FUNSTUDIES

DELL

2010-08-12T19:06:00.000-07:00

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is a global vendor of personal computers and is one of the largest companies in America, employing over 78,900 people (with approximately 33% located in US and rest in other countries) and earning revenues of $59.9 billion in FY 2010. In addition to both desktop and notebook PCs, Dell sells peripherals, software, accessories, corporate servers and storage systems, and customer support services.[1]

Traditionally, Dell had been concentrated in the domestic PC market. However by FY09 48% of the revenue was from outside the U.S.. The international market (outside the U.S.) actually saw a growth of 4% in revenue growth while there was a 3% decline in revenue for the U.S.. The decline in the U.S. revenue has been attributed to the downturn in the global economy that affected their commercial business. [2]

Beginning in 2007, Dell began forming partnerships with large retailers across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Notable among these are Wal-Mart Stores, Best Buy (BBY), Costco Wholesale (COST), Staples, Carrefour and Suning and Gome, China's largest electronics store. These partnerships represent a drastic departure from Dell's previous strategy which purposely excluded any relationships with retailers. As a result, in addition to its traditional mail order distribution system, Dell now has nearly 24,000 retail locations worldwide.[3] Throughout 2008, international sales continued growing and accounted for approximately half of Dell's revenues.[4]

As corporations upgrade their computer systems to meet the compatibility requirements of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, Dell’s higher-margin commercial business stands to benefit from increased demand. Dell is also responding to somewhat unimpressive PC sales growth by expanding their offerings of non-PC electronics and increasing their presence in developing countries such as India and China.

Company Overview

Dell offers a variety of products and services. Among its offerings are a wide array of desktop and notebook computers, peripherals and software, technical support services, and corporate servers and storage systems. In addition, Dell’s subsidiary Alienware offers desktops, notebooks, and peripherals specialized for high-end video and audio editing and gaming.

Business and Financial Metrics
In the first quarter of 2010, Dell's profit increased 52% from a year earlier to $441 million, as revenue rose 21% to $14.87 billion. However, despite Dell's cost cutting this quarter, Dell's gross profit margin declined from 17.6% to 16.8%. Pickup in IT spending at corporations fueled Dell's revenue and profit increase this quarter because many companies are seeking to upgrade to Microsoft's Windows 7. Sales to big corporations have increased 25% to $4.2 billion. Likewise, Dell's small-and-medium business division's revenue was up 19% to $3.5 billion.[5] However, on June 10th, 2010, Dell lowered its first-quarter results by $100 million to build up a $100 million reserve that may be used to settle an ongoing SEC accounting probe. Dell faces negligence-based charges related to with what it disclosed about its relationship with Intel before fiscal 2008.[6]

On July 27, Dell announced it would pay $100 million to settle with the SEC. Senior executives were accused by the SEC of using fradulent accounting methods to boost earnings. The SEC alleges that, from 2002 to 2006, Dell recieved payments from Intel for using Intel chips in in Dell computers. Dell did not disclose to investors that it was recieving these psayments, which were in the form of rebates which allowed Dell to reduce its cost of goods sold. Dell attributed the rising profit margin instead to "cost cutting measures" and "declining component cost."[7]

In 2009, revenue decreased 13% year-over-year to $52.9 billion, with net income falling 42% from $2.5 billion to $1.4 billion. Revenue grew across all regions: Asia Pacific-Japan (“APJ”) grew 15%; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (“EMEA”) increased 12%; and the Americas grew 3%.[8] Revenue outside the U.S. represented approximately 47% of Fiscal 2008 net revenue, compared to approximately 44% in the prior year. Outside the U.S., Dell produced 14% year-over-year revenue growth for Fiscal 2008, though unit growth was below the overall unit growth rate of the international PC market.[9]

Business Segments

PCs (60% of revenue)
Dell produces several lines of consumer and commercial PC systems, including both desktop and notebook models. Overall, Dell holds about 14% of the worldwide PC market. Within the PC segment, desktops contributed 32% of Dell’s Fiscal 2008 revenue, and notebooks accounted for 28%.[10]

Software, Peripherals, and Accessories (16% of revenue)
Dell sells various software programs with its PC systems, such as productivity software, security programs, and games. Dell also sells a number of computer-related peripherals, including LCD monitors, printers, input and storage devices, etc. Aside from PC-related items, Dell sells various accessories and electronic devices, such as LCD televisions, digital cameras, and MP3 players. These software and peripherals accounted for 16% of Dell’s Fiscal 2008 revenue.[11]

Servers and Storage (15% of revenue)
For its corporate customers, Dell provides both servers and storage systems. Dell continues to aggressively pursue this market, bringing 9 new enterprise servers to corporate consumers in January of 2008. Dell also sells customized servers and enterprise systems designed to meet the specific needs of certain customers. Servers and storage accounted for 15% of Dell's Fiscal 2008 revenue.[12]

Technical Support and Services (9% of revenue)
Dell also sells technical support services for its products, providing customers with assistance after they purchase their systems. Typically, services such as these provide high margins relative to Dell’s other business segments. Typically, services such as these provide high margins relative to Dell's other business segments. Though services accounted for only 9% of total sales, they contributed around 35% to Dell's 2006 gross profits Services accounted for 9% of total revenue for the Fiscal year 2008.[13]

Trends and Forces

Upgrade Cycles force companies to replace their computer systems
As technology evolves, companies often upgrade or replace their computer systems to take advantage of new technologies, an occurrence known as the upgrade cycle. Technological innovations can trigger the upgrade cycle and increase demand for Dell’s products, while a lack of new developments can discourage companies from upgrading their computer systems. This cycle occurs primarily in the commercial market, where companies tend to replace all their computers at once. This can significantly impact Dell’s revenues, as 49% of Dell's revenue is to business in the Americas (not including businesses in Europe and Asia).[14]

The release of a product like Microsoft’s Windows Seven operating system could trigger an upgrade cycle in Dell’s commercial segment. As seen with Vista, compatibility issues will occur, encouraging companies to upgrade their systems to take advantage of Seven's new features. This potentially increased demand in the higher-margin commercial segments could positively impact Dell’s total sales.

Dell is expanding its global presence through deals with various retailers
Established in 1984, Dell is a relative newcomer in the computer industry, especially when compared to long-established companies like IBM and HP. As such, Dell still has a lot of room for expansion in certain areas, especially the non-PC segment and international markets. These segments have been showing higher growth potential than the domestic PC market in which Dell has historically been concentrated.

