Science and Tech - 26/09/11

1. Which band who announced who announced their break-up last week shares its name with the technical term for what your eyes do during sleep?
REM

2. Which tellytubby’s name can be typed using only letters that can be found on the middle row of a standard QWERTY keyboard?
Lala

3. If you took the chemical symbols of the elements Tin, Oxygen and Tungsten in order, what kind of weather would you spell?
Snow (Sn-O-W)

4. In computing, what is half a byte?
A nibble

5. What is the name given to the murderous computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
HAL 9000

6. Which high profile website officially opened up its services to the general public for the first time last week?
Google+

7. Science Fiction Double Feature is a song from which musical?
Rocky Horror Show

8. Who is the main villain in the Crash Bandicoot video games series, whose name is based on the area of the brain containing grey matter?
Dr. Neo Cortex (the Neocortex)

9. Tomorrow is Google’s birthday – but how old will it be?
13 (it launched on September 27th 1998)

10. How many arms does a starfish normally have?
5