Sunday Quiz - 27th June 2021

Round 1: Science and Nature - Biology

10 questions about biology.

What term refers to a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment?

What is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism?

A, T, and C, are three letters of the English alphabet which represent the bases of DNA used in the Genetic Code. What's the fourth?

What type of involuntary action in humans is known as a 'singultus' in medicine?

What is the name used to describe materials that can be broken down by nature?

Associated with eating or drinking cold things, Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for which pain?

The Roslin Institute in Scotland saw science history on 5th July 1996 with a sheep being cloned. What was her name?

The major natural source of which vitamin is synthesis of cholecalciferol through a chemical reaction that is dependent on sun exposure?

What name is given to the part of your windpipe that helps keep out things such as food particles?

In Linnaean classification, what is the group which comes directly under Kingdom, and above Class?

Round 2: Science and Nature - Chemical Engineering

10 questions on the subject of chemical engineering.

What is the branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, radiation, and physical properties of matter?

The engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale, what is the term referring to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up to make complete, high performance products?

Able to withstand very high temperatures, what materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension?

What is the discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy between physical systems?

What term was first used by Karl Ereky in 1919, meaning the production of products from raw materials with the aid of living organisms?

Coined in 1833 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius and derived from the Greek "many, much" and "part", what word do we often associate with materials such as plastics?

What branch of chemistry studies the structure, properties and reactions of compounds that form the basis of all earthly life and constitute the majority of known chemicals?

The first useful explosive stronger than black powder was nitroglycerin, developed in 1847. Since nitroglycerin is a liquid and highly unstable, it was replaced by nitrocellulose, trinitrotoluene in 1863. What do we know it better as?

Fluid mechanics can be divided into the study of fluids at rest, known as fluid statics, and the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion, which is known as what?

What is the domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys?

Round 3: Geography - U.S. States

10 questions on the subject of U.S. States.

The famous speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg was in which state?

Discovered in 1513 by Ponce de Leon, which U.S. state is home to the Kennedy Space Centre and the Everglades?

The largest island of the continental United States, Long Island, is located in the southeastern part of which state?

With a capital sharing the name of the Titanic's sister ship, which U.S. state is also known as the Evergreen State?

Which U.S. state shares the Blue Ridge Mountains with Georgia, and is home to the headquarters of the CIA?

The 5th smallest by area and the first to establish its own state constitution, of which U.S. state is Concord the capital?

Sharing borders with Louisiana to the east and Oklahoma to the north, what US state has the Worlds Champion Chili Cookoff every year?

In which U.S. state can you find Stanford University, Yosemite Park, and Michael Jackson's NeverLand Ranch?

The land of 10,000 lakes and home to the source of the Mississippi River, which U.S state is also known as the Gopher state?

Home to Mauna Loa,the largest active volcano on our planet, what U.S. state flag has the United Kingdom's Union Flag in the canton?

Round 4: Music Intros - 2010

You will hear around 20 seconds of a song, there will be 10 songs separated by around a 4 second gap. Please identify the singer/group/band that performed the song.

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Round 5: General Knowledge

10 General Knowledge questions with no theme or connection.

Which company was allegedly the purveyor of Vodka to the Imperial Russian Court from 1886 to 1917?

From which album did the original version of Elton John's Candle in the Wind come?

Both Motown and Techno music are said to have originated in which U.S. city?

What is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a "sled" down a paved road or course?

Although not the shortest in the original languages, what phrase is famous for being the shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible, as well as many other versions?

One of the most instantly recognisable pieces of music ever, the Windows 95 startup sound was composed by which famous musician?

What is the term used to describe a container-grown plant whose roots have filled the container?

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize?

Founded 1636, in Cambridge Massachusetts, which is the oldest University in the USA?

Which of the four teenage mutant ninja turtles was named after an artist and/or sculptor that did not occur in the same time period as the other three?

Sunday Quiz – 27th June 2021

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