On that note, Dell has shown a major interest in expanding their global exposure. Dell has signed a deal with WalMart Stores (WMT) to sell Dell desktops and notebooks in Brazil and Mexico.[15] Dell has also signed a deal with Gome Group, which is the largest electronics retailer in China.[16] Currently Dell has 24,000 retail stores around the world, with a much bigger reach thanks to its partnerships and collaborations.

Developing countries boost computer sales
Dell continues to pursue international sales through a variety of means. In addition to distribution agreements with large retailers, Dell has developed a number of products specifically targeted at emerging markets. The best example of this is the Dell 500 notebook, a low cost laptop designed to be affordable for a large phase of the population of developing countries. Such initiatives have proven successful for Dell; unit sales for emerging markets grew 62% during the first quarter of 2008. With revenue in India and China growing 52% and 30%, respectively, for the same period. Despite this stellar performance there is still much room for growth, since only 5.1% of Indians and 9% of Chinese have computers, compared to 75% of Americans.[17] Furthermore, 85% of the world's population lives in developing markets.[18]

In 2010, Dell expects that revenues in China, which is its second largest market, to be $5 billion. Dell will spend $25 billion in deals with Chinese suppliers and partners. Dell supplies 60% of the servers used by China's internet companies. In 4Q10, Dell sales in China increased 81% due to government incentives to boost spending.[19]

Dell has a variety of non-PC products with room for growth
Within Dell’s portfolio of offerings, non-PC products and services are showing larger growth potential than the company’s PC segment, which currently accounts for 60% of sales. Dell is responding to this increased demand in the non-PC segment, expanding its line of servers, peripherals and accessories, and customer support services. These account for a smaller percentage of Dell’s revenue, leaving room for continued growth. In addition, margins on these goods and services are generally higher, especially for technical support services. The higher profitability and increased demand in the non-PC segment could bolster Dell’s earnings significantly if the company continues to improve its offerings in the segment.

Dell has agreed to acquire EqualLogic, a data networking systems company, for $1.4 billion.[20] This acquisition is an attempt to enhance Dell's offering in data storage, which only accounted for 4% of sales in Fiscal 2008.[21] The main customer demographic is expected to be medium sized companies that cannot afford the more expensive data storage systems.

Outsourcing to increase profit takes power from Dell
The PC market has become intensely competitive, especially in the United States. Dell must keep its prices competitive or risk losing business to competitors, putting pressure on Dell to cut production costs wherever possible. Following industry trends, Dell has begun outsourcing more components to third parties in order to lower its costs of production. Unlike other leading PC manufacturers, such as Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) or Apple (AAPL), Dell still assembles its own final products.[22] In order to try and close the resultant gap in production costs, especially for highly demanded notebooks, Dell announced plans in September 2008 to sell its factories worldwide to various contract producers.[23]

The purpose of this outsourcing is to minimize production costs, increasing profit margins and allowing the company to reduce prices. On the other hand, Dell’s increasing reliance on its technology partners can decrease its control over the supply chain as a whole. As more components are outsourced to third parties, Dell loses some of its control over both prices and the overall production process.

A suffering economy results in declining PC sales and a rise in Netbook sales
PC sales and prices are declining. As it stands, IDC already expects PC sales to be down 5.3 pct in 2009 as consumers search for cheaper units in a bad economy.[24] Netbooks are a new type of portable computer, that are cheap, light weight, and easy to use. In Q3 2008, shipments of netbooks grew 160%, overtaking iPhone sales by 900,000 units.[25] [26] Consequently, the sales of netbooks are driving notebook prices down. The average selling price for a portable computer is $1,106, and IDC predicts that this will drop 8% to $1,018 in 2008, and an additional 12% next year, partly because of netbooks.[27] A shift to netbooks would be detrimental to Dell, who only has a 2.8% market share in the shipments of netbooks, as compared to a 32% market share in the combined shipment of netbooks and notebooks.[28]

U.S. Government spending on digitizing health records may secure revenue for Dell
In an effort to counter the fall of personal computers and server sales, Dell will make a strategic acquisition that will allow it to obtain a piece of the U.S. government’s stimulus. As part of the U.S. stimulus, the government is spending $19 billion over the next five years into technology that will digitize medical records.[29] To get a piece of this, Dell will purchase Perot Systems, a provider of technology services with specialty in electronic health records, for $3.9 billion; Perot services 1,000 hospitals and automates patient records for 200,000 doctors.[30] This will secure revenue for Dell which has had difficulty during the downturn.

Competition

Dell’s competition varies in its different segments. However, its largest competitors overall are Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, and Lenovo Group (LNVGY). Hewlett-Packard's recent acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) will create difficulties for Dell, as previously Dell had an agreement to sell its PCs and other hardware through EDS. Since HPQ will likely be unwilling to market Dell's products through its subsidiary this buyout will cause a loss of sales for Dell.

PCs
Dell is the second-largest vendor of PCs worldwide (barely ahead of Acer) with 8,789 PCs shipped (estimated) in the first quarter of 2009, coming second to Hewlett-Packard who commands an 19.8% market share and shipped 13,305 PCs.[31] Dell’s other significant competitors in the PC market include Lenovo Group (LNVGY), Acer, Toshiba, and Apple.

Dell and Acer finished within 0.1 % points of each other, this close finish is explained by the different business practices followed by the two companies. The weak world economy has hurt Dell's heavy reliance on the professional market for its sales while Acer has increased its numbers because of higher sales numbers for its low priced mobile PCs in Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the U.S.

Worldwide PC Vendor Unit Shipments for 2009 and US PC Vendor Shipments for 4Q09[32]

Notebooks
In notebooks, the top nine companies hold about 85.5% of the global market, and the segment has shown strong growth, attributable to sales in developed countries and the proliferation of wireless access.[33] To compete with Apple's many small computing products, in August 2008 Dell began selling a series of Ultra-portable laptops that weigh about 2 pounds and have 19 hours of battery life.[34] Dell also has a major initiative to tackle the designer 13-inch notebook market, specifically through its Adamo notebook, which is an ultraportable and will be marketed as the "world's thinnest laptop" in order to compete with Apple's MacBook Air.[35]

Servers
Dell is a relative newcomer to the server market. In the server market, Dell is behind HP, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, accounting for just 12.3% of revenues in the server market in the first quarter of 2008.[36]Dell’s server offerings are aimed at the low-end market segment, which includes servers that cost less than $25,000. This segment has shown strong growth as quality in the segment increases, resulting in declining demand for high-end servers.

