Can you handle a defeat in this Science Quiz?

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Question 1 of 10

Which automobile was once known as "Vehicle, General Purpose"?

Question 2 of 10

On May 9, 1926, Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett became the first people to fly over what landmark?

Question 3 of 10

This last name is shared by three famous Bengali scientists and engineers. One of them founded an audio equipment company; another was called the father of radio science; the third has a subatomic particle named for him. What surname is this?

Question 4 of 10

What animal's third right arm has a reproductive organ called a hectocotylus at its tip?

Question 5 of 10

In a new moon, the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun. If all three line up the right way, what eclipse do you have?

Question 6 of 10

What planet's moon, Phobos and Deimos, are named for Terror and Fear, who drove the war-god's chariot?

Question 7 of 10

Often cramped by charley horses, where would you find your gastrocnemius muscle?

Question 8 of 10

Although not a member of the Who, he did put lead in gas and invented industrial CFCs, only to get strangled in the pulleys of a bed he'd invented to help him deal with his polio. Who is he?

Question 9 of 10

The Moon's uncratered "seas" of solidified lava are known in the plural by what "girlish" name?

Question 10 of 10

American mathematician Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, made up what name for ten duotrigintillion?