SCIENCE QUIZ 36

uestion: Which animal produces the biggest baby?
Answer: Blue Whale

Question: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
Answer: Aluminium

Question: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
Answer: Red

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

SCIENCE QUIZ 34

Question: Cacti are native to which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What type of creature is a 'clouded yellow'?
Answer: A butterfly

Question: Through which organ do fish get oxygen?
Answer: Gills

Question: What is a Wessex Saddleback?
Answer: A pig

Question: Which gentle water creature gives its name to a Florida river?
Answer: Manatee (Known as a sea cow)

Question: Which glands produce white blood cells?
Answer: Lymph glands

Question: What type of creature is a Guillemot?
Answer: A bird

Question: Which planet is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: How is the number 14 written in Roman numerals?
Answer: XIV

Question: What is the process known as whereby plants make food using light?
Answer: Photosynthesis

Question: How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
Answer: 2

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

Question: Which animal’s milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?
Answer: Water buffalo

Question: What's the 2nd heaviest land Animal?
Answer: Rhinoceros (up to 5 tons, then hippo up to 3.2 tons)

Question: Which branch of Medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit?
Answer: the umbrella

Question: What type of creature is an alewife?
Answer: A fish (of the herring family found off North America's Atlantic coast)

Question: Brock is a nickname for which animal?
Answer: A badger

Question: In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as?
Answer: Chicken Pox

Question: What is a baby seal called?
Answer: A pup

SCIENCE QUIZ 33

Question: What colour do you get if you mix blue and yellow paint?
Answer: Green

Question: What's the Chemical symbol for Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: What word is used in international radio communications to denote the letter L?
Answer: Lima

Question: On a standard computer keyboard, which key is the largest?
Answer: The space bar.

Question: What is a freshwater lobster called?
Answer: Crayfish - Crayfish live in freshwater rivers and streams in temperate climates

Question: What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels?
Answer: Coat hanger

Question: What is the name of Microsoft's free e-mail service?
Answer: Hotmail (not Outlook; that is software to collect any Email)

Question: Which organ uses 25% of our oxygen supply?
Answer: Brain

Question: How many legs does every true insect have?
Answer: 6

Question: How is 12 months travelling at 186,000 miles per second better known?
Answer: One light year

Question: What’s a young kangaroo called?
Answer: A joey

Question: Scientists claim that every minute, about 900 million tons of what hits the earth?
Answer: Rain

Question: If you had one nickel, two dimes and a quarter, how much would you have in total?
Answer: 50 cents

Question: What does a 'Pluvio meter' measure?
Answer: Rainfall

Question: Which drug is named after the Greek God of Dreams?
Answer: Morphine

Question: Which poisonous substance is also known as 'Woolly Rock'?
Answer: Asbestos

Question: What is the name of a whale's breathing organ?
Answer: Lungs

Question: Sardines and pilchards belong to which family of fish?
Answer: Herring

Question: What is a 'Spinney'?
Answer: A small wood or thicket with undergrowth

Question: What name is given to an angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

SCIENCE QUIZ 32

Question: What is the name given to a succession of involuntary spasms of the diaphragm causing a characeristic sound?
Answer: Hiccup

Question: Which device measures the density of liquids?
Answer: Hydrometer

Question: What word describes an objects ability to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed?
Answer: Elasticity or Elastic constant

Question: How many teeth should a normal healthy adult have?
Answer: 32

Question: What word is used to describe an angle between 90 and 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

Question: How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 20?
Answer: Four (11, 13, 17 and 19)

Question: How many notes are there in a musical scale?
Answer: 8

Question: Seismograph
Answer: Seismograph

Question: What is the name given to a triangle where all the sides are of different length?
Answer: Scalene

Question: How is 120% expressed as a Fraction in lowest common denominator?
Answer: 6/5

Question: Where is the only place that the American flag flies 24 hours a day - never raised, never lowered, and never saluted?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Before the terrorist attack how many stories high were the World Trade Centre’s twin towers?
Answer: 110

Question: What speed were the 1st records played at
Answer: 78 rpm

Question: Who's 3rd law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?
Answer: Newton’s law of motion

Question: What is the name of the flap of cartilage which prevents food from entering your windpipe?
Answer: Epiglottis

Question: What was Apollo 11's landing module called?
Answer: Eagle

Question: In which galaxy is the Earth?
Answer: The Milky Way

Question: What would you suffer from if you had dichromatic vision?
Answer: Colour Blindness

Question: What is manufactured by (red) bone marrow? Yellow marrow is just fat.
Answer: Blood Cells - red, white and platelets (clotting agents

Question: What is or was Breitling Orbiter 3?
Answer: The name of the balloon which circumnavigated the Earth in 1999

SCIENCE QUIZ 31

Question: What creature is said to the have the most legs?
Answer: Millipede

Question: What kind of nut grows on an oak tree?
Answer: An Acorn

Question: Which branch of Medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: Which maritime measure of speed is equal to one nautical mile per hour?
Answer: Knot

Question: What is the medical term for German Measles?
Answer: Rubella

Question: What are the young of Whales called?
Answer: Calves

Question: How many old pennies are there in a guinea?
Answer: 252

Question: Who said, *If I have seen further than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants*?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: What are the three primary colours of light? (For pigments it’s Yellow not Green).
Answer: Red, Blue and Green. If light of these primary colours is added together in roughly equal intensities, the sensation of white light is produced.

Question: What is acclaimed to be the most ferocious fresh water fish?
Answer: Piranha

Question: There are 3 types of adult honeybee, Queen and worker are two. What's the other?
Answer: Drone

Question: What is a Marmoset?
Answer: A type of monkey

Question: What is the name given to the imaginary line of 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: International Date Line

Question: What is the name for a stationary electrical charge, which builds up on an insulated object?
Answer: Static

Question: In the animal kingdom, which large rodent is also known as the ‘Quill Pig’?
Answer: Porcupine

Question: What is the smallest living unit called?
Answer: A Cell

Question: In nature, the earth is composed of 3 main parts, the Crust, the mantle and what?
Answer: The Core

Question: What is the next number in the sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,)?
Answer: 13 (Sum of previous 2 numbers)

Question: What is special about the feet of a 'Palmiped'?
Answer: Webbed

Question: A molecule of water contains how many atoms of Oxygen?
Answer: 1

SCIENCE QUIZ 30

Question: Who invented the jet engine?
Answer: Sir Frank Whittle

Question: When is the Blue Peter Flown?
Answer: When a ship is about to leave Port

Question: What is a cross between a collie and a greyhound called?
Answer: Lurcher

Question: Which planet normally lies between Saturn and Neptune?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In science, a substance dissolved in another substance is known as what?
Answer: Solute

Question: What will be the next year that reads the same upside down and back to front as it does the right way up?
Answer: 6009

Question: What do the initials HB stand for on a pencil?
Answer: Hard Black

Question: A mixture of ground chalk and raw linseed oil is known better as what?
Answer: Putty

Question: Which is the only bird, capable of rotating its neck through 270º?
Answer: Owl

Question: Bubbles of which gaseous element are responsible for the condition of divers (amongst others) known as 'The Bends'?
Answer: Nitrogen (It is also known as Caisson disease and medically as aeroembolism.

Question: Which part of a man's anatomy remains the same size from birth?
Answer: His eyes (this is also true of females)

Question: From which wood were longbows traditionally made?
Answer: Yew

Question: What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid better and more commonly known as?
Answer: DNA

Question: The worlds largest fruit is called the love fruit or the Coco de Mer, and can weigh up to 50 pounds (23kg). Which is the only Country it grows in?
Answer: Seychelles

Question: What are the 'aurora borealis' also known as?
Answer: Northern Lights - high-altitude luminosity occurring most frequently above 60° north or south latitude.

