SCIENCE QUIZ 2

Question: What is the name of the layer between the crust and the core of the earth?
Answer: The mantle.

Question: What is belladonna commonly known as?
Answer: Deadly Nightshade.

Question: What is the offspring of a donkey and a horse called?
Answer: A mule (or a hinny)

Question: In anatomy what are the nates?
Answer: The buttocks.

Question: What is the number 3.142 more usually known as?
Answer: Pi

Question: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?
Answer: Frank Whittle

Question: What does 'E' represent in E = MC2?
Answer: Energy

Question: What is the green pigment found in most plants that is responsible for absorbing light energy?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: What is the largest flat fish species?
Answer: Halibut

Question: Where is the smallest bone in the body?
Answer: In the ear - the Stirrup

Question: How many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: 4

Question: On which day is Remembrance Day?
Answer: The Sunday closest to November 11th

Question: What is the distance between the two rails on a railway track called?
Answer: Gauge

Question: Which company owns 'Hotmail', the Internet based e-mail system?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: What does an 'Anemometer' measure ?
Answer: Windspeed

Question: Was 1994 a leap year?
Answer: No

Question: How many sheets of paper are there in a ream?
Answer: 500

Question: Which motoring aid was invented by Percy Shaw?
Answer: Cats eyes

Question: Which motoring aid was invented by Percy Shaw?
Answer: Cats eyes

Question: What is 65 per cent of 60?
Answer: 39