Well, schools are well and truly back now and children, parents and grandparents alike will be dusting off their old knowledge - but how did you get on? Here are the answers to round 2 of the Back to School Quiz:
What has an ionised atom lost or gained? Electrons?
What does the art term chiaroscuro describe? the use of heavy light and dark in an artwork
What is "Pb" in the periodic table? Lead
For how many semiquavers does a crotchet last? 4
Who is Hamlet's uncle? Claudius
Which is the correct neuron pathway in a reflex? Sensory neurone - relay neurone - motor neurone
A bag contains only red and blue counters. The ratio of red to blue counters is 4:5. The total number of counters in the bag is 36. Find the number of red counters in the bag. 16
Name a mineral that plants don't need for healthy growth. Magnesium
Well, congratulations, we've finished school (again!) and made it to university! But that's not where the fun or the quizes end. With age comes wisdom, so now we face the University Challenge:
"We must leave exactly on time - From now on, everything must function to perfection." Whose words were these, spoken to a station-master and quoted in 1939, part of the mythology that the trains always ran on time under Fascist dictatorships?
Which village near Vienna is the site of the hunting lodge where the Habsburg crown prince Rudolf and his paramour Mary Vetsera commited suicide in mysterious circumstances in 1889?
What name is that of an Arian Christian Germanic people who maintained a North African kingdom in the 5th and 6th centuries and who, under their king Gaiseric, sacked Rome in 455?
In cytogenetics, what term describes the entire chromosomal complement of a cell which may be observed during mitotic metaphase?
'In the darkening twilight I saw a lone star hover gem-like above the bay.' This was the last diary entry of which explorer, written on January 5th 1922 at Grytviken in South Georgia?
Sao Vincente, Boa Vista and Santiago are among the islands of which republic? It gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, has a population of around half a million, and is situated around 600 kilometres from the coast of West Africa.
'The Strangest Man' by Graham Farmelo is a 2009 biography of which scientist, who applied Einstein's Theory of Relativity to quantum mechanics in order to describe the spin of an electron? In 1933 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger?
Often featuring in photographic illusions caused by forced perspective, which structure was begun in 1173 as the third and final structure of its city's cathedral complex? Designed to be 56 metres high, improvements to the foundations since 1990 have diminished its distinctive aberration.
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