Question: What name is given to the envelope of gases which surrounds the Earth or another celestial body?
Answer: Atmosphere

Question: What term is used for the result of multiplying two or more numbers?
Answer: Product

Question: How many milligrams are in one gram?
Answer: 1000

Question: What is the main crop of the Greek island of Corfu?
Answer: Olives

Question: What is the term for a group of whales?
Answer: Pod

SCIENCE QUIZ 29

Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: What type of creature is a Garibaldi?
Answer: A fish

Question: Founded in Canada in 1971, and now with its headquarters in Amsterdam, what was the original aim of the environmental organization Greenpeace?
Answer: To oppose U.S. nuclear testing in Alaska

Question: In anatomy what is the outer layer of the skin called?
Answer: Epidermis

Question: The density of which substance is measured by a lactometer?
Answer: Milk

Question: What colour is the mineral 'azurite'?
Answer: Blue

Question: Dendrology is the scientific study of what?
Answer: Trees

Question: What colour is the cabbage moth?
Answer: Brown

Question: If an object is hastate what shape is it?
Answer: Triangular

Question: In electronics what does LED stand for?
Answer: Light Emitting Diode

Question: Reynard is a nickname for which animal?
Answer: A fox

Question: What is the male part of a flower called?
Answer: Stamen

Question: In the world of nature what is a Camberwell beauty?
Answer: A butterfly

Question: What is a tree or shrub called that sheds its leaves annually?
Answer: Deciduous

Question: What planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing
Answer: Sugar

Question: What colour is the mineral 'malachite'?
Answer: Green

Question: Which fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum?
Answer: Nectarine

Question: What is the most obvious symptom that shows, when you contract jaundice?
Answer: You turn a yellow colour

Question: What is the bony substance in a tooth just beneath the enamel?
Answer: Dentine

SCIENCE QUIZ 28

Question: Which President's name is inscribed on the 1969 Apollo 11 moon plaque?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is the main emission of a car engine after Catalytic exhaust purification?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: What is a blue moon?
Answer: If there are two full moons in one calendar month the 2nd is called a Blue Moon

Question: What is Cryogenics?
Answer: The scientific name for the study of extremely low temperatures

Question: What colour is the inside of a pistachio nut?
Answer: Green

Question: What colour is cayenne pepper?
Answer: Red

Question: Which childhood disease has the same virus as Shingles?
Answer: Chicken Pox

Question: Which part of the human body shares its name with a punctuation mark?
Answer: Colon

Question: What colour tongues do giraffes have?
Answer: Blue

Question: What do the initials 'BHP' stand for?
Answer: Brake horse power

Question: If you 'nictitate' at someone, what do you do?
Answer: Wink

Question: Excess bile pigment in the blood causes which illness?
Answer: Jaundice

Question: Which scientific word relates to the structure of the human body?
Answer: Anatomy

Question: How many square feet are there in a square yard?
Answer: 9

Question: What did Adam not have that every other man does have?
Answer: A belly button or Navel

Question: What is a butterfly larvae more commonly known as?
Answer: Catterpillar

Question: What do 'polled' cattle not have?
Answer: Horns

Question: What is the term used to describe a plant that has been crossed with different species?
Answer: Hybrid

Question: What number is represented in Roman Numerals by the letter 'D'?
Answer: 50

Question: In the human body what is the Axilla commonly known as?
Answer: The armpit

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

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

SCIENCE QUIZ 25

Question: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming

Question: Where would you hurt if you were kicked on the Tarsus?
Answer: The ankle

Question: Which of the following is the smallest paper size; A3, A4, or A5?
Answer: A5

Question: What part of the body does Silicosis affect?
Answer: The lungs

Question: What is 1999 in Roman numerals?
Answer: MCMXCIX

Question: On a standard computer keyboard, which is the largest key?
Answer: The space bar

Question: What is the main difference between monkeys and apes?
Answer: Monkeys have tails

Question: What common household item was invented by Percy Spencer in 1945?
Answer: Microwave oven

Question: Which organ of the body is responsible for the production of anti-bodies?
Answer: The spleen

Question: What is the only creature that has a tongue but cannot stick it out of its mouth?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: It is made from thermo-plastic paper and the manilla hemp used to make rope, it is designed to withstand boiling water, what is it?
Answer: A teabag

Question: What is Britain's largest freshwater fish?
Answer: The Pike

Question: What word is used for the removal of salt from seawater to produce fresh water?
Answer: Desalinisation

Question: In 1986 the world's worst nuclear disaster happened where?
Answer: Chernobyl

Question: What is the name of the optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions?
Answer: Mirage

Question: Which is the largest Web Footed Bird in the world?
Answer: The Albatross

Question: In Mobile (cell) Phones, what does WAP stand for?
Answer: Wireless Application Protocol

Question: What name is given to an inert substance administered in place of an active drug?
Answer: Placebo

Question: What do you call the number below the line in a fraction?
Answer: Denominator

Question: Which anaesthetic was first used in 1847 to prevent patients from feeling pain whilst surgeons operated on them?
Answer: Chloroform

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

SCIENCE QUIZ 23

Question: Why is Easter always on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25?
Answer: It's the 1st Sunday after the 1st Full moon after the vernal equinox (21st March)

Question: What is the only rock that is edible to man?
Answer: Salt

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Ozone?
Answer: 03

Question: What nationality was the first non-US, non-Soviet spaceman?
Answer: Czechoslovakian

Question: What is the name of the chief male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: The name of which popular bird comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'good cockatoo'?
Answer: Budgerigar (The Australian grass parakeet)

Question: What is the most popular sport played in Nudist Camps?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: What cloth is produced from tangled moistened fibres of hair and wool, which are heated and rolled together?
Answer: Felt

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Who discovered the Law of Gravity?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: An insect is separated into 3 parts, the Head the Thorax and which other?
Answer: Abdomen

Question: What is the name of the monkey that gave its name to a blood group?
Answer: The Rhesus monkey

Question: What liquid is always found in a tincture?
Answer: Alcohol

Question: The 'Yard' is a measurement introduced by Henry 1st as the distance between which 2 parts of the body?
Answer: Nose to Finger

Question: How many degrees in 1 and three quarter revolutions?
Answer: 360 + 270 = 630

Question: Which domestic pest has 7 penises of assorted shapes and sizes?
Answer: Cockroach

Question: How far can a sperm swim in an hour?
Answer: 7 inches

Question: Up until the building of the Eiffel tower, which old Structure was the tallest in the world?
Answer: The Great Pyramid

Question: Which system of weight is used for precious metals?
Answer: Troy

Question: In science which K is a unit of measurement used when describing an objects mass?
Answer: Kilogram

SCIENCE QUIZ 22

Question: When milk sours what acid is formed?
Answer: Lactic Acid

Question: Which short-legged dog is named after the 18 Century parson who bred them?
Answer: Jack Russel

Question: What is the light sensitive part of the eye called?
Answer: The retina

Question: When did New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day last fall in the same year?
Answer: It happens every year!

Question: What is the outer layer of skin called?
Answer: Epidermis

Question: Is an icicle a stalagmite or a stalactite?
Answer: Satactite

Question: Which unattractive sounding fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?
Answer: The Ugli fruit

Question: Copper gets its name from which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Cpyrus

Question: What is the right side of a boat called?
Answer: Starboard

Question: What often used computer term is short for picture element?
Answer: Pixel

Question: What word is used for the letter 'O' in the phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Oscar

Question: There are only 4 gemstones that can be called precious - the rest are semi-precious - what are the 4?
Answer: Diamond, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire.

Question: What is considered to be the world's fastest growing plant?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: What name is given to plants that last for many years?
Answer: Perennials

Question: What type of creature is a speckled wood?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: What do we call the electromagnetic waves between radio waves & infrared, they are actually higher frequencies of radio waves?
Answer: microwaves

Question: What are the three largest planets in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus

Question: In a 4-stroke internal combustion engine, what is the third stroke?
Answer: The ignition or power stroke (Intake, compression, IGNITION and exhaust)

Question: What name is given to a female swan?
Answer: Pen

Question: What is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust?
Answer: Aluminium

SCIENCE QUIZ 21

Question: In a modern 3 pin electrical plug, what is the colour of the live or positive wire?
Answer: Brown

Question: By what name is the flower truss of the Hazel and Willow tress known?
Answer: Catkin

Question: Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of what?
Answer: Penguins

Question: What disease is the BCG vaccine used to combat?
Answer: Tubercolosis

Question: What type of plant does the Boll Weevil attack & destroy?
Answer: The cotton plant

Question: Graphite is composed of which element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: What type of fish is a skipjack?
Answer: A fish

Question: What is an eagles nest called?
Answer: An Eyrie

Question: Lacking of which vitamin causes rickets?
Answer: D

Question: Where in your body is the Metatarsal arch?
Answer: The foot

Question: What is a group of owls called?
Answer: A parliament

Question: What is a tine?
Answer: The prong of a fork or a deer's antler.

