1. | What is the most common chemical element in the universe? | Hydrogen Hydrogen is a colourless gas that is the lightest of all the elements. It combines with OXYGEN to form water. |
2. | What is the name for steel alloyed with chromium? | Stainless steel |
3. | What is the name of the first atomic-powered submarine? | Nautilus |
4. | What is the name of the hormone that controls blood sugar level? | Insulin a chemical substance produced in the body that controls the amount of sugar absorbed by the blood |
5. | What is the name of the hot rock that is in the center of the earth? | Magma very hot liquid rock found below the earth’s surface |
6. | What is the name of the whale that has a long protruding tusk? | Narwhal |
7. | What is the name we give to the black salted fish eggs of a sturgeon fish? | Caviar the eggs of some types of fish, especially the STURGEON, that are preserved using salt and eaten as a very special and expensive type of food |
8. | What is the PH of water? | Seven |
9. | What is the rest mass of a photon? | Zero |
10. | What is tonic water flavoured with? | Quinine |
11. | What land mammal holds the record for the greatest age? | Man |
12. | What name is given to the hard white material of elephant’s tusks? | Ivory A hard yellowish-white substance like bone that forms the TUSKS (long teeth) of elephants and some other animals |
13. | What poisonous alkaloid is extracted from tobacco leaves and widely used as an insecticide (a chemical used for killing insects)? | Nicotine |
14. | What state in the United States has the most nuclear power plants? | Illinois |
15. | What vegetable gives green pasta its color? | Spinach |
16. | What yellow metal is an alloy of copper and zinc? | Brass |
17. | Where do peanuts grow? | Underground |
18. | Where does the alcohol in wine come from? | Yeast a FUNGUS used in making beer and wine, or to make bread rise |
19. | Where is alcohol destroyed in the body? | The liver |
20. | Where does groundwater come from? | Rainfall and melting snow |