Science and Technology Quiz

Female cockroaches only need to mate once in their lifetime because they can store sperm in specialized organs called spermathecae. This stored sperm remains viable for months to years, allowing them to fertilize multiple batches of eggs without repeated mating. This reproductive strategy is highly efficient for population growth.

Cockroach eyes are compound eyes made up of approximately 4,000 individual lenses called ommatidia. Each ommatidium is a light-sensing unit that contributes to the overall image. This gives them excellent motion detection and a wide field of view, though poorer resolution than human eyes.

Cockroaches are among the oldest surviving insects, with fossil evidence showing they existed over 200 million years ago. This means they were around during the time of dinosaurs and have survived multiple mass extinction events. Their basic body plan has remained remarkably unchanged over this vast timescale.

There are approximately 4,000 known species of cockroaches worldwide, though only about 30-40 species are considered pests that coexist with humans. Most cockroach species live in tropical environments and never encounter human habitation. New species are still being discovered by scientists.

WIKI is often backronymed as 'What I Know Is'. A backronym is an acronym invented after the fact to explain a word - WIKI comes from Hawaiian meaning 'fast' or 'quick', not from this phrase.

COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is a programming language designed for business, finance, and administrative systems, first developed in 1959.

BING is backronymed as 'Because It's Not Google'. This is a humorous reference to Google being the dominant search engine, and Microsoft positioning Bing as the alternative.

FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation (or Formula Translating). It is a general-purpose, compiled programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing, first developed in 1957 by IBM.

Jupiter's atmosphere is approximately 90% hydrogen and 10% helium by volume, making hydrogen the primary component. Helium is the second most abundant but much less prevalent. Neon and Krypton are only present in trace amounts.

Jupiter is classified as an oblate spheroid - it's flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator due to its rapid rotation (once every 10 hours). It's not a perfect sphere or ball shape - the equatorial diameter is about 7% larger than the polar diameter.

Jupiter is classified as a gas giant planet, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium with no solid surface. Gas giants are the largest planets in our solar system and include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jupiter is the largest gas giant, with a mass more than twice that of all other planets in the solar system combined.