Tablet
In May 2010, Dell announced that it will be releasing a 5-inch touchscreen device known as the Streak in June. The Dell Streak uses a customized version of Google's Android mobile operating system. Dell's streak will compete with Apple's iPad.[37]

SCIENCE QUIZ 36

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uestion: Which animal produces the biggest baby?
Answer: Blue Whale

Question: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
Answer: Aluminium

Question: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
Answer: Red

SCIENCE QUIZ 35

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Question: If a creature is edentulous what has it not got?
Answer: Teeth

Question: The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant Of Venice

Question: What type of animal is a Saki?
Answer: A monkey

Question: What is the second largest island in the world?
Answer: New Guinea (Greenland is the largest)

Question: Haptic relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: Touch

Question: How many teeth does an elephant have?
Answer: 4

Question: Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit?
Answer: Plum

Question: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: 3

Question: Who discovered the rabies vaccination?
Answer: Louis Pasteur (1885)

Question: What is the name of the process used for clarifying beer or wine?
Answer: Fining

Question: The Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory is better known by which name?
Answer: Jodrell Bank

Question: Which is the largest Fresh water lake in the world?
Answer: Superior

Question: The neutered male of which animal is called 'a Barrow'?
Answer: Pig

Question: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: Cathode

Question: What is the correct name for a rabbit's tail?
Answer: Scut

Question: Which chemical element has the shortest name - 3 letters?
Answer: Tin

Question: What word do we use to describe the Asexual reproduction of a genetic carbon copy of an animal or plant?
Answer: Clone

Question: What is calcium carbonate normally known as?
Answer: Chalk

Question: What sort of creature is a bustard?
Answer: A bird

Question: Acid rain is composed mainly of the oxides of two elements. Give either.
Answer: Sulphur or Nitrogen

SCIENCE QUIZ 34

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Question: Cacti are native to which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What type of creature is a 'clouded yellow'?
Answer: A butterfly

Question: Through which organ do fish get oxygen?
Answer: Gills

Question: What is a Wessex Saddleback?
Answer: A pig

Question: Which gentle water creature gives its name to a Florida river?
Answer: Manatee (Known as a sea cow)

Question: Which glands produce white blood cells?
Answer: Lymph glands

Question: What type of creature is a Guillemot?
Answer: A bird

Question: Which planet is closest to the sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: How is the number 14 written in Roman numerals?
Answer: XIV

Question: What is the process known as whereby plants make food using light?
Answer: Photosynthesis

Question: How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
Answer: 2

Question: What units are used to measure sound intensity?
Answer: Decibels

Question: Which animal’s milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?
Answer: Water buffalo

Question: What's the 2nd heaviest land Animal?
Answer: Rhinoceros (up to 5 tons, then hippo up to 3.2 tons)

Question: Which branch of Medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit?
Answer: the umbrella

Question: What type of creature is an alewife?
Answer: A fish (of the herring family found off North America's Atlantic coast)

Question: Brock is a nickname for which animal?
Answer: A badger

Question: In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as?
Answer: Chicken Pox

Question: What is a baby seal called?
Answer: A pup

SCIENCE QUIZ 33

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Question: What colour do you get if you mix blue and yellow paint?
Answer: Green

Question: What's the Chemical symbol for Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: What word is used in international radio communications to denote the letter L?
Answer: Lima

Question: On a standard computer keyboard, which key is the largest?
Answer: The space bar.

Question: What is a freshwater lobster called?
Answer: Crayfish - Crayfish live in freshwater rivers and streams in temperate climates

Question: What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels?
Answer: Coat hanger

Question: What is the name of Microsoft's free e-mail service?
Answer: Hotmail (not Outlook; that is software to collect any Email)

Question: Which organ uses 25% of our oxygen supply?
Answer: Brain

Question: How many legs does every true insect have?
Answer: 6

Question: How is 12 months travelling at 186,000 miles per second better known?
Answer: One light year

Question: What’s a young kangaroo called?
Answer: A joey

Question: Scientists claim that every minute, about 900 million tons of what hits the earth?
Answer: Rain

Question: If you had one nickel, two dimes and a quarter, how much would you have in total?
Answer: 50 cents

Question: What does a 'Pluvio meter' measure?
Answer: Rainfall

Question: Which drug is named after the Greek God of Dreams?
Answer: Morphine

Question: Which poisonous substance is also known as 'Woolly Rock'?
Answer: Asbestos

Question: What is the name of a whale's breathing organ?
Answer: Lungs

Question: Sardines and pilchards belong to which family of fish?
Answer: Herring

Question: What is a 'Spinney'?
Answer: A small wood or thicket with undergrowth

Question: What name is given to an angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

SCIENCE QUIZ 32

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Question: What is the name given to a succession of involuntary spasms of the diaphragm causing a characeristic sound?
Answer: Hiccup

Question: Which device measures the density of liquids?
Answer: Hydrometer

Question: What word describes an objects ability to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed?
Answer: Elasticity or Elastic constant

Question: How many teeth should a normal healthy adult have?
Answer: 32

Question: What word is used to describe an angle between 90 and 180 degrees?
Answer: Obtuse

Question: How many prime numbers are there between 10 and 20?
Answer: Four (11, 13, 17 and 19)

Question: How many notes are there in a musical scale?
Answer: 8

Question: Seismograph
Answer: Seismograph

Question: What is the name given to a triangle where all the sides are of different length?
Answer: Scalene

Question: How is 120% expressed as a Fraction in lowest common denominator?
Answer: 6/5

Question: Where is the only place that the American flag flies 24 hours a day - never raised, never lowered, and never saluted?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Before the terrorist attack how many stories high were the World Trade Centre’s twin towers?
Answer: 110

Question: What speed were the 1st records played at
Answer: 78 rpm

Question: Who's 3rd law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?
Answer: Newton’s law of motion

Question: What is the name of the flap of cartilage which prevents food from entering your windpipe?
Answer: Epiglottis

Question: What was Apollo 11's landing module called?
Answer: Eagle

Question: In which galaxy is the Earth?
Answer: The Milky Way

Question: What would you suffer from if you had dichromatic vision?
Answer: Colour Blindness

Question: What is manufactured by (red) bone marrow? Yellow marrow is just fat.
Answer: Blood Cells - red, white and platelets (clotting agents

Question: What is or was Breitling Orbiter 3?
Answer: The name of the balloon which circumnavigated the Earth in 1999

SCIENCE QUIZ 31

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Question: What creature is said to the have the most legs?
Answer: Millipede

Question: What kind of nut grows on an oak tree?
Answer: An Acorn

Question: Which branch of Medicine is concerned with providing artificial limbs for the body?
Answer: Prosthetics

Question: Which maritime measure of speed is equal to one nautical mile per hour?
Answer: Knot

Question: What is the medical term for German Measles?
Answer: Rubella

Question: What are the young of Whales called?
Answer: Calves

Question: How many old pennies are there in a guinea?
Answer: 252

Question: Who said, *If I have seen further than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants*?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: What are the three primary colours of light? (For pigments it’s Yellow not Green).
Answer: Red, Blue and Green. If light of these primary colours is added together in roughly equal intensities, the sensation of white light is produced.

