SCIENCE QUIZ 5

Question: The native Indians of South America used a bitter poison to tip their arrows, what was it called?
Answer: Curare

Question: What is the largest fruit crop on earth?
Answer: Grapes, followed by bananas.

Question: What would a galvanometer be used to measure?
Answer: Detecting and measuring small electric currents. (electricity).

Question: If you were an Ungulate what would you have?
Answer: Hoves

Question: Who wrote the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'?
Answer: Edward Gibbon

Question: Soyuz was the name of a Russian spacecraft, but what does the name mean?
Answer: Union

Question: Who invented Braille?
Answer: Louis Braille in 1829

Question: What is the Fahrenheit equivalent of 20 degrees centigrade?
Answer: 68

Question: What do you call an eight sided figure?
Answer: Octagon

Question: What is the official bird of Britain?
Answer: Robin

Question: Of what is Dipsophobia the fear?
Answer: Drinking

Question: What has varieties called Alicante, Moneymaker and Ailsa Craig?
Answer: Tomato

Question: 'Hedera helix' is better known as what?
Answer: Ivy

Question: How many chambers has the heart?
Answer: 4

Question: Which Sunday is Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday?
Answer: The first Sunday after Easter.

Question: What is the shaft of a feather called?
Answer: Quill

Question: Which ‘rodent’ first appeared on desk tops in January 1983?
Answer: Mouse

Question: What type of creature is a painted lady?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of frogs?
Answer: Army

Question: What colour are budgerigars in the wild?
Answer: Green body and yellow face. It is the Australian grass parakeet.