Question: Which spice comes from the Crocus?
Answer: Saffron

Question: What colour flag is flown at Beaches deemed clean and pollution free?
Answer: Blue

Question: What is H2SO4 the chemical formula for?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: What is the world’s longest man made waterway – 1600km
Answer: The Grand Canal in China

Question: Humans have 7 vertebrae in the neck, how many does a giraffe have?
Answer: 7

Question: Which part of the body is affected by gingivitis?
Answer: The gums

Question: What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded after lift off in 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: What did the British inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell invent & develop?
Answer: The hovercraft

SCIENCE QUIZ 20

Question: How many cubic feet in a cubic yard?
Answer: 27

Question: What colour are albino animal's eyes?
Answer: Pink

Question: Which unit of area is equal to 2.471 acres?
Answer: A hectare

Question: What is the term for the main body of an aeroplane?
Answer: Fuselage

Question: Which animal is supposedly named after the aborigine for 'I don't know'?
Answer: Kangaroo

Question: What may be mixed, complex or vulgar?
Answer: Fractions

Question: Brent, Canada and Pink footed are all types of which creature?
Answer: Geese

Question: The locks on the Panama canal were designed so that which ship could steam through them?
Answer: The Titanic

Question: What's the odd one out? Cheetah, hyena, leopard, panther?
Answer: Hyena - it's a Dog

Question: What sort of creature is a Clydesdale?
Answer: Horse (Shire)

Question: How many sides has a tetrahedron?
Answer: 4

Question: Express 91 in Roman numerals.
Answer: XCI

Question: Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop?
Answer: British aviators John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown. They flew from St John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, on June 14-15, 1919, in a little over 16 hours, to win a substantial prize offered by the London Daily Mail.

Question: What is a young pilchard called?
Answer: A sardine

Question: What is the difference between a black leopard and a panther?
Answer: Nothing. A black leopard IS a panther.

Question: What unit is used to measure the frequency of radio waves?
Answer: Hertz

Question: Who first conceived the helicopter, which at the time was called an ornithopter because it was designed to simulate birds in flight?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Question: What is the square root of 169?
Answer: 13

Question: What is the scientific name for the wind pipe?
Answer: The Trachea

Question: How many square inches are there in a square foot?
Answer: 144

SCIENCE QUIZ 19

Question: What is the name of the structure along the base of a ship?
Answer: Keel

Question: What kind of acid is found in car batteries?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: In food, what does the Scoville Scale measure?
Answer: The heat of chillies

Question: Which cotton fabric gets its name from the Iraqi city of Mosul?
Answer: Muslin

Question: What does barley become when prepared for brewing?
Answer: Malt

Question: What does the ‘MP’ stand for in MP3 Player?
Answer: Moving Pictures

Question: If a liquid had a ph of 6 - would it be Acid, Alkali or Neutral?
Answer: Acid

Question: How is the Aurora Australis better known?
Answer: The southern lights

Question: The viral disease AFTOSA is more commonly referred to as what?
Answer: Foot and Mouth

Question: Which English Physicist discovered that white light is made up of many colours of light?
Answer: Issac Newton

Question: Which was the world's first National Park, opening in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone (in Wyoming and Montana)

Question: If you were a Lepidopterist, what would your hobby be?
Answer: Collecting Butterflies or moths

Question: Which scoring system is based on the number of times a letter appeared on a single front page of the New York Times?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: Which gland is enlarged in the condition known as 'goitre'?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: To which fish family does the Anchovy belong?
Answer: Herring

Question: Alphabetically, which is the second sign of the zodiac?
Answer: Aries

Question: What does the word dinosaur mean?
Answer: Terrible lizard

Question: What is a leveret?
Answer: A young hare

Question: How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
Answer: 42

Question: What two colours are on a semaphore flag?
Answer: Red and yellow

SCIENCE QUIZ 18

Question: What is a Laxton Superb?
Answer: Apple

Question: Which gas, which he called 'dephlogisticated air', was discovered by Sir Joseph Priestley in 1774?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: What kind of animal is a pipistrelle?
Answer: Bat

Question: What can be Cardinal or Ordinal?
Answer: Numbers - Cardinal = 1,2,3 ordinal = first, second, third

Question: In science what is the opposite of centrifugal force?
Answer: Centripetal

Question: Which device controls an electric current by varying resistance to the current?
Answer: Rheostat

Question: Which metallic element is an essential constituent of haemoglobin?
Answer: Iron. To combine properly with oxygen, the red blood cells must contain adequate haemoglobin; this, in turn, depends on the amount of iron in the body. The organism derives its store of iron by absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.

Question: Which unit of volume is equal to one cubic decimetre?
Answer: Litre

Question: What does a 30-year-old European male have that is on average 2.2 inches long and sticks out 1 inch?
Answer: Nose

Question: By what name is solid carbon dioxide known?
Answer: Dry Ice

Question: What is collective noun for a group of Dolphins?
Answer: A pod

Question: What colourless liquid used as an antiseptic and a bleach has the chemical formula H2O2?
Answer: Hydrogen Peroxide

Question: What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
Answer: Alveoli

Question: What kind of animal is a St Lucia Parrot?
Answer: It's a Parrot, from St Lucia

Question: What name is given to the positive electrode of a battery?
Answer: Anode

Question: What is the epicarp of an orange?
Answer: Peel

Question: Which scientific word relates to the structure of the human body?
Answer: Anatomy

Question: Which ponies were originally used in coalmines?
Answer: Shetland ponies

Question: In computer terminology, what does LAN stand for?
Answer: Local area network

Question: Which is the heaviest snake in the world?
Answer: Anaconda - has been measured up to 500lb / 27ft 9ins length

SCIENCE QUIZ 17

Question: From where do Shetland ponies originate?
Answer: The Shetland Islands (also Scandinavia 10,000 years ago across ice fields)

Question: From which animal do we get Cashmere wool?
Answer: Goat

Question: Other than humans, what are the only creatures that mate for pleasure?
Answer: Dolphins

Question: What is the most common blood type in humans?
Answer: O

Question: What is an Ishihara test used for?
Answer: To determine whether or not someone is colour blind

Question: What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Gamma

Question: Who designed the first modern petrol-driven internal combustion engine for the car?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler

Question: Where in the body would you find the hallux?
Answer: On your foot (it's your big toe)

Question: What type of creature is a taipan?
Answer: Taipan

Question: What is the Chemical Symbol for Copper
Answer: Cu

Question: What is the only sign of the zodiac not named after a living creature, and what is it named after?
Answer: Libra - named after the scales

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of monkeys?
Answer: A troop

Question: Yperite, first used by the German army in September 1917, is better known as what type of gas?
Answer: Mustard Gas

Question: In which part of the body are the alveolar sacs?
Answer: Lungs

Question: How are angles measured, other than Degrees?
Answer: Radian

Question: Which insect is accredited as being responsible for transmitting the Plague in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Flea

Question: The 1st Re-usable space craft was called Columbia, what is it more commonly called?
Answer: Space Shuttle

Question: What is kept in an apiary?
Answer: Bees

Question: Which Food do Humans eat Most of?
Answer: Rice

Question: Exercises designed to increase oxygen consumption and speed blood circulation are called what?
Answer: Aerobics

SCIENCE QUIZ 16

Question: What did Hyman Lipman do in 1958 that made life easier for students?
Answer: Put a rubber on the end of a pencil.

Question: How hot is the (tungsten) filament in a normal (incandescent) electric light bulb?
Answer: 3000 centigrade or 5400 Fahrenheit. Tungsten melts at about 3410° C (6170° F) and boils at about 5660° C (10,220° F)

Question: What day is the middle day of the year in non leap years?
Answer: July 2

Question: In degrees centigrade, what is the normal body temperature of humans?
Answer: 37. (98.6 Fahrenheit)

Question: What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978?
Answer: She was the first test-tube baby

Question: If you divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
Answer: 70 - 30 divided by 1/2 is the same as 30 x 2, or 60, plus 10, making 70.