Question: What is acclaimed to be the most ferocious fresh water fish?
Answer: Piranha

Question: There are 3 types of adult honeybee, Queen and worker are two. What's the other?
Answer: Drone

Question: What is a Marmoset?
Answer: A type of monkey

Question: What is the name given to the imaginary line of 180 degrees longitude?
Answer: International Date Line

Question: What is the name for a stationary electrical charge, which builds up on an insulated object?
Answer: Static

Question: In the animal kingdom, which large rodent is also known as the ‘Quill Pig’?
Answer: Porcupine

Question: What is the smallest living unit called?
Answer: A Cell

Question: In nature, the earth is composed of 3 main parts, the Crust, the mantle and what?
Answer: The Core

Question: What is the next number in the sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,)?
Answer: 13 (Sum of previous 2 numbers)

Question: What is special about the feet of a 'Palmiped'?
Answer: Webbed

Question: A molecule of water contains how many atoms of Oxygen?
Answer: 1

SCIENCE QUIZ 30

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Question: Who invented the jet engine?
Answer: Sir Frank Whittle

Question: When is the Blue Peter Flown?
Answer: When a ship is about to leave Port

Question: What is a cross between a collie and a greyhound called?
Answer: Lurcher

Question: Which planet normally lies between Saturn and Neptune?
Answer: Uranus

Question: In science, a substance dissolved in another substance is known as what?
Answer: Solute

Question: What will be the next year that reads the same upside down and back to front as it does the right way up?
Answer: 6009

Question: What do the initials HB stand for on a pencil?
Answer: Hard Black

Question: A mixture of ground chalk and raw linseed oil is known better as what?
Answer: Putty

Question: Which is the only bird, capable of rotating its neck through 270º?
Answer: Owl

Question: Bubbles of which gaseous element are responsible for the condition of divers (amongst others) known as 'The Bends'?
Answer: Nitrogen (It is also known as Caisson disease and medically as aeroembolism.

Question: Which part of a man's anatomy remains the same size from birth?
Answer: His eyes (this is also true of females)

Question: From which wood were longbows traditionally made?
Answer: Yew

Question: What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid better and more commonly known as?
Answer: DNA

Question: The worlds largest fruit is called the love fruit or the Coco de Mer, and can weigh up to 50 pounds (23kg). Which is the only Country it grows in?
Answer: Seychelles

Question: What are the 'aurora borealis' also known as?
Answer: Northern Lights - high-altitude luminosity occurring most frequently above 60° north or south latitude.

Question: What name is given to the envelope of gases which surrounds the Earth or another celestial body?
Answer: Atmosphere

Question: What term is used for the result of multiplying two or more numbers?
Answer: Product

Question: How many milligrams are in one gram?
Answer: 1000

Question: What is the main crop of the Greek island of Corfu?
Answer: Olives

Question: What is the term for a group of whales?
Answer: Pod

SCIENCE QUIZ 29

2010-08-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

Question: What is the chemical symbol for the element Potassium?
Answer: K

Question: What type of creature is a Garibaldi?
Answer: A fish

Question: Founded in Canada in 1971, and now with its headquarters in Amsterdam, what was the original aim of the environmental organization Greenpeace?
Answer: To oppose U.S. nuclear testing in Alaska

Question: In anatomy what is the outer layer of the skin called?
Answer: Epidermis

Question: The density of which substance is measured by a lactometer?
Answer: Milk

Question: What colour is the mineral 'azurite'?
Answer: Blue

Question: Dendrology is the scientific study of what?
Answer: Trees

Question: What colour is the cabbage moth?
Answer: Brown

Question: If an object is hastate what shape is it?
Answer: Triangular

Question: In electronics what does LED stand for?
Answer: Light Emitting Diode

Question: Reynard is a nickname for which animal?
Answer: A fox

Question: What is the male part of a flower called?
Answer: Stamen

Question: In the world of nature what is a Camberwell beauty?
Answer: A butterfly

Question: What is a tree or shrub called that sheds its leaves annually?
Answer: Deciduous

Question: What planet is nearest to the Sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing
Answer: Sugar

Question: What colour is the mineral 'malachite'?
Answer: Green

Question: Which fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum?
Answer: Nectarine

Question: What is the most obvious symptom that shows, when you contract jaundice?
Answer: You turn a yellow colour

Question: What is the bony substance in a tooth just beneath the enamel?
Answer: Dentine

SCIENCE QUIZ 28

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Question: Which President's name is inscribed on the 1969 Apollo 11 moon plaque?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is the main emission of a car engine after Catalytic exhaust purification?
Answer: Nitrogen

Question: What is a blue moon?
Answer: If there are two full moons in one calendar month the 2nd is called a Blue Moon

Question: What is Cryogenics?
Answer: The scientific name for the study of extremely low temperatures

Question: What colour is the inside of a pistachio nut?
Answer: Green

Question: What colour is cayenne pepper?
Answer: Red

Question: Which childhood disease has the same virus as Shingles?
Answer: Chicken Pox

Question: Which part of the human body shares its name with a punctuation mark?
Answer: Colon

Question: What colour tongues do giraffes have?
Answer: Blue

Question: What do the initials 'BHP' stand for?
Answer: Brake horse power

Question: If you 'nictitate' at someone, what do you do?
Answer: Wink

Question: Excess bile pigment in the blood causes which illness?
Answer: Jaundice

Question: Which scientific word relates to the structure of the human body?
Answer: Anatomy

Question: How many square feet are there in a square yard?
Answer: 9

Question: What did Adam not have that every other man does have?
Answer: A belly button or Navel

Question: What is a butterfly larvae more commonly known as?
Answer: Catterpillar

Question: What do 'polled' cattle not have?
Answer: Horns

Question: What is the term used to describe a plant that has been crossed with different species?
Answer: Hybrid

Question: What number is represented in Roman Numerals by the letter 'D'?
Answer: 50

Question: In the human body what is the Axilla commonly known as?
Answer: The armpit

SCIENCE QUIZ 27

2010-08-11T20:14:00.001-07:00

Question: Called Nanook by the indigenous population, what do we better know it as?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: What are normally the species with the longest life span?
Answer: Tortoises and turtles - they often live to well over a hundred years old.

