SCIENCE QUIZ 24

Question: What's the term for the spiralling groove on the inside of a gun barrel?
Answer: Rifling

Question: What is the name given to a catalyst, which occurs in nature to regulate the speed of chemical reactions in the metabolisms of living organisms.
Answer: Enzyme

Question: A survey by a US tourism website found that almost one in four US visitors to Scotland went there in the belief they could hunt and catch which prey?
Answer: A Haggis

Question: What is the green alkaline fluid produced by the liver?
Answer: Bile

Question: What is the study of insects called?
Answer: Entomology

Question: What is the more common name for the North Atlantic Drift?
Answer: Gulf Stream

Question: What is the most common use for a Sea Cucumber?
Answer: A Loofah

Question: How many land miles are there in a League?
Answer: 3

Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with two parallel sides of unequal length?
Answer: Trapezium

Question: What units are used to measure sound intensity?
Answer: Decibels

Question: How many degrees are there in one and three quarter revolutions
Answer: 630 (360 + 270)

Question: What word is the name given to the smallest blood vessels in the body?
Answer: Capillaries

Question: In Physics what does UV stand for ?
Answer: Ultra Violet

Question: What is the world's largest invertebrate? (No backbone)?
Answer: The giant squid. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows to at least 60 feet in length. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.

Question: Name any year in which the scientist Isaac Newton was alive.
Answer: 1642-1727

Question: What endangered species of animal has varieties called Black, White, Indian & Sumatran?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: In mathematics, what symbol is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
Answer: Pi

Question: What does a horologist do?
Answer: Makes clocks

Question: Which Foodstuff are Human Beings most allergic to?
Answer: Nuts - Anyone who is allergic to peanuts, for example, may have acute swelling of the tongue and throat, an acute asthma attack, and could possibly die after eating even a small piece of peanut or any other nut.

Question: By what other name is the abominable snowman known?
Answer: The Yeti