Which 2 countries developed the Concorde aeroplane?
UK and France
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What are the variants of the subatomic particle Quark called?
Flavours. up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm.
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Graphite is a form of what chemical element?
Carbon
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What are the 3 main sub-atomic particles?
Proton, Neutron and Electron
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What is the common name for ascorbic acid?
Vitamin C
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Which element, found very commonly in the human body is the 20th element of the periodic table?
Calcium
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What is the collective name for a group of nightingales?
Watch
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The collective nouns for which species of bird can include a gang, or a rafter?
Turkeys
apparently they can also be known collectively as a posse, a dule, or a raffle, amongst other names.
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What name was given to the 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis bones found in Ethiopia in 1974, which is an early ancestor of homo sapiens?
Lucy
What are the elements on the far right column of the periodic table commonly known as?
Noble gases
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What name is given to the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
The Troposphere
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What is the name for a triangle that has 2 sides of equal length, with the third side being a different length?
An Isosceles Triangle
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What is the collective noun for a group of buzzards?
Wake
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Which sea creature has a latin name that is the same as the name for a section of the human brain?
Seahorse
Hippocampus - The part of the brain was named after the animal as it resembles a seahorse in shape.
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Rockhopper, jackass and emperor are all type of what?
Penguin
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How many hearts does an octopus have?
3
a systemic heart that circulates blood around the body and two branchial hearts that pump it through each of the two gills.
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What was the name of the dog the Russians launched into space in 1957 inside Sputnik 2?
Laika
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Which is the fastest moving snake in the world?
- Viper
- Coral snake
- Black Mamba
Black Mamba
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Roughly what proportion of their DNA do humans and chimpanzees share?
- 77%
- 88%
- 99%
99%
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Of the approximately 725 species of venomous snakes worldwide, how many can kill a human with one bite?
250
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Which evolved first - Trees, Sharks, or Cockroaches?
Sharks, 400M years ago (first trees 350M years, first cockroach like insects 300M years ago)
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