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| 1. | What is the chemical symbol for Titanium? |
| 2. | What 'I' describes the rotating component of a centrifugal pump? |
| 3. | Native to North America, what type of bird is this? |
| 4. | Introduced in 1973, what is measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale? |
| 5. | In anatomy, what 'L' describes the fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones? |
| 6. | What 'P' describes a young hen under 1 year old that has not started laying eggs yet? |
| 7. | What 6-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for tin, oxygen, rhenium, and sulphur? |
| 8. | What type of animal can be baleen or toothed? |
| 9. | Weighing up to 3kg, what is the world's largest type of frog? |
| 10. | What is the more common name for Hansen's disease? |
| 11. | Primarily used as cover glass for portable electronic devices, what is the brand name of the specialised toughened glass developed and manufactured by Corning? |
| 12. | What acid also goes by the name of Oil of Vitriol? |
| 13. | What is an adult male turkey called? |
| 14. | How many microseconds are there in one second? |
| 15. | All kittens are born with what colour eyes? |
| 16. | What 7-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for beryllium, arsenic, thallium, and yttrium? |
| 17. | Which of the 8 major planets in our solar system comes fourth alphabetically? |
| 18. | What 'D' describes a disorder of the mind resulting in a serious loss of global cognitive ability, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's disease? |
| 19. | Bali, Caspian and Javan are recently extinct subspecies of what animal? |
| 20. | Native to Australia and New Guinea, what genus of bird is this? |
| 21. | What is the only known genus of fish to have a prehensile tail? |
| 22. | What 'S' describes this Eurasian dog breed? |
| 23. | The symbol for what chemical element is derived from the Latin word natrium? |
| 24. | The "Goliath birdeater" is, by mass, the largest known species of what? |
| 25. | What 5-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Samarium, Iridium and Potassium? |
| 26. | What 'B' describes an instrument used for measuring atmospheric pressure? |
| 27. | What name is given to the two instants of time each year when the centre of the visible Sun is directly above the equator? |
| 28. | Alongside engineer Émile Gagnan, what French naval officer invented the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) in 1943? |
| 29. | "Singultus" is the medical term for what common condition? |
| 30. | In communications terms, what does VoIP stand for? |
| 31. | With a lifespan exceeding 200 years, this Arctic-dwelling whale is the longest known living mammal on Earth. What is it called? |
| 32. | Affecting only women, hyperemesis gravidarum is a severe form of what condition? |
| 33. | What disease takes its name from the Medieval Italian word for "bad air"? |
| 34. | What 'A' describes the pigmented area on the breast around the nipple? |
| 35. | If you leave hospital with gossypiboma, what went wrong? |
| 36. | In physics, what letter of the alphabet is used to represent the speed of light in a vacuum? |
| 37. | In reference to a type of plastic, what do the initials "PVC" stand for? |
| 38. | What set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals get their name from the Greek word for "unquenchable"? |
| 39. | In electrical engineering, what is defined as the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power? |
| 40. | What acid has the molecular formula H2SO4? |
| 41. | What 8-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for chromium, osmium, antimony, oxygen, and tungsten? |
| 42. | How many humps does a Bactrian camel have? |
| 43. | What name is given to a second full moon occurring in the same calendar month as another? |
| 44. | Mars has two moons. Name them. |
| 45. | Naphthalene is the original primary ingredient of what household product? |
| 46. | What dog was originally bred in Germany to hunt and dig out badgers? |
| 47. | In solar energy terms, what does PV stand for? |
| 48. | I was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. In 1895 I moved to Switzerland to study, and in 1921 I won the Nobel Prize for Physics. I emigrated to the USA in 1933. What's my name? |
| 49. | What 'D' can describe: a device attached to the stern of a boat to slow it down in a storm; a parachute deployed to slow down a rapidly moving object; or a pilot parachute to deploy a larger parachute? |
| 50. | What name is given to the scientific device used to separate substances of different densities by rotating them at speed around a fixed axis? |
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