Trivia

PUT YOUR KNOWLEDGETO THE TEST

1. If chimpanzees are the closest, which of the Great Apes is our most distant relative?

2. Are North Korea’s (supposed) nuclear weapons based on plutonium or the less-powerful uranium?

3. Which planet did the astronomers of Ancient Greece mistake for two worlds named Phosphorus (lightbringer) and Hesperus (evening star)? 4. Slaters and pill-bugs live on land, but are actually what type of creature?

5. Which is stronger as a metal: a kilogram of Titanium, or a kilogram of Tungsten?

6. Due to the cost of its production, which royal colour was largely replaced by vermillion after the sack of Constantinople in 1204? 7. Lannister/Lancaster, Stark/York... it’s pretty obvious that Game of Thrones is inspired by which English wars? 8. In floating-pointoperations-per-second, how much faster is NVIDIA’s new DGX ”supercomputer in a box” than the Cray-1 supercomputer from 1976?

9. We say “wheat” in English because, like oranges, the grain is named after a specific colour. Which one?

10. If human eyes could pick up very faint light, we’d realise that in the night sky, the Andromeda galaxy is actually three times wider than what?