SCIENCE QUIZ 35

Question: If a creature is edentulous what has it not got?
Answer: Teeth

Question: The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant Of Venice

Question: What type of animal is a Saki?
Answer: A monkey

Question: What is the second largest island in the world?
Answer: New Guinea (Greenland is the largest)

Question: Haptic relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: Touch

Question: How many teeth does an elephant have?
Answer: 4

Question: Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit?
Answer: Plum

Question: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: 3

Question: Who discovered the rabies vaccination?
Answer: Louis Pasteur (1885)

Question: What is the name of the process used for clarifying beer or wine?
Answer: Fining

Question: The Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory is better known by which name?
Answer: Jodrell Bank

Question: Which is the largest Fresh water lake in the world?
Answer: Superior

Question: The neutered male of which animal is called 'a Barrow'?
Answer: Pig

Question: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: Cathode

Question: What is the correct name for a rabbit's tail?
Answer: Scut

Question: Which chemical element has the shortest name - 3 letters?
Answer: Tin

Question: What word do we use to describe the Asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
Answer: Clone

Question: What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
Answer: Chalk

Question: What sort of creature is a bustard?
Answer: A bird

Question: Acid rain is composed mainly of the oxides of two elements. Give either.
Answer: Sulphur or Nitrogen