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Science & Nature

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1.What P describes the family of polymers that includes products such as Nylon, Aramid and Kevlar?
 
Polyamide
2.What Scottish biologist is widely credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928?
 
Alexander Fleming
3.By what common name is acetylsalicylic acid known?
 
Aspirin
4.In computer science, what 'B' describes a data type with only two possible values, often denoted as true and false?
 
Boolean
5.What branch of physics and mechanics gets its name from the Latin word for "how much"?
 
Quantum (Latin quantus)
6.What 'M' describes this type of monkey?
 
Mandrill
7.Cs is the symbol for what metal element?
 
Caesium
8.From what metal element are most incandescent light bulb filaments made?
 
Tungsten (Wolfram)
9.Related to sandpipers and curlews, what 'S' describes this family of wading birds?
 
Snipe (Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) and Pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura) pictured)
10.What gender is a worker bee?
 
Female
11.What 5-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for Tungsten, Astatine and Erbium?
 
Water
12.In forensic science, what does the 'F' in AFIS stand for?
 
Fingerprint (Automated Fingerprint Identification System)
13.What would you find in the sockets of your alveolar ridge?
 
Teeth
14.What 'T' is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human?
 
Turing test (originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950)
15.What 4-letter word can be speltusing the chemical symbols for Tungsten, Indium and Potassium?
 
Wink
16.What 'P' is an astronomical term describing a distance of about 3.26 light years?
 
Parsec

17.In modern day terms, how many inches are there in a cubit?
 
18
18.What highly contagious disease is caused by the varicella zoster virus?
 
Chickenpox
19.Arachnophobia is the intense and irrational fear of what?
 
Spiders (and other arachnids such as scorpions)
20.In computing, what two-letter abbreviation is the SI unit representing one billion bytes?
 
GB (Gigabyte)
21.What breed of dog is this?
 
Newfoundland
22.What name was given to the first human spaceflight program of the United States?
 
Project Mercury
23.What is the collective noun for a group of leopards?
 
Leap / Lepe
24.Which of the eight major planets in our Solar System comes fifth alphabetically?
 
Neptune (Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Venus)
25.What does this mathematical symbol indicate?
 
Approximately equal to
26.What English inventor (1937-2018) is best known for the wind-up radio?
 
Trevor Baylis
27.In electrical engineering, what is defined as the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power?
 
1 Volt
28.Write down the names of the four gas giants in our solar system in order of size, smallest first (radius, volume, or surface area.)
 
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter
29.What is the Latin name of the constellation known as the "Little Bear"?
 
Ursa Minor
30.Responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century, but officially certified as eradicated in 1979. What was it?
 
Smallpox
31.Closely related to manatees, what 'D' describes this sea mammal?
 
Dugong
32.What 'T' describes an electrical device used to increase or decrease voltage through inductively coupled electrical conductors?
 
Transformer

33.What 'E' is the medical term for the outermost layer of human skin?
 
Epidermis
34.What mode of transport did Christopher Cockerell patent in 1955?
 
Hovercraft
35.Often incorrectly described as a school, what is the correct collective noun for a group of dolphins?
 
Pod
36.Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda are the major moons of what planet?
 
Uranus
37.Which of Saturn's moons is the only known body in the Solar System other than the Earth where liquid falls as rain on a solid surface?
 
Titan (Liquid methane)
38.What 'M' is the product of the mass and velocity of an object?
 
Momentum
39.Native to India, what 'G' describes this fish-eating crocodile?
 
Gharial / Gavial
40.Is a marten an amphibian, bird, reptile, or mammal?
 
Mammal
41.What units of measurement are represented by X and Y in the following formula?
(X − 32) × 5/9 = Y
 
°F and °C (Fahrenheit and Celsius)
42.What acid is mixed with water to make aqua fortis (Latin for "strong water")?
 
Nitric acid (HNO3)
43.How many pairs of chromosomes make up the cells of a normal human body?
 
23
44.To what genus of flowering plants do these belong?
 
Hibiscus
45.What 7-letter word can be spelt using the chemical symbols for rhenium, sulphur, copper, and einsteinium?
 
Rescues
46.Lupine is to wolf as vulpine is to what?
 
Fox
47.The alpaca is a camelid mammal native to what continent?
 
South America
48.Which scientist was dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"?
 
Thomas Edison
49.What word is used to describe an interstellar cloud of gas and dust?
 
Nebula
50.Ermine is a fur from the winter coat of what animal?
 
Stoat (weasel /short-tailed weasel)


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