Statistics for Science Contest Trivia (Hard)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Most abundant element in space	Hydrogen	74%
Number of bones in an adult human body	206	70%
Part of the female human body where fertilisation occurs	Fallopian tube	52%
Used to measure earthquakes	Seismograph	48%
Derivative of sinx	cosx	43%
Z-score is the number of ________ ________s away from the mean.	Standard Deviation	43%
Process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron	Galvanization	32%
Orbiting object the that is always on top of the same point on Earth	Geostationary orbit	31%
Amount of energy needed to remove an electron from an atom/ion	Ionization energy	31%
Largest crocodile on the planet	Saltwater crocodile	31%
Table used to predict genetic outcome of offsprings based on parent genes	Punnett Square	24%
Produced when two objects have the same frequencies	Resonance	21%
Flower-bearing plants	Angiosperm	16%
Breaking down of fats into smaller globules	Emulsification	16%
Inventor of the microscope	Robert Hooke	11%
Another word for x-coordinate	Abscissa	10%
Device with jaws, used to measure lengths of small thin objects precisely	Vernier caliper	10%
Phenomenon occurring when second measurements tend closer to the average	Regression towards the mean	7%
Protein deficiency	Kwashiorkor	5%
Body parts which have become reduced because of uselessness	Vestige	5%