SCIENCE QUIZ 17

Question: From where do Shetland ponies originate?
Answer: The Shetland Islands (also Scandinavia 10,000 years ago across ice fields)

Question: From which animal do we get Cashmere wool?
Answer: Goat

Question: Other than humans, what are the only creatures that mate for pleasure?
Answer: Dolphins

Question: What is the most common blood type in humans?
Answer: O

Question: What is an Ishihara test used for?
Answer: To determine whether or not someone is colour blind

Question: What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Gamma

Question: Who designed the first modern petrol-driven internal combustion engine for the car?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler

Question: Where in the body would you find the hallux?
Answer: On your foot (it's your big toe)

Question: What type of creature is a taipan?
Answer: Taipan

Question: What is the Chemical Symbol for Copper
Answer: Cu

Question: What is the only sign of the zodiac not named after a living creature, and what is it named after?
Answer: Libra - named after the scales

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of monkeys?
Answer: A troop

Question: Yperite, first used by the German army in September 1917, is better known as what type of gas?
Answer: Mustard Gas

Question: In which part of the body are the alveolar sacs?
Answer: Lungs

Question: How are angles measured, other than Degrees?
Answer: Radian

Question: Which insect is accredited as being responsible for transmitting the Plague in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Flea

Question: The 1st Re-usable space craft was called Columbia, what is it more commonly called?
Answer: Space Shuttle

Question: What is kept in an apiary?
Answer: Bees

Question: Which Food do Humans eat Most of?
Answer: Rice

Question: Exercises designed to increase oxygen consumption and speed blood circulation are called what?
Answer: Aerobics