SCIENCE QUIZ 19

Question: What is the name of the structure along the base of a ship?
Answer: Keel

Question: What kind of acid is found in car batteries?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: In food, what does the Scoville Scale measure?
Answer: The heat of chillies

Question: Which cotton fabric gets its name from the Iraqi city of Mosul?
Answer: Muslin

Question: What does barley become when prepared for brewing?
Answer: Malt

Question: What does the ‘MP’ stand for in MP3 Player?
Answer: Moving Pictures

Question: If a liquid had a ph of 6 - would it be Acid, Alkali or Neutral?
Answer: Acid

Question: How is the Aurora Australis better known?
Answer: The southern lights

Question: The viral disease AFTOSA is more commonly referred to as what?
Answer: Foot and Mouth

Question: Which English Physicist discovered that white light is made up of many colours of light?
Answer: Issac Newton

Question: Which was the world's first National Park, opening in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone (in Wyoming and Montana)

Question: If you were a Lepidopterist, what would your hobby be?
Answer: Collecting Butterflies or moths

Question: Which scoring system is based on the number of times a letter appeared on a single front page of the New York Times?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: Which gland is enlarged in the condition known as 'goitre'?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: To which fish family does the Anchovy belong?
Answer: Herring

Question: Alphabetically, which is the second sign of the zodiac?
Answer: Aries

Question: What does the word dinosaur mean?
Answer: Terrible lizard

Question: What is a leveret?
Answer: A young hare

Question: How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
Answer: 42

Question: What two colours are on a semaphore flag?
Answer: Red and yellow