PUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST
1. On 29th April 1899, Belgian racecar driver Camille Jenatzy set a new land speed record, the first time a car went faster than what speed?
2. When the 5G mobile data network is rolled out, it should potentially offer download speeds how much faster than 4G?
3. For the torture and murder of Elisabeth Bousquet, on 10th September 1977, Tunisian agricultural worker Hamida Djandoubi became the last person in the Western world to be legally what?
4. Which common, often weedy, flower has a name that means ”lion’s tooth”? 5. In the Mercury program, first a chimpanzee and eventually the first US astronauts, were carried to orbit on a rocket that was a converted what?
6. Because of the the specific genes involved, teeth probably evolved as a modification of which part of the body still found on fish?
7. Which type of sail has a name that might mean ”to drive before a strong wind”, ”spanker”, ”Sphinx’s Acre” or ”spin maker”? (But no one really knows.) 8. Marie Curie’s daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry, in 1935. Marie Curie famously died as a result of radiation exposure. What did Irène die from?
9. The ”Three Body Problem” is most closely associated with which branch of science?
10. This sentence is grammatically correct: “The old man the boat.” Which word is the verb?