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| What type of coal is brown and fibrous? | Lignite |
| How many sides have snowflakes? | 6 |
| What name is given to the brittle iron used for making manholes covers and engine blocks? | Cast iron |
| Which animals are arthopods and have 8 legs? | Arachnids |
| What is the modern scientific unit of work energy? | Joule |
| Chlorine, Fluorine and Bromine belong to which family of elements? | Halogens |
| What is an ISO number? | International Standards Organization |
| What kind of elements are found in a pure state in nature? | Native elements |
| Whose research on X-ray diffraction of DNA crystals helped Crick and Watson during the race to discover the structure of DNA? | Rosalind Franklin |
| Who persuaded Einstein to write to FDR warning him of the power of atomic fission? | Leo Szilard |
| Which scientist discovered then neutron? | James Chadwick |
| Einstein left Germany to work at which American university | Princeton |
| Heisenberg is most associated with which branch of physics? | Quantum mechanics |
| Stephen Jay Gould developed which evolutionary theory? | Punctuated equilibrium |
| Which metaphysician developed the theory of calculus at the same time as Newton? | Leibniz |
| Who discovered X-rays? | Roentgen |
| Which radioactive element is named after the progenitor of the periodic table? | Mendelevium |
| Which nebula is contained in the constellation Taurus? | Crab |
| Who was the captain of Darwin's ship HMS Beagle and subsequently became governer of New Zealand? | Robert Fitzroy |
| Who suggested that "necessity is the mother of invention"? | Ovid |
| Which scientist proposed that atoms are the smallest unit of matter? | Dalton |
| Who shared a Noble Prize for Physics with his son? | Wm Bragg |
| What are the 4 fundamental forces of nature? | Gravity, Electromagnetic force, Strong and weak nuclear forces |
| What is the name for a 3 dimensional curve generated by a line encircling a cylinder at a constant angel? | Helix |
| What is the more common name of oil of vitriol? | Sulfuric acid |
| What is another name for a rhombus whose internal angles are equal? | Square |
| Who 1st proposed that the geological processes occuring now can be use to understand the changes of the past? | James Hutton |
| Who proposed that in searcing for an explanation one should reduce assumptions to a minimum? | Wm of Occam |
| Which philosopher of science made popular the term "paradigm"? | Thomas Kuhn |
| Who developed a general electrochemical theory as well as effective ways of poisoning people? | Fritz Haber |
| Which branch of philosophy emphasizes the importance of sense experience? | Empiricism |
| Which branch of philosophy rejects as meaningless everything except logic, mathematics, science and observation? | Logical positivism |
| Who claimed that the sciences and the arts were divided by a gaping chasm? | C.P. Snow |
| Which philosopher of science wrote Against Method? | Paul Feyerabend |
| Who said "The physicists have known sin; this is a knowledge which they cannot lose"? | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Which problem ensures that no scientific statement can ever be "true"? | Induction |
| What was the 1st synthetic plastic? | Bakelite |
| What is the name of the material found inside living cells but outside the nucleas? | Cytoplasm |
| Which metallic element, with the atomic number 83 is used to soothe gastric ulcers? | Bismuth |
| Who founded the science of electromagnetism? | Hans Oerstad |
| Which protein forms the main constituent of an insects exoskeleton? | Chitin |
| Which English naturalist arrived at a theory of evolution similar to that of Darwin? | Alfred Wallace |
| What describes a triangle whose 3 sides are all of different lengths? | Scalene |
| What is the major ore of uranium? | Pitchblende |
| Which French chemist gave oxygen its name and proved that water was a compound of oxygen and hydrogen? | Lavoisier |
| How many pecks are there in a bushel? | 4 |
| What is the earliest known unit of length? | Cubit |
| What is Solanum tuberosum? | Potato |
| What is the product of the mass of a body and its linear velocity? | Momentum |
| Whose "unified field theory" tried to explain the 4 fundamental forces in terms of a single,unified force? | Einstein |
| What is described as an ionized gas with approximately equal numbers of positive and negative charges? | Plasma |
| Which physicists law states that equal volumes of all gases,contain the same number of molecules? | Avogadro |
| What describes a substance that exists in more than 1 form,differing in physical rather than chemical properties? | Allotropic |
| Which common material is used to make casts, moulds, blackboard chalk and plaster of Paris? | Gypsum |
