07.22
Last week I posted questions 1 – 15 from the Telegraph. Here comes 16 – 30 which I found much tougher.
16 What unit do barometers and weather maps usually display atmospheric pressure in?
17 Which chemical element, number 11 in the Periodic table, has the symbol Na?
18 Named after a Surrey town where a spring containing this was discovered, how is hydrated magnesium sulphate better known?
19 Reed, Marsh, Sedge and Grasshopper are varieties of which bird?
20 Which New Zealand-born physicist is credited with splitting the atom?
21 Which mineral forms the lead in a pencil?
22 SS Archimedes was an appropriately named ship which was the world’s first to use what form of propulsion?
23 What is the largest fish in the world?
24 What shapes are attached to a line of a weather map to denote a warm front?
25 Who discovered the law that the volume of a given mass of gas at a constant temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure?
26 What is the longest bone in the human body?
27 Relating to flat-screen televisions and monitors, what does LCD stand for?
28 What creature is an ophidiophobe afraid of?
29 What is the mathematical series that starts 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 called?
30 Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what term is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?
I missed 19, 22, 24, 26, and 28. I will again give the answers in a week.
The answers to last weeks questions are:
1) Carbon Dioxide 2) At the back of the upper arm 3) Sirius (The Dog Star) 4) Hare 5) Meteorite 6) Iris 7) Green 8 ) The Yew 9) Sir Frank Whittle 10) Making a telephone call on the internet (it stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol) 11) Wolf 12) Protons and Neutrons 13) The Mantle 14) Geostationary 15) Cosine