Question: What is the worlds tallest growing Grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: What is the computer term Bit short for?
Answer: Binary Digit

Question: What was the 1st Plastic ever made?
Answer: Bakerlite

Question: Long haul air travellers are in danger of developing which condition commonly known as DVT?
Answer: Deep vein thrombosis

Question: How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?
Answer: 23

Question: What colour Traffic Light follows amber?
Answer: Red

Question: What sort of creature is a Falabella?
Answer: Horse

Question: What is the oldest living plant species?
Answer: Fern

Question: In which Country is the World's largest Pyramid?
Answer: Peru.The largest pyramid is the Huaca del Sol, built by the Moche, in the Moche Valley, Northern Peru.

Question: What name is given to an elephant's incisor tooth?
Answer: Tusk

Question: Which Cosmonaut was called the 'Columbus of the Cosmos'?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: In computer terminology how many bytes in a kilobyte?
Answer: 1024

SCIENCE QUIZ 15

Question: Which is the fourth-nearest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mars

Question: In Geometry which term is applied to 2 triangles having both the same shape and size?
Answer: Congruent triangles

Question: What gas poisons you when you commit suicide by breathing car exhaust fumes?
Answer: Carbon Monoxide

Question: What fruit is also known as a Chinese Gooseberry?
Answer: Kiwi fruit

Question: What is the name of the large diamond found in the Queen's Sceptre?
Answer: (Great) Star of Africa or Cullinan 1

Question: Which bone in the human body is most frequently broken?
Answer: Collar bone

Question: In which city did the Queen officially launch The Queen Mary II?
Answer: Southampton

Question: Which country was the first to use rockets in warfare?
Answer: China

Question: What form of hunting is regulated by the I.W.C.?
Answer: Whaling

Question: What did Martin Stone invent in 1888 that millions of suckers use every day?
Answer: Drinking Straw

Question: What sort of creature is a Chester White?
Answer: Pig

Question: In which organ of the body is the Aqueous Humour found?
Answer: The eye

Question: What 2 dances are used in the radio communications alphabet that starts Alpha, Beta, Charlie?
Answer: Tango and Foxtrot

Question: What is the unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?
Answer: Equilibrium

Question: What do you call a group of squirrels?
Answer: A dray

Question: What kind of animal named 'Ham' did the U.S. first send into space?
Answer: Chimpanzee

Question: Where are the pyramids of Malpighi and the pyramids of Ferrein?
Answer: In the kidneys

Question: What percentage of the earths land surface has a temperate climate?
Answer: 7%

Question: What is a high altitude treeless region subject to permafrost known as?
Answer: Tundra

Question: What percentage of whole milk is water?
Answer: 87

SCIENCE QUIZ 14

Question: What is a gross minus a score?
Answer: 124

Question: Neon , Argon and Helium, are examples of what group of Gases?
Answer: (Noble (Inert) gases) krypton, xenon, and radon are the other 3.

Question: Hydrolysis is the reaction of a chemical compound with which liquid?
Answer: Water

Question: In wine making, what is the 'must'?
Answer: The juice from the grapes before it’s fermented.

Question: There are 6 fields of endeavour for which Nobel prizes are awarded. Name 3 of them.
Answer: Physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, peace and economic science

Question: What type of acid is extracted from the juice of lemons, oranges, limes, and grapefruit?
Answer: Citric Acid

Question: What are the names given to the pits in the skin from which hairs grow out of?
Answer: Follicles

Question: How old is a quadragenarian?
Answer: 40

Question: What is graphology the study of?
Answer: Handwriting

Question: What is the Latin name for the constellation that is commonly known as the Great Bear?
Answer: Ursa Major

Question: What are the substances in the saliva of vampire bats, leeches and mosquitos that prevents clotting?
Answer: Anti-coagulants

Question: If you weigh 154 pounds in America, how many stones is that in England?
Answer: 11

Question: What metal reacts to acetic acid by forming verdigris?
Answer: Copper

Question: What 2 words were combined to form the word contrail - the visible cloudlike streak left behind by jet aircraft?
Answer: Condensation and trail.

Question: Where in the body would you find the cochlea and the stirrup?
Answer: Ear

Question: What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
Answer: None, banana oil is a synthetic compound.

Question: What does the ringing of 8 bells mean on board a ship?
Answer: End of the watch.

Question: What is a diadromous fish?
Answer: One that can exist in both fresh and salt water.

Question: Who invented the ball-point pen?
Answer: Laszlo and George Biro.

Question: Which mammal has the largest eyes in proportion to its overall size?
Answer: The domestic cat

SCIENCE QUIZ 13

Question: What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol?
Answer: Antifreeze.

Question: What continent have the oldest fossils been found on?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is the only member of the cat family that does not have retractable claws?
Answer: Cheetah

Question: What is the second lightest chemical element?
Answer: Helium

Question: How many teeth are usually found in a set of temporary or 'baby' human teeth?
Answer: 20

Question: Out of all the animals that make up the Chinese horoscope, which comes first alphabetically?
Answer: Dog

Question: Hermit, spider and blue are all types of which creature?
Answer: Crab

Question: The binary system of numbers uses which two numerical digits?
Answer: 0 and 1

Question: What are the main four blood groups?
Answer: A, B, AB and O

Question: What family are elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses all members of?
Answer: Pachyderm

Question: Which synthetic material was named by combining the French words for velvet and hook?
Answer: Velcro

Question: In Jules Verne's "from Earth to the Moon" 3 men are blasted to the moon by cannon. Their speed of departure has proven to be the earth's escape velocity. What is it?
Answer: 7 miles per second.

Question: What does “C” represent in the equation E = MC squared?
Answer: The speed of light

Question: How many astronauts walked on the moon during each Apollo moon-landing?
Answer: 2

Question: A treatment of rubber which strengthens it and gives it greater elasticity is named after the roman god of fire. What is this process called?
Answer: Vulcanisation

Question: What is a female peacock called?
Answer: Peahen

Question: Which animals name literally means 'earth pig'?
Answer: Aardvark

Question: What is a cross between a Female Horse and a Male Ass called?
Answer: A mule.

Question: From which plant do we obtain Linseed Oil?
Answer: Flax

Question: Why is the Funny bone so called?
Answer: Because it's the Humerous

SCIENCE QUIZ 12

Question: What are the two types of camel called?
Answer: Dromedary and Bactrian.

Question: What is a 'Black Molly'?
Answer: A (tropical) fish.

Question: What's the largest, and most powerful of the American cats?
Answer: Jaguar

Question: Where would you find the 'Whispering Gallery'?
Answer: St. Paul's Cathedral

Question: Savoy is a variety of which vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: What is the Star of India?
Answer: World’s largest sapphire

Question: What is the name of the green rust that grows on copper?
Answer: Verdegris

Question: Where might you expect to see a 'Gatso' camera?
Answer: By the side of the road - they are speed cameras!

Question: Which of the Apollo space missions was the first to land on the moon?
Answer: Appollo 11

Question: In mobile phone technology, what does S.M.S. stand for?
Answer: Short Messaging Service

Question: Red, fennec, Arctic and bat-eared are all species of which animal?
Answer: Fox

Question: What is the square root of one quarter?
Answer: One Half

Question: What is the collective name for a group of Camels?
Answer: Train

Question: What's another name for a Cougar or Mountain lion?
Answer: Puma

Question: According to physicists, what is the fastest moving thing in the universe?
Answer: The electron

Question: What is a Female Donkey Called?
Answer: A jenny

Question: Where in the body would you find the labyrinth?
Answer: In the ear

Question: In Mammals, the Asian Elephant has the second longest, but man has the longest – what?
Answer: Life span

Question: What's a cat that's coloured black, orange and cream called?
Answer: Tortoise shell

Question: How many active volcanoes are there on Earth?
Answer: About 600

SCIENCE QUIZ 11

Question: Which geographical location was the first word spoken on the moon?
Answer: Houston

Question: What are the three primary colours of light?
Answer: Red Blue Green

Question: What is the name given to the system for categorising library books?
Answer: Dewey Decimal System

Question: What is the smallest cell in the human body?
Answer: The male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

Question: What is the largest cell in the human body?
Answer: The female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter.