Question: Apart from the coconut, what is the only other fruit to grow on a palm tree?
Answer: Dates. We also get sago, and vegetable oil used in making margarine and soap from palms but they are not fruits.

Question: What is the common name given to thyroid cartilage?
Answer: he Adam's apple. Just below the epiglottis is the angular thyroid cartilage, composed of two vertical plates that join in the front of the neck.

Question: What name is given to the front teeth between the canines?
Answer: Incisors

Question: What name is given to a doctor that specialises in children’s diseases?
Answer: Paediatrician

Question: What is the only country that represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: India

Question: Priapism affects which part of the body?
Answer: Penis. It's a constant often painful erection. Priapus in Greek mythology, god of fertility, He was represented as a grotesque individual with a huge phallus. The Romans set up crude images of Priapus gardens, to serve as scarecrows.

Question: Which animal is the official emblem of Canada? (Not referring to the maple leaf)
Answer: The beaver

Question: Which cartoon character lived on Sweetwater island and was the son of Poopdeck Pappy?
Answer: Popeye

Question: Which is the most common element on Earth after oxygen?
Answer: Silicon. It constitutes about 28% of the Earth's crust. 90% igneous-rock, Silicon dioxide is the principal constituent of sand

Question: What is Britain's largest native carnivore?
Answer: Badger

Question: What does the acronym SCUBA stand for?
Answer: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Question: Which substance is the main product of the Haber-Bosch process?
Answer: Ammonia

Question: What was the name of Sir Clive Sinclair's electric tricycle, launched in 1985?
Answer: The C5

Question: What type of fruit is a jargonelle?
Answer: A pear

Question: Which is the only sea mammal lacking an insulating layer of blubber?
Answer: Sea Otter

Question: The gall bladder is attached to which organ of the human body?
Answer: Liver

Question: What is the term given to the appearance of wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ on a human's body?
Answer: Stigmata

Question: True or false…electric eels actually produce electricity?
Answer: True

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Question: A Quiver is the collective name for which sea creature?
Answer: Jelly fish

Question: Which (sometimes fatal) disease derives its name from the Italian for, bad air?
Answer: Mal-aria

Question: HMS Dreadnought was Britain's 1st what?
Answer: Nuclear Powered Submarine

Question: What name is given to the 'halo' of gas that surrounds the sun?
Answer: Corona

Question: What is the full name of the SARS virus disease, which originated in China and Hong Kong in early 2003?
Answer: Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Question: In which country is the Amazon rainforest?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Car satellite navigation relies on GPS - what does GPS stand for?
Answer: Global Postioning System

Question: What is the correct technical term for the art of making and the displaying of fireworks?
Answer: Pyrotechnics

Question: What name is given to the Medical condition when you suffer from a dangerous loss of body heat?
Answer: Hypothermia

Question: What's the next letter in this sequence 'OTTFFSSEN'
Answer: T for ten

Question: What is the speed of sound called at sea level?
Answer: Mach1

Question: In England, you can never be more than 75 miles away from what?
Answer: The sea (coastline/tidal waters)

Question: Molten rock above the earth's surface is called lava. What is it called under the earth's surface?
Answer: Magma

Question: Yuri Gagarin was the 1st man in Space, Neil Armstrong was 1st on the Moon, what was Edward White's famous "First"?
Answer: Edward (Higgins) White II was the 1st man to walk in space.

Question: What is a Blenheim orange?
Answer: Eating apple

Question: What colour light is displayed from the starboard side of a ship?
Answer: Green

Question: What is the patella bone better known as?
Answer: The kneecap

Question: Where is the Hubble telescope situated?
Answer: Orbiting the Earth - The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the first general-purpose orbiting observatory was launched on April 24, 1990

Question: What was the 1st Hand held camera called?
Answer: A Brownie

Question: What is the type of organism that lives on or in another called?
Answer: Parasite

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Question: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: Alexander Fleming

Question: Where would you hurt if you were kicked on the Tarsus?
Answer: The ankle

Question: Which of the following is the smallest paper size; A3, A4, or A5?
Answer: A5

Question: What part of the body does Silicosis affect?
Answer: The lungs

Question: What is 1999 in Roman numerals?
Answer: MCMXCIX

Question: On a standard computer keyboard, which is the largest key?
Answer: The space bar

Question: What is the main difference between monkeys and apes?
Answer: Monkeys have tails

Question: What common household item was invented by Percy Spencer in 1945?
Answer: Microwave oven

Question: Which organ of the body is responsible for the production of anti-bodies?
Answer: The spleen

Question: What is the only creature that has a tongue but cannot stick it out of its mouth?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: It is made from thermo-plastic paper and the manilla hemp used to make rope, it is designed to withstand boiling water, what is it?
Answer: A teabag

Question: What is Britain's largest freshwater fish?
Answer: The Pike

Question: What word is used for the removal of salt from seawater to produce fresh water?
Answer: Desalinisation

Question: In 1986 the world's worst nuclear disaster happened where?
Answer: Chernobyl

Question: What is the name of the optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions?
Answer: Mirage

Question: Which is the largest Web Footed Bird in the world?
Answer: The Albatross

Question: In Mobile (cell) Phones, what does WAP stand for?
Answer: Wireless Application Protocol

Question: What name is given to an inert substance administered in place of an active drug?
Answer: Placebo

Question: What do you call the number below the line in a fraction?
Answer: Denominator

Question: Which anaesthetic was first used in 1847 to prevent patients from feeling pain whilst surgeons operated on them?
Answer: Chloroform

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Question: What's the term for the spiralling groove on the inside of a gun barrel?
Answer: Rifling

Question: What is the name given to a catalyst, which occurs in nature to regulate the speed of chemical reactions in the metabolisms of living organisms.
Answer: Enzyme

Question: A survey by a US tourism website found that almost one in four US visitors to Scotland went there in the belief they could hunt and catch which prey?
Answer: A Haggis

Question: What is the green alkaline fluid produced by the liver?
Answer: Bile

Question: What is the study of insects called?
Answer: Entomology

Question: What is the more common name for the North Atlantic Drift?
Answer: Gulf Stream

Question: What is the most common use for a Sea Cucumber?
Answer: A Loofah

Question: How many land miles are there in a League?
Answer: 3

Question: What name is given to a quadrilateral with two parallel sides of unequal length?
Answer: Trapezium

Question: What units are used to measure sound intensity?
Answer: Decibels

Question: How many degrees are there in one and three quarter revolutions
Answer: 630 (360 + 270)

Question: What word is the name given to the smallest blood vessels in the body?
Answer: Capillaries

Question: In Physics what does UV stand for ?
Answer: Ultra Violet

Question: What is the world's largest invertebrate? (No backbone)?
Answer: The giant squid. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows to at least 60 feet in length. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.

