General Science Quiz No. 8

[Carl]

• 1. "Consumption" was the former name of what disease ?

• 2. What plant takes its name for the Chinese words for "man root" ?

• 3. The average person has over 1,460 of what each year ?

• 4. What is an onychophagist ?

• 5. Cerumen is more commonly known as what ?

• 6. What influential French design house manufactures Poison, a line of women's fragrances ?

• 7. What is it that turns blue litmus paper red ?

• 8. In what organ of the human body is the hippocampus ?

• 9. What is the fattiest human organ ?

• 10. Scoptophobia is the fear of what ?

• 11. What do most lobsters and crayfish do with their shell after it has molted ?

• 12. What is a pencils lead typically made from ?

• 13. What line on a weather map links all points of equal pressure ?

• 14. What is the worlds fastest growing plant ?

• 15. What word denotes the energy an object has because it is in motion ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

1 Tuberculosis
6 Dior

[LucindaC]

9 brain
11 eat it

[elcarretero]

7 Acid

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. "Consumption" was the former name of what disease ? Tuberculosis

• 2. What plant takes its name for the Chinese words for "man root" ? Ginseng

• 3. The average person has over 1,460 of what each year ? Dreams

• 4. What is an onychophagist ? A nail biter

• 5. Cerumen is more commonly known as what ? Earwax

• 6. What influential French design house manufactures Poison, a line of women's fragrances ? Christian Dior

• 7. What is it that turns blue litmus paper red ? Acid

• 8. In what organ of the human body is the hippocampus ? The brain

• 9. What is the fattiest human organ ? The brain

• 10. Scoptophobia is the fear of what ? Being stared at

• 11. What do most lobsters and crayfish do with their shell after it has molted ? Eat it

• 12. What is a pencils lead typically made from ? Graphite

• 13. What line on a weather map links all points of equal pressure ? Isobar

• 14. What is the worlds fastest growing plant ? Bamboo

• 15. What word denotes the energy an object has because it is in motion ? Kinetic