SCIENCE QUIZ 27

Question: Called Nanook by the indigenous population, what do we better know it as?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: What are normally the species with the longest life span?
Answer: Tortoises and turtles - they often live to well over a hundred years old.

Question: Apart from the coconut, what is the only other fruit to grow on a palm tree?
Answer: Dates. We also get sago, and vegetable oil used in making margarine and soap from palms but they are not fruits.

Question: What is the common name given to thyroid cartilage?
Answer: he Adam's apple. Just below the epiglottis is the angular thyroid cartilage, composed of two vertical plates that join in the front of the neck.

Question: What name is given to the front teeth between the canines?
Answer: Incisors

Question: What name is given to a doctor that specialises in children’s diseases?
Answer: Paediatrician

Question: What is the only country that represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: India

Question: Priapism affects which part of the body?
Answer: Penis. It's a constant often painful erection. Priapus in Greek mythology, god of fertility, He was represented as a grotesque individual with a huge phallus. The Romans set up crude images of Priapus gardens, to serve as scarecrows.

Question: Which animal is the official emblem of Canada? (Not referring to the maple leaf)
Answer: The beaver

Question: Which cartoon character lived on Sweetwater island and was the son of Poopdeck Pappy?
Answer: Popeye

Question: Which is the most common element on Earth after oxygen?
Answer: Silicon. It constitutes about 28% of the Earth's crust. 90% igneous-rock, Silicon dioxide is the principal constituent of sand

Question: What is Britain's largest native carnivore?
Answer: Badger

Question: What does the acronym SCUBA stand for?
Answer: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Question: Which substance is the main product of the Haber-Bosch process?
Answer: Ammonia

Question: What was the name of Sir Clive Sinclair's electric tricycle, launched in 1985?
Answer: The C5

Question: What type of fruit is a jargonelle?
Answer: A pear

Question: Which is the only sea mammal lacking an insulating layer of blubber?
Answer: Sea Otter

Question: The gall bladder is attached to which organ of the human body?
Answer: Liver

Question: What is the term given to the appearance of wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ on a human's body?
Answer: Stigmata

Question: True or false…electric eels actually produce electricity?
Answer: True