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1 What is a Geiger counter used to measure?
A Radioactivity (also called a Geiger–Müller counter, it measures ionizing radiation)
2 What does the Kelvin scale measure?
A Temperature (a scale using as its null point absolute zero, equivalent to −273.15 °C)
3 A deficiency in which vitamin can lead to rickets in children?
A Vitamin D
4 By what brand name is the thermoplastic substance polytetrafluoroethylene, commonly known?
A Teflon (by DuPont Co.) (PTFE)
5 What are the five tastes a human can distinguish?
A sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami or savoury
6 What nationality was Marie Curie, the famous physicist and chemist who discovered radium and polonium?
A Polish
7 What does a blue line with triangles on it represent on a weather map?
A Cold front
8 Which acid often forms in the muscles following vigorous exercise?
A Lactic acid (it isn’t as is often thought, responsible for delayed onset muscle soreness)
9 A Möbius strip (or Möbius band), has how many sides?
A One (a model can easily be made using a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip together to form a loop) (named after August Mobius, a mathematician and astronomer of the 19th century)
10 What is the SI measurement unit of capacitance?
A The Farad (named after English physicist Michael Faraday)