1. What is the boiling point of water in degrees Fahrenheit at sea level?
212°F
2. How many elements appear in the periodic table?
118
3. In which two parts of the body would you find ‘phalanges’?
Hands and feet/toes and fingers (Toe and finger bones)
4. What does ‘AI’ stand for, in terms of technology and computer science?
Artificial Intelligence
5. What would a ‘paedophobe’ be scared of?
Children
6. Christopher Cockerell was an English engineer best known for inventing what?
The hovercraft
7. Which of these distances is the longest: 1 mile, 100,000 cm, 2km or 2000 yards?
2km (if all turned into miles – 100,000cm = 0.62miles, 2km= 1.24miles and 2000 yards= 1.14 miles)
8. Rickets is a disease associated with a lack of which vitamin?
Vitamin D
9. Hydrogen is number 1 in the periodic table of the elements. What is number 2?
Helium
10. What is colloquially referred to as a mermaid’s purse?
A casing covering the fertilised eggs of fish or sharks