SCIENCE QUIZ 23

Question: Why is Easter always on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25?
Answer: It's the 1st Sunday after the 1st Full moon after the vernal equinox (21st March)

Question: What is the only rock that is edible to man?
Answer: Salt

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Ozone?
Answer: 03

Question: What nationality was the first non-US, non-Soviet spaceman?
Answer: Czechoslovakian

Question: What is the name of the chief male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: The name of which popular bird comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'good cockatoo'?
Answer: Budgerigar (The Australian grass parakeet)

Question: What is the most popular sport played in Nudist Camps?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: What cloth is produced from tangled moistened fibres of hair and wool, which are heated and rolled together?
Answer: Felt

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Who discovered the Law of Gravity?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: An insect is separated into 3 parts, the Head the Thorax and which other?
Answer: Abdomen

Question: What is the name of the monkey that gave its name to a blood group?
Answer: The Rhesus monkey

Question: What liquid is always found in a tincture?
Answer: Alcohol

Question: The 'Yard' is a measurement introduced by Henry 1st as the distance between which 2 parts of the body?
Answer: Nose to Finger

Question: How many degrees in 1 and three quarter revolutions?
Answer: 360 + 270 = 630

Question: Which domestic pest has 7 penises of assorted shapes and sizes?
Answer: Cockroach

Question: How far can a sperm swim in an hour?
Answer: 7 inches

Question: Up until the building of the Eiffel tower, which old Structure was the tallest in the world?
Answer: The Great Pyramid

Question: Which system of weight is used for precious metals?
Answer: Troy

Question: In science which K is a unit of measurement used when describing an objects mass?
Answer: Kilogram