Question: Name any year in which the scientist Isaac Newton was alive.
Answer: 1642-1727

Question: What endangered species of animal has varieties called Black, White, Indian & Sumatran?
Answer: Rhinoceros

Question: In mathematics, what symbol is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
Answer: Pi

Question: What does a horologist do?
Answer: Makes clocks

Question: Which Foodstuff are Human Beings most allergic to?
Answer: Nuts - Anyone who is allergic to peanuts, for example, may have acute swelling of the tongue and throat, an acute asthma attack, and could possibly die after eating even a small piece of peanut or any other nut.

Question: By what other name is the abominable snowman known?
Answer: The Yeti

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Question: Why is Easter always on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25?
Answer: It's the 1st Sunday after the 1st Full moon after the vernal equinox (21st March)

Question: What is the only rock that is edible to man?
Answer: Salt

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Ozone?
Answer: 03

Question: What nationality was the first non-US, non-Soviet spaceman?
Answer: Czechoslovakian

Question: What is the name of the chief male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: The name of which popular bird comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'good cockatoo'?
Answer: Budgerigar (The Australian grass parakeet)

Question: What is the most popular sport played in Nudist Camps?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: What cloth is produced from tangled moistened fibres of hair and wool, which are heated and rolled together?
Answer: Felt

Question: What is converted into alcohol during brewing?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Who discovered the Law of Gravity?
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

Question: An insect is separated into 3 parts, the Head the Thorax and which other?
Answer: Abdomen

Question: What is the name of the monkey that gave its name to a blood group?
Answer: The Rhesus monkey

Question: What liquid is always found in a tincture?
Answer: Alcohol

Question: The 'Yard' is a measurement introduced by Henry 1st as the distance between which 2 parts of the body?
Answer: Nose to Finger

Question: How many degrees in 1 and three quarter revolutions?
Answer: 360 + 270 = 630

Question: Which domestic pest has 7 penises of assorted shapes and sizes?
Answer: Cockroach

Question: How far can a sperm swim in an hour?
Answer: 7 inches

Question: Up until the building of the Eiffel tower, which old Structure was the tallest in the world?
Answer: The Great Pyramid

Question: Which system of weight is used for precious metals?
Answer: Troy

Question: In science which K is a unit of measurement used when describing an objects mass?
Answer: Kilogram

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Question: When milk sours what acid is formed?
Answer: Lactic Acid

Question: Which short-legged dog is named after the 18 Century parson who bred them?
Answer: Jack Russel

Question: What is the light sensitive part of the eye called?
Answer: The retina

Question: When did New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day last fall in the same year?
Answer: It happens every year!

Question: What is the outer layer of skin called?
Answer: Epidermis

Question: Is an icicle a stalagmite or a stalactite?
Answer: Satactite

Question: Which unattractive sounding fruit is a cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine?
Answer: The Ugli fruit

Question: Copper gets its name from which Mediterranean island?
Answer: Cpyrus

Question: What is the right side of a boat called?
Answer: Starboard

Question: What often used computer term is short for picture element?
Answer: Pixel

Question: What word is used for the letter 'O' in the phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Oscar

Question: There are only 4 gemstones that can be called precious - the rest are semi-precious - what are the 4?
Answer: Diamond, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire.

Question: What is considered to be the world's fastest growing plant?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: What name is given to plants that last for many years?
Answer: Perennials

Question: What type of creature is a speckled wood?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: What do we call the electromagnetic waves between radio waves & infrared, they are actually higher frequencies of radio waves?
Answer: microwaves

Question: What are the three largest planets in the solar system?
Answer: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus

Question: In a 4-stroke internal combustion engine, what is the third stroke?
Answer: The ignition or power stroke (Intake, compression, IGNITION and exhaust)

Question: What name is given to a female swan?
Answer: Pen

Question: What is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust?
Answer: Aluminium

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Question: In a modern 3 pin electrical plug, what is the colour of the live or positive wire?
Answer: Brown

Question: By what name is the flower truss of the Hazel and Willow tress known?
Answer: Catkin

Question: Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of what?
Answer: Penguins

Question: What disease is the BCG vaccine used to combat?
Answer: Tubercolosis

Question: What type of plant does the Boll Weevil attack & destroy?
Answer: The cotton plant

Question: Graphite is composed of which element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: What type of fish is a skipjack?
Answer: A fish

Question: What is an eagles nest called?
Answer: An Eyrie

Question: Lacking of which vitamin causes rickets?
Answer: D

Question: Where in your body is the Metatarsal arch?
Answer: The foot

Question: What is a group of owls called?
Answer: A parliament

Question: What is a tine?
Answer: The prong of a fork or a deer's antler.

Question: Which spice comes from the Crocus?
Answer: Saffron

Question: What colour flag is flown at Beaches deemed clean and pollution free?
Answer: Blue

Question: What is H2SO4 the chemical formula for?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: What is the world’s longest man made waterway – 1600km
Answer: The Grand Canal in China

Question: Humans have 7 vertebrae in the neck, how many does a giraffe have?
Answer: 7

Question: Which part of the body is affected by gingivitis?
Answer: The gums

Question: What was the name of the space shuttle that exploded after lift off in 1986?
Answer: Challenger

Question: What did the British inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell invent & develop?
Answer: The hovercraft

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Question: How many cubic feet in a cubic yard?
Answer: 27

Question: What colour are albino animal's eyes?
Answer: Pink

Question: Which unit of area is equal to 2.471 acres?
Answer: A hectare

Question: What is the term for the main body of an aeroplane?
Answer: Fuselage

Question: Which animal is supposedly named after the aborigine for 'I don't know'?
Answer: Kangaroo

Question: What may be mixed, complex or vulgar?
Answer: Fractions

Question: Brent, Canada and Pink footed are all types of which creature?
Answer: Geese

Question: The locks on the Panama canal were designed so that which ship could steam through them?
Answer: The Titanic

Question: What's the odd one out? Cheetah, hyena, leopard, panther?
Answer: Hyena - it's a Dog

Question: What sort of creature is a Clydesdale?
Answer: Horse (Shire)

Question: How many sides has a tetrahedron?
Answer: 4

Question: Express 91 in Roman numerals.
Answer: XCI

Question: Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop?
Answer: British aviators John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown. They flew from St John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, on June 14-15, 1919, in a little over 16 hours, to win a substantial prize offered by the London Daily Mail.

