Monday 7 November 2011

Science & Nature - 07/11/11

1. Which major historic scientific event has been blamed on hayfever, constipation and suicide before a more sensibile theory was accepted by the scientific community?
Extinction of the Dinosaurs

2. What part of the body can be Arch, Loop, Double Loop or Whorl?
Fingerprint

3. What is the Scoville scale used to measure?
The heat of chillis

4. 10 degrees Celsius is what temperature in Farenheit?
50

5. If you took the chemical symbols for elements Hydrogen, Iodine, Mercury, Oxygen, Neon in order, what part of the body would you spell?
Hipbone

6. Leading physicists believe our universe is shaped like which snack food?
Donut

7. In the famous equation e = mc2. The e is energy and the m is mass, but what does the c mean?
Speed of light

8. What do the Geiger Counter, the Gatling Gun and the Rubik’s cube all have in common?
Named after their inventor

9. Which band famously released an album covered which demonstrates the process of refraction?
Pink Floyd

10. What is mathematician Andrew Wiles famous for doing?
Proving Fermat’s Last Theorem

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