Question: Who said... 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: What is a Capon?
Answer: A castrated rooster.

Question: What is the world's largest herb?
Answer: Banana plant

Question: What does a Sphygmomanometer measure?
Answer: Blood pressure

Question: What colour is Yaks milk?
Answer: Pink

Question: What is a Perfusionist's role in a hospital surgery?
Answer: Running the heart & lung machine

Question: What is the only rock that floats in water?
Answer: Pumice. An igneous (produced by volcanic action) rock having a spongy or frothy texture, and composed largely of glass. It is still sometimes used, as 'pumice stone', to scrape the skin when bathing.

Question: When is Halley's comet expected to appear again?
Answer: 2061

Question: The condition of seasonal allergic rhinitis is better known by what name?
Answer: Hayfever

Question: Which fruit is a cross between the mandarin orange and the bitter orange and is named after a port in Morocco?
Answer: Tangerine

Question: When was power steering first available in a petrol driven car?
Answer: It was in the USA in 1951.

Question: In Australia, in which month of the year is the longest day?
Answer: December

Question: Which two months are covered by the star sign Gemini?
Answer: May

Question: What single letter is the chemical symbol for the element Tungsten?
Answer: W

Question: Which fruit has the scientific name of malus pumulia?
Answer: Apple

SCIENCE QUIZ 10

Question: What, in the human body is the more common name for the sternum?
Answer: The breastbone

Question: What type of domestic cat has no tail?
Answer: Manx

Question: What is the name of the space station first launched by the Soviet Union in 1986?
Answer: MIR

Question: What is the common name for nitrous oxide?
Answer: Laughing Gas

Question: What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omega

Question: Tactile relates to which of the senses?
Answer: Touch

Question: Where in the human body is the thyroid gland?
Answer: Neck

Question: What is Nitrogen narcosis or decompression sickness more commonly known as?
Answer: The Bends; suffered by divers due to pressure change when surfacing too quickly.

Question: The word 'ursine' relates to which animals?
Answer: Bears

Question: What is the only part of the human body which has no blood supply?
Answer: The cornea (in the eye)

Question: What is the name of the chief male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: What would impure dilute acetic acid be better known as?
Answer: Vinegar

Question: What is the chemical term for chalk?
Answer: Calcium carbonate

Question: What is the world’s largest fruit?
Answer: The double coconut or Coco de mere weighs up to 23 kg and only grows in the Seychelles.

Question: What is a more common term for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
Answer: Laser

Question: What is a perfect diamond of 100 carats or more called?
Answer: A paragon

Question: In the human body, what is the patella better known as?
Answer: The kneecap

Question: What is a scut?
Answer: A rabbit's tail

Question: Copper gets its name from which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Cyprus - where it was first found

Question: What does the abbreviation UHT stand for? (with regard to milk).
Answer: Ultra Heat Treated

SCIENCE QUIZ 9

Question: What do Gorilla's do when they get nervous?
Answer: Beat their chests

Question: If a clock seen in a mirror is read as 2.40 what time is it?
Answer: 9:20

Question: What name is given to the car suspended from an airship?
Answer: A Gondola

Question: In which building is the Kohinoor Diamond kept?
Answer: The Tower of London

Question: JVC launched VHS format in 1976, but what does VHS stand for?
Answer: Video Home system

Question: What is the Fahrenheit boiling point of water at sea level?
Answer: 212 degrees

Question: What is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Iota

Question: What is the lightest metal?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Who invented the revolver (handgun)?
Answer: Samuel Colt

Question: What is the collective name for a group of peacocks?
Answer: A muster

Question: How many bones are in the human skull? (To within 3 either way.)
Answer: 28

Question: What Age followed the Bronze Age?
Answer: Iron Age

Question: What type of animal is a Caribou?
Answer: Reindeer

Question: What is a camel with one hump called? (It’s not Humphrey).
Answer: Dromedary

Question: What type of plant is a saguaro?
Answer: Cactus

Question: How many hulls does a catamaran have?
Answer: 2

Question: How many carats is pure gold?
Answer: 24

Question: Which animal lives in a holt?
Answer: Otter

Question: What type of animal is an Ibex?
Answer: A goat

Question: What is the collective term for a group of geese?
Answer: Gaggle

SCIENCE QUIZ 8

Question: Who was the second man to step foot on the surface of the moon?
Answer: Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin

Question: What South American burrowing animal has a body encased in bony plates?
Answer: Armadillo

Question: Which breed of dog, first mentioned in writings around the 2nd century AD, is the tallest of all dog breeds?
Answer: Irish Wolfhound

Question: Which tree is often associated with churchyards and graveyards?
Answer: Yew

Question: What bird is known for laying its eggs in other birds’ nests?
Answer: Cuckoo

Question: What mollusc gives its name to a type of explosive mine?
Answer: Limpet

Question: How dothe snakes known as boas kill their prey?
Answer: Crush or squeeze

Question: How many horns does the Indian Rhinoceros have?
Answer: 1

Question: Which year is represented by the seven Roman numerals listed in descending order?
Answer: 1666

Question: What did Mao Tse-Tung refer to as a paper tiger?
Answer: The atomic bomb

Question: A werewolf can only be killed by what?
Answer: Silver Bullets.

Question: What is the alloy of iron with some added chromium and a small amount of nickel called?
Answer: Stainless Steel

Question: What's the difference between the eyes of flesh-eating animals and those of plant-eating animals?
Answer: Carnivores have eyes the front, herbivores at the side

Question: In the human body what is the more common name for the tympanic membrane?
Answer: Eardrum

Question: What’s the Chemical symbol for Lead?
Answer: Pb

Question: The world’s largest species of goose is named after which country?
Answer: The CANADA Goose

Question: What is another name for tetanus?
Answer: Lockjaw

Question: What is the speed of sound at sea level called?
Answer: Mach 1

Question: What is the medical term for an obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot or air bubble?
Answer: Embolism

Question: Which British animal is brown in Summer and White in Winter?
Answer: Stoat

SCIENCE QUIZ 7

Question: Apart from water, what is the most widely consumed drink in the world, Coffee, Tea or Coca-Cola?
Answer: Tea

Question: True or False a Lettuce is a member of the Daisy Family.
Answer: True

Question: Which metal is added to Gold to make White Gold?
Answer: Silver

Question: How many centimetres make a kilometre?
Answer: 100 000

Question: What's the Chemical symbol for Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: Approximately how many miles/ km of arteries, veins and capillaries are in the average human body?
Answer: 60,000 miles (96,000 km).

Question: Henry was out walking one day. He met his father-in-law's only daughter's mother-in-law. What did Henry call her?
Answer: Mother

Question: What creature provides the symbol for the Aries star sign?
Answer: Ram

Question: Which planet shares its name with a type of carnivorous plant?
Answer: Venus (flytrap)

Question: What stimulant is found in cola nuts?
Answer: Caffeine

Question: What is a male bee called?
Answer: A drone.

Question: What disease might you catch from an anopheline?
Answer: Malaria

Question: What is the national flower of Wales?
Answer: Daffodil

Question: What is the name of the male reproductive organ (of a flower)?
Answer: The stamen

Question: What is a leveret?
Answer: A young hare

Question: What would you use a Dermatherm to measure?
Answer: Skin temperature

Question: Which useful house hold item is made from Naphthalene?
Answer: Moth Balls

Question: What is a gnomon?
Answer: The part of a sundial that casts the shadow?

Question: In 1796 Edward Jenner discovered a vaccination for what?
Answer: Smallpox

Question: By what name is a modulator-demodulator better known?
Answer: Modem

SCIENCE QUIZ 6

Question: Amethyst is a type of which mineral?
Answer: Quartz

Question: What is an eagles nest called?
Answer: An Eyrie

Question: What are the next 3 letters in this riddle? O,T,T,F,F,S,S
Answer: E,N,T (eight nine ten).

Question: What type of monkies (apes) inhabit the Rock of Gibraltar?
Answer: Barbary apes.