Question: What is a young pilchard called?
Answer: A sardine

Question: What is the difference between a black leopard and a panther?
Answer: Nothing. A black leopard IS a panther.

Question: What unit is used to measure the frequency of radio waves?
Answer: Hertz

Question: Who first conceived the helicopter, which at the time was called an ornithopter because it was designed to simulate birds in flight?
Answer: Leonardo Da Vinci

Question: What is the square root of 169?
Answer: 13

Question: What is the scientific name for the wind pipe?
Answer: The Trachea

Question: How many square inches are there in a square foot?
Answer: 144

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Question: What is the name of the structure along the base of a ship?
Answer: Keel

Question: What kind of acid is found in car batteries?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: In food, what does the Scoville Scale measure?
Answer: The heat of chillies

Question: Which cotton fabric gets its name from the Iraqi city of Mosul?
Answer: Muslin

Question: What does barley become when prepared for brewing?
Answer: Malt

Question: What does the ‘MP’ stand for in MP3 Player?
Answer: Moving Pictures

Question: If a liquid had a ph of 6 - would it be Acid, Alkali or Neutral?
Answer: Acid

Question: How is the Aurora Australis better known?
Answer: The southern lights

Question: The viral disease AFTOSA is more commonly referred to as what?
Answer: Foot and Mouth

Question: Which English Physicist discovered that white light is made up of many colours of light?
Answer: Issac Newton

Question: Which was the world's first National Park, opening in 1872?
Answer: Yellowstone (in Wyoming and Montana)

Question: If you were a Lepidopterist, what would your hobby be?
Answer: Collecting Butterflies or moths

Question: Which scoring system is based on the number of times a letter appeared on a single front page of the New York Times?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: Which gland is enlarged in the condition known as 'goitre'?
Answer: Thyroid

Question: To which fish family does the Anchovy belong?
Answer: Herring

Question: Alphabetically, which is the second sign of the zodiac?
Answer: Aries

Question: What does the word dinosaur mean?
Answer: Terrible lizard

Question: What is a leveret?
Answer: A young hare

Question: How many dots are there on a pair of dice?
Answer: 42

Question: What two colours are on a semaphore flag?
Answer: Red and yellow

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Question: What is a Laxton Superb?
Answer: Apple

Question: Which gas, which he called 'dephlogisticated air', was discovered by Sir Joseph Priestley in 1774?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: What kind of animal is a pipistrelle?
Answer: Bat

Question: What can be Cardinal or Ordinal?
Answer: Numbers - Cardinal = 1,2,3 ordinal = first, second, third

Question: In science what is the opposite of centrifugal force?
Answer: Centripetal

Question: Which device controls an electric current by varying resistance to the current?
Answer: Rheostat

Question: Which metallic element is an essential constituent of haemoglobin?
Answer: Iron. To combine properly with oxygen, the red blood cells must contain adequate haemoglobin; this, in turn, depends on the amount of iron in the body. The organism derives its store of iron by absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.

Question: Which unit of volume is equal to one cubic decimetre?
Answer: Litre

Question: What does a 30-year-old European male have that is on average 2.2 inches long and sticks out 1 inch?
Answer: Nose

Question: By what name is solid carbon dioxide known?
Answer: Dry Ice

Question: What is collective noun for a group of Dolphins?
Answer: A pod

Question: What colourless liquid used as an antiseptic and a bleach has the chemical formula H2O2?
Answer: Hydrogen Peroxide

Question: What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
Answer: Alveoli

Question: What kind of animal is a St Lucia Parrot?
Answer: It's a Parrot, from St Lucia

Question: What name is given to the positive electrode of a battery?
Answer: Anode

Question: What is the epicarp of an orange?
Answer: Peel

Question: Which scientific word relates to the structure of the human body?
Answer: Anatomy

Question: Which ponies were originally used in coalmines?
Answer: Shetland ponies

Question: In computer terminology, what does LAN stand for?
Answer: Local area network

Question: Which is the heaviest snake in the world?
Answer: Anaconda - has been measured up to 500lb / 27ft 9ins length

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Question: From where do Shetland ponies originate?
Answer: The Shetland Islands (also Scandinavia 10,000 years ago across ice fields)

Question: From which animal do we get Cashmere wool?
Answer: Goat

Question: Other than humans, what are the only creatures that mate for pleasure?
Answer: Dolphins

Question: What is the most common blood type in humans?
Answer: O

Question: What is an Ishihara test used for?
Answer: To determine whether or not someone is colour blind

Question: What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Gamma

Question: Who designed the first modern petrol-driven internal combustion engine for the car?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler

Question: Where in the body would you find the hallux?
Answer: On your foot (it's your big toe)

Question: What type of creature is a taipan?
Answer: Taipan

Question: What is the Chemical Symbol for Copper
Answer: Cu

Question: What is the only sign of the zodiac not named after a living creature, and what is it named after?
Answer: Libra - named after the scales

Question: What is the collective noun for a group of monkeys?
Answer: A troop

Question: Yperite, first used by the German army in September 1917, is better known as what type of gas?
Answer: Mustard Gas

Question: In which part of the body are the alveolar sacs?
Answer: Lungs

Question: How are angles measured, other than Degrees?
Answer: Radian

Question: Which insect is accredited as being responsible for transmitting the Plague in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Flea

Question: The 1st Re-usable space craft was called Columbia, what is it more commonly called?
Answer: Space Shuttle

Question: What is kept in an apiary?
Answer: Bees

Question: Which Food do Humans eat Most of?
Answer: Rice

Question: Exercises designed to increase oxygen consumption and speed blood circulation are called what?
Answer: Aerobics

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Question: What did Hyman Lipman do in 1958 that made life easier for students?
Answer: Put a rubber on the end of a pencil.

Question: How hot is the (tungsten) filament in a normal (incandescent) electric light bulb?
Answer: 3000 centigrade or 5400 Fahrenheit. Tungsten melts at about 3410° C (6170° F) and boils at about 5660° C (10,220° F)

Question: What day is the middle day of the year in non leap years?
Answer: July 2

Question: In degrees centigrade, what is the normal body temperature of humans?
Answer: 37. (98.6 Fahrenheit)

Question: What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?
Answer: Buckingham Palace

Question: What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978?
Answer: She was the first test-tube baby

Question: If you divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
Answer: 70 - 30 divided by 1/2 is the same as 30 x 2, or 60, plus 10, making 70.

