There was an unintended quizzing hiatus last week, for which apologies. If you’ve been craving your weekly quiz fix then crave no more, and get ready to scratch your head, furrow your brow and, if you have one, stroke your beard.
Round 1 – Quotations
Below are some pretty nifty quotations from some great scientists – except that a word has been left out. Can you fill in the missing word?
1. “________ is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein
2. “It’s necessary to be slightly ________ if you are to do something significant” – James Watson
3. “The very essence of ______ is that it’s followed independently of reason” – Charles Darwin
Round 2 – Dinosaurs
Are you a Quizosaurus Rex or will your brain prove to be extinct of facts?
1. Known on the one hand as one of the great scientific figures of the Victorian age and a driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum, but on the other as a vindictive, even malicious, man with many enemies, which biologist and palaeontologist coined the term ‘dinosaur’?
2. Dinosaurs first appear in the fossil record during which geological period?
3. Can you match these English translations to the names of some well-known dinosaur species?
a. Arm lizard
b. Speedy plunderer
c. Near crested lizard
Round 3 – The Picture Round
Charades again this week – and the theme is British scientists – how many can you spot?
1.
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2.
{credit}PD / PD / Johi{/credit}
3.
{credit}Arpingstone / Toglenn / PD{/credit}
Round 4 – The Tree of Life
If you’re the sort of person who puts the ‘i’ into genus then this round is for you.
- Who is the Swedish biologist who laid the foundations of modern binomial nomenclature and whose work in classifying plants and animals has led to him being known as the father of modern taxonomy?
- With well over a million species described (and probably several million more yet to be described), which phylum accounts for over 80% of all known animal species?
- What is the name of the highest taxonomic rank of organisms, higher than a kingdom, and which consists of three groupings – Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea?
Round 5 – Anagrams
We finish off with the fast-becoming-usual anagram round. This week, it’s astronomical objects, and collective groups thereof. Get unscrambling…
- NOT HOME
- IT’S LOCAL
- MOLLY TEACHES
- UNETHICAL PARA
- BAD LOTTERIES
Good luck, and look out for the answers on Monday.