SCIENCE QUIZ 26

Question: A Quiver is the collective name for which sea creature?
Answer: Jelly fish

Question: Which (sometimes fatal) disease derives its name from the Italian for, bad air?
Answer: Mal-aria

Question: HMS Dreadnought was Britain's 1st what?
Answer: Nuclear Powered Submarine

Question: What name is given to the 'halo' of gas that surrounds the sun?
Answer: Corona

Question: What is the full name of the SARS virus disease, which originated in China and Hong Kong in early 2003?
Answer: Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Question: In which country is the Amazon rainforest?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Car satellite navigation relies on GPS - what does GPS stand for?
Answer: Global Postioning System

Question: What is the correct technical term for the art of making and the displaying of fireworks?
Answer: Pyrotechnics

Question: What name is given to the Medical condition when you suffer from a dangerous loss of body heat?
Answer: Hypothermia

Question: What's the next letter in this sequence 'OTTFFSSEN'
Answer: T for ten

Question: What is the speed of sound called at sea level?
Answer: Mach1

Question: In England, you can never be more than 75 miles away from what?
Answer: The sea (coastline/tidal waters)

Question: Molten rock above the earth's surface is called lava. What is it called under the earth's surface?
Answer: Magma

Question: Yuri Gagarin was the 1st man in Space, Neil Armstrong was 1st on the Moon, what was Edward White's famous "First"?
Answer: Edward (Higgins) White II was the 1st man to walk in space.

Question: What is a Blenheim orange?
Answer: Eating apple

Question: What colour light is displayed from the starboard side of a ship?
Answer: Green

Question: What is the patella bone better known as?
Answer: The kneecap

Question: Where is the Hubble telescope situated?
Answer: Orbiting the Earth - The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first general-purpose orbiting observatory was launched on April 24, 1990

Question: What was the 1st Hand held camera called?
Answer: A Brownie

Question: What is the type of organism that lives on or in another called?
Answer: Parasite