be released. It will challenge and engage people to answer the questions-whether that is in a formal quiz setting or a more informal session of people just firing questions and the four choices to each other. This book can be used in the office, classroom, home or in the car as a way to challenge people and also to get people to enjoy a bit of brain stimulation. The Mega Multiple Choice Trivia & Quiz Book is the ideal quiz and trivia book to be used in a variety of ways to engage people, young and not so young in all things trivia.
Why is your elbow called your funny bone? How could you escape the grip of a crocodile's jaw? Which animal can breathe through its bottom? And how do these things all link together? This brilliant book will have eyebrows raised and jaws dropping as it uncovers the amazing scientific explanations behind all sorts of questions that can pop into our heads. Can an egg bounce? How can a giraffe's ridiculously long neck contain the same number of bones as a human's? How much does the Internet weigh? Written by science superstar and STEM Ambassador Dr Emily Grossman, this book will answer all science questions you may or may not have wondered about. Each section in the book is linked to the one before it, creating a fantastically interactive structure, where a question answered brings up new curiosities and surprises. This is the perfect book for children who love learning about science or who need an extra nudge when it comes to STEM subjects. After all, who wouldn't want to find out how a hippo can use its own sweat as sunscreen?! This book has been shortlisted for the Teach Primary Book Awards 2020.
The Mighty Quiz book is filled with tantalizing trivia and fascinating facts. Close to 200 titbits of information that will make you go, 'Wow, I did not know that '
This proceedings book gathers selected papers that were submitted to the 2020 International Conference on Comprehensible Science (ICCS 2020) that aims to make available the discussion and the publication of papers on all aspects of single and multi-disciplinary research on Conference topics. ICCS 2020 held on October 30–31, 2020. An important characteristic feature of Conference is the short publication time and world-wide distribution. Written by respected researchers, the book covers a range of innovative topics related to: Big Data & Data Mining; Business, Finance & Accounting & Statistics; COVID-19 Impact; Educational Technologies; Innovative Applied Sciences; Innovative Economics; Management Technologies & Systems; Media Technologies; Physical & Material Sciences; Medicine, Public Health & Rehabilitation. This book is useful for private and professional non-commercial research and classroom use (e.g. sharing the contribution by mail or in hard copy form with research colleagues for their professional non-commercial research and classroom use); for use in presentations or handouts for any level students, researchers, etc.; for the further development of authors’ scientific career (e.g. by citing and attaching contributions to job or grant application).
This trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II. Science-Mart attributes this decline to a powerful neoliberal ideology in the 1980s which saw the fruits of scientific investigation as commodities that could be monetized, rather than as a public good.