Question: Why was tin was rarely used for everyday use?
Answer: too soft

Question: During the bronze age, which metal was valued higher than gold in Europe and the Mediterranean?
Answer: tin

Question: What was done to tin to make it stronger?
Answer: alloyed with other metals

Question: What metals were alloyed with tin to make it stronger?
Answer: lead, antimony, bismuth or copper

Question: Where did smelting of iron begin?
Answer: Anatolia

Question: When did the smelting of iron first begin?
Answer: around 1800 BC

Question: When did iron making technology begin in Japan?
Answer: around 700 AD

Question: Pig iron is composed of iron and what else?
Answer: carbon

Question: What makes Pig iron different from regular iron?
Answer: lower melting point

Question: Heat treatment of steel has been know since what time?
Answer: 1100 BC

Question: When did iron start to become melted by people?
Answer: Middle Ages

Question: Who created the first process for the mass production of tool steel?
Answer: Benjamin Huntsman

Question: When did Benjamin Huntsman begin to melt blister steel in a crucible
Answer: 1740

Question: What did the blast furnace help do to pig iron in the middle ages?
Answer: produced in much higher volumes than wrought iron

Question: By reducing carbon in liquid pig iron, what was created?
Answer: steel

Question: When did puddling start occurring?
Answer: 1700s

Question: When was the Bessemer process developed?
Answer: 1858

Question: Steel and manganese combines form to make what?
Answer: Mangalloy

Question: Who discovered precipitation hardening alloys?
Answer: Alfred Wilm

Question: When were precipitation hardening alloys discovered?
Answer: 1906

Question: What happens to precipitation hardening alloys after they quenched?
Answer: harden over time

Question: One of the first "age hardening" alloys used were called?
Answer: duralumin

Question: What was used in the construction of modern aircraft?
Answer: duralumin

Question: In what ocean is Norfolk Island found?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: How far away is the nearest land mass to Norfolk Island?
Answer: about 900 kilometres (560 mi)

Question: What is the capital city of Norfolk Island?
Answer: Kingston

Question: How many people live on Norfolk Island?
Answer: 1,796

Question: How far away is Evans Head from Norfolk Island?
Answer: 1,412 kilometres (877 mi)

Question: Who was Norfolk Island colonised by?
Answer: East Polynesians

Question: What purpose did Norfolk Island serve for the majority of the time from 1788 until 1855?
Answer: a convict penal settlement

Question: What date did civilians begin to permanently reside in Norfolk Island?
Answer: 8 June 1856

Question: Where did the first permanent civilians of Norfolk Island settle from in 1856?
Answer: Pitcairn Island

Question: In what year did the UK hand Norfolk Island over to Australia to administrate?
Answer: 1913

Question: In what year did the British government include Norfolk Island as a auxiliary settlement?
Answer: 1786

Question: Who proposed the idea to include Norfolk Island as a British auxiliary settlement in 1786?
Answer: John Call

Question: In including Norfolk Island as an auxiliary settlement, what Australian state did the British government plan to colonise?
Answer: New South Wales

Question: What woman influenced the decision by the British to settle Norfolk Island?
Answer: Empress Catherine II of Russia

Question: Where was the majority of the hemp and flax used by the Royal Navy imported from?
Answer: Russia

Question: When did Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales Francis Grose start suggesting Norfolk Island be closed as a penal settlement?
Answer: 1794

Question: Why did Francis Grose think that Norfolk Island should be closed as a penal settlement?
Answer: it was too remote and difficult for shipping and too costly to maintain

Question: When did the first group of people leave Norfolk Island?
Answer: February 1805

Question: By 1808, how many people remained on Norfolk Island?
Answer: 200

Question: Why did a small group of people remain on Norfolk Island, after others had already left?
Answer: to slaughter stock and destroy all buildings

Question: Who instructed the Governor of New South Wales Thomas Brisbane to send the worst convicts to Norfolk Island?
Answer: the British government

Question: What previous disadvantage of Norfolk Island was seen as an advantage for holding male convicts?
Answer: Its remoteness

Question: What were the prisoners on Norfolk Island spared from on the the mainland?
Answer: the gallows

Question: How many convicts are listed in the database at Norfolk Island?
Answer: 6,458

Question: What was the average length of a prisoner's detention at Norfolk Island?
Answer: three years

Question: Who were the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island descended from?
Answer: Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers

Question: Where did the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island settle from?
Answer: the Pitcairn Islands

Question: On May 3, 1856, how many Pitcairners left for Norfolk Island?
Answer: 193

Question: What was the name of the ship the Pitcairners traveled on to Norfolk Island?
Answer: Morayshire

Question: What trades did the Pitcairners establish while on Norfolk Island?
Answer: farming and whaling industries

Question: When was the Commonwealth of Australia created?
Answer: 1901

Question: During what major event did Norfolk Island become an important airbase and refuelling station?
Answer: World War II

Question: Who contructed the airbase used on Norfolk Island during World War II?
Answer: Australian, New Zealand and United States servicemen

Question: Norfolk Island fell under whose responsibility during World War II?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: When did N Force leave Norfolk Island during the time of World War II?
Answer: February 1944

Question:  What lead to Norfolk Island asking for assistance from Australia in 2010?
Answer: Financial problems and a reduction in tourism

Question: What benefit were residents of Norfolk Island told they would receive as a result of Australia's assistance?
Answer: greater welfare benefits

Question: What actually ended up happening after Norfolk Island asked Australia for help?
Answer: islanders were having to leave to find work and welfare

Question: An agreement was finally signed in Canberra on March 12, 2015, to do what for Norfolk Island?
Answer: replace self-government with a local council

Question: What percentage of Norfolk Island voters were against the changes brought by Australia?
Answer: 68%

Question: What part of the Pacific Ocean is Norfolk Island located?
Answer: South

Question: What direction is Norfolk Island in relation to Australia?
Answer: east

Question: What are the coordinates for Norfolk Island?
Answer: 29°02′S 167°57′E﻿ / ﻿29.033°S 167.950°E﻿ / -29.033; 167.950

Question: What is the name of the mountain at Norfolk Island's highest point?
Answer: Mount Bates

Question: What is the name of the second largest island of the territory of Norfolk Island?
Answer: Phillip Island

Question: What is the coastline of Norfolk made of?
Answer: cliff faces

Question: Where is the site of the original colonial settlement of Kingston, Norfolk Islands, currently located?
Answer: Slaughter Bay and Emily Bay

Question: How are goods imported to Norfolk Island?
Answer: by ship

Question: Where are imported goods usually sent on Norfolk Island?
Answer: Cascade Bay

Question: Where can you go to surf on Norfolk Island?
Answer: Anson and Ball Bays

Question: How many plants can only be found on Norfolk Island?
Answer: 51

Question: How many of the plants that can only be found on Norfolk Island are rare or threatened?
Answer: 18

Question: Where can the tallest tree-fern in the world be found?
Answer: Norfolk Island National Park

Question: What was the majority of Norfolk Island covered with, before European colonization?
Answer: subtropical rain forest