Question: What is the worlds tallest growing Grass?
Answer: Bamboo

Question: What is the computer term Bit short for?
Answer: Binary Digit

Question: What was the 1st Plastic ever made?
Answer: Bakerlite

Question: Long haul air travellers are in danger of developing which condition commonly known as DVT?
Answer: Deep vein thrombosis

Question: How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?
Answer: 23

Question: What colour Traffic Light follows amber?
Answer: Red

Question: What sort of creature is a Falabella?
Answer: Horse

Question: What is the oldest living plant species?
Answer: Fern

Question: In which Country is the World's largest Pyramid?
Answer: Peru.The largest pyramid is the Huaca del Sol, built by the Moche, in the Moche Valley, Northern Peru.

Question: What name is given to an elephant's incisor tooth?
Answer: Tusk

Question: Which Cosmonaut was called the 'Columbus of the Cosmos'?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: In computer terminology how many bytes in a kilobyte?
Answer: 1024

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Question: Which is the fourth-nearest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mars

Question: In Geometry which term is applied to 2 triangles having both the same shape and size?
Answer: Congruent triangles

Question: What gas poisons you when you commit suicide by breathing car exhaust fumes?
Answer: Carbon Monoxide

Question: What fruit is also known as a Chinese Gooseberry?
Answer: Kiwi fruit

Question: What is the name of the large diamond found in the Queen's Sceptre?
Answer: (Great) Star of Africa or Cullinan 1

Question: Which bone in the human body is most frequently broken?
Answer: Collar bone

Question: In which city did the Queen officially launch The Queen Mary II?
Answer: Southampton

Question: Which country was the first to use rockets in warfare?
Answer: China

Question: What form of hunting is regulated by the I.W.C.?
Answer: Whaling

Question: What did Martin Stone invent in 1888 that millions of suckers use every day?
Answer: Drinking Straw

Question: What sort of creature is a Chester White?
Answer: Pig

Question: In which organ of the body is the Aqueous Humour found?
Answer: The eye

Question: What 2 dances are used in the radio communications alphabet that starts Alpha, Beta, Charlie?
Answer: Tango and Foxtrot

Question: What is the unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?
Answer: Equilibrium

Question: What do you call a group of squirrels?
Answer: A dray

Question: What kind of animal named 'Ham' did the U.S. first send into space?
Answer: Chimpanzee

Question: Where are the pyramids of Malpighi and the pyramids of Ferrein?
Answer: In the kidneys

Question: What percentage of the earths land surface has a temperate climate?
Answer: 7%

Question: What is a high altitude treeless region subject to permafrost known as?
Answer: Tundra

Question: What percentage of whole milk is water?
Answer: 87

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Question: What is a gross minus a score?
Answer: 124

Question: Neon , Argon and Helium, are examples of what group of Gases?
Answer: (Noble (Inert) gases) krypton, xenon, and radon are the other 3.

Question: Hydrolysis is the reaction of a chemical compound with which liquid?
Answer: Water

Question: In wine making, what is the 'must'?
Answer: The juice from the grapes before it’s fermented.

Question: There are 6 fields of endeavour for which Nobel prizes are awarded. Name 3 of them.
Answer: Physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, peace and economic science

Question: What type of acid is extracted from the juice of lemons, oranges, limes, and grapefruit?
Answer: Citric Acid

Question: What are the names given to the pits in the skin from which hairs grow out of?
Answer: Follicles

Question: How old is a quadragenarian?
Answer: 40

Question: What is graphology the study of?
Answer: Handwriting

Question: What is the Latin name for the constellation that is commonly known as the Great Bear?
Answer: Ursa Major

Question: What are the substances in the saliva of vampire bats, leeches and mosquitos that prevents clotting?
Answer: Anti-coagulants

Question: If you weigh 154 pounds in America, how many stones is that in England?
Answer: 11

Question: What metal reacts to acetic acid by forming verdigris?
Answer: Copper

Question: What 2 words were combined to form the word contrail - the visible cloudlike streak left behind by jet aircraft?
Answer: Condensation and trail.

Question: Where in the body would you find the cochlea and the stirrup?
Answer: Ear

Question: What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
Answer: None, banana oil is a synthetic compound.

Question: What does the ringing of 8 bells mean on board a ship?
Answer: End of the watch.

Question: What is a diadromous fish?
Answer: One that can exist in both fresh and salt water.

Question: Who invented the ball-point pen?
Answer: Laszlo and George Biro.

Question: Which mammal has the largest eyes in proportion to its overall size?
Answer: The domestic cat

SCIENCE QUIZ 13

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Question: What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol?
Answer: Antifreeze.

Question: What continent have the oldest fossils been found on?
Answer: Africa

Question: What is the only member of the cat family that does not have retractable claws?
Answer: Cheetah

Question: What is the second lightest chemical element?
Answer: Helium

Question: How many teeth are usually found in a set of temporary or 'baby' human teeth?
Answer: 20

Question: Out of all the animals that make up the Chinese horoscope, which comes first alphabetically?
Answer: Dog

Question: Hermit, spider and blue are all types of which creature?
Answer: Crab

Question: The binary system of numbers uses which two numerical digits?
Answer: 0 and 1

Question: What are the main four blood groups?
Answer: A, B, AB and O

Question: What family are elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses all members of?
Answer: Pachyderm

Question: Which synthetic material was named by combining the French words for velvet and hook?
Answer: Velcro

Question: In Jules Verne's "from Earth to the Moon" 3 men are blasted to the moon by cannon. Their speed of departure has proven to be the earth's escape velocity. What is it?
Answer: 7 miles per second.

Question: What does “C” represent in the equation E = MC squared?
Answer: The speed of light

Question: How many astronauts walked on the moon during each Apollo moon-landing?
Answer: 2

Question: A treatment of rubber which strengthens it and gives it greater elasticity is named after the roman god of fire. What is this process called?
Answer: Vulcanisation

Question: What is a female peacock called?
Answer: Peahen

Question: Which animals name literally means 'earth pig'?
Answer: Aardvark

Question: What is a cross between a Female Horse and a Male Ass called?
Answer: A mule.

Question: From which plant do we obtain Linseed Oil?
Answer: Flax

Question: Why is the Funny bone so called?
Answer: Because it's the Humerous