MINI QUIZ

1. What name is given to the programs run by a computer, as opposed to the hardware?

2. Which of the Seven Wonders of the World was a bronze statue at the entrance to a harbour?

3. What name is given to holes in the earth through which hot water and steam is intermittently discharged?

4. Which large bird of prey has bald, golden and sea varieties?

5. Which gas has the symbol Ar?

6. What nationality was the explorer Fridtjof Nansen?

7. Which inlet of the Atlantic between N Spain and W France is noted for its rough seas and high tides?

8. In medicine, what name is given to a state of deep unconsciousness in which the subject is unrousable?

9. What are the flat, treeless plains of Argentina called?

10. The name of which modern-day country is partially derived from the name of explorer Amerigo Vespucci?