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Here is a SCIENCE quiz for you all................How much do you know?

9 replies

RTKangaMummy · 08/11/2006 15:00

Apart from the science teachers who will know all the answers

Or they can answer in their heads and type them if no one else knows the answers.

Is that ok?

  1. 'TCP' is an antiseptic. What do the letters TCP stand for?

Ans.

  1. Allowing for 'Ununquadium, Uuq, what is the only letter of the alphabet absent from the symbols in the Periodic Table?

Ans.

  1. What is the only element in the Periodic Table to be named after a scientist in his own life time?

Ans.

  1. Pluto has been recently downgraded from the status of 'Planet' to 'Dwarf Planet'.
Which asteroid, orbiting the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter has also now been classified as a Dwarf Planet?

Ans.

  1. Whereabouts in your house are you likely to have a sample of the radioactive element Americium?

Ans.

So cut and paste and see how many you can get right

BTW I know the answers

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heifer · 08/11/2006 15:15

well, bit fat Zero for me... couldn't even find the tcp question with the help of google...

I am off to do some learning....

Whizzz · 08/11/2006 15:31

I know 3 / 5 without Googling

UCM · 08/11/2006 15:44

Whizz you are a boff!

Whizzz · 08/11/2006 15:44

ha ha thats me !!

ShowOfHands · 08/11/2006 15:48
  1. 'TCP' is an antiseptic. What do the letters TCP stand for?

Ans. Trichlorophenol (sp?)

  1. Allowing for 'Ununquadium, Uuq, what is the only letter of the alphabet absent from the symbols in the Periodic Table?

Ans. Er.. maybe j?

  1. What is the only element in the Periodic Table to be named after a scientist in his own life time?

Ans. Seaborg? So Seaborgium potentially ?

  1. Pluto has been recently downgraded from the status of 'Planet' to 'Dwarf Planet'.
Which asteroid, orbiting the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter has also now been classified as a Dwarf Planet?

Ans. I would guess Ceres but don?t know really.

  1. Whereabouts in your house are you likely to have a sample of the radioactive element Americium?

Ans. Smoke detector

Did I get any right?

RTKangaMummy · 08/11/2006 21:15

before I give the answers does anyone else want a go ?????????

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notagrannyyet · 08/11/2006 22:04

DH got 4 out of 5 .....He couldn't do the planet one.
Me.... I couldn't do any even when DH pointed at the smoke detector.

clerkKent · 10/11/2006 13:12
  1. To Cut Pain
  2. I never got on with chemistry
  3. Altogether too much chemistry in this quiz
  4. Pass
  5. DW is always concerned about radioactivity and was very reluctant to have a smoke detector when the kids were small.... never heard of Americium though. See 3.
NotActuallyAMum · 10/11/2006 13:16

0/5 for me! Didn't do chemistry at school though [excuse emoticon]

Love clarkKent's To Cut Pain

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