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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Monday, 7 November 2011
Monday, 26 September 2011
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
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
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