Question: In terms of combining Elements into a compound, if you had 2 of number 1 and 1 of number 8 what would you have?
Answer: Water

Question: What commodity is traditionally measured in units called a Truss?
Answer: Hay/Straw

Question: Which animal is the largest member of the cat family?
Answer: Tiger

Question: What colour is calamine lotion?
Answer: Pink

Question: How is Nitrous Oxide better known?
Answer: Laughing Gas.

Question: How many wings does a bee have?
Answer: 4

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of foxes?
Answer: A skulk

Question: What number on the Beaufort scale represents a hurricane?
Answer: 12

Question: What is Frigophobia the fear of?
Answer: Cold

Question: When is your wooden anniversary?
Answer: 5 years.

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of bees?
Answer: A swarm

Question: From what is the artificial fibre Rayon made?
Answer: Wood pulp.

Question: In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter U?
Answer: Uniform.

Question: Bright's disease or Nephritis affects which organs of the body?
Answer: (Inflammation of) the Kidneys.

Question: What is the zodiac sign of the Twins?
Answer: Zodiac

Question: What is the second letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Beta

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.

SCIENCE QUIZ 4

Question: What is a Flemish giant?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: What is the collective noun for swallows in the air?
Answer: A flight

Question: Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: What would you use Archimedes' Screw for?
Answer: Lifting water to a higher level

Question: What's the world’s most common Compound?
Answer: Water

Question: In which organ of the body is insulin produced?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: What is the Hardest and toughest known mineral?
Answer: Diamond. Indentation tests indicate that to dent a diamond requires a pressure of 8,000 kg/mm2.

Question: Where would you find an ISBN number?
Answer: On a book

Question: In chemistry, which chart shows elements arranged in groups having similar properties?
Answer: The periodic table

Question: What is the major diet of the Koala bear?
Answer: Eucalyptus leaves. They frequent tall eucalyptus trees, feeding only on the leaves and flowers of certain species of tree, as well as on mistletoe and box leaves.

Question: Which type of creature includes the most poisonous in the world?
Answer: Frogs

Question: There are 3 major food groups (excluding vitamins and minerals). Protein is one. What are the other two?
Answer: Carbohydrate and fat

Question: Which organ of the body secretes insulin?
Answer: Pancreas

Question: What does a somnambulist do?
Answer: Sleep walks

Question: How many minutes are there in a week?
Answer: 10 080

Question: A Beluga is a type of what?
Answer: Whale

Question: 'Ring of Bright Water' is a book about which creatures?
Answer: Otters

Question: A canton, halyard and field make up what item?
Answer: A flag

Question: Which animal sleeps standing up?
Answer: Horse

Question: Where does a badger live?
Answer: A cett

SCIENCE QUIZ 3

Question: If I was your age ten years before you were born and I’m 50, how old are you?
Answer: 20

Question: Which gas is the main element in air?
Answer: Nitrogen (70%)

Question: By what name is solid carbon dioxide known?
Answer: Dry Ice

Question: What is the only known substance that naturally exists on Earth in all three chemical states?
Answer: Water

Question: In nature, what does a dendrologist study?
Answer: Trees

Question: What is the only gemstone to be composed of one single element?
Answer: Diamond

Question: How many stars make up Orion's belt?
Answer: 3

Question: The invention of what in 1867, made Alfred Nobel famous?
Answer: Dynamite

Question: In which American state is Cape Canaveral, a launching site for space travel?
Answer: Florida

Question: Yellow gold contains 10% of what other metal?
Answer: Copper

Question: The terms curd and whey are associated with making what?
Answer: Cheese

Question: A poult is the young of which creature?
Answer: Turkey or pheasant

Question: Who hit a golf shot on the moon?
Answer: Alan Shepard

Question: In London, the Cambridge, the Lyric and the Adelphi are all what?
Answer: Theaters

Question: What sits on a dolly in a television studio?
Answer: A camera

Question: What number on the Beaufort scale represents a Hurricane'?
Answer: 12-17

Question: What two fruits grow on palms?
Answer: Coconuts and dates

Question: Roe fallow and sika are all kinds of what animal?
Answer: Deer

Question: In avoirdupois weight what is equivalent to 1016.5 kilograms?
Answer: Ton

Question: What did the British government do on the roads in order to reduce accidents in 1925?
Answer: Paint white lines.

SCIENCE QUIZ 2

Question: What is the name of the layer between the crust and the core of the earth?
Answer: The mantle.

Question: What is belladonna commonly known as?
Answer: Deadly Nightshade.

Question: What is the offspring of a donkey and a horse called?
Answer: A mule (or a hinny)

Question: In anatomy what are the nates?
Answer: The buttocks.

Question: What is the number 3.142 more usually known as?
Answer: Pi

Question: Who invented the jet engine in 1930?
Answer: Frank Whittle

Question: What does 'E' represent in E = MC2?
Answer: Energy

Question: What is the green pigment found in most plants that is responsible for absorbing light energy?
Answer: Chlorophyll

Question: What is the largest flat fish species?
Answer: Halibut

Question: Where is the smallest bone in the body?
Answer: In the ear - the Stirrup

Question: How many sides does a rhombus have?
Answer: 4

Question: On which day is Remembrance Day?
Answer: The Sunday closest to November 11th

Question: What is the distance between the two rails on a railway track called?
Answer: Gauge

Question: Which company owns 'Hotmail', the Internet based e-mail system?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: What does an 'Anemometer' measure ?
Answer: Windspeed

Question: Was 1994 a leap year?
Answer: No

Question: How many sheets of paper are there in a ream?
Answer: 500

Question: Which motoring aid was invented by Percy Shaw?
Answer: Cats eyes

Question: Which motoring aid was invented by Percy Shaw?
Answer: Cats eyes

Question: What is 65 per cent of 60?
Answer: 39

SCIENCE QUIZ 1

Question: What name is given to calfskin, dressed and prepared for writing on?
Answer: Vellum

Question: In 1884, what was invented by Lewis Waterman?
Answer: Fountain Pen

Question: What is a female bear called?
Answer: Sow

Question: What killer disease was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?
Answer: Polio

Question: Which is the world’s tallest mammal?
Answer: The Giraffe

Question: What are the young of Squirrels called?
Answer: Kittens

Question: What is the main element in Bronze?
Answer: Copper

Question: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?
Answer: Kerosene

Question: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
Answer: June

Question: Which colourless, odourless light gas is used to lift airships?
Answer: Helium

Question: What is the fraction usually given as an approximation for PI?
Answer: 22/7

Question: At sea, between which hours is the first watch?
Answer: 8pm and Midnight

Question: What type of creature is the Aberdeen?
Answer: Cow/Bull

Question: What do the Australians call the yellow dogs that are regarded as serious pests in their Country?
Answer: Dingoes

Question: What is the sum of degrees in the internal angles in a triangle?
Answer: 180 degrees

Question: What is the national bird of New Zealand?
Answer: The kiwi

Question: What name is given to plants that last for many years?
Answer: Perennials

Question: What does PVC stand for as in the compound PVC?
Answer: Polyvinyl Chloride

Question: Thor Heyerdal's raft the 'kon-tiki' was made of what type of wood?
Answer: Balsa

Question: Where, in a household, would you find a magnetron?
Answer: In a microwave oven.

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 22

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: Which country is home to Grolsch lager?
Answer: Holland (The Netherlands)

Question: What is the capital of Venezuela?
Answer: Caracus

Question: Which is the world’s oldest airline still using its original name?
Answer: KLM or Royal Dutch Airlines (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)

Question: Which is the only US state to begin with the letter 'P'?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: Two main London railway stations have the word "Cross" in their names. Name both?
Answer: Kings cross and Charing cross

Question: What is the state capital of Alaska?
Answer: Juneau

Question: What's the largest Scandinavian country?
Answer: Sweden

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 21

Question: The Bill Shankly stand can be found at which football club's ground?
Answer: Preston North End

Question: Where in London would you find Poet’s Corner?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: Where is 'Thatcher Day' celebrated on January 11th?
Answer: The Falkland Islands

Question: In Paris twelve Avenues meet at which famous landmark?
Answer: Arc de Triomph

Question: Which country produces 70% of the world's olive oil?
Answer: Greece

Question: Toronto is the capital of which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario

Question: The Dead Sea can be found in which 2 countries?
Answer: Israel and Jordon

Question: In which continent is the world's largest glacier?
Answer: Antarctica

Question: What is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: What cheese shares its name with an English Gorge?
Answer: Cheddar

Question: Which canal took 10 years to build and opened in 1869?
Answer: The Suez Canal

Question: In which country is Acapulco?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which Welsh Island is also known as Ynys Mon?
Answer: Anglesey

Question: In England, what is the Common name for the Central Criminal Court?
Answer: The Old Bailey

Question: In which ocean are the Canary Islands?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: At which ski resort would you see the Cresta Run?
Answer: St. Moritz

Question: Apart from London name one other city in Britain have an underground railway system?
Answer: Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle

Question: What is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain more popularly known as?
Answer: Eros

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

Question: How many countries are still members of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: 53

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 20

Question: What are the 'aurora borealis' also known as?
Answer: Northern Lights - high-altitude luminosity occurring most frequently above 60° north or south latitude.

