Trivia - May 2008

1. Model and TV host Heidi Klum (above) is married to which UK singer? 2 points

2. Rubies and sapphires are chemically the same and the different colours are produced by minute amounts of trace elements. True or false? 1 point

3. What early scientist, after being forced to declare the Earth was motionless, allegedly muttered: “And yet it moves.” 2 points

4. How many points do you score if you hit the outer black ring in target archery? 2 points

5. Which element gives Mars its reddish-orange colour: carbon, copper or iron? 2 points

6. What republic is sandwiched between Lithuania and Estonia? 2 points

7. What British group got its name from the title of a 1950s Muddy Waters song? 2 points

8. Identify the term for the process of a liquid changing into a gas:
a) melting;
b) vaporisation;
c) sublimation.
2 points

9. Which country won the Rugby World Cup last year in France? 2 points

10. If “Brangelina” refers to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, name the couple known by the moniker “TomKat”. 1 point

11. What do we call a scientist who studies fossils? 2 points