Question: What is the southern limit of the Tropics called?
Answer: Tropic of Capricorn

Question: Which is the largest Greek Island?
Answer: Crete

Question: What is the main crop of the Greek island of Corfu?
Answer: Olives

Question: What do you call somebody from Monaco?
Answer: Monagasque

Question: What's the Capital city of the Philippines?
Answer: Manilla

Question: Mount Rushmore in America has 4 presidents heads carved into it. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are two of them. Give me either of the other two.
Answer: Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the name given to the imaginary line of 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: International Date Line

Question: What is the state Capital of Colorado?
Answer: Denver

Question: In nature, the earth is composed of 3 main parts, the Crust, the mantle and what?
Answer: The Core

Question: Which are the only 2 countries with an X in their names?
Answer: Mexico/Luxembourg

Question: What are the two main colours on Argentina's flag?
Answer: Blue/White (It also has a yellow sun in the middle known as the sun of May)

Question: Where is the only place that the American flag flies 24 hours a day - never raised, never lowered, and never saluted?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Which military base in North Kentucky holds the US Gold Reserves?
Answer: Fort Knox

Question: Which small Norwegian town hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Lillehammer

Question: Which sea lies between Italy and the former Yugoslavia
Answer: Adriatic

Question: In which European country is the city of Strasbourg?
Answer: France

Question: Which river forms much of the border between England and Scotland?
Answer: Tweed

Question: Where in London would you find Speakers Corner?
Answer: Hyde park

Question: Which European City has the highest mileage of Canals in the World?
Answer: Birmingham

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 19

Question: The Province of Flanders is in which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: The Vatican City is within which other city?
Answer: Rome

Question: In which country is Marrakesh?
Answer: Morocco

Question: What is the International vehicle registration letter(s) for Germany?
Answer: D

Question: Mount Elbert is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: The Rockies (USA)

Question: Which was the first European country to give all women the vote?
Answer: Finland (Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark)

Question: In which country is the region of Dalmatia?
Answer: Croatia

Question: In which country is the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Answer: Iraq (60 miles south of Baghdad)

Question: Which US organisation's headquarters is situated in Langley, Virginia?
Answer: CIA

Question: What is the capital of Finland?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: What is the world's largest sea?
Answer: South China Sea

Question: In which country are the Churchill Falls?
Answer: Canada (Labrador)

Question: What is the state capital of Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston

Question: What covers 85% of Algeria?
Answer: Sahara

Question: What's the largest Island in the Mediterranean sea?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Which location in the United States was originally known as Shangri-La, and is now named after President Eisenhower's grandson.
Answer: Camp David

Question: What lies between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
Answer: Niagra Falls

Question: The worlds largest fruit is called the love fruit or the Coco de Mer, and can weigh up to 50 pounds (23kg). Which is the only Country it grows in?
Answer: Seychelles

Question: Which is the only US state to start with the letter "H"?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: New York city is subdivided into five boroughs. Three of them are Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island. What are the other two?
Answer: The Bronx, and Manhattan.

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 18

Question: Which country is furthest from New Zealand?
Answer: Spain

Question: What do we call what the Moors (North African Arabs) called Gebel-al-Tarik - Tarik's Hill?
Answer: Gibralter

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

Question: In which city were the 2008 Olympics be held?
Answer: Beijing

Question: Alphabetically, what is the first country in the world?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Ynys Mon is the largest island in England and Wales - by what name is it known in English?
Answer: Anglesey

Question: Which city is located where the Mississippi meets the Missouri river?
Answer: St. Louis

Question: Which is the most common first name in the world?
Answer: Mohammed

Question: Two main London railway stations have the word “Cross” in their names. Name both.
Answer: Kings Cross & Charing Cross

Question: Which is Europe’s most mountainous country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In which US state is Daytona Beach?
Answer: Florida

Question: What is the Gaelic word for Ireland?
Answer: Eire

Question: What is the official language of Brazil?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: In which country is the ancient city of Dubrovnik?
Answer: Croatia

Question: Which Spanish city is the capital of the Basque Region?
Answer: Bilbao

Question: What is the largest American state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: In which country is Transylvania?
Answer: Romania

Question: Which Communist country had the Red Guard?
Answer: USSR

Question: What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Columbo

Question: On which island was the Mafia founded?
Answer: Sicily

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 17

Question: What name is California's Santa Clara County, the heartland of the US Computer Industry, more commonly called?
Answer: Silicon valley

Question: Which is the smallest of the 50 states in the US?
Answer: Rhode Island

Question: Which river flows over the Niagara Falls?
Answer: The Niagara River, in Western New York and Southeastern Ontario.

Question: Name the patron saints of the four countries in the British Isles?
Answer: Andrew (Scotland), David (Wales), George (England) and Patrick (Ireland).

Question: Which two countries are connected by the Khyber Pass?
Answer: Afghanistan and Pakistan

Question: Which river forms part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela?
Answer: Orinoco

Question: Which countries border the Caprivi Strip in Namibia
Answer: Angola, Zambia, Botswana

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

Question: Hamilton is the capital of which British overseas territory?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: What is the emblem of the Islamic faith, as displayed on a number of national flags?
Answer: A crescent moon

Question: Which US city is known as the 'the big easy'?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: In which country is Mount Ararat?
Answer: Turkey. According to the Old Testament (Genesis 8:4), Noah's ark landed on the “mountains of Ararat” after the deluge.

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

Question: What are most of the American states divided into for administrative purposes?
Answer: Counties

Question: On which river does the Canadian city of Quebec stand?
Answer: Saint Lawrence

Question: Big Ben is the name of the Bell in the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament. What is the name of the tower housing it?
Answer: Saint Stephen's Tower

Question: What is the name of the cold wind that blows in the winter through Southern France to the Mediterranean?
Answer: The Mistral

Question: What is the capital city of Morocco?
Answer: Rabat

Question: Until the introduction of the Euro, what is the unit of currency in Austria?
Answer: Schilling

Question: What is the name of the railway that was opened in 1901 and runs from Moscow to Vladisvostok?
Answer: Trans-Siberian Railway

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 16

Question: Which is the largest inland country in the World?
Answer: Mongolia

Question: The Haboob in Sudan, the Zonda in Argentina, the Puna in Peru and the Sirocco in North Africa are all the names of what?
Answer: Winds

Question: Which is the longest river to flow into the Mediterranean?
Answer: Nile (of Course)

Question: What was the Capital of India prior to 1912 when New Delhi became the capital city?
Answer: Calcutta

Question: How many houses are there in Downing Street, London?
Answer: 3 - Nos 10,11 &12

Question: What is Europe's biggest island?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: Which of the continents has the most countries?
Answer: Africa

Question: What's the most northerly county of the Scottish mainland?
Answer: Highland

Question: In which city would you find the Wailing Wall?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: What are the flat treeless plains of Argentina called?
Answer: Pampas

Question: What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Which South American country has an Inca name meaning 'Cold Winter'?
Answer: Chile

Question: What two colours make up the flag of Pakistan?
Answer: Green and white

Question: The most famous Spanish festival is the running of the bulls in July in which city?
Answer: Pamplona

Question: Which countries national symbol is the Maple leaf?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: What is the national symbol of the USA?
Answer: The bald eagle.

Question: There are three countries that have both an Atlantic and a Mediterranean coast, name 2 of them?
Answer: France, Spain & Morocco

Question: What's the Capital of Malaysia?
Answer: Kuala Lumpu

Question: Which country do the Faroe Islands belong to?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Which African country has exactly the same name as its capital city?
Answer: Djibouti

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 15

Question: Which present day capital city is built on the capital city of the Aztecs?
Answer: Mexico City

Question: Into which ocean does the river Zambesi flow?
Answer: Indian

Question: The 'Bay of Pigs' forms part of the coastline of which country?
Answer: Cuba

Question: How many yellow stars are there on the flag of China?
Answer: Five

Question: At which resort is the International Film Festival Held
Answer: Cannes

Question: What do the Argentineans call 'The Falkland Islands'?
Answer: Malvinas

Question: In Iraq, what are the 2 main Muslim sects?
Answer: Sunni and Shiite

Question: What do the Fins call Finland?
Answer: Suomi

Question: The Equator runs through Ecuador, Brazil and which other South American country?
Answer: Columbia

Question: In the film Jurassic Park, the park is on an island off the coast of which country?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: On which continent would you find the Atlas mountains?
Answer: Africa

Question: To the Romans it was Eboracum, to the English, York, how did the Vikings know this city?
Answer: Jorvic

Question: Where is Pamplona?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which of the continents has the most countries?
Answer: Africa

Question: Vaduz is the capitol of where?
Answer: Liechtenstein

Question: Which two US cities are joined by Route 66?
Answer: Chicago & Los Angeles

Question: What is the name of Hong Kong's airline?
Answer: Cathay Pacific

Question: Which London thoroughfare is traditionally associated with high quality tailoring?
Answer: Savile Row

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

Question: In which British city were both Guy Fawkes born & Dick Turpin hanged?
Answer: York

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 14

Question: 'Sing Sing' is located in New York city. What is it?
Answer: NY State Prison

Question: What colour flag is flown at Beaches deemed clean and pollution free?
Answer: Blue

Question: Augusta is in which American State?
Answer: Georgia

Question: What is the world’s longest man made waterway – 1600km
Answer: The Grand Canal in China

Question: Which is the worlds 2nd largest French speaking city?
Answer: Montreal

Question: Kiev is the capital of which country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What animal appears on the flag of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Lion

Question: Which is the highest waterfall in the world?
Answer: Angel Falls in Venezuala - the highest uninterrupted cataract in the world, dropping 979 m (3,212 ft)

Question: In which city would you find the International Court of Justice?
Answer: The Hague

Question: Texas achieved statehood in 1845. What is the state's capital?
Answer: Austin

Question: What is the largest city in Africa
Answer: Cairo

Question: What is the chief port of Iraq?
Answer: Basra

Question: In which city is the La Scala opera house a feature?
Answer: Milan

Question: What do the Americans call Old Glory?
Answer: The American flag

Question: In which US state's capital is the headquarters of the Mormon Church?
Answer: Utah

Question: Which country lies immediately south of Nicaragua?
Answer: Costa Rica

Question: The White House is the most visited House in the USA what is the second?
Answer: Graceland

Question: Which landmark is portrayed as a combination of a Bust of a Woman and body of Lion?
Answer: The Sphinx

Question: Other than English, French and Spanish there are 2 other official languages of the United Nations. Give me either one.
Answer: Russian and Chinese

Question: The capital of Western Australian shares its name with which Scottish City?
Answer: Perth

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 13

Question: In Fiji, which people outnumber ethnic Fijians?
Answer: Indians

Question: Formerly Dutch Guiana what is it now called?
Answer: Suriname

Question: What is the capital of Romania?
Answer: Bucharest

Question: Which flag consists of 12 gold stars on an azure blue background?
Answer: The European flag. The European Union was established on November 1, 1993, when the Treaty on European Union, or Treaty of Maastricht, was ratified by the 12 members of the European Community (EC)

Question: Why was Great Britain called Great Britain?
Answer: To distinguish it from little Britain, which is now called Brittany.

Question: What is the name of the Moslems most sacred shrine in Mecca?
Answer: Kaaba

Question: What are the only 2 Landlocked countries of S.America?
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay

Question: In which state of the USA is the city of Detroit?
Answer: Michigan

Question: Which country is immediately to the south of Egypt?
Answer: Sudan

Question: Which country is divided into 23 cantons?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What's the Capital of Albania?
Answer: Tirana

Question: Which English town gives its name to an invalid chair?
Answer: Bath

Question: What takes place in Happy Valley in Hong Kong?
Answer: Horse Racing

Question: Where are the Tivoli gardens?
Answer: Copenhagen

Question: Lapland straddles 4 countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and which other?
Answer: Russia

Question: What is the official residence of the French President?
Answer: Elysée Palace

Question: The Suez Canal connects the Red sea with which other sea?
Answer: The Mediterranean

Question: What was Ghana's former name?
Answer: Gold Coast

Question: Which American City is named after a British Prime Minister?
Answer: Pittsburgh

Question: Name a country whose name begins with the letter A but doesn't end with the letter A?
Answer: Azerbaijan (Nr Iran) or Afghanistan

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 12

Question: On which continent is the Kariba Dam?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is the capital of Uruguay?
Answer: Montevideo

Question: In which country is the dong used as currency?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: What is the deepest Land Gorge in the World?
Answer: The Grand Canyon

Question: What is the capital of the Falkland Islands?
Answer: Port Stanley

Question: Apart from white what colour appears on the Polish Flag?
Answer: Red

Question: What London landmark has an 11ft hand?
Answer: The clock face on Big Ben

Question: Which New York Street gives its name to American commercial theatre in general? Specifically, located in the area between the Avenue of the Americas and Ninth Avenue and from West 41st Street to West 53d Street.
Answer: Broadway

Question: On what river does London in Ontario, Canada stand? (Named in 1792 as the proposed capital of upper Canada)
Answer: The Thames

Question: What is the stretch of Spanish coast from Alicante to Valencia called?
Answer: Costa Blanca

Question: In which modern country would you locate the birthplace of Mohammed?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: In which country is the Corinth canal?
Answer: Greece

Question: What currency is used in Japan?
Answer: Yen

Question: Which was the world's first National Park, opening in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone (in Wyoming and Montana)

Question: What is the capital of the 'Seychelles'?
Answer: Victoria

Question: What's the Caribbean Island called that contains the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
Answer: Hispaniola

Question: What 3 colours are the national flag of Belgium?
Answer: Black, Yellow and Red

Question: Mount Kosciusko is the highest mountain in which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: What sea does the Crimean Peninsular jut into?
Answer: Black sea

Question: What is the Italian name for Turin?
Answer: Torino

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ 11

Question: Tenerife is part of which island group?
Answer: Canary Islands

Question: What is name of the stretch of water that divides New Zealand into Northern and Southern parts?
Answer: Cook Strait

Question: What was the first Australian city to host the Olympic games?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: What is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and also a town in Northern England?
Answer: Halifax

Question: What is the largest island in the Caribbean?
Answer: Cuba

Question: In which city is Marco Polo airport?
Answer: Venice

Question: What is the capital city of Lebanon?
Answer: Beirut

Question: What is the name of the Royal Military Academy in Berkshire?
Answer: Sandhurst

Question: Which city was the capital of Brazil prior to the creation of Brasilia?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: Which is the world's longest mountain range?
Answer: Andes

Question: In which US state is the city of Chicago?
Answer: Illinois

Question: In which Country is the World's largest Pyramid?
Answer: Peru.The largest pyramid is the Huaca del Sol, built by the Moche, in the Moche Valley, Northern Peru.

Question: What is the capital of Hungary?
Answer: Budapest

Question: In which city did gangster Al Capone operate?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Which sea has shores in Europe, Asia and Africa?
Answer: Mediterranean

Question: What is the world's most Southerly capital?
Answer: Wellington (New Zealand)

Question: What is the capital of the American state of Colorado?
Answer: Denver

Question: Which three South American countries does the Equator cross?
Answer: Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador

Question: Which American building is the largest office building in the World with an area of around six and a half million square feet?
Answer: The Pentagon

Question: What is the southern limit of the Tropics called?
Answer: